I suggest you read the article again if you don’t understand why in fact the only professional thing to do in this situation is to recuse yourself from coverage of the title due to fears of perceived bias.

You call this disclosing all possible conflicts of interest? adding a dinky disclosure update to 2 year old articles without even a passing mention? Looks like you're trying to sweep it under the rug to me.

Just a quick note: I'm actually British. I used the NYT and WSJ as examples as I expect the people reading this will mainly be American, and those who aren't will understand the abbreviations anyway.

I'm so, so, so confused as to the seeming ignorance of the gaming media here. Maybe it's because my main interest is politics that I have a certain detached view of this.

You aren't missing anything. I keep getting the feeling that the people involved on either side of whatever this argument is think that this is some grand debate they're having, when it's really just a giant shouting match where no one is really listening to each other, taking place in a bubble - a tiny,…

Zoe Quinn? The one who tried to shutdown another fundraiser for women developers because she wanted all that money to go into her own one instead? That's your example?

What? No? Where did you get that.

Please do some fact checking before making inaccurate statements.

Zoe slept around to promote her game. Of course she is going to get shit on.

You should look much further than Zoe Quinn. She is most likely the worst example you could have picked for representing female game developers.

Seriously, people turn everything into a big deal issue now days... Its uncalled for.

I've been discussing this with various people online, and yes, a lot of us are concerned about the lack of transparency, as well as the incestous and insular cliques that are corrupting both game development and gaming journalism. This isn't just about Zoe Quinn (but she was the catalyst) - this is about Geoff…

I don't often speak out against Kotaku. For the most part there's a decent amount of articles on this site that interest me. But there's one facet of this that your post doesn't discuss. Sexism, misogyny, and various forms of clickbait intertwined with strong political/societal stances.

This Trailer follows literally every choice I made, at least of those it shows. I figured it would be more choice neutral.

I sat in silence for 15 minutes after I played the latest episode.

They literally just tweeted this a few seconds ago.

Yes! From Telltale:

If there's two thing I hate in this world, its people who are intolerant of alien cultures...and the swedes.

And Slither! Don't forget Slither!

He also wrote and directed Super, which also starred a TV doofus in the hero role.