For exactly that reason. They’re inane chore list simulators. Lot of em you can toss them into peaceful/semi peaceful and just do something without really needing to focus.

I’ll say it is there strongest on every stand point. Best Old Gods Song, best character, best gameplay, best architecture, best gameplay loop, best use of live action (Trench’s OoP bits still beat everything in AW2)

Don’t sleep on Control. From a gameplay standpoint, it’s easily Remedy’s best game.

Gen X gamers are the Boomers of Kotaku at this point.

It goes to competency. Currently in the state he is in, he is incompetent to stand trial. He will remain in the hospital until he can be found competent either through medication, or therapy. 

I think Marvel publicly firing Majors within minutes of his guilty verdict being made public means they have zero interest in giving him any additional screen time or the opportunity to make a graceful exit.

I don’t understand why jettisoning the existing plot, to the extent there is one, is more exciting or preferable to just recasting the guy. Just finish what you started, right? Hastily pivoting to a totally different villain with a totally different gimmick sounds like it wouldn’t make anyone happy.

Fandoms are all about forming your identity around a piece of consumable pop-culture, so any attack on or failure on that piece of IP that is your whole self feels personal. 

Nah Konami and Kojima have a blood feud, they are never working together again. Even if Konami begged I doubt Kojima would go back

Trump impressions make me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

They just got too obvious. The better ones were those that focused on second-tier members of Trump’s staff, like Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer just ripping reporters new assholes for asking normal questions.  Trump impressions make me want to stick a pencil in my ears.

I get this sentiment. I’m Palestinian, and I think a lot of people misconstrue my wariness these days of being in a Jewish environment for disdain, hatred or animosity. And that thought keeps me up most nights. The fact of the matter is as a Palestinian, a Jewish person can mean anything. It can mean the people I’ve…

The internet has this way with categorizing people into only two extremes with nothing in between. This particular conflict is a minefield. Thats why I’ve stopped commenting on it mostly and just say “killing people is bad no matter who you are”

Yeah, I also see this as a problem, being pushed from both sides. Racists want to conflate Jews with Israel so they can point to the actions of war criminals like Netanyahu and his government and say “see, Jews are bad”. On the other side, Israeli nationalists also want to conflate Jews with Israel so they can claim…

What doesn’t help is that there’s Israeli interests who explicitly WANT this confusion to exist because it helps their geopolitical interests.

(As well as evangelical death cult interests in the US who want this confusion to exist because System Requirement for their doomsday prophecies, but that’s a whole other thing)

I am a lifelong Leftist. I am also Jewish.

I have been hesitant to say anything about this topic because I have seen some people who are pro-Palestine throw Jews as an entire group under the bus, including those of us who have never set foot in the Middle East and are equally critical of Israel’s government (including…

i mean....Far Cry 5 was exactly that.

I would like to see more games taking place fighting against American domestic terrorists but this totally ignores the fact that these games are for army wannabe gun lovers who scream America fuck ya.

Ugh. I struggled reading this. I think the author is a talented writer, and I know she wrote with the best intentions.

But there’s a few problems, here.

First is the scope. The article paints this as a video game problem. But you could write the same article about any fictional media that is created to appeal to an…