“If the majority of people believe something that is wrong, that doesn’t make it right." Except, functionally speaking, it does.

It’s very much a sins-of-the-father - or mother, in this case, since we know how JK feels about gender roles.

Wait, was Hogwart’s this year? That game was very well made. I know lots didn’t play it for other reasons, but it wasn’t because the game wasn’t good.

Hogwarts Legacy at least succeeded at its core concept, which was being a playground for fans; by contrast, Starfield was meant to be a game about exploration, and it failed in that at a fundamental level.

What’s weird to me is that they point this out ALL THE TIME on games with gold and possibly PS Plus but here it’s all of a sudden “free games” (with a subscription)

FYI, any Kotaku posts an article about the state of the gaming industry, replace the word “gaming” with “all technology”, because there is a very high change that the issue being discussed applies to the entire technology field.

That includes workers being forced to work insane overtime during crunches, and that also…

This sucks for the people involved, but it doesn’t sound like this was a game *studio* impact, but rather gaming-adjacent. I’m not even sure what the Crown Channel is but I do know they didn’t actually make games. I think maybe it was a Twitch show -about- games on Twitch?

Starfield honestly lacked the charm of skyrim or fallout. I think it was mainly an issue in how you traveled. It was all insta-teleport which removed most of the exploration wonder that it could have been.

Call me crazy but this marketing vehicle gussied up as an award show is not where I care to hear takes regarding Middle East conflicts.

My favorite free things are the ones I need to pay money for.

But I have played one game... for three hours... and nearly installed another one... and looked at the third one.

I think the biggest issue with the library is that most of the games can be played on a PC, which is my preferred medium.

In some ways I would put him and a couple other staff as the *only* journalists Kotaku had/have.

Just not seeing how Microsoft justify spending $69 Billion dollars for Activision, burn through all kinds of good will from the gamer by making it Xbox exclusive, and then pivot to dumping the primary IP from that acquisition.

Under that same reasoning, you could take those $6, buy groceries and cook yourself the restaurant meal at least 3 times. 

Also sunken cost fallacy once you’re hooked. My wife still plays Pokemon Go six+ years after it came out and spends money every few months on virtual coins. It’s ludicrous but I just chock it to “entertainment expense” and leave it be.  At least she’s not buying 10,000 pairs of shoes or purses.

a skin whipped up in a few weeks tells me you’re likely an indie dev and not AAA. Because “a few weeks” might be right for first art pass, but ignores all of the QA, animation tests, certification. most premium skins are more months than weeks of work accross many people.

Corporate greed is a funny way of shifting…

Hey don’t hate on the Deadpool game.  I’ve always found it to be pretty great.

I confirmed this to be accurate. The update still relies on Auto-HDR.

Nobody said that but Bloomberg, known for not getting much right.
That being said, it likely has more to do with bad stereotyping than anything else. Which is fine. That’s never what made the games fun to play in the first place

Avellone at his craziest.