It's definitely more niche to be sure. Not many things that can compete with Pokemon when it comes appealing to shared history (that and the whole corrupted childhood innocence thing works really well).

The idea of using Streetpass for a creepypasta is really good by the way. It's an interaction that is outside of your…

Actually I think a creepypasta based on a cursed mod could be pretty great.

If code can carry a curse then mods would be a perfect vector. They have a sort of self propagating nature to them, if a mod is good then it gets upvoted and picked up by more people. But if the cursed mod changes peoples behavior then the…

I remember desperately wanting to play this back in 2008. It's kinda weird that I'm going to finally get the chance to play it after all these years.

It's not really skewed in Watch Dogs favor, since the ranking system is a binary they are just telling you whether or not the reviewer thinks it is worth your time. If both games are worth your time then they will both get the same score. If one isn't worth your time it doesn't matter that it's cheaper, because it…

The system is actually based on "should you PLAY this game?" not "should you BUY this game?".

The later puts focuses on if the game is a good value proposition with regard to money and the former focuses on if it is a good value proposition with regard to time.

Considering how quickly game prices drop I think focusing…

This sounds more like an attack than I want it to, but how to you feel about basically everyone in the games writing industry who has a history of fighting corruption and unethical business practices being anti-gamergate?

1. Jezebel is not a section of Kotaku it's a different site, which is also owned by Gawker Media.

2. The filtration system is in place because the Jezebel comments section was being bombarded with gore and porn and when they spoke out about it the gore porn people started spamming all Gawker Media sites. This is why…

But how is stuff like the Dragons Crown flare up related to ethics or gamergate?

There is absolutely nothing unethical about expressing an opinion about an art style or any other game design choice. In fact it would be much more problematic for a games writer to hold back criticism for fear of a negative reaction.

Furth…

Based on what I see a lot of the outcry about journalistic ethics is less about wanting an unbiased source of info and more about wanting people like Leigh Alexander to be punished for writing articles that they interpret as insulting.

Furthermore even if we take the desire for ethics at face value they are unlikely…

I've been wanting one of these for ages, just so I can finally play P4G and Danganronpa and all the other stuff I've been missing out on. But I just realized that I don't even own a tv, so maybe it would be more economical just to buy a Vita?

I just love the concept because it reminds me of the GBA player I used to…

Yep. The amazing thing is that gamergate has consistently targeted the best people in games journalism. I think this is largely because the only people willing to take a stand are the people with a strong enough moral compass to put themselves in the line of fire. The people who are actually a problem will just keep…

I think the fear of games being mainstreamed is a big part of it. A lot of the angst I've seen stems from the perception that games/games writing are being taken over by people who should not be there. However I suspect the rage has less to do with the mainstreaming of games exposing their inadequacy and more with a…

It's definitely the most interesting change. According to the site the bounty rune gives 50 XP + 5/min and 50 gold + 2/min. So it's similar to what you would get for last hitting a creep. Considering that leaving lane to get a rune will probably result in at least one last hit being lost the xp/gold aspect of it is…

I thought it was weird when I first heard about it, but it makes perfect sense once you start to play.

The heroes picked for a match change the dynamics of the game way more than changing up the map ever could.

I know right? I think this has the best monster design of anything From has done so far (and that's saying something).

While there are abusive pricks everywhere the problem is that these people aren't just random assholes. A whole subculture has formed around hating certain people in the games industry and these really over the top attacks are just flareups of ongoing aggression. I'm pretty sure that at this point these people spend…

The not believing it is what really gets me. The whole anti-feminist gaming faction has decided that all abuse coming from their community are actually attempts by feminists to frame them. It's surreal.

Various games journalists are speculating that this flare up is part of the death throes of the shittier part of…

Agreed, polish is basically the defining characteristic of Blizzard games. Hearthstone's production values are insanely good. Heck I think the production values are 90% of why I keep playing it. I personally don't think the mechanics are on the same level as something like Netrunner* but the user experience side of…

Akuma no Uta is damn good, probably my favorite out of what I've properly listened to so far (only 5 out of 19, I'm working on it). The variety in their discography is amazing, doubly so because I actually like all of it.

If you actually want to know the details you should try to track down her ex's post. I'm not going to post it here because it is extremely personal and I don't really think that it should be read by the whole internet. That said you can pretty easily find it with some searching.

Anyways the takeaway is that he never…