Among other things, the company stands accused of propagating a hostile, sexual harassment and abuse-filled environment for employees, one of which ultimately took her own life.

I had the opposite experience. My cousin had one of these, and the thumbstick felt mushy and weird from the start and only got worse with time, whereas the controller that came with his console worked great.

I also got burned by a Mad Catz memory card. It was cheaper than the official Nintendo card with supposedly 4x…

To be fair, I was almost certainly more OCD about my consoles than even the majority of people on Kotaku. I made people wash their hands before using my controllers, and I wouldn’t let them eat shit like Cheetos or Doritos while playing. I also put games back in their original plastic wrap, then back into the…

I know it’s all anecdotal, just like the people who have never experienced Joy-Con drift, but it was always a mystery to me what people were doing to destroy the joysticks on their N64 controllers. I have a launch system that I must have put thousands of hours into, including hundreds on the palm-destroying minigames…

I’d be interested to hear your (and others’) thoughts on how it holds up in the late game phase, i.e. if the grindy parts of the game make it become tedious. As a rapidly aging gamer with adult obligations, being able to play this type of game in bite-sized chunks sounds great, but not if I have to spend days or weeks…

I tried multiple versions of the Windows 11 developer and beta builds, and each time I switched back to Windows 10 almost immediately. So many of the changes are just for the sake of change and take large steps back in productivity and ease of use.

I usually have a weird thing about being on the latest (and hopefully…

This article should have been titled “How to Pre-Order Your iPhone 13 at the Exact Same Time as Everyone Else.”

“We sat down and he was making no conversation so I asked him how he liked working [there] and he said it was fun. I proceeded to ask if he ever got to meet James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, and the guy flipped out, telling me I was not a feminist for liking sports and hating James Dolan and if we were going to…

Are middle children ever the favorite anyway?

Though you’ll still be able to buy a used PS5 copy for cheap.

We had hoped that when Mike stepped down from the host position at Jeopardy! it would have minimized the disruption and internal difficulties we have all experienced these last few weeks. That clearly has not happened.

This guy fucks.

...nothing of the story I saw made any sense, in any way.

The Latest T-Mobile Data Breach Effects Everyone, Not Just Customers

The only thing that needs to be burned down is toxic gamer culture. 

You’re doing god’s work. 

I would think that at this point in our technological lives, we should be able to have a national database of vaccines for people.

I have a coworker who’s always trying to show me the latest photos of her baby. I can only fake an “ooh, she’s so cute” so many times before I roll my eyes so hard, they get stuck. 

When the mayor of a town decides to challenge the cobbler to drink a poison and then take a dose of his own medicine, the cobbler admits his fraud. The moral of this fable is: Beware of those not trained in their craft.

One burrito is way too big for a single meal