No, not exactly that. The argument often pushed by crypto bros is that you can move digital assets between games freely. It’s a fanciful scenario where you could theoretically take a sword for example in one MMO and use it in a completely different game. And of course that would never work in the real world.

She’s not an AI making informed choices based on player input. Let’s not pretend it’s more than a dialog option between change to skinny or stay fat.

Platinum has always been hit-or-miss. They made that terrible Legend of Korra game. And that boring Transformers game. And that awful TMNT game. And that questionable Star Fox game.

Never has a game so swiftly torpedoed my interest upon starting it for reasons not related to the actual gameplay.

““But then why not just use the far cheaper Switch?!” you cry, somewhat belligerently. Well, I reply, yeah, there’s a lot to that. Except that I’ve fifty squillion wonderful PC games on my Steam account that have never had a Switch release, and I like playing them. Never mind the significant point that this is a much,…

Wondering why this remains Kotaku’s most recent article 12+ hours later on a weekday? https://gmgunion.com/

The trope is based on the ancient Greek “emission theory” of vision (they actually did believe the eye worked by actively emitting rays) and a naive (mis)understanding of the quantum observer effect.  (The two of which are probably not entirely unrelated.)

To be clear, this guy wasn’t just creating modchips for homebrew. He was involved in maintaining and supporting huge pirated ROM libraries for use with those modchips, and selling paid custom firmware (“SX OS”) that allowed access to those ROM libraries. It was estimated that Team Xecuter was raking in tens of…

I really think the technology behind blockchain is fascinating, and I think there could be potential uses for it that aren’t all scams and financial speculation.

It also doesn’t help that Hisui Region, and by extension the Sinnoh Region, is on based on Hokkaido. And that the Imperial Japanese government annexed and colonized Hokkidaido from the indigenous Ainu people and forcibly assimilated them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people#Japanese_annexation_of_Hokkaido)

That’s... actually one of the more gracious ways to admit cheating I’ve ever seen. Admitting, deleting all the fake stuff, and paying back the money. Deleting the socials is probably a wise decision for his own sake. More people should do that regardless of admission of guilt.

Sure, in some settings “raise my score” doesn’t necessarily require “lower their score”. But with the Elo ranking system you can’t have one without the other. If Karjakin’s goal was to raise his rating then he has both options, either winning or a draw. Given the situation he may have decided that ‘draw’ was the…

Not a huge one.

I love this comment so much.

“And just so we can get this on the record, in case you never realised that legal teams work harder than just checking Kotaku once a week, we did not post about this project, nor did we even mention it in passing, and yet Nintendo’s lawyers found it all the same.”

It’s mindblowing how this needs to be said. It’s like…

Personal theory: It’s supposed to be bad.

The real parties are in furry VRChat. 

Well that would explain why Kotick hasn’t gone juuuust yet (no doubt will get a massive percentage of the price) and why Phil is so diplomatic about the answers he gave about behaviours at the place.

Listen close after he’s scored a basket. You’ll probably only hear part of it, as it gets cut off at the end of a lot of the clips.

There’s a really clear one when he has a free throw around 4:30