while Fallout 1 was hardly grounded itself, Fallout 2 seriously split the playerbase. Then Interplay stuffed the corpse of the series and made it animatronic with two spinoffs from unrelated studios (Tactics, and Brotherhood of Steel) before selling the rights to Bethesda.

holy shit

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Bun’s uh.... vociferous ‘defense’ of drawn lewds of underage characters is definitely A Yike.

Counterpoint: someone saying that they appreciated your company’s inclusion of a girl/girl ship, is not, in fact, license for you, a dude, to hit on someone.

Goddammit, Mike.

yeah, Sony’s brought their A game to security with the PS4. While it hasn’t made it impossible to hack or mod, it’s made it... very difficult to keep modded PS4s updated and online.

I don’t think a Blu-Ray vuln has been discovered (yet); PS4 exploits take a particular set of skills with maybe a dozen modders capable of…

the holy grail of ps4 entrypoints isn’t a Bluray entrypoint, but remote code execution via media decoder, which would allow visiting a webpage to launch ps4hen.

> PS2

Consider Kotaku UK. Licenses content from the main site, occasinally has interesting original longpieces, and many of the UK veterans went on to work at Kotaku (dot com).

editors were told that even the slightest criticism would be construed as insubordination and result in termination.

Ad revenue crashed inndustey wide back in in... February? The Herb had doubled ads on sites last november, and had, for two weeks in June 2019, forced all sites to run an autoplay video ad with sound on by default.

Good.

There is no place for abusers in the gaming community. I’m glad Twitch is taking action, long delayed though it has been.

pictured: Jim “Herb” Spanfeller, Jim “NotSo” Rich, and Angela “The Executioner” Persuad, in an executive meeting.

The Herb is really trying to turn G/O media into 2005 Forbes.com but worse, huh.

The Games With Gold lineup is pretty... good? I already own Saint’s Row 2 on PC but the multiplayer on Xbox was better, just sayin’. Arguably, SR2 had the best story campaign of open world titles in the 2000s.

other IGN survivor stories:

if any of this sounds familiar, that’s because it is:

I’m aware that Kotaku staff are currently working on a full article, and look forward to reading it. Because the comment section kept asking for it, here’s a quick summary of the IGN story so far:
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