I'm guessing a significant chunk of that Tower time has been spent A) looking for Xur and B) jumping from plant to plant while waiting for everyone to finish getting ready.

You are my favorite commenter on Kotaku.

I worked as a designer for Westwood Studios (back then Westwood Associates). It was a sad day when EA purchased Westwood. But some of the designers stayed in Las Vegas and formed Petroglyph Games.

The treatment of these tiny studios underneath major publishers is abhorrent. Workers being given crazy hours and no overtime pay, bonuses being withheld, and studios being shut down even after successful products are shipped. The entire industry seems highly Unethical. If ONLY there existed a group whose main…

Especially considering how much effort it is to maintain an email server. She likely had IT staff dedicated to it.

I'm an IT critter, for a state or local government no less, and deal with this kind of thing at work. I understand when people have a yahoo or gmail address that they've been using for years and years and want to use it rather than an official one. It's a pain and we have to push them to use the official one. It makes…

I like that it will attach itself the side of a wall without problems, rather than only "locking on" to ledges. It means there is still still in aiming it and you can really screw yourself over if you attach to something you can't climb.

If I had more stars to give I'd give them. I mean, I also think that it's a serious problem that there are so few women and people of color working in game development (as you say), but it's not like white people can't write characters who aren't white. I really, really like Austin Walker's discussion of how a lot of…

When they appear at all, black video game characters are often reduced to outdated, embarrassing stereotypes. It's commonly accepted that part of the reason for that is that there simply aren't enough black people making video games. Surely if that changed, video games' depictions of black characters would improve,…

Have you played the game as you seem to have a pretty strong opinion on the product? I ask because last time I checked the game doesn't come out for another 16 or so hours...

Crimson Skies

"Microsoft partnered with Darkside Game Studios in the development of 'Phantom Dust,' but our working relationship has now ended," a Microsoft spokesperson said. "We have great respect for their studio and their work in the industry. While we do not have anything new to share on 'Phantom Dust' at this time, we can…

I also really like the (nonsensical) "reload" time for the grappling hook. The further you shoot it, the shorter your next shot will be. Use it more than 2-3 times, and you'll have to wait for it to cool down. Makes it powerful, but you still have to think through your movements.

As Seavictor said, the Vampire games are urban fantasy. If you're into MMOs, The Secret World is fantastic, and it's a one-time purchase: no (required) subscription fees once you buy the actual game.

Actually, they've shifted over to Sonic Chronicles 2.

This was my favorite romance series from 2014. Primarily because despite being a short it had the most realistic relationship out of any anime series in 2014. Plus Hajime and Kaoru are not only married, but confirmed to have a(n at least somewhat) healthy sex life.

While I tend to dislike slice-of-life (Silver Spoon and Barakamon being obvious exceptions), I greatly enjoy comedies.

Molotovs were the cause of quite a few Co-op fits lol