Oh, simmer down. It’s not ‘hatred towards criticism’. It’s a comment on a blog. Feel free to keep taking this way more seriously than it needs to be.

I think the problem I have with the “it wasn’t earned” claim is the implicit assertion that because it wasn’t earned (which is true), it shouldn’t have been there (which is not). Plus, the claim that it was deliberately a “look how woke we are” moment rather than a “we haven’t been as woke as we should have been,…

The phrase ‘let people enjoy things’ also includes women. Weird, right?

Yeah, I thought the scene was a little on-the-nose as it unfolded, but then I quickly realized that it wasn’t for me in the first place. There was a tween girl a few seats down from me who yelped and excitedly clapped, and that’s awesome. I don’t give a shit about whether or not it was “earned.”

Excuse me, princess!

While 9 characters is a pitifully small roster (unless you are in the SNES/Genesis era), everything looks small now compared to Smash Ultimate.

I wish I knew the answer, and I hope Nintendo remains motivated to publish such games. You seldom see much public clamor for these games. Here on Kotaku, traffic for stories about them is usually mediocre to bad (this BoxBoy review, for example, is drawing very few readers... oh well!).

Hey Stephen, what do you think makes a successful 2nd party eShop title (like this, Pushmo and Dillon’s Rolling Western) but keeps other titles (like Harmoknight) back? Was it because there was a gameplay mechanic to expand on? Or is it totally based on sales? What is the balance?

“White Walkers HATE her! This one neat dagger trick will end the Long Night”

I love how this flies in the face of everything Google is trying to do. Hmmmm, so people want to play games more if they get to actually just download them and play them like normal? YOU DON’T SAY.

Sure you can, Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal. Worthless except as toilet paper.

Just get used copies of 50 shades of gray. You’d be doing the world a favor and they cost nothing. 

I could never play a game that requires me to destroy real books, no matter what the reason is.

“waist of time” is that a pun? :)

Schreier, I will always appreciate your deep-dives into the less glamorous sides of this hobby and the industry that supports it. While most of Kotaku’s articles are (and probably should be) focused on the games themselves, it’s incredibly important that we never lose sight of the human cost incurred in the production…

Reggie was forced into retirement and silence because he knew the truth. 

All you had to say was Jake Kaufman.

I would also add, “Ray bloody Purchase!”

“Damn that sorcerer! 20 gold pieces and I’m wankered on Rohypnol”

Wait, he had a brother? And a fiance?