I picked up two games from my wishlist, and they both work great on my Deck:

• Hi-Fi Rush (2023, Tango Gameworks) is a rhythm-based character action game set to a 00s/10s indie rock soundtrack
• Alien: Isolation (2014, Creative Assembly) is a stealth horror game that’s one of the first to convey the feeling of the original “Alien” movie rather than the more action-oriented “Aliens” movies that came later

I think the issue is you have some teams full of venture money that inflates the salaries and makes it super hard for other teams to have in game success while not going broke.

This is almost what happened to the NHL in the mid-00s, and caused them to skip an entire season. The big teams (with outside revenue, which is basically the same as VC funds in this case) used that outside revenue to try to buy the best players with big paychecks (on the assumption that financial success would closely follow competitive success), setting off an arms race that almost got to the point that a third of the teams in the league would have folded within two years.

Ricciardo is their reserve driver, and was able to keep pace with Verstappen when they were teammates (although VER only got better and RIC only got worse since that time). The driver market is a bit thin at the moment.

One of the romance options ends with a weirdly-explicit sex scene, and you can see your entire body.

Also, there’s no mention of parking, so I expect this to be another San Jose simulator designed around automobiles.

Because they banned it on safety grounds (instead of “Renault 100% used this to cheat” grounds), they boxed themselves into a corner on ever bringing it back — there’s still the risk of occasional fire from a few drops of leaked fuel, even with today’s improved fueling apparatus.

Episodic gaming would have worked if they’d developed a release schedule and stuck to it.

TV shows that release seasons irregularly tend to fail, unless they have massive marketing budgets to match. Valve promised six months between episodes; it was about 20 months between HL2 and EP1 (Nov 04 to June 06), about 17 months between EP1 and EP2 (Oct 07, and about 15 years (and counting!) between EP2 and EP3.

Telltale made it work by sticking to its schedules and finishing seasons.

I liked what /r/hockey did: there was a different forum for memes, and then the “winner” (top-voted meme at midnight Monday UTC) would get its own thread in the main forum.

He’s not, but he’s the best available driver outside of silly season.