People are buying.

Are you trying to tell me that “first and only guy to jack off on the moon” could have been part of Alan Bean’s obituary, and wasn’t? I mean, if that was me, I’d probably have left some instructions in my will or something...

Disagree. Nothing makes a game feel more like a mobile port to me than turning a town square into a menu. 

That’s why God invented masturbation, melatonin, and weed. 

I think that games like Oxygen Not Included handle pooping well, as one more system requiring infrastructure to prevent being a problem... or with better infrastructure, possibly an asset! And while you can’t use waste in Sims, managing hygiene as something that takes up precious time in a day totally jives with the…

The expectation that you can just keep playing a game... forever... yeah, I don’t know where that started. Obviously the game companies want that to be true, when they put out a game which has monetization, but it so rarely is true that it’s odd that gamers expect it. 

It also sounds like something that makes A LOT OF SENSE with how people play phone games. Sure, sometimes you lay in bed and give a phone game your full attention, but just as often you’re glancing down at it for a few minutes while you wait for something else. Being able to pause attention-heavy content, rather than…

I have no problem with quality games being developed for mobile devices, and I have no problems with a service like Apple Arcade curating quality games through a subscription. I have a phone, and would enjoy playing games on my phone, if there were more of them that weren’t either developed to be exploitive cash…

Well if you’re not using it.... 

The old adage holds that good artists copy, and great artists steal—and it’s nowhere truer than in the world of video games, where the job of creating the Next Great Thing is as much an engineering challenge as one of writing or artistic intent.

I would pluck the wings from and devour a couple dozen still-living Green Lollives in a heartbeat #sorrynotsorry.

After seeing your comment, I googled, and... yeah, Ever Crisis is a remade compilation of chapters from several games, not of FFVII itself. So, weird of Luke to not mention that. :/

Knack was beloved? Now, Knack II.... but Knack?

Wait, is Ever Crisis a scaled-down remake of FFVII, or of FFVII Remake? Oh nooooo we’re crossing over into Kingdom Hearts territory here, it was bound to happen sooner or later :(

I know you’re mostly talking about “rules,” but I think that what you’re also implying is that it doesn’t feel like D&D. I don’t agree with you on that, but it reminded me of something.... I was watching an interview with Mike Mearls last night about Nautiloids, and he did talk a bit about the fact that Larian took…

Agreed... I didn’t hate the DA:I multiplayer, and quite enjoyed it in ME. I mean, fewer game modes in theory means more focus on single player, so I don’t hate that, but I don’t think that anyone gets mad at having a multiplayer option for those that dig the combat system but don’t want to just do new runthroughs of…

“Effectively.” You can probably treat whatever you want with kombucha, yum! You just can’t treat COVID with kombucha “effectively.”

In theory, good journalism should be about the story, not the author. But as we all know, seeing Jason Schreier’s byline just tells you something about the story you’re about to read. If Kotaku still had tags, “Bloomberg reports” would be a damn good one :p 

When a white person tells you that their whiteness doesn’t mean anything to them, rest assured it is only because your blackness/etc. means everything to them instead. White people spend very little time thinking about ourselves as anything other than “normal” unless we are reminded not to (and unless we are willing…