It is absolutely suspicious that a person as ostensibly prominent in Hearthstone as MagicAmy has not appeared to compete at an in-person tournament. People will pay for her trips, and the appearances and prizes are potentially lucrative. The only reason she wouldn't have done this is that she doesn't want to play…

Guys who play on the same level are a lot less prominent than MagicAmy. There were male players on "Team MagicAmy" who were consistently ranked higher than MagicAmy. If William Blaney accomplished the same things in the game under his own name, he would be far less prominent, and his play would be far less lucrative.

The world is full of lonely men with money, and a lot of gamers are college-educated men with good jobs and no girlfriends, who devote a loot of their free time to an inexpensive hobby. There are women who are looking to profit off of men like that.

All, she had to do to disprove these rumors was show up at an in-person event and play Hearthstone, and, instead, she quit Tempostorm and left the Hearthstone community. I think that lends a lot of credibility to the argument that she wasn't really the one playing the account.

"Hackers" are rarely computer geniuses. The failures in most systems are human. Websites like Paypal and Amazon clearly need to update their customer service protocols to avoid having their people being tricked into giving out this kind of personal information.

Schreier is not arguing that professional review scores are too high. He is arguing that they are too low, and that studios are losing bonuses and struggling to fund new projects because of low metascores.

Dragon Age has an 8.9 average, and is one of the five best console games of the year.

You'd get stuff like TLOU: Remastered, Super Smash, Dragon Age: Inquisition and GTAV.

The reason we get so many franchise games is because sales for the franchises are not dependent on getting high metacritic scores. the whole point of preorders and midnight launches are to lock in sales before the reviews drop.

I'm absolutely saying that just blindly buying the games with the highest review scores wouldn't be a terrible strategy. And if it's not a terrible strategy, then the review scores contain useful information.

If you sort all the games for the previous generation by metascore, the essential games will all be at the top of the list. Below around 8.5 out of 10, the games start to get much more forgettable. This is where you find mildly disappointing franchise sequels like New Vegas and cool, quirky, flawed games like Brutal…

Why? For consumers, meta scores are very useful data points. Whether you like it or not, a consensus 8.5 is pretty much always a better game than a consensus 8.0.

The problem is that there are far more "yes" games than most of us can realistically play. For many players it's a lot easier to set their own "yes/no" cutoff somewhere around a metascore of 8.5, which is a much higher bar than Kotaku's "should you play this?" test.

If you are a relatively hardcore gamer who plays about 15 titles per year, and you choose those titles entirely based on metacritic, you will wind up playing all the best games. You will never miss a Last of Us or a Bioshock because you rely on Metacritic.

Trying to impose sense on Destiny's plot is a futile enterprise. The Vex, the Fallen, the Hive and the Cabal all seem to be independent factions and several of them are actively at war with one another, yet they're all supposedly minions of "the darkness."

Get a Titan with the Ruin Wings exotic gloves, and you can just Gjallarhorn the shit out of everything.

Gjallarhorn's unique perk is called "wolfpack rounds." The rocket explodes and deals damage on impact within its blast radius, and the explosion spawns mini-tracking missiles that also home in on the target.

Unless you have one of every useful gun for each of your characters, you'll still have to swap your stuff through the vault. Collecting and upgrading one set is a grind. Collecting and updating three sets is masochistic.

The Pokemon Company radically changed the breeding system in X/Y to make it much, much easier to breed functionally perfect Pokemon legitimately. The only Pokemon that are difficult to obtain with flawless IVs legitimately are the legendary Pokemon that cannot be bred. But most of these are banned in tournaments.

Okay, Boba Fett has cool looking armor. But he only got Han Solo because Lando betrayed him and then Darth Vader froze Han in carbonite.