How about we just shut down Twitter forever. And Facebook while we're at it.

Holy shit, this was great journalism. I really hope that the pilot surfaces someday, because it looks downright bonkers. Thanks for this.

No worries. It’s an extremely fair thing to ask. A lot of stuff like that ends up out of our control. For instance, streaming platforms of choice are sometimes out of our control too. (See: when we used to inexplicably used Facebook Live.)

We do the best we can with what we have, which often means using our union-won e…

There’s nothing wrong with that. It’d be a problem if that divide wasn’t here. Activision advertises on Kotaku all the time, and that’ll never stop us from criticizing Destiny, because there’s a strong wall between editorial and advertisement. We should all thank goodness for that, because there aren’t a lot of…

Yeah, I unfortunately have zero control over any of that but the tension is not lost to me. (I acknowledge it in the piece after all.) I can’t control what advertisers or corporate does but I can write this article and call attention to the situation.

It’s included in Rare Replay, which unfortunatey is far cheaper to buy a used copy of than to download. But yes, yes you can.  You just have to download a bunch of other games as well, some of which are definitely worth it.

Whoa wait I can download blast corps on xbox?

Blast Corps is my second favorite N64 game behind SM64, and the primary reason I bought an Xbone last black friday.  Such an amazing, underrated game, that really should have spawned a whole bunch of iterators.  

I went to buy Starfox 64, and they were out of it. It was my birthday, and by god, I was coming home with a game. I impulse picked Blast Corps.

Gawd. Blast Corps, the totally tragically unsung star of the N64 line-up. I loved that game.

It is however, self-censorship by the creator of the work.

Heroes 

I’m a software developer and I worked at the begining of my career with some shady bussiness managers(if they can be called that) who order their teams to copy & paste literally everything they can from previous projects to maximize profits and release the projects in the least amount of time possible

which Bethesda even cites as Exhibit L in the suit, despite still having the site blacklisted and never responding to our emails.

The same bugs in both versions is pretty definitive proof of copying code. They must have known what they were doing would incite Bethesda to take legal action. Things like this make no sense. Who is in charge of such decisions?

I think the timing of the scenery changes are really perfect as well. Just long enough to give you a feel for something, then gone quick enough to keep you interested in what comes next.

“...arguing that it could stigmatize gamers based on controversial studies.”

“Gaming Disorder” is a bad name, but I’m worried about the defensiveness I’m seeing about this on gaming sites. Video games have a weird mix of dopamine, classical conditioning, stress and stimulus overload that you don’t really encounter elsewhere, it is very relevant to know if that is uniquely unhealthy or if it’s…

Ain’t that the truth. My story has more to do with blundering and sheer dumb luck than anything else - if I had only listened to them, I would have probably been a lot worse off.

I just call him “Masshu (Matthew?)”