“Beating” is a little harsh. Especially with many games these days not having any sort of “end.”

Interesting suggestion in the Forbes article where you log in with your PSN/Live/Steam account. Imagine if Metacritic verifies that you earned the trophy/achievement that you usually get when you beat a game in order to write a review.

God damnit, now I gotta wait over an entire DAY before I can review bomb something because I hate trans people? What about my first amendment rights?!

Yes, but preordering gives a bunch of small conveniences like:

This game is a first, I don’t think there’s a samurai game that attempted this kind of historical realism (ghost ninja not withstanding). Every other samurai game since the PS2 era, either has anime inspired aesthetics like J-Pop hairstyles and anachronistic fantastical costumes (Sengoku Musou, Sengoku Basara, Way of…

Not a game, but when talking about how US people portray foreign cultures and places I always remember Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, where Doctor Jones travels to Perú... and learns quechua (a native tongue) from Pancho Villa, who lived in Mexico.

They got Kinja’d.

Calm down, big fella. Maybe make yourself some tea while you wait

For not being racist, ICE sure isn’t illegally holding very many fully legal citizens who are white.

agreed. The direct is supposed to be about the work that the employees have created. Let’s celebrate that. They’re dealing with the behind the scenes problems already, and we’re all aware of that fact.   So we don’t need them to awkward in a statement that will feel like it was forced in.   

Agreed. Tho I’m curious as to just how awkward it’d be. Too bad it won’t be in front of a live audience either.

To be fair, it would be tonally awkward to follow “We are committed to addressing the allegations that have hit this company, etc.” with “Anyhoo, here’s Just Dance 2021.”

Legitimate question: who in the world are these Devolver conferences for? People who miss the Adult Swim-era of skits? Every single one just jams in: excessive violence, stock audience footage, tons of cursing to farm over reactors, and segments calling the consumer stupid. Makes the other conferences just shine I…

Hands down my favorite Kotaku article in a long time! I love reading about video game history and the figures behind the history. It’s amazing how so much fun was created with such limited tech. I’m still playing many of the games mentioned.

the kotaku podcast team (Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, Heather Alexandra) and the god-tier Jason Schrier have all left Kotaku in the past six months. Paul Tamayo and Tim Rogers — the video review team — have left as well. Rogers, to start his own studio/blog, Tamayo seems to be heading to Polygon to join Patricia…

Great interview. There are a few interesting things here, but I think my favourite part is how much it humanises Yamauchi. I always got the impression he was a fierce, hard person, but learning he used to get drunk, call one of his employees, and tell him to make shit is hilarious.

The original design plan for Donkey Kong was for it to be a Popeye game, but they couldn’t get the rights. (They did get to make one after DK was a smash hit, however.) So Mario’s inspiration sprung from a comic, just not a Japanese one.

I never put the two together, but damn that makes sense. A quick Google shows you are not alone in that thought:

Right?  This is a case of "Thing everyone already knew but let's pretend to be scandalized".

This goes to show that you need to be on your toes with TERFs like Rowling, because they’re good at cloaking their bigotry in seemingly feminist rhetoric. A while back Mark Hamill retweeted something of hers because he thought it was just a general feminist statement; once he discovered she was tweeting her support of…