Yeah, but that’s this super weird, misguided idea that I don’t get at all. There is ‘loving games’— and sure, I think all of us love games— but if you agree to make $4-5 less per hour than Walmart because you feel like talking to people about Mario Party is your passion, you need serious help making responsible life…

That’s an interesting thought— there is a load of money in TCG/tabletop gaming and a fair overlap with video games. I don’t remotely trust GameStop to pull it off, and I think even a successful implementation would require them to close maybe half of their locations (seriously, they’ve oversaturated the market so much…

It seems like a nice idea, but you’re talking about a long-term commitment to massively increasing their per-store on hand for other forms of media at incredible cost (as you pointed out, GameStop has waaaaaaay too many locations) for a model that isn’t proven any more than this current ‘just throw shit at the wall…

To be honest, though— the margins in games are so terrible that you can’t really run a publicly owned company that trains their employees to be knowledgeable about selling video games because they don’t need to spend money to ‘train the staff on games’ for games to sell. It just doesn’t make financial sense. Games…

Every one of these articles has me asking myself the same question... why are people still working at GameStop? The pay lags considerably behind even something like Walmart or Target or even some McDonald’s locations, the company culture and environment seem terrible, and obviously the company doesn’t have any real…

In a world where stuff like LTT exists and is very transparent about the massive amount of effort and energy and money that goes into making a current channel that produces relevant content-- particularly in a newer medium where content is being released every second of the day-- the idea that G4 was going to succeed…

Can confirm, am two years in to an FTD diagnosis (yay dying!). It’s incredible how little we consider how far the human brain can diverge from ‘normal’ until we are faced with it. It’s easy to say HOW COULD ANYONE FALL FOR THIS when you’re stuck in a veeeeery narrow lane of thinking about how brains work.

‘Wages stagnate?’ I take some exception to that reporting... the last article y’all posted about GameStop was littered with comments about people making $10 per hour and having been stuck at those rates for years and years. I wouldn’t call this any sort of stagnation, unless you’re talking on geologic time. These…

But the 4090 is not the Ti card at all. Nvidia made it pretty clear the that AD-102 leaves enough space on the die that a proper Ti is definitely imminent. The uplift over the 3090 Ti is substantial but it’s just generational improvement... particularly when they tied so many of their statements to GPU+DLSS 3.0 gains.

My suspicion is twofold. One, they know that by pricing these cards so high they’ll definitely manage to sell some of the 3000 series backlog (especially as prices continue to crash below MSRP). And two, they’re hedging their bets going into the November arrival of RDNA3... if AMD fumbles the ball and the Radeon 7000…

I agree with your take. My company is full of people who make the same argument about CEO pay; but when you break the math down, even if the CEO took a $1 salary and just their stock options the money saved would only be like $0.06 per hour per employee. And yeah, the stock options for such a POS stock are really…

I don’t know if I’d really agree. People with a passion for games enjoy playing games, maybe even making games. Almost nobody has a passion for SELLING games. People go to work for GameStop because they think it’s something it’s not... like you’re going to spend your day teaching people about genres they don’t know…

These raises totally suck.

I don’t read Kotaku nearly as much these days as I used to-- the heavy burdens of life and getting older, I suppose-- but I will always remember Fahey’s sarcastic optimism and sense of humor in his posts. Seeing all these tributes definitely highlights how much joy he brought into the lives of all those he knew. There…

Lost Wild looks incredible. Bounty Star, however, looks like a hard pass. If the trailer makes your game look repetitive and mechanical, then I’m out already. Trailers can cherry pick ANYTHING in the game to make it look compelling... is that the best they’ve got?

Curious— why don’t you use EGS? I can’t think of any reason to not use both EGS and Steam— even if you only use EGS for the free games (they gave out the Bioshock collection last week!).

This guy is both an idiot and a narcissist. There is nothing impressive about spending $3400 and wasting thirty full days of your life for a meaningless record while you ignored your loved ones and your responsibilities. And what a creepy way of ‘honoring your grandmother’, seriously? And the cherry on top is his…

LOL if you think clicky switches don’t rival phone or traffic noise for their capacity to be disruptive, I would like to introduce you to our Lord and savior... Kailh Box Jades.

It’s a weird thing to launch, personally. With Keychron, Glorious, Ducky, Drop, and so many others in this crowded just-shy-of-custom-board space, can’t really see why NZXT would want to enter. No real keeb people would take this over a GMMK Pro or K2 as a prebuilt starter board, and taking something like this over a…

I assume if you downgraded the games simply won’t work anymore, the same way Microsoft will turn off access to downloaded games once they’re cycled out of Game Pass. You’ll just get a notification asking if you own the game disc, and to insert it in the console if you do.