I'm sorry but you why complain about first-day video game prices? You're not forced to buy all games day 1. If you buy all your games delayed by a couple of months you easily spend less than half.

Like, I want to agree with this guy... but just trying to read that...

I LOVED this game;/

.... Most of the quotes were not from Americans.

You want an atmospheric, oppressive, difficult, intense, minimalistic, exploratory 2D platformer?

On the contrary... This is 32 bits, at least.

I don't know if the "no one is really talking about it" thing is a reflection of the game's quality; the publisher certainly hasn't been shy about putting out lots of trailers to promote it.

As for the troubled development history...eh, we'll see. Bioshock Infinite had a "troubled development history" too, and that…

Additionally to what Blood_Of_Lamb said, when a company purchases its stock back, it is also seen as investing in itself. Meaning it expects to hold onto the shares until their value comes up and is on the rise. Then when selling they can get more out of the investment. A company who is going under rarely buys its own…

everyone became a hipster, a model, or a hipster model.

And what's shorthand for assuming that people who are insensitive to someone's suffering are probably white men? I get the idea of averages and probabilities, but it still strikes me as a lazy and cynical way to dismiss people who are saying things you disagree with. It's certainly not constructive to jump to gender…

I don't think it helps to assume that people who might be against this story are "probably white males."

The water temple was NEVER difficult. I don't get the internet's obsession with proclaiming how "hard" it was to go through that. It wasn't. Perhaps a bit laborious, but it's not hard.

He's the most even-handed guy on that channel. That said, the giant iPads are the Fox version of the Will.I.Am holograms CNN had.

I disagree with this. I've been reading IGN reviews since the N64 days and I can honestly say that their reviews are pretty accurate with my feelings about games. Interesting fact as well. In IGN's history, they have only given 29 games a perfect score.

Although this is partially self-promotion, Kotaku was the birthplace of a one-liner that totally should become a meme. It was my most recommend post of this year, so I suppose that counts as most popular story (at least from my perspective), right?

You had ONE job, Kotaku.

Wish there was less Assassin's Creed in AC4 as well...I love the game, but if I have to tail one more jackass through enemy controlled "red" areas I'm going to lose my shit. I think it is in literally every single story mission. The worst parts of AC4 are the legacy AC features...

You'll never guess what this man is doing to save his city. Hint: BLINK and you'll miss it.

USE THIS WEIRD OLD TRICK TO EXTEND YOUR LIFE THIRTY-FOLD.

The game, I hope you meant "beat the game".