That is sooooo not the same! Sony & MS DO make new IPs in addition to their existing ones.

I think that looks horrible. There's something really weird about it, not at all realistic. I think the second example he uses actually looks better, before he turns the supposedly impressive one on.

Holy FUCK that interviewer is hot! <3

Lol, I saw this article on my phone earlier, and due to the smaller screen I thought Ellie was about to dice Joel...

You're absolutely right, but I think he's referring more to the 'banner' than to the case itself. Which, as he rightly points out, has always been black.

They'll do fine, just not as fine as Sony. All of the hardcore 360 owners are going to get the Xbox One so they can continue to play the franchises they love. Brand loyalty will secure their place in the market. Though I think it's safe to say that place will almost certainly be second place unless they change some of…

Literally just the other week I had to debate with somebody who was claiming that Kotaku were Xbots.

The moral of the story: Kotaku are a team made up of different individuals, all with their own opinions. Just because many of them feel strongly about a particular console, it doesn't make the site 'loyal' to a…

As were much of us! I can barely imagine how shocking that must've been for those who didn't know it was coming.

Really??? Chell is Eurasian? Would never have noticed! She should team up with the girl from Mirror's Edge for some portal-based free-running fun.

I've read book 3, but for me, the most disturbing part about seeing this scene acted out was the part they added; the first move.

It is a CRIME that nobody has mentioned this: the greatest TV ad in history.

I agree, he didn't say that games are bad and films are okay - he said there's a contrast between the way we react to popular media in general (i.e. games, films, TV) and the way we react to reality. Seeing somebody shot in a game or film doesn't have the same impact on us as seeing somebody shot in real life. His…

He seems like an intelligent man, I like the way that he made a genuinely interesting point, he didn't just attack videogames with prejudice, which is what we've grown accustomed to.

The way he didn't target videogames specifically, but popular culture & media in general, was good.

There is something of a disconnect…

I wonder what a name like 'Doomguy' therefore implies for the protagonist of Doom...perhaps his nationality is Spacemarinian, hence his drive to kill!

I can only think of Bioshock 2 & MGS 3 right now, but I'm sure there are plenty more. I would also say Bioshock: Infinite, but to be entirely honest, I'm not sure how you'd define what that game is in relation to its predecessors.

I feel like your primary examples are more like reboots as opposed to true prequels. And Origins isn't exactly a reboot of the Arkham games, it's simply the third in the series, and takes place before the previous ones.

Nolan's Batman - while covering an earlier time period than earlier films had done - was in…

Didn't somebody on Kotaku - Stephen, I think - publish an article recently about the reasons that prequels were never as good as the works they followed from? And didn't he say that one of the reasons is that people don't really care that much about why somebody became who they are.

I like Batman. I don't want to see…

No, but it does have something in the form of digital backwards compatibility, at least. That's one of the reasons why Microsoft are getting so much hate - they don't have anything.

I seem to remember them making a point about the game featuring a team of characters that the player will care about, hence why they'd brought in a professional writer. I expect the campaign to be much like the one in Black Ops II.

Literally just the other day, I had to debate with a commenter who claimed that Kotaku were 'Xbots'.

I'll say the same thing I said to him: Kotaku is comprised of a team of people, all of them with their own opinions. It just so happens to be the case that many of them are unhappy with the Xbox One so far.