McGee wasn’t out here debating the greater points of the now literal console war. They have a preference that’s all.

If you do it right, your fans will flock to your defense on the internet, claiming that the game is totally playable, since all they really wanted was an incomplete beta. 

Ehh, not really.

Activision is still the strongest earner in the company, by roughly $1bn in revenues over King (this is from looking at AB’s latest annual report). It would be silly for Microsoft to do a $70bn purchase and all of the regulatory hurdles that entails solely for a portion of a company that only takes in…

I end up the opposite way. I love almost every exclusive Sony put out. But once I am done with them its back to Xbox. Game Pass keeps me busy. Because I’m hopeful that a PS5 Slim will eventually come out, I haven’t turned on my PS4 since I finished Miles Morales. So I tend to play my PS4 in chunks of games that…

Poor, naive Mr. Roberts... Cancel the Kickstarter? Non, non cher monsieur. You complete the kickstarter, then move the pledge system to a private platform. Make roadmaps which show playable monster parts and expanded in-gut universes, “procedurally generated, yet hand-crafted”. Sell Meat Armors and Skinwagons (that…

“As the rewards contained within these loot boxes can offer competitive advantages within the game, they carry significant value for players”

I wouldn’t mind seeing something done about in game currency either, it’s deceptive and teaches kids bad practices (by this I mean specifically paid currency).

I know they’re also super profitable but I’m not fully convinced Battle Passes are more profitable than Loot Boxes, and I can’t help but wonder if the more recent developer shifts to them where previously there were Loot Boxes (looking at Blizzard) is partially because they saw laws like this coming.

The same should also apply to mystery box toys and trading cards. Both are designed in the exact same way to get kids addicted.

Back in 2005, I was on campus in January when classes were on break, and I was doing nothing but football practice stuff, lifting, going to the cafeteria, hanging out with other football guys (lots of Halo 2), and playing World of WarCraft. It was honestly the best time of my college years.

Alan Moore is rolling in his coffin.

The size of this deal is at least an order of magnitude bigger than almost every deal in the industry in the last decade. It would get similar scrutiny regardless.

“Fine, here’s 10 years of Call of Duty, whatever. Can we please speed this up so we can make Candy Crush dispense actual crack every time you play? Please? Our shareholders are getting agitated.”

And why is this being celebrated instead of being called out as extremely toxic?

with a strong legal framework to deal with bad actors

Assuming you aren’t concern trolling:

That’s a self defeating comment.

You’re probably shouldn’t click and comment then, cause you’re adding to the traffic that tells Kotaku “Yes, more Amouranth”.

You need a photo to know what a Honda Pilot looks like?