I was defending Pokemon SV right up until I tried raiding online. If I want to get into one, basically I have to start it myself and wait for people to show up. How they’re showing up I have no idea, because whenever I try to join one, I get the same error the OP has been getting. I don’t understand how it’s such a…

I’ve been saying quite literally for years that people should not get invested in mobile games, gacha games, games as a service, or any variant thereupon.

I know this isn’t much help but this is only true in the United States. 

I liked the combat in Bayonetta 3, but it did start to feel like it was over-engineered a bit. There was just so much you could do that it seemed to have lost some of the streamlined and simple flashiness of DMC-style combat.

Ah yes, the game in which we cast fire and ice spells, heal our comrades instantly from mortal damage, wield broadswords with one hand, and regularly speak with flying koalas and summon mythic titans must be *checks notes* “grounded in reality” when it comes to race. Glad that’s sorted.

I’m in my 40s also and having fun with Deathloop. Might be a generational thing?

Grand Chase is still going on, and seems to be going strong. 

So weird, right? It’s almost...I mean, call me crazy here but hear me out...it’s ALMOST like this was written by a black woman to provide context around her thoughts on the matter...? How bizarre!

Someone didn’t read the article, clearly. The context starts right around the seventh paragraph, but for some reason I don’t expect you’ll read it. 

Dude is a racist and a misogynist. He made a huge stink about Wizards adding Vivien Reid to their Planeswalker lineup, and his latest trope is making videos harassing Brie Larson for doing shockingly anti-male things like playing Animal Crossing with her fans and FaceTiming her friends.

The comments on this very article would seem to disagree with you, “most” seems to be an accurate descriptor. 

Wow really? He designed, among other things, DiceMasters, the new Marvel United game...he does a lot of tie-ins and licensed stuff. I’ve met him a couple of times at GAMA, absolutely lives up to the “legend”, he’s one of the nicest guys in the business. 

I really wish I could understand what people see in this film. Looper’s storyline does not make a lick of sense. It’s not even internally consistent. I can’t find the appeal at all. 

Even Wolfenstein II did this better - you can actually choose NOT to kill the dog, and then the game kills the dog in the form of the father character, and highlights how shitty the father is via his dialogue that just makes you hate him even more. Honestly, I loved that. The outcome was the same but the choice wasn’t…

Casual, mostly meaningless death is something of a theme of the series. I do agree that forcing you into the perspective of the on-paper antagonist isn’t all that interesting to me, but the idea that anyone can die at any time, for petty and meaningless reasons...well, yeah, that resonates. 

I’m genuinely confused by all the people saying they won’t play it because it paints transphobia in a realistic light. I mean, trans and queer folks suffer hate crimes TODAY and the world is a relatively safe and secure place (heavy emphasis on “relatively”). I can’t imagine the world The Last of Us paints would be a s…

Yeah, this was largely my feeling. It was fine, I played it, then uninstalled it. Probably don’t remember much of it other than some of the major highlights like the opening sequence and the ending. 

Reading through the comments and it’s nice to see I’m not the only one who thought this was a pretty mediocre experience. I kept waiting for the game to open up and really get going and it just never did. All of the mechanics felt lackluster, the gear felt like it didn’t actually do much, and the companion system felt…

This is quite possibly the single best article I’ve ever read on Kotaku. I know nothing about LARP and the entire thing was just fascinatingly written. 

I mean, say what you want about (just as an example) Nintendo, but at least by contrast their ultra-conservative rules are EXCEEDINGLY clear. The extreme lack of ambiguity means no one is surprised or taken aback when Nintendo slaps someone, as an example, with a copyright strike for sharing gameplay footage of a…