These comments are always some variation of “I wish to shoot the messenger.”

Probably because people like me click on clickbaity articles and are all “wtf is this?... oh. interesting.. hehehehe. this is a dumpster fire... oh hella funny dumpster fire.”

“but now seems to be purposefully becoming easier to read in order to make me less [obsessive]!”

Hell there are entire chunks of Doctor Who missing cause BBC didnt save ANYTHING back in the day and just taped over all the masters.  So similar to what you said there are people who hunt out recordings of different episodes because some seasons dont have a full episode count on any medium (at least last I checked).

- A game that features mass deportation centres for “reasons”, that feels like more of a commentary on the US than the UK, yet doesn’t have the systems to make that part of the world in terms of the characters.

looks almost like a behemoth game, doesn’t it?

If I never see another issue of this dumb comic spammed on here ever again, it will be one too many.

It is based on (and shares some developers with) Rollcage, the PS1/PC game. At the time it was being conceived, it was going to be anti-grav. But the publisher, Psygnosis, said, “We already got that covered with Wipeout. Add wheels.” And it became awesome. I was pretty fortunate to work at that studio and meet the…

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…