You’re correct. I challenge the CMA to show me any game with sales flat 12 months after any given event. Also 12 months is a loooooong time in gaming.

hmm. I’d like to see if sales fell across the board, or if the type of game matters. For example, I’m a fan of Jurassic World Evolution 2, which I totally plan to buy once it leaves GP, but that game is kind of open-ended, make-your-own-fun kind of deal. But I wouldn’t pay for, let’s say, Immortality which I finished…

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply if you are a white hetero male.  Unsurprising from Kotaku 

Fair, I’m in a particularly dour mood, it’s probably clouding my judgement a degree. Devs should probably expect to see some kind of results from all their work, even if the people they’re working for don’t always have the best track record (and ultimately this kind of thing can happen anywhere and Ubisoft still…

Hey now, don’t put words in my mouth. I didn’t say anything about righteousness or that they shouldn’t be allowed to work for Ubisoft. But, Ubisoft has a pretty good (and by good I mean bad) track record of workplace culture issues, releasing formulaic games that allow for little creativity, and announcing games that…

Was there ever really hype for pirates? There have been a handful of very sucessful pirate-based franchises, but they were never really A Thing like, say, zombies were.

“I do feel sorry for the devs.”

“Black Flag” ships and combat combined with “Sid Meyer’s Pirates!”. Boom. Ship it.

They already did a version stripped of the live service elements, it’s called Assassin’s Creed IV and it came out 10 years ago and you can buy it today.

There’s my problem; I still haven’t made a Tik Tok account yet. I’m over 40 and it seems like the only thing you’re allowed to do on Tik Tok at my age is make videos about how things suck when you get old or videos of your pets.

I hate to be reductive, but isn’t the hype for pirates dead by now? I haven’t seen a pirate meme or heard people talking about anything pirate related in years, except when referring to pirating software.

I feel like they missed their window to capitalize on the weird pirate popularity of the mid 2000's. Are there…

Did you mean to write “half a decade long saga”? Because 2017-2022 or 2018-2023 =/= a decade. 

This feels like Sony wrote some marketing copy and Kotoku pasted into an “article”

this seems kind of lackluster to me but to each their own.

This article completely ignores three things: First, Jersey City exists. People commute there, too, and the extra lane would serve those commuters who get stuck in Holland Tunnel traffic. Second, not too long ago, the Turnpike extension used the shoulder as a third lane during rush hour to Columbus Drive. Getting to…

Yeah, but you know who isn’t going to refer to what you did if you sent that 70k to something like a DV shelter? Twitch Streamer Amouranth.

Get that bag girl. This just proves once again,

Thirsty people trapped in a thirst trap.

She’s a bikini-squat streamer.  You have to ask?

How many people at Kotaku are on the Amouranth news team?