Man, I sure am tired of games that have cool systems and a boring story, forcing you to make your own stories like the one Yannick tells above. I already did this with Shadow of Mordor.

Yeah, there's no way they could keep everyone as there'd be some redundant positions. So far they're bringing Joystiq alum Ben Gilbert back into the fold, and Jess Conditt is staying on as a senior reporter. Also Anthony John Agnello is staying on to run their video content, or something.

A POISONOUS SNAKE!

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I've spoken to people who grew up in real warzones, where you'd come home and your house and farm would be on fire not because of a stray firework, but because someone didn't like you and was trying to send a message (that message was generally "Next time we set your house on fire, you'll be home and asleep"). They've…

Maybe Dark Souls is more her speed.

Glad to see Patrick Klepek contributing so much to the conversation. Who needs Scoops and the Wolf when I have 1 line of text?

I for one am curious to see what Bioware does with a short, linear experience.

I played a few games in front of my brother over the holidays. Little things I was trying to get through, like Never Alone and Valiant Hearts. He had asked me about a game he had read about in the paper called "Unfinished Swan", which was another game I own. But I didn't have my PS3 hooked up so I never got around to…

Congrats, Patrick! Long time duder here. I already check Kotaku pretty much daily, so at least we won't be too far from one another. And I thought things would be weird between us.

I switched back and forth between the primary "story mode" of Mordor and Lord of the Hunt several times to see if something, anything, was shared between the two. As far as I can tell, the only thing that carries over into the original game is Talion's new "beastmaster" skin, which is just Talion with a beard that…

I didn't get very far into Transistor. In one area, I held my finger on the hum button for ~10 minutes and sorta didn't feel like going forward anymore.

oh, you mean the stuff I have to delete on PC so I don't have to have my own video card advertised at me every time I want to play a game?

"Nah." - everyone in Jason's nightmares.

Were they asking about your sister or "asking" about your sister?

Assassin's Creed: Victory? So AC:V, for the 5th major entry in the series?

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Were they planning on selling it? I don't see why they can't just keep making it, or make "Wampyre The Mask: Lines of Blood" or something.

From everything I've seen about the game (I haven't started Far Cry 3 yet, so...in time), feel free to kill every single thing on the island, animal or human. Because it seems like they often started it. The birds, the dholes, the everything.

Isn't that something they only allowed on this current generation of consoles?