And this is why Kotaku is my gaming news site.

I don’t know how they didn’t see this coming. There’s a reason that no other online games in which experience matters award experience outside of matchmaking games.

I kept trying to use ice blocks to cross this lake and get to a raft. A couple of times, I got to the raft but landed in the water and went *under* it and drowned because I couldn’t get back out

African or European Geese?

It’s not like that wireless internet will do much for you on the Switch anyway

My guess is they made the radios in the Joy-Cons and/or main console as low-power as they could get away with to save on battery. If so, hopefully it could be increased with a software update?

Ugh, this is exactly what I didn’t want this game to be. I was cautiously optimistic when they announced that the new game would be a new arc with a whole new cast. I thought maybe they’d take it in a truly new direction before it had been rehashed to death. I was wrong.

I’ve only watched streams maybe two or three times, but the interesting (depressing?) thing I discovered those times, is that part of the appeal is just feeling like you have company, on-demand. Because it’s live, and because the chat makes it interactive, it feels almost like hanging out with friend(s) playing a…

Oh my god it’s a Nintendo lawsuit that’s reasonable and justified

I’ve used it once or twice to look up something specific in a walkthrough when I’m stuck.

That said, I have battle scars from college, where even in the dorms - even on ethernet - we had to sign into the internet periodically using a browser. Which, since the Xbox 360 didn’t have a web browser, meant plugging in a…

Is it just me or does it seem like this game intentionally uses the uncanny valley as a tool to make things creepier? Like, the thumbnail in the youtube embed above. You can’t tell that guy’s a zombie, he’s not missing a limb, he didn’t just jump out at you from behind a door, but even in that still image he’s effing…

The good news is, GameStop’s market is a dying one. It won’t be long before games are almost exclusively bought digitally, and since all the marketplaces are controlled by their respective platforms (well, and Valve), GameStop will probably go the way of Blockbuster.

NL: Well hey look at that, people love our characters and worlds so much that they want to do free marketing for us in the form of fan projects and youtube videos!

L: THREATEN TO SUE THEM.

Moral right and legal right are two different things. They have plenty of legal right. But copyright law is extremely screwed up.

Can’t the Joy-Cons attach together when separated from the console? I don’t see the problem

What’s depressing is that most of the supporting pieces of evidence were probably tiny marketing decisions designed to have more appeal to target audiences (putting up your own flag, gaining wealth, etc.). Which really means...

We are all Wario

It definitely feels like a cash-in. Which, I mean, it’s too bad he hasn’t really gotten anything out of PPAP, but this kind of media (the kind celebrated primarily for its sheer randomness) is particularly infertile ground for “sequels”.

He does programs of this sort for other hobbies/cultures/subcultures that fall outside of what “normal people” like Conan “get”. I remember seeing one where he went to Germany to “be taught” a particular style of folk dancing just so that he could do his usual “hurr durr you guys are weird I don’t gettt itttt” routine…