That’s good to hear! EA Access is a pretty good deal on XBox, especially for those of us who have only a casual interest in playing sports games.

Doesn’t matter; it has bulbasaur on the silver screen.

One of us doesn’t know what Nosferatu-style vamp means.

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

By “practice,” you mean introducing competition into the market?

Ooh, sick burn on the media-entertainment complex! You’ve really broken wide the notion that stories about upcoming media products on entertainment sites might not actually be hard-hitting journalism. I’m going to dig up Edward R. Murrow and see what he thinks about this.

That seems unlikely. If you’re shipping on consoles from the start, you build for consoles from the start. You’d have to be a colossal idiot not to.

Kotaku has been solid lately. BUT... if I’m being honest, it is Heather, specifically, who has been crushing it.  Kotaku wouldn’t be nearly as valuable as a game news site without her.

It’s an illegal copy of a copyright protected item, it’s theft.

Also Jason, will you be doing an investigative piece on the development of Anthem, because I really would love to know how that was developed?

I feel like you basically never paid attention to any of the marketing material of this game. Where they actually laid out that the online was a beta from the get go.

For whatever the weak points this game might have, if there is one thing I can tip my hat to Rockstar on, it’s crystal clear and honest marketing.

Congra…

... Take your fucking star.

in other words, this is the royal wii?

This is absolutely stomach-turning. Any time someone tells me “rape culture” doesn’t exist (and yes, I know, “well, actually” brigade, she wasn’t raped in this instance), I point to shit like this; a woman can be assaulted—in the US, Japan, or anywhere else—and the onus inevitably comes back to her, even if her…

An equivalent would be an alternate universe where an annual new year tradition German was to go to church and the church you choose to go to is the church where Hitler and a bunch of other war criminals are enshrined.

What, don’t they have phones?

Things like Gran Turismo are even more complicated than the music- you need licenses from the auto manufacturers to include their very real cars in GT. A re-release of that is never going to happen no matter if the PS1 Classic project was rushed or not.

I still think that the games selection was so bad as it was designed to cover the Rest Of World , (as opposed to the other option Japan). Hence the preference was on games that were easy to licence worldwide ( so ideally first party, with no tricky soundtracks ,or in game brands etc), and with multilingual support (…

So... you didn’t get to the ship combat or sailing, cultist missions, inventory upgrades, free exploration, leader takedowns, mercenary combat, arena, ability upgrades, hunting, war battles, romance options, tomb exploration... but you got bored. The Ritalin isn't stocked near the video games -- look elsewhere.

By that stage of the war a lot of Wehrmacht Armoured units were made up of everyone, so the ability to say whether they were definitely SS or Heer isn’t a surefire one.