Free enterprise is wonderful... except when it leads to monopolies. The US government needs to get involved and ensure some fair competition in this field. The giant monpolic telecoms corporations have too much power, and only the state is powerful enough to spread that power out.

Greenlight seems like an extreme hypocrisy on the part of Valve, while they still let publishers sneak any old shit through, just because they're publishers. Take Strategy First, for example. Eww, i just made myself think of Strategy First.

What's that? Censor bleeps are more funny than swearing? What a surprise! /sarcasm

I've played well over 2o00 hours of Team Fortress 2. I used to love it in the first half of its existence, and then... It went wrong. Too much content, probably a result of a deve team desperate to have the game keep draw in new players and making money, left many balance issues and bugs languishing until the game was…

Nope, but it could easily get Google in hot water.

My counterpoint is that the name of Gamergate is so tainted by harrassment and straight-white-man conservatism, that any person with actual, legitimate concerns distances themselves from the movement and makes their point without the stink of chimp poo all over it.

Do I? It's a typo of a pretty central game element, some might say THE central differentiator between Civ V and this, so if that didn't stick, how much else might not have?

I want to make two corrections to your review here:
Firstly, they're called affinities, not affiliations. A minor mistake, but one which does make you seem less plausible.

Incidentially, puffery is a bloody amazing term.

I suppose this is one further feather in the hat of Kotaku's new editorial style, since we now have a court of law's word for most publisher statements being utter guff not worth noting.

"A full serving of Fahey": A euphemism if ever there was one. NO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

The harrassment of Brianna Wu is terrible, obviously. It is however, for reasons unconnected to the person herself, kind of great: This situation brings the spectre of gamergate back into sharp relief and allows us to discuss it, without being in the middle of the maelstrom of hatred and heated tempers that was the…

I wouldn't expect anything less from the right-wing nutter who wrote CODBLOPS.

I got "Pushkrimp Hot-tongs", which i immediately read as "Pushkrimp Hot-thongs" and slapped myself for the thought.

Are publishers getting out of their damned minds? First Sega locks away Alien as DLC in an Alien game, and now WB locks off Sauron and the one ring as DLC in LOTR. This mercenary bullshit is going too far.

I'm not certain how much of a problem this actually is, to be honest. The only curators you're really meant to see are friends and sites you sdupport, so these occasional bubbling farts are probably never really discovered.

This certainly looks fun!.. For the first three hours you play it, after which it'll probably descend to Grind City like every other game that ever tried this formula (Borderlands, Destiny, Warframe, Firefall...).

Nope, they settled with a Razer controller, which then ended up being discontinued, soooo...

Allow me to correct the opening paragraph of the article and be a total killjoy: The graphics are looking spectacular. The combat is once more stuck in the pit of poo between turn based and realtime, unsure of what to do, and the writing amnd world are as incoherent and poor as ever. Square Enix is continuing its…

Jesus, you've got blinkers on. I'm not even going to argue with you when you've got confirmation bias like this going on. There are tonnes of developers and publishers making a killing off treating their customers with respect and fairness.