Do you, though? Doesn’t sound like it.

The only consistent ideology I see espoused by techbros are unapologetic free market “eat the poor” elitism, and white/male/cis exceptionalism. It’s not that my take on tech politics is any more informed than your own, I’m sure both are the result of our experiences, but just looking at documented contributions to…

The Super Mario Kart jumping feather stands out as the most transformative jump in gaming for me. Every time you get a feather, it fundamentally transforms the way that you can interact with your track. Finding jumping shortcuts by trial and error is a core memory from my pre-internet days when you could realistically…

The... excess of that concept art at top is precisely why I could never get into WoW. It is just so.... tacky.

What’s the difference between how Game Pass feels and PS Now (which looks like it’s $10 cheaper)? And, with PS 5, doesn’t PS+ also give you a library of streamable games too? 

Possession of an explosive is a Class B felony in Tennessee under Tennessee Code 39-17-1302. A person provided a direct eyewitness report to law enforcement that her boyfriend possessed explosives, including where they were stored. Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 provides a magistrate the authority to issue a…

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????

There literally is law that frivolous DMCA takedowns for fair use trigger penalties. It doesn’t help, because victims of frivolous DMCA don’t have the resources to fight the holder, let alone YouTube which is doing their bullying on their behalf with little recourse to appeal.

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…