I would like to see a return to compelling narrative first person games.  Miss me some ol’ Half-Life and Deus Ex.

Don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone ever refer to Horizon as “underrated”

It hurts. Zack is a terrible writer but this is more painful than usual. 

It’s not even parody, it’s just making reference. This is painfully unfunny. 

the Chief depicted in all other Halo media would testify in the court martial against TV show Chief after he sexually assaulted a prisoner of war who cannot give objective consent

I’m pretty sure he just loves doing it. 

#1 answer: ad blockers

In fact, one of the reasons to still own a Wii is to play Wii AND GameCube games. 

Yep. That has to be one of the worst paragraphs ever published on Kotaku. 

Yeah these are kind of ridiculous oversights.

Nintendo has only once previously released a backward compatible console: the Wii U. Even the 3DS wouldn’t play DS carts...

Pretty much any of the ultra hard games. I’m in my 40's, so I grew up with a lot of NES and SNES games that were hard in comparison to modern counterparts, so it’s not that I can’t get through difficult games. The bigger issue for me is that at this point in my life I just don’t have the time to repeat the same boss…

Social media has given every narcissistic moron with access to a computer or a phone a megaphone, and we’re all dumber and worse off for it.

that trailer is literally just a series of “remember when this happened in the movie?”

as a doctor: thank you.

“remain some of the most profound meditations on geopolitics, war, and the military industrial complex the medium has ever produced”

Don’t buy the slim because it’s better for the same price, but not better enough for you? Terrible take.

I highly doubt the originals will become more collectible, at least not for long. There aren’t dramatic differences with any previous generation, so I don’t see why this would be different.

Wow. This is a horribly pernicious column. Lifehacker pronounces death to science and reliance on the blogosphere over people who have attended medical school, licensed and are subject to professional standards.

If there’s one thing I know about Google, it’s that they can be trusted to keep their promises and support things for a long time