"STORY MODE SKINS ARE HERE. FREE-ISH FOR THE FIRST WEEK!"

To repeat: "Free-ish for the first week." Their words, not mine. After that week (which is already over, anyway, as of today), they'll cost $2.99. And apparently, they "couldn't" give it away completely for free on some platforms even during that week, due to arbitrary bullshit.

Note that this isn't just for the console and mobile versions, but also for the new "improved" Windows 10 version. I don't know if they're charging for this horseshit on the original version of Minecraft (or if it's even available for that at all), but this right here, friends and neighbors, is the future (and, indeed, the present) of Minecraft, now that it's in the hands of Micro$hit. But then, it wasn't like Micro$hit wasn't already charging for asinine crap like this in Minecraft even before they bought MojangMojang was sold out to them.

But don't worry, they make a big show about how some (but apparently not all) of that shit will be "free forever," like they're extending a boon from on high to the great unwashed or something.

Oh, and I'm still waiting for a severe 75%-or-greater discount to hit Minecraft Story Mode itself on Steam before I even remotely consider trying it. I mean, I like TellTale and all, but still.

(Sadly, DoNotLink seems to be down for good, so I used archive.today instead, though I don't know if that's quite the same thing? Maybe it's even better, in a way, since it apparently also blocks ad revenue to the site in question, instead of merely preventing increased search engine standing, which was apparently all that donotlink did? In any case, I hate to give Mojang any traffic at all these days, if I can avoid it. The original link is still there in the archive.today thing, if you really must visit the site on your own.)

Minecraft Story Mode - Adventure Pass

Oh, and speaking of Minecraft Story Mode, there's also this Adventure Pass shit that I didn't know about until now.

So, I guess when I said that I'll be waiting for Minecraft Story Mode to hit a 75%-or-greater discount on Steam, before I actually consider getting it, what I really meant to say was that I'll be waiting for that game and this shit to be bundled together into one thing, and then for that to hit a 75%-or-greater discount on Steam, before I actually even remotely consider it.

I hate the modern video game industry so very much.

Rumor: Nintendo NX might get Wii U ports on launch

Welp, if this is true, then it kills pretty much any reason I may have had to ever get a Wii U. *shrug* The new Zelda game was pretty much the only reason I was even half-assedly considering a Wii U in the first place. So, it looks like I might just be skipping a generation of Nintendo consoles. Wouldn't be the first time. Though this, of course, assumes that I get a NX at some point as well, which is not even remotely a given at all.

Humble Telltale Bundle

I was talking shit about Telltale in one of my previous posts, but even so, I still have to say that this Humble Bundle is a pretty damn good one. I'd buy it, if I didn't already have every single game shown there. Of course, there are "more games coming soon," so who knows, I may buy it anyway if they add something I don't already have that looks interesting (hell, maybe even Minecraft Story Mode). Which, if I did, means that I'd probably be giving owsf2000 all the spares, as usual. :p