This comment is the perfect example of how Kotaku, its writers, and its ardent defenders, see themselves - that 99% of other people are dumbasses. And this pompousness is evident even in their "aplogy". 

Then... Why make a teardown video... If you dont want people to... Tear it down? 

“This led to situations where players dressed as Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty were dancing around in the virtual DC’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool while Martin Luther King, JR’s speech played in the background. Not great!”

Because Fortnite is a more interesting avenue for learning for some kids than story time with the parents 

Hes supposed to be a bad guy but with the Mandalorian being so huge, maybe theyre going to try and make Boba Fett less if an obvious bad guy and more of an anti-hero. If thats the case, trying to push someone as a hero, even an anti-hero, in a kids series, using the term Slave 1 for his ship, is probably where the…

“After months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classic Grand Theft Auto games.”

These QA people should make more. Your wife should make more. You should make more. I should make more. Middle Class America as a whole should make more. Its a systemic problem. 

Sexualizing women to appeal to a largely male demographic is exactly what these companies do. You arent coming at them with some facts they didn’t know wheb you say other ages and genders play their games. Sure they do, but the majority of women who play games dont play “core” games. They play phone games like match 3…

Hey Mike! It seems pretty strange that, in writing an article about a new Engine and how its boring because it uses a white guy model and as an industry we have a history of such demos using white folks as the default character, how you decided to omit the very recent history of a different trailer for this very…

Then you’ll be happy to know that they also put out a trailer showing multiple ethnicities and genders using this same engine to go alongside this trailer very recently! Its almost like the article is purposefully ignoring the existence of that trailer to make his point about “oh another bro white guy tech demo”

Games take a very long time to make. The racial reckoning weve gone through over the last decade is going to take a while to bear fruit in our media. All the grizzled white dudes you point out are in games from years ago, that were in development for years before that. What you saw at E3 this year was a much more…

Taking references to the dude out of the game is absolutely necessary, but the fact they didnt YET isnt really something to be that upset about considering all this stuff just unfolded and is still unfolding in real time and maybe they... Havent gotten to it yet? 

Even if he isn’t playing Tommy, he might give Luna, and the rest of the cast, some insights for what the team was going for with the original production they can incorporate or use to color their performances. 

Does someone have to do Schofields job? Yes? Okay, so how does one get such a job? Usually high level positions such as his are earned through decades of work. Schofield has been in the industry, across many fields and teams of many sizes, for literally decades. Are you saying he didn’t earn his job? Well, when you…

Im all for MS building good will with gamers by giving gamepass such a push, supporting old hardware, updating games with extra performance, bringing games day and date to Gamepass, etc but... The whole point of building said good will is for profit. So far they havent made anything from Gamepass nearly 4 years in…

Sony continues to offer the full "next gen" experience for $100 less than MS, has the PS+ Collection full of great games that have been patched to take advantage of the PS5, and actually has games you can buy RIGHT NOW that are platform exclusive that are really good. MS is making a whole bunch of promises, but other…

The article doesnt actually mention any influencers that walked away from this saying “Yo this elaborate high dollar expense trip has sold me on this game guys!” Neither does your comment link to anyone saying that either. Are we so sure that these people actually exist in meaningful numbers? Because if we WERE, im…

Strange, I watch a decent amount of “Gaming YouTube” and havent seen... any coverage of this at all? Let alone positive coverage? Either way, youre painting with a pretty broad brush, one thats almost as childish in its application as anti-games journalist whiners who think “all games journalists bad”.

Kindly fuck off, Japanese Disney

At Kotaku we like to remind you in every article the hardships of devs, their struggles, how hard their job is, and especially during Covid... Arent toxic fans expecting the world from game developers just the worst?