Thor walks around as Thor, while wearing a name tag that references his character’s origins... yet he exists as a stand in for Hemsworth. Making him not really “of” the comics or belonging to the MCU. It’s just a knock off of both.

I hate games like this. Where it’s a comic book property that references things from comic book lore over the last 40 years... but is too scared to just BE a comic book game. Instead, trying to be a story set in what seems like the MCU... except having no rights to the likenesses of the actors, and no greenlight to…

It’s not really an obsession but a preference. You’re not obsessed if you prefer watching a good movie on a large 4k tv with surround sound vs watching it on an old tube tv. It doesn’t stop the movie from being good, but one experience is still significantly better than the other.

“Politics” for them is anything dealing with women, minorities, or non-binary genders and sexualities.

Red-Scare fear mongering and rampant nationalism is not considered “political” to them because...well...in their view that’s just how the normal world is and should always be.

Doesn’t get more textbook than this...

You’re drawing a really disingenuous false equivalence between people who want everyone to be treated equally and have access to basic necessities for survival like food, shelter, and healthcare, and people who believe we should have a small government that exists to protect and provide for the free market at the…

amen. i didn’t know shit about this russian fucknugget and although i wasn’t planning on buying this game anytime soon, i do own several cod games and do consider them when they go on sale and as a matter of fact, i’m still playing ww2 multiplayer at my buddies house after we got it free on psn a month or two ago.

Except the alt-right radicalization has resulted in countless incidents of domestic terrorism. Have you ever heard of a super liberal gay dude shooting up the local Hooters?

One of those groups of the politics of genocide my guy, and the other doesn’t

I think this is pretty disingenuous. There are certainly alt-left groups, but comparing the alt-right to “liberals” is a hugely false dichotomy. Liberal groups generally push for inclusion, sometimes at the expense of existing social structures. Alt-right groups often push for ethno-states and the subjugation or…

I was not aware of this trailer’s real historical connection to the absolutely stupefyingly stupid idea of Cultural Marxism. Pieces like this is why I read Kotaku. Thanks, Ian!

I think the key difference with the original Infinity Ward games is that they were careful to always avoid going simply “Russia bad, America good”.

It’s like when people want “politics out of sports” but jerk off over the national anthem played before events, giant flags spread across the field (a violation of the Flag Code btw) and circle-jerk celebrations for the military during it.

I must say I appreciate this article. This is good journalism and puts a lot of the trailer into context.

Didn’t take long for the dipshits to appear complaining about this article being “political” when it’s commenting on a game that is deliberately portraying cold war politics for fun.

From the NMS blog, the starship upgrades will be the ability to increase a ship’s inventory slots or upgrade it’s class. So if you find a ship you like visually, but its cargo space etc. ain’t all that great, this would be an in-game way to make that ship worthwhile (as opposed to using a save game editor to do the…

I know others have said it but Disney really screwed up a opportunity. Instead of just focusing on the new trilogy they should have had Galaxy Edge include everything Star Wars. There is a significant portion of fans who want to see the more famous characters like Darth Vader, Darth Maul, etc.

I don't know if any comments yesterday mentioned it and my current interwebs is too bad to check, so I’ll say today happy belated birthday. Thank you for being the weekend editor here; I hope you had some great video games yesterday to celebrate.

A worthy item to be aware of. Best to start preaching the gospel now so the ID10Ts are listening well before it becomes a critical issue. Just wait until somebody cracks this nut and starts privatizing orbital pathways. The sky will truly be the limit on what they can get corporations and governments to pay. Or maybe…

Then don’t call it Joker. In fact, it doesn’t need to be Joker.