I can’t honestly say that this feels sketchy. The explanation makes enough sense to me, and this is all part of gaming PR. It’s not like people kicked David Jaffe in the teeth for lying about Twisted Metal PS3, and that was MUCH worse than this. This is eensy weensy baby stuff.

I’m sure most people would just shorten an overlong name anyway. It’s not like most people use the full name of “Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?” when talking about that particular entry in that successful low-budget franchise.

I’ve worked in marketing many years. A vague name is nobody’s friend. An overlong name isn’t good either, but at least in the video game space is reasonably rare - and when it comes along, it tends to sell decently enough.

I, for one, assumed that a game named “Rocket League” would involve dudes with rocket packs (most likely) or dudes with rocket launchers (slightly less likely).

WORD.

So basically you just said “The name doesn’t have any effect on the product’s success, except for how it totally did hurt the previous version’s success.”

Back when Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars it was a free PlayStation Plus game, they showed up on IGN’s Podcast Beyond to promote it and talk about how much they wanted people to try it.

I think you forgot the qualifier “N64” in the headline.

Came here to read what results you got - did you get different kinds of critiques, MORE critiques, more positive responses, etc?

That doesn’t really change the fact that you don’t seen nearly as many stories about it on Polygon, IGN, Destructoid, GameSpot, whatever you like. Here, it’s like we’re INSIDE the hype machine.

Well, they’re certainly focused on the most internationally and financially successful YouTube personalities over the ones who are actually providing any quality content for people over the age of 13.

There is absolutely no gaming site that writes as much as about “Five Nights at Freddy’s” OR about “Pewdiepie” as Kotaku does lately.

I’m really hoping this was just KickStarter’s way of saying “Dude, I don’t want to get mixed up in this unless it actually gets funded, so we’re just gonna shrug it off for now.”

Even though I’m part of the “Amazon Household” as the second adult, I can’t view any free Prime videos. I only get access to the books and music my wife has - the video streaming doesn’t carry over, apparently!

Epic, Stella, now 2... the series has gotten so full of bullshit pay-to-play features and pay-to-win features that it’s no surprise Rovio is struggling a bit.

You have had exceptionally shit jobs.

That makes no sense.

The endless, incessant debates of “Who is better: LeBron James or Michael Jordan?” suggests otherwise.

“For you.” There will never be another Ronda Rousey FOR YOU, because you have such an impassionated fangasm for her.

There’s always something weird to me about download-only games getting DLC....