I think people cheering this are being way too short sighted. This has the potential to crush mobile gaming (at least free to play), multiple Triple A franchises, and probably some developers and even publishers.

If this bill passes as described, it will play havoc in the industry and will probably be spoken about in…

I saw this great line on twitter about this:

There’s a simul-dub going to happen on Funimation if you don’t want to wait.  They got a good number of the English VAs back to do the voices, too.

Man, you realize he’s dead, right?  Let Bob Hoskins regret Mario in peace.

To paraphrase Captain America:
“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you your opinion is wrong, your job is to.. probably admit your opinion is wrong.”

First up: Full Disclosure, I played a few hours of Dragon’s Dogma, loved it, and never got back to it. It’s a perennial on my ‘I should play that sometime soon list.”

I’m curious about why you equate choices having consequences as essential to an RPG experience. I’m not trying to be snarky and say you’re wrong, and…

Honestly, EA management probably sees it as a PR mea culpa.  They KNOW they’re widely regarded for having fumbled the Star Wars franchise, ‘throwing away’ a single player game to get back in good graces with the fans & Disney might be seen as a cost effective way.  And I’m sure they expect the game to turn a profit,…

Man, how do I put it? I don’t love Wiseman’s Grandchild (what an odd title), but... it’s not bad? It’s like the vanilla of fantasy isekai. It has potential. The big bad seems to have enough character to be potentially interesting. The protagonist has enough rage to be potentially interesting. Merlin and his ex-wife…

This is the weirdest timeline. How do we go from someone releasing a Free to Play game at full retail price (in stores, even), as *Early Access*, scrubbing together a Battle Royale mode on a lark using the F2P game and a team of Unreal Tournament devs, to launching a game store hoping to unseat Steam before their…

I wished we all lived in your universe.

This man is guilty, and deserves this punishment. But I will go to my grave still *furious* that the man who pulled the trigger in this situation was given no punishment.

The cops had no right to shoot an unarmed man on his own porch after surprising him. It was criminally negligent, and the officer should have at…

No, the real jerk move is pretending that he had a innocent reason to make a transphobic remark, and if we’d all just love instead of hate we’d be enlightened by his reasoning for making such a comment.

Occam’s razor here: It sounds like a transphobic remark, there’s no simple explanation that would make it *not*…

I know only one person on that wall, and it’s MatPat from Game Theory, and he’s pretty open with critiques on how Youtube works.  I don’t watch all of his videos (or most), but I do keep an eye out for when he does into a deep dive on the Youtube topic of the day.

Ugh, again?

It feels like everyone is ready to kill off the console, until they actually try, and then they realize it’s really freaking hard to deliver the same experience on the same budget.

It’s been awhile, but I’ve changed states multiple times, and each time I seem to recall having to take the written test again. (Idaho’s Open Range law tripped me up, since I didn’t have to deal with that in California or Hawaii, where I studied for the tests.)

Didn’t have to take the practical again, though. 

Oh my god, I can play Star Tropics on my switch!?!

I know what I’m doing next board game night when someone picks a slow game.

Seriously, how is it 2019 and we don’t have at least a terrible attempt at remaking this game?  It’s gold!

I picked it up again this weekend because of all the news coverage. I don’t think I got past my first winter when a Dwarven Were-Zebra invaded my fort. I goofed my entrance, so I was doomed from the start, but I valiantly tried to create a last minute militia to deal with the threat.

See, this is the problem. Everyone is looking at the collections of KH1 Final Mix, Kh2 Final Mix, etc, and seeing “See, those had tons of endgame content” when most of that content was added in Final mix. The original games barely had any.

Now, I agree that the lack of a Sephiroth fight and a battle arena are sore…

Those salaries seem... ridiculously low.  $14,000 equivalent USD for the starting salary for a relatively skilled field?  Major oof.

Like, send an urgent memo to Nintendo. “Please, Kotaku has just ONE question for Reggie before he retires! It’s SUPER IMPORTANT” and just play it up. Finally, you get him on the phone.

Reggie: *wearily* “All right, Stephen, let’s get this over with...”
Stephen: *silent for like 30 seconds* “Mo--”
Reggie: *click*