Calling trolls, tauren, etc. “inhuman monsters” is incredibly unfair because that’s not how they’re depicted, at all. They are fully developed cultures with characters, relationships, motivations, etc. None of these races are painted with one brush. I would go as far as arguing that they pretty much entirely celebrate…

You can already change every customization other than gender at the Barbershop.

Trump supporters will read a book

I think the biggest influence on Mega Man was actually the 1970s Tatsunoko super hero anime Casshern, which drew some inspiration from Astroboy. Incidentally, Casshern was originally designed by a young Yoshitaka Amano.

Just like with the recent Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, this barely qualifies as a game.

It’s being composed by the same guy who did the music for the game.

It seems a bit odd to me that they’re all pulling out even though the accused was already removed. Or maybe the timeline is a bit unclear to me?

I know we all tend to highlight and remember toxicity in gaming communities (as well as social media) but right now the WoW community is also showing a touching display of unity, with thousands and thousands of players gathering in the Stormwind Cathedral and Valley of Strength across pretty much every server to pay…

If there's one thing 16-year-olds aren't, it's mature.

It’s actually not that simple, as most of the 2D elements are being converted into simple 3D objects, and a lot of per-game tweaks need to be made to make everything functional.

Four years ago was also an election year... And it’s not a four year old stream, it’s a recent stream rebroadcasting four year old footage. And Twitch is a private company with their own ToS. This isn't violation of free speech.

Don't think it's unprecedented.

Read the rest of the sentence.

Two issues. One, fighting games require lots of exceptionally tight inputs to be played properly, being measured in frames, so latency has a very noticeable impact compared to some other genres. Second, Japanese devs haven’t paid enough attention to the quality of internet outside of Japan and are typically reluctant…

Because people like orcs and draw, put simply. What’s wrong with developing the races more and giving them additional nuance?

I think what helps with Warcraft’s use of real world culture as inspiration for the cultures of its fantasy races is that it generally doesn’t treat any one race as monolithic and uniform in its motivations, nor does it use any one culture as the sole source of inspiration. I think it also helps that one of their…

The Kamigawa block was actually exceptionally thoughtful in its setting design. Rather than creating a shallow, generic “Asian fantasy” setting, they put a lot of work into specifically researching Japanese mythology and history when putting it together.

I’m honestly really excited for the museum mode. That was my favorite part of the Street Fighter collection.

I haven’t posted on Kotaku in a long time, but I saw this thread and felt the need to vent. Yesterday I was happy, today I’m miserable and can’t even bring myself to get out of bed.

Iroha is the definition of fanservice. Personally I’ve always hated the character for being so goddamn shamelessly designed, and would frankly have preferred she never been added to the reboot at all. But she won fan popularity polls. And she won those polls because she has big tits and wears a maid outfit.