I'm pretty sure that some of those herbs he picked would make a great side.

I always find it disappointing in how prostitutes are portrayed in pop culture in general. No matter how hard or gritty or realistic the show or game or whatever is trying to be, the prostitutes are always sassy, fashionably dressed chicks cheekily taunting the cops and strutting down the street. Even if they're being…

I doubt Microsoft's cloud will be brought down by Xbox Live. It's just one cog in the larger Azure cloud system that also hosts multi-national corporate intranets, websites, commerce, etc. Xbox One just uses that vast already-built global network as a platform.

Servers get shut down because servers have to be dedicated to specific games. These servers have to be large enough to handle peak load, even though that's a small percentage of the total server time. So you're paying for a lot more server muscle than you use most of the time. Eventually not enough people are playing…

People aren't mad because Assassin's Creed doesn't have women, they're mad because Ubisoft lied about how difficult it would be to add women. I think the Far Cry 4 team was more honest, and I can't see them receiving the same blow back. I'd bet a couple bucks that Far Cry 5 has women, as conciliatory as that sounds.

Look, if you don't want to have female assassin because of creative reasons that's perfectly ok. Just don't come out and tell me you have a multi-million dollar videogame that's being made collectively by 8 Ubisoft Studios from around the world who have the time to painstakingly create a huge and detailed Paris filled…

It didn't have to, though—and that's what's so damned disappointing here.

Dr. Strangeluigi or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wii U

A friend of mine who is a gaming journalist for a traditional rag actually tweeted this box art upon its release without initial comment (though the tone was clearly negative). I replied back, a little curious as to why he found it noteworthy.

Oh, cool, how innovative...another article talking about, or alluding to The Last of Us. I wonder how long it will be until there is a complete 2 week unbroken stretch of time in which The Last of Us is not mentioned in any way in a single Kotaku article....

Most of what the XBox One was aiming toward (and I'm not trying to harp on Microsoft here; they were just the first to try it, and they got burned—if they'd succeeded, I'm certain Sony and Nintendo would've followed suit) was centered around digital distribution, though. Look at their "sharing" policies—look at what…

I know this is irrelevant, but "begging the question" pertains to a circular argument, not 'leads to this question'. Sort of like how people have made up the word "irregardless" or say that they "could care less" about something.

I'm not going to defend that the game has 5 hours worth of enjoyable content or not…

The Love is in the Air quest "Crushing the Crown" has been renamed "Crushing the Candy". Bring it.

It probably will be, but you won't be able to hear it over the sound of an explosion.

The ridiculous thought here is that any game featured in a time period must feature the weapons most prominent in that time period prominently in their mechanics.

Sorry, I don't speak Conspiracy Theory...or German, for that matter.

Honestly - long as they are blocking ads on my end - I really don't care about if they are charging ad-companies for priority (or even just inclusion) on the less restrictive mode.