You misspelled “Dominic Armato”.

I’m actually hoping that Pirates of The Caribbean is far enough back in the rearview mirror that Monkey Island movies could finally be a thing.

Admittedly I don’t play video games online much. But following this through to its logical conclusion, it sounds bad? Like imagine that you’re playing an online game and you have access to a button that plays a Troy Baker voice clip for all players, or all players near you. How long until that gets old, not just for…

Man, just track down a copy of Piña Pirata and play a fun Uno-style game.

Ha! Three Super Smash Bros. games on the list and none of them is Melee! Take that, competitive community!

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl being the top-ranked Pokémon games floors me. For me it was probably the most forgettable generation. I mean all the new evolutions for older Pokémon were and are great, but that’s about it.

Donkey Kong Country is especially surprising considering how much better Returns and Tropical Freeze are. And this is coming from somebody who had a lot of nostalgia for the original.

Lotta RPGs on here. There’s still nobody on Kotaku yet who’s listed Fantasian though.

I was hoping that Yacht Club’s polish would make Pocket Dungeon good enough for me, a person who could take or leave falling-block puzzle games. So far I think the verdict is: I wish I’d waited for it to go on sale. I really wish Yacht Club had released a demo for it.

Bated! Bated breath.

You can play King of Cards while avoiding the card game entirely, but as a completionist I recognize that that’s not ideal.

I’d call you German, or Austrian, or Swiss, or whatever. My point is that rarely do I feel the need to make gross generalizations about “people who live outside the US”, so I don’t need a word for “foreigner” at all.

As an American, the frequency with which Japanese folks seem to use the word “foreigners” kind of floors me. It’s just not a word I use or hear very often, for whatever reason, even when talking about people who live outside the US. I dunno, maybe “gaijin” doesn’t have the negative connotations I associate with the…

I’ve got some bad news: There aren’t any GameCube games on the Virtual Console, so no Thousand Year Door.

Alternatively, if you have a Wii U, it’s $10 on the eShop. Just, as an alternative for the small segment of the population that has a Wii U and isn’t signed up for the Switch Online Expansion Pack.

I’m guessing that (almost) nobody has technically lost their sense of taste from COVID-19. But losing your sense of smell basically means that you can’t experience flavors. I say this as somebody who just had COVID and had a complete loss of my sense of smell. At that time, I could put something in my mouth and say,…

Oh, I didn’t mean to imply that Penny Arcade being taken off Sunday Comics was a direct link to that particular comic/write-up. It was just the clearest example I could think of to show that Jerry Holkins does/did not like Kotaku one bit.

Oh man, checked my notifications, saw these comments and was racking my brain trying to remember what horrible thing I must have written in the comments and when. I’d forgotten that I’d posted this link. Whew!

They really have it in for Kotaku, I think. From what I can gather from Penny Arcade themselves, they seem to dislike Kotaku for…doing their jobs as game journalists?

Heh. The difference there is that Valve and Panic actually want to finish and sell their products. George R. R. Martin very clearly would rather do almost anything else.