Technically you don’t need an office building at all to write code but Nintendo is an old school company and that includes employees showing up to an office building to work each day, dressed in suits and crap. 

Update at 4:12 PM EDT: It’s a boy!

Just because it’s an office building doesn’t mean it has to be non-descript. There are many design innovations that do things like encourage people to take the stairs instead of the elevator, or increase the amount of natural light.

They do seem to like their ugly cube buildings, don’t they?

Nintendo is just a real estate company that just happens to make video games.

It would be a minefield trying to make that game and not have it banned in China. And I imagine they would want to sell it in China.

I think this is probably why they haven’t gone to that part of the world in depth at all. Don’t want to alienate the east Asian market.

I mean, it’s a neat idea, but any discussion of the Japanese invasion of China brings up some pretty hairy issues of historical honesty. If you’re going to talk about that, you’re going to have to talk about some pretty appalling human rights violations and brutality, and there may not be a good way to address that in…

Bayonets were pretty much done after WW1 and were little more than knives you could attach to a rifle by 1939...not that a rifle with a knife attached to it is really all that stealthy or fitting for a assassin trying to blend in anyway lol.

I dunno — considering how limiting guns actually are if you’d selectively apply a tad of realism, I could see it work out. There’s a reason bayonets were still popular at the time.

I’d be on board just for the Shanghai architecture, but good luck getting Japanese gamers to not pitch a fit.

I feel like too many people either underplay or completely miss out on the fact that all of these games occur in times and places of relatively important historical events (even if that history generally has a strong western bias). They also seem to try to stick it far back enough in time where things like guns aren’t…

I don’t know why, but anytime I hear the ‘Metaverse’ mentioned or hyped up, I instantly lose all interest.

I’m not sure what scares me more: that developers don’t understand that a key requirement for the success of the Metaverse is the existence of a dystopian hellscape, or that they do.

Sonic does not need you to defend him, my dude. He’s a cartoon character and his movie will do fine without Kotaku letting everybody know that a bunch of fans said they liked the movie.

Sonic 2 was such an amazing movie.  I feel like it easily smashed the first movie and I thought the first movie was a good movie as it was.  It doesn’t feel like Jim Carey had to break his back carrying the movie as much as he did the first one though.

Not going to lie, I’m surprised the movie is doing so well. That being said, I thought the original movie was underrated. It had heart and humor.

I take it you missed the whole profiting off the pandemic by selling bad masks thing?

This feels like it should be the headquarters for an evil organisation...