Oh yeah, I constantly forget that game happened, let alone that it was Team Ninja. That was an absolutely bizarre project for their usual skill set. 

Genuine question: other than Insomniac, who have delivered two Marvel games that are often considered possibly their best work, original IPs included, and now Firaxis, have any other “renowned” developers been taken off of original IPs to work on Marvel stuff? Like, is there more stuff in development that I don’t know…

To be fair, the shit these, I guess, 4? people on twitter are saying is fucking funny, and I’m sure as hell not going waste my own time scrolling a twitter feed, so if that’s what Kotaku is now, then they are providing a valuable service to me

I actually have a little boy who turns 1 next week (!!!). And I know what you mean. I probably should have said that I USED to be just fine with human violence, because I have noticed that I’ve grown more sensitive to it since I had my son. Not to the point that I can’t handle it or need to avoid it, but it has a…

Yep, I avoid hunting in any game that has the mechanic. It’s usually not integral to completing the game, so that’s just an aspect I always choose to ignore. Just like I hate when games make regular animals into enemies. I can SORT of deal with, like, zombie dogs, but if it’s just regular dogs in an FPS or something,…

I had two dogs die in my arms, on at the vet and one at home, and a bunny die in my arms at home. I’m so sorry you had to go through that. It’s fucking brutal. The bunny REALLY messed me up, to the point that I can usually take seeing a bunny in media without it bothering me, but if there’s even any IMPLIED harm, I…

Idk what it says about me that I’m totally fine with watching digital human beings die and real human beings fake die in games and movies, but I often have to look away or skip parts of movies or games where animals are hurt or die, but thanks for the heads up on this.

I mean, it still sold really well used. I’m not saying that he would have been the one to buy it with his own money or anything, but there’s a decent chance he came in the store, and by the time he was ready to play it, I was working at the store that sold the most used games in Orlando. Crazier things have happened.…

Hell, I might have actually SOLD his copy of Kingdom Hearts to him lol. I worked at what was at the time the only Gamestop in the immediate area, in a large shopping complex that drew people in from all over the area, when KH came out, and for several years after. That would be wild lol. Up until now, the most…

I live in his district, got to vote for him. He was always going to win this part of Orlando. It’s a very young, fairly diverse part, mostly because we have the absolutely massive 60,000+ student University if Central Florida right here. Conservatives thankfully don’t have a chance in this little enclave, at least.…

Around like 2009/10, some leftist friends of mine were active on different boards there. I remember there still being a tiny bit of unease around it; it felt very much like a wild west corner of the internet where anything still went, but from what I remember it hadn’t metastasized into the the just absolute orgy of…

Whenever 4chan is brought up elsewhere on Kotaku, some dork always shows up whine about how actually 4chan is fine and it’s just /pol/ that’s a problem and how all the other boards are wholesome and not absolute dumpster fires. They’ve actually specifically cited /v/ before, along with the cooking board. Out of…

I don’t know what’s brought on this sort of sudden surge (if like 3 or 4 articles can be considered a surge) of thoughtful, well-written articles detailing personal writers’ retrospectives on specific games or series or creators that are deeply important to them, both here and over at Polygon, but whatever it is, I’m…

This is all part of Blizzard’s cunning strategy to prove that Overwatch 2 isn’t just an update or an expansion but is DEFINITELY a full new game. “Could a simple update or expansion break a six year old game in so many different ways for such a length of time? I think not. Definitely a new game! Hell, even a new game…

Goddammit, I came straight to the comments when I saw the headline to jokingly accuse the article of kinkshaming but apparently having to have a stupid family dinner with my 96 year old grandmother cost me too much time and you beat me too it. It’s not the first time a family dinner with my 96-year-old grandmother has…

You can’t leave the system that necessitates your coerced labor though. If you have to pick up another similarly dehumanizing job immediatly or suffer permanent, life threatening conditions, and suffer a more mild version of the conditions in the interim, you’re really just moving from one state of unwillful bondage…

If the pay is anything like other play to earn NFT games, and I imagine it’d be even worse because these people wouldn’t be accruing the rare items and in game currency that makes the regular play to earn model, lol, “work,” then they’d be making a upennies a day, maybe less, for hours and hours of labor. IMO if…

Exactly. We’re talking about a medium where the only limits are their imagination but they somehow chose “reality except even MORE homogenous and washed out and with softer edges.” Like, I cannot possibly overstate the gulf between what’s *possible* and what they’re choosing to do instead. I guess that’s what waging…

This. The aesthetic of cyberpunk—which you really can’t fully divorce any metaverse concept from—is just so… it feels like a weird descriptor, but… beautiful to me. It’s rich and evocative, and honestly was even before it was ever made visual. Just the language of Neuromancer is lush and gorgeous. It’s written almost…