I can sympathize: these conventions are run by marketing staff and businesspeople (none of which know anything about the product they're hocking).

As a 40 year old gamer myself, I would have to disagree with you. I have certainly aged from the days of standing in line, hungry from skipping lunch with my lunch money converted into quarters, at 7-11, waiting my turn to play Super Mario Bros, (circa 1980s) to staying up until midnight last night because I couldn't…

Stolen from NeoGAF, basically clarifies the nature of the problem:

Or they could buy a new PS3/PS4 instead. Which is probably what is going to happen.

How am I judging? If you are physically, biologically a male human, I'm sorry but you're a male human.

Years of thinking about it and still I'm torn on transgender nomenclature(for lack of a better word). I don't think it's inherently wrong to label a person by their biological gender, and in some situations, it would aid a conversation/situation. Obviously, because of the context, this comedian is an ass, regardless…

It is the rubble upon which XP was built.

Kotaku, you reported something upsetting that happened within the fighting game scene and you did it right. You got your facts straight, you got sides to the stories, you did your research and you didn't come up with some crazy half baked article title to get clicks. Not to mention you've been covering a lot of the…

You wouldn't call Mario Party 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 "Mario", or Transformers: Fall of Cybertron "Transformers" or Iron Man 2 or 3 "Iron Man", so no: a partial answer asking for a specific title that launched a franchise cannot be abbreviated as simply "Zelda" in this case.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Zelda: The Wind Waker
Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Zelda: A Link to the Past
etc etc etc

This game is a ton of fun and has a ton of replayability trying to get the high score, unlocking various levels, etc. Plus the music is bitchin' and it's gorgeous to boot. To anyone who gets it, put on touchpad teleporting. The square thing works ok, but it's so much quicker to press where you want to teleport on…

That does sound pretty good. Too bad they never had that in VGML here. So this was big in Brazil? Haha I had no idea. Really glad the clapping stopped otherwise you wouldn’t even be able to hear the main theme.

I see a lot of complaining about how they aren't able to do a game for which they got almost ten times the money they asked for, but nobody seems to consider that, when they got so much money, they changed the magnitude of the project. What was supposed to be a short, simple game became a larger project. They could…

This is the reality of game development and honestly happens to almost every game ever made. You can make a plan and a budget around that plan but until you really start building the game you just can't know the realities of that schedule and budget. I actually greatly appreciate Tim and team coming forward with this…

Not saying it's not a frustrating situation, but on the developer side, budgets are always in flux. Getting "too much" funding on Kickstarter might be a really bad thing, actually, haha. You feel pressure to put all of those funds into the project the campaign was for (rightfully so), but those funds could also be…

I couldn't couldn't agree more. This is just poor writing through and through. Someone take away this woman's thesaurus before she hurts herself. I'm 100% for a well written article that unpacks infinite, comparing what it wanted to accomplish to what it actually accomplished, but this article is not that one. A lot…

The problem isn't that she's trying to expand anyone's vocabulary.

Oh, look, it's Leigh Alexander. I wonder whether her obsession with extraordinarily long words is one she can't help.

She wants us to hate the game for not being Bioshock 1, claiming Infinite's mediocrity while expecting mediocrity so long as it remains faithful to the original game. That's where there's issue.