Hell, look at CS:GO skins as well.  

I’d never make the connection between NFTs and Steam trading cards/in game items, but you’re absolutely right. That’s the imaginary goldmine that publishers are rushing to replicate.

Isn’t the whole point of Stranger Things the repetition of tropes from 1980s adventure/sci-fi/teen movies? It’s all deliberate homage.

Yup, that verdict was a shitshow and the awards gonna be laughed out on appeal. Just when I think the american legal system has reached its nadir, a jury steps up to prove just how fucking stupid “your peers” really are. Heard has issues but i hope she moves on from this shit; that fucking manchild, Hunter s Thompson…

Well the internet’s going to be a raging mess for a while now. Which civil defamation case on balance of probabilities do you believe? The one in the jurisdiction where he had all the legal advantages that found he’s the liar who beat her a dozen times, or the one in the jurisdiction where she had all the legal…

They already limit how many people can watch at once (one at a time on the lowest tier plan) which is reasonable and keeps any password sharing among people you’d trust. If someone lets their parents use their Netflix account they either have to spring for an expensive multi-user plan or never use it at the same time.

Anyone who isn’t finding value in the gamepass is bonkers-crazy-pants or has already spent their money on every game to come out each month. As someone on a tight budget, there is at least one game announced each month that pays for the whole subscription. I can understand un-subbing because you just don’t have the…

I agree, the article _is_ great.  Good job Kotaku.

Found one!

I’d love to see a Rian Johnson movie, or series, or series of movies, unencumbered by the Skywalker Saga and its accompanying baggage and expectations.

Ooh. This makes it sound like Johnson is still slated to return after all. I hope so. I look forward to feeling a great disturbance in the YouTube algorithm, as millions of whiny voices of fanboys will suddenly cry out in terror and will be hilariously silenced.

I run a kinship (guild) in LOTRO and have played for approximately 13 years. Despite its age, it still feels like home to me, and is hands-down the best representation of being able to interact with Middle-earth. 

“fantastic recreations of the movie’s key scenes”

This statement from the OP killed any credibility of this list. Calling the sideshows (all combat scenes in the books were just holding ground) the key scenes is just depressing.

Correct. Like Trump, Musk is one of these executives who loves to brag about how much of a workaholic they are, how incredible their work ethic is, how they’re up at 4am every day then nose to the grindstone for 12+ hours straight, how they’re first in last out, how they live to work...when in reality all that is…

IRL he uses his summons to do his work for him.

EA promises nothing else will change

Honestly this should be the last Mario Kart.

I say this a lot, but I always maintain that the problem with zombies is that creators treat them as a genre, rather than just a monster; so they keep setting out to make “a zombie movie” and rehashing the same tropes.

It seems like Gabe’s objection was more philosophical/conceptual, but from a saturation point he’s also not wrong. That era was rotten with zombies in movies and games. It was a really tiring fad. In my mind, the only reason l4d really shined was because of just how ridiculously well executed it was as a co-op horde…

You’re right, it isn’t a contest. lol

JK2/JKA had way more mods than Dark Forces.

You’re forgetting, in the days of all those titles being peak, there was a little website for mods called FileFront that literally set the baseline for what moddb became. It went down one day and we lost *millions* of mods for thousands…