John Walker's discussions

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John Walker
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Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

I’ve no idea if that’s an aspect, but Valve is very capable of not selling games in specific regions. Read more

I really strongly disagree! “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is such a clumsy mouthful on its face, and was derided long before we all had our childhoods stamped on when learning what said skull actually was. Read more

This is totally true. However, importantly, my 9yo could not. His height is in cm and his weight in kg. Read more

Having grown up with the latter, I can promise you it does! Just reading “40 degrees” makes me sweat. Read more

I think I saw Kotaku mention it in their article too. Read more

You don’t need to miss it! Serious Sam 4 came out in 2020, and Siberian Mayhem in 2022! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1792250/Serious_Sam_Siberian_Mayhem/ Read more

So do the 8,000 people who backed a Kickstarter for one in 2016 : ( Read more

I recently read this really cool article that explained how they got the name. Read more

Please, please spend your money on this game to prove me wrong. I want that more than anything else. Read more

Oh God bless you for just performing the lines highlighted in the article. Read more

Oh, I volunteered. I’m so twistedly fascinated by games like this. Read more

I played the Alex Jones game so you don’t have to. AMA. Read more

I swear, it’s the ghastly young people who work at Kotaku that do this to me. I’m 46, so was turning 19 in 1996. So I always think of these games as part of everyone’s childhoods, until the Gen Alphas that work here all remind me they weren’t born then. Read more

I think it’s a very reasonable position. It didn’t occur to me until someone else at Kotaku pointed it out ahead of publication. My default, having been a kid in the 80s, is that 88 means 1988. I think you could stop 50 people in the street and not one of them would know the number had any association with anything Read more

Or it’s a BRILLIANT list, because it’s suggesting games you haven’t already decided on. Read more

Perfectly put, Arden. There’s no suggestion that anyone is lying at all, nor any reason to think they might be. Read more

You could cast one of your phones to your TV! That’s genuinely their pitch right now. So now it’s a minimum of three screens for one-player gaming! Read more