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Allen's 1983 mock-doc sees him playing human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a nobody turned jazz-age celebrity able to blend in with gangsters, fur trappers and beyond.
Sending up personality cults and conformity, Allen presages Forrest Gump with more wit and less fuss as he integrates Zelig into archive footage featuring Babe Ruth, Hitler, etc.
Zelig’s relationship with shrink Mia Farrow and scandalous downfall (too many marriages and improvised surgical procedures) add narrative swerves, but it’s Allen’s smarts that elevate this slender conceit to heights of zinger-flinging bliss.
13-year WoW vet left Blizzard for the indie life because "I didn't really feel like a game developer in some way," agrees it's harder for AAA giants to "maintain this connection to the player"
Diablo creator rips into modern ARPGs for being all about "killing screen-fulls of things instantly," says Diablo 2's pacing "is great" and "that’s one of the reasons it’s endured"
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"
