Not sure I’d characterize either Metroid Dread or Deathloop as “dour.” Deathloop’s colorful 60s aesthetics, irreverent tone, lovable asshole villains, and the often very funny banter between Colt and Julianna make it… pretty light, actually.

Yeah, and the wholesale adoption of this definition by a largely younger, largely very online group is definitely, from my observations, definitely leading to an understanding gap between them and people who are older and/or not as online in that way. So you have a generation of people with a particularly…

“I’m sorry, honey, but those games cost up to and including $70.” - Marge Simpson, “Marge Be Not Proud,” 1995.

Unions typically only negotiate *minimum* salary. It doesn’t make sense, and would be wildly unpopular with members, for them to set *ceilings* on what you can earn, and I’ve never earn of a union doing that. Performer’s unions like SAG, AEA, etc, actively encourage individual negotiation above the minimum.

These people are total clowns. It isn’t especially difficult to fight off a unionization drive in this country- Americans have a big ol libertarian bent and hate being told what they can’t do, and the laws are skewed heavily against unions and toward employers. But, there still has to be *some* semblance of a logical…

Especially shocking that it lost for Art Direction! I like Deathloop a lot, but... Psychonauts 2's art direction was, itself, a true work of art.

Voltorb and Electrode both canonically are rather mysterious/inexplicable Pokemon (simply just appearing once PokeBalls were introduced). The flavor text for this version even continues that. It even says that the body is wood-like, not actually wooden.

I mean, that’s true in the literal sense. He did, in fact, do something.

The amount of money and brainpower put into this shit and nobody can even come up with a concise, persuasive argument for how NFTs could improve anyone’s lives or what problems they solve. It’s just “this is the future, don’t miss out!” or “I am just pushing a sunk cost fallacy and refuse to acknowledge it!”

So much for the lame “don’t boycott Activision Blizzard, because it hurts the employees!” argument that some folks have been leaning on.

But... when you buy an NFT of a gaming item, you still don’t own it. You own a receipt confirming that you are the one who bought the item. If Ubisoft decides to pull support for the game eventually, your item is useless. It doesn’t get to live on your mantle and be passed down through generations like an heirloom.…

Treating NFTs the same way we think of physical objects just seems so on-its-face baffling and implausible at this point in time. The digital world is not the real world- and video games even less so, since they require careful construction of all of their properties that are unique to said game. If you buy an antique…

“Diamond and Pearl were two of the best games in the 35-year long series…”

NFTs would probably avoid being such an easy thing to dunk on if the bulk of the prominent “art” being sold and proudly bought wasn’t so bafflingly juvenile and terrible. And this appears to be a feature, not a bug, of the rabid NFT culture. Artists I follow who have embraced NFTs have totally changed their aesthetics…

Pointing out the omission of this point isn’t the “gotcha!” you and some others here seem to think it is, considering that point is extremely critical of virtually every main aspect of NFTs and the people using them as they currently exist.  It is at most defending the hypothetical concept of an NFT, but has nothing…

Honestly, Kotaku and other gaming sites and publications should refuse to cover Activision-Blizzard games until there is massive leadership change at the company. They don’t need the publicity.

The fact he has not already resigned in the face of only what we already knew previously about the abuse and scandals under his watch pretty much indicates he’ll suffer no real consequences from this. Even if he leaves, I doubt it’ll be without millions of dollars being handed to him.
But, yeah, it’s still shocking in…

Until Black 2 and White 2, those third games in a generation were… basically just remakes with some added content.

The thing is, people at the executive level making these decisions are so far removed from the reality of what’s going on the ground- they see NFTs are thing in the news, and act on that.

Then don’t ship them? If people want to, it doesn’t affect you.