Wow, this is a terrible idea. I know a decent bit about robotics, since I was on my high school’s FIRST Robotics Competition team for 4 years, and I see so much wrong here. First off: Why the hell wasn’t there an E-stop??? There has to be an emergency stop on robots like this for just this reason. Apparently the…

Thankfully, this reeks of “Corporate said we gotta do this so we’ll put it where nobody will ever see it”. There’s so many Cloud figures out there already and people are gonna see the version without the NFT and say “Oh hey, 20 dollar discount if I don’t get this useless NFT crap!” Thank god that they aren’t trying to…

There’s a few videos of people starting moshpits, dressing in hi-vis gear to sneak bins of bananas into theaters, and throwing bananas at the screen. Even those videos are pretty funny, but as always the conduct of a few people ruins it for everyone else.

Ouch. I’d popped into the game’s subreddit and heard they haven’t updated it in months, so I figured this was inevitable, but still. The few times I played it, it really was something special.

I’m just tired of predatory shit like this, man. That streamer who dropped 6k to prove you can’t get 5 star gear from gacha pulls may have been obnoxious, but he had a point. Since more sophisticated mobile games like Genshin and Diablo Immortal are getting ported to PC/console and triple-A games are increasingly cozyi…

Between the CoD showcase running way too long and the cutaway to The Rock and the trailer for Black Adam, a movie being advertised during a video game show, it really felt that way. 

Same here. To be fair, they did say to temper expectations, but there wasn’t much I got excited about. Other than Neon White, which I am bonkers excited for, nothing made me say anything more than “neat” and “cool”. 

Chicory: A Colorful Tale’s content warnings were something I really liked, even as someone who doesn’t really have any triggers. Since it’s focused on mental health and has scenes where characters struggle with things like anxiety attacks, I appreciated the chance to brace myself a bit (especially as I have anxiety…

Paradox of tolerance. Extending tolerance to those with intolerant views results in that tolerance getting destroyed by the intolerant.

Makes sense. I’ve got nothing against any of the new staff too, but GMG definitely is on a downturn. Wonder if we’ll get something like Defector but for Kotaku.

Where are you hearing this? I don’t know much about what goes on behind the scenes other than the GMG Union forming. Not that I doubt you, considering how many writers have left and very Kotaku-y things like Shop Contest and Sunday Comics have stopped.

It’s probably about the ads. Every new slide on a slideshow loads new ads, so a full click-through is way more ad views than a straight article.

I wouldn’t be surprised if corporate interests are making 343 push out an update every X weeks, so they end up “patching” things like the scorpion gun and skill jumps without the time to see how players feel about it.

This is like Beanie Babies, except now they’re not even cute. (I say this as someone who has Bob Ross and Canti pops on my bookshelf)

A 100-slide slideshow? Did I accidentally click onto The Onion?

Anything to make gaming more accessible is fantastic. I wrote about FFXIV for a non-gaming audience and while I tried to avoid more MMO-y terms, I could see someone being confused by even basic stuff like mount and loot. There’s some terms missing, like DoT (damage over time), guild/clan, instance, metroidvania, and…

I get that highest-level play has to have some rules around what’s allowed, but it’s still a little sad to see something creative like this get ruled illegal. At least they’re not patching it out for everyone like 343.

Who let this troll out of the greys?

I see GDQ run midrolls between speedruns, but that’s about it.

It’ll probably be just as irony poisoned.