Eh. That’s not something I’d be proud to present as google as an arugment in an anti-monopoly hearing. If anything that cements google as an anti-competitive player with too great a market share. If I’m the regulator, I’d look to break up the search engine with their advertising business.

Hot.

Those lootboxes in question cannot be purchased directly via cash or any other means, they are given free as part of progression along a “battle pass” level. The author insinuates that they could be “purchased” in the article, which is incorrect.

Judging by your comment alone, i take it you are very much into “eSports”.

The sad reality is, phones are becoming THE platform for games, just look at Nintendo, Sony in Japan and EA, Activision in the west. They are all after those f2p mobile money...

Might actually be true until you realise its Nissan. So, no, they must have paid square.

True but these statistics are collected from the network directly as oppose to using a small sample size to estimate the population.

Is it a Kotaku policy to never external link to the subject? It is so frustrating to scroll through the page three times to find the hyperlink to a game/kickstarter/whatever that Kotaku is writing about only to find that it doesn’t exist.

You just described exactly the way they make money. I.e low volume, sky high margins

Good for you, but the majority of others are not as lucky.

KOEI needs to allocate the game more budget than the ￥5000 they currently spend on each title. The production value is poorer than some of the indie titles coming out in the west.

Maybe because you cant see thr bloody components until you pry open the box? Afterall, like everything else, Its about looks and not substance.

Not surprised, supply constraint

Yea you might want to look at the label behind your monitor. And if you are using an ipad, then no you dont even need to look. That, and for all we know, the monitor could be made in USA.

That video running at about 2 frames per second is really painful to watch...

OMG kill it with fire

I would not lump strategy with simulation together... red alert and the sims are as far apart as you can get in terms of genre

Burden of proof is on the DRM provider. Also ponder why the entire world is using this shitty windows os today? Because no one paid $2000 for a legitimate copy of windows 95 in 1995.

Eh ... whats up with the yourube thumbnail

What screens nowadays below 7’ are not touchscreen?