It's not all professional reviews, though. It's gameplay videos, it's live streams, it's let's plays and all sorts of content offered without comment that exists out there. So if, say, you think IGN's review of whatever game seems fishy (let's pick Alien: Isolation as a random example), a quick search on Youtube…

Watchdogs do exist and any gaming publication of sufficient size, while they have deals with publishers and what not, does have to answer to its readers if/when the partnerships become too blatant. But the gaming industry is at a place now where it's become very hard for publishers to obfuscate the quality of their…

I don't see how increasing representation of underrepresented people in video games is a bad thing, or even "pandering to PC bull." There is an enormous amount of room for games to go in whatever direction is pleases the people making them, but nobody's obligated to follow every single tangent.

I didn't mean it as video game journalists aren't real journalists, though I see how I wrote it and that's my bad. I meant it as video game is a hobby, an extremely large and influential one, but still largely meant for entertainment - it doesn't need an Associated Press or Reuters, y'know?

There's a line between trolling and posting the addresses and phone numbers of people you want to see hurt and flooding any internet address they have with vile comments and they gleefully jumped over it from Day 1. I see people take internet bullying lightly as well but it goes far beyond that, man.

Lol. #NotAllGamers are irrational dweebs who hate women, let's go with that.

That's the grand question, man, and it has such a simple answer. If you're upset with Kotaku or Gamespot or GameInformer or whatever, stop reading or, at least, stop taking them seriously. They could easily just watch trailers or gameplay videos and form their own opinions - it's what I do, anyway.

Oh, the "fake feminists" started it? Not the ex who enlisted a bunch of clowns to attack and vilify a woman based solely on the notion that she'd maybe slept with some guys and those guys may have written about her game? Those people jumped at the chance to excoriate Zoe Quinn and when they rightly got called on their…

GamerGate is simultaneously the dumbest internet "movement" I've ever seen and one of the most vile. Anyone who identifies with it is complicit in the rampant misogyny and death threats, all in the name of making writers about VIDEO GAMES hold to the standards of "real" journalism (which is nonsense, and gives video…

The clock isn't what mattered - it was stopped both times. The play before that the Dolphins had forced a fumble, recovered by the Packers, and the Packers offense looked flustered and out of rhythm. They were gasping and needed a break and the Dolphins gave it to them, on 4th and 10, with the defensive line kicking…

Every single person I know was screaming "What the fuck are you doing?" when he called timeout on the Packers 4th and 10 earlier in that drive. Then that motherfucking moron called timeout on the play right after the fake spike. He gave Green Bay two free timeouts for the biggest plays of the game, time to draw up…

Couldn't have said it better.

I've played 2 hours of this so far mostly with 3 other buddies and it's been an absolute blast so far. There is a nice ebb and flow between teamwork and betrayal, working with one another to defeat mobs and spawners while indulging obscene greediness in the mad dash to get gold and food before your frenemies,

I just wanna say that the Dolphins are so bad that the Chiefs accidentally scored their last touchdown purely by just trying to kill clock.

Nice, another GanonBro. I'm also excited for this. I love using Heavies (Dankey Kang and Bowser as well as The Dorf) but had to work pretty hard to be good with them. Love the idea of producing more power the more damage I take, because I'm inevitably gonna take a lot of it.

Psyched to play this game more now because now I have an inkling of what I'd be getting into. Good article, Yannick.

Gearbox said this was going to be very different from Borderlands.

That was the very first time Mike Wallace played like the top-flight WR the Dolphins are paying him to be.

Basically what I mean is, the league can distance itself from players and their scandals, even teams and their scandals. The league can't distance itself from itself and a league scandal. Cumulatively, with the concussion stuff and lockout/CBA making players angry and this making everybody else angry, the NFL isn't…

Sure, and they all reflected badly on the NFL. Didn't see many lose faith in the league, though. They were just players, after all. We kept watching after Hernandez and Lewis and Simpson and Vick. Lewis is actually an honored story of redemption and quite a lot of people get good feelings about Vick these days, by the…