I dunno, I worry that quantifying the amount of my life I spend on video games (especially, video games that I don’t particularly enjoy) would end with me staring deep into a yawning abyss of self loathing and regret. 

Both the articles that Kotaku wrote about Plague Tale were positive, but I keep overlooking it during sales... it just seems like it revolves so heavily around a single puzzle mechanic (controlling rat movement with light), that I don’t see how it can really hope to keep up the intensity and drama? Puzzles aren’t…

I picked RDR2 up after a one month hiatus the first time I put it aside, promptly sprinted my horse through town accidentally(the unique white one), bumped a pedestrian, and was murdered by sheriff (horse included). Game auto saved after my horse died, best horse in game gone forever. Ive never uninstalled with less…

I don’t have a problem starting games, I have a problem finishing them. FE 3 Houses, FFXV, FFVII: Remake, AC Valhalla, RDR2... all the sort of thing where picking things back up with a months or years old save game can be a challenge, but restarting will see me fizzling out as soon or sooner than before.

I blasted your “impressions” article a bit, because I felt like it was a rambling mash of disjointed (and conflicting) observations. But this review, I agree 100%. It’s not the worst game ever made, bugs and performance can and will be patched eventually, but the game just sort of... hands you some ideas and systems,…

Native American identity isn’t a monolithic thing: we’re talking about hundreds of unique cultures, history, and sovereign Tribes, and not all of them view identity the same. In general, however, identification with a particular Tribe flows from enrollment as a Tribal member/citizen of that Tribe, not a 23andMe blood…

Trump doesn’t want to do shit for anyone unless we let him stay in office, which is why he gave directions earlier this year not to work on ironing out this aid while the campaign was underway. He’s going to sit on this right into a shutdown and beyond, and claim “hey, I won’t sign it until its $2,000 per household!”…

The dude went to jail for embezzling funds to buy video games (and also other stuff). He was just pardoned for that. Yes, this qualifies to be news on a video game website.... and especially a GMG video game website! Kotaku, along with its sister sites, has always and forever embraced the idea that news can be…

I’ve made a huge mistake :p

Can we get images that match the games being introduced? First two dont, Triple Topping for Welcome to Elk, EVC for Wintemoor.... what gives????

You quoted me saying that she was being supportive of his hobby but limiting him to an hour, said “this is the part where the mother loses me,” and followed with a dissertation on how it takes a lot of practice to excel at an e-sport. I took your comment to mean “limiting him to an hour a day isn’t supporting him,”…

The mom loses you... because she isn’t putting her 8 year old through the rigorous training regime that adult e-sports competitors go through? Of all the takes I expected, “this grinds my gears, because the kid ISN’T being subjected to inappropriate expectations!” wasn’t one of them, bravo :)  

That’s a pretty big if. Most folks that are educated on the subject agree that we shouldn’t sentence people to death due to inherent flaws in our process (not even mentioning the moral abhorrence of it). While getting the options off the books is a heavy lift for politicians, asking juries for mercy or judges for…

From the sound of it, the contract places no demands on the kid or his mom, is probably unenforceable, and hands them wads of cash. She’s described in the article as being a pretty hands-on mom, including limiting him to only an hour a day, while trying to be supportive about a hobby/talent that he likes? In her…

Absolutely, and I don’t mean to minimize the need for the long development cycle. My only point is, nothing about Cyberpunk feels particularly innovative, and I struggle to understand why a developer with past success and experience on a genre and platform would turn out a later product, in the same vein, which takes…

That’s what confuses me too... the only thing remotely potentially  innovative in the game mechanics is hacking devices for environmental shenanigans, and... really it isn’t implemented in a sandboxy or creative way, hacking is just spells. Cybernetics are equipment, driving is driving, there’s no complicated faction…

Pfizer vaccines are transported in boxes, which hold 1-5 vial trays. Each vial tray holds 195 vials, and each vial holds 5 doses. Pfizer does not recommend transporting the vaccine outside of its box, and especially not outside of its vial tray, so basically the Pfizer vaccine hits communities in ~1000 dose units.…

These ultra cold temperatures of the Pfizer vaccine are a major obstacle for rural healthcare, and small communities. It gets a little in the weeds to fully explain, but the vaccines need to be kept so cold that getting them to remote locations at that temperature is hard enough to guarantee in their manufacturer…

Cyberpunk may be reasonably large with visually interesting building facades, but very few NPCs actually move around to interact with each other or environment or have any form of AI whatsoever, and very few buildings are enterable. There is deceptively little “happening” in the Cyberpunk world as you drive through…

Oh! Didn’t realize that the PS4/Xbone development was announced so late... thanks! Still, plenty of time to get it right, and presumably more time with a PS4 devkit than a PS5 (I’m not that well informed on what console development process looks like, but this was always going to realistically be a console release).…