it hasn’t hurt microsoft’s console sales so far. they’re still difficult to get a hold of.

WTF are you doing, consumer? Do you WANT more titles to remain less available? I’m sure that Sony’s business will continue to do fine, can we not enjoy this win and celebrate more people having access to good games?

I don’t think they’re hurting their PS5 sales by porting 3-5 year old PS4 games.  

My hunch is that it will age better than the blockchain record of your purchase of a receipt for a monkey jpeg at a URL that doesn’t exist anymore.

Fortnite can absolutely be blamed for not being able to put any kind of original spin on the concept, which is the point: Fortnite didn’t even change the number of people involved, or the reporting system. It’s is creatively bankrupt, and THAT is the problem.

“Fortnite is Facebook but for games”, is a quote for the century. 

Yup. I’m reminded of several articles from about this time twenty years ago about parking lots with cars whose owners would never be back to pick them up, and how it was a mournful and melancholy monument to loss and grief.

The digital style is from French/Belgian comic artists of the 80s, specifically Moebius. If you liked the art style, I’d recommend reading The Incal. You’ll see the resemblance immediately.

As someone currently playing it on GamePass (meaning I didn’t pay for it directly), I won’t really argue against your impression from the demo - at times, the actual gameplay feels so ephemeral it’s nearly nonexistent. It’s definitely the sort of thing I ‘admire’ more than I ‘enjoy’ so far, and that lack of truly…

The “fun” of unlocking cringe corporate approved memes?

This is like the worst kind of appeal to tradition fallacy, because the actual original tradition isn’t even what’s being appealed to.

There are names in this cast that I’m not necessarily opposed to having in a Mario movie (Kevin Michael Richardson and Jack Black, specifically). But this is another shameful example of the celebrification of voice acting. I was pleasantly surprised when Colleen Villard turned up in the Sonic movie but I shouldn’t…

Man, this might be a hot take, but here goes:

I understand that sentiment. I too enjoy experiencing art the way it was meant to be. Where our opinions differ, is on whether Nintendo directs are art or not. You speak of watching it the way the creators intended, but then I ask you this: are the creators worthy of that respect? Are Nintendo directs made by the…

It angers me when I see marketing elevated to a level that it doesn’t deserve. It angers me when I see people complaining about spoilers for an advertisement. It angers me when people so mindlessly play into the big corporations games. I don’t care how you enjoy watching the direct. For the record, I enjoyed it too…

Yeah, it’s been pretty nuts to see Kotaku’s naked bias during this whole ordeal.  The first article announced it as a huge win for Epic when that was obviously not the case to anyone who had read the decision.  Seems like the editors and writers on this site really hate Apple, to the point of distorting the facts of…

There’s no winning for consumers in any decision made. Epic saying they are championing change, innovation, etc. rings hollow to me. 

The question of whether Apple’s App Store was a monopoly was answered in Epic v Apple. It’s not. Apple doesn’t have to allow other app stores or side-loading of apps, which would be remedies for a monopoly in that area. It was only determined that their anti-steering policy violated a state law.

Epic should have considered their resounding loss a best case scenario because I can imagine a situation where an appellate court wonders 1) how the ability to use the phone’s built-in to access a website doesn’t solve Epic’s problem 2) why Epic thinks it’s anti-competitive when users can engage via Android or PC or…

fake.