Kotaku has been a beacon of solid journalism in an otherwise follow-the-leader PR-ridden field. Their expose of Dyack, writing on sexism in games, piercing questions about the XBox One - There's a reason I come to Kotaku first.
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NOW THAT'S SOME GOD DAMN JOURNALISM.
An awful situation may be turning around for the better. Trendy Entertainment president Jeremy Stieglitz will alter…
Cmon PS+ give me a break! I'm so late in all the free games I haven't had time to play yet that my XMB start looking like my Steam collection.
Meet the new CoD. Same as the old CoD. We won't get fooled again.
And here I thought people were joking when they said we're slowly turning everything into a game. Nope. Gamification…
It's beautiful. I'm shedding one manly tear.
Could use one of these.
I really need to rewatch that movie. And get my ass to Mars.
You bring up an interesting point - and maintaing relationships is an important part of our job - but we can't let the fear of losing access dictate any of our editorial practices. If we start thinking things like "uh oh, we've gotta pull these images or else Ubisoft won't send us review copies" we run into sticky…
Ever heard of Recall? They sell those fake memories.
Even if the ESRB had told you to pull the images, you still did not need to remove them. You guys have a First Amendment (and fair use) right to publish newsworthy material, including the images. If Kotaku ever starts believing that the ESRB has some kind of enforcement power over journalists, I'll be very sad.
While I appreciate your commitment to gaming journalism, it probably would have been in Kotaku's (and by de facto, us readers) best interest to pull the image. I normally stand against censorship and all of that good stuff, but I don't want my go-to gaming news website to have a harder time getting industry content…
Just watching this game makes me want to blow my brains out!