The problem isn’t that 40K’s satire isn’t obvious, it always has been, the problem is that the internet has led to the amplification of the ideas of people whose ideas are so extreme they used to be shunned by society; these people don’t see satire, since they actually believe exactly what the satire is satirising.

You mean one of the decades with the lowest price inflation in history (until now)?

No Ciaphas Cain? That’d be a fantastic choice for Cavill...

There’s one glaring omission here, and it is the totally fantastic “Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery”, where each player takes control of a Gladiator school. Each turn consists of schemes played where you have to get backing from the other players if you don’t have enough influence, an auction where people bid…

They didn’t fire Snyder; he quit Justice League to be with his family after his daughter committed suicide.

“...another iconic 80s ballad...

Kind of an odd anecdote to preface an article about how 8k is only better from gar away or with bigger screens (true), since your roommate was 100% correct. Old CRT-screens are much better at playing old games. There are several reasons, but one is simply that the pixel graphics were sculpted by artists to make use of…

That’s not how Embracer works. that’s why people sell to them, I wouldn’t worry

While I have no doubt Quantico had some serious problems with its workplace culture, a lot of the allegations ring a bit hollow. First off, Cage saying “all the women in my games are whores” is just... easily disproven as factual by playing any of his games. On the contrary, while Cage has been rightly criticized for…

Can I recommend an app called RunPee? It doesn’t solve the problem of getting up and disturbing people, but it does mean you’ll do so at the point in the movie where it matters the least.

From Software used to deliberately encourage cheesing - sharing those methods through in-game messages or the internet was supposed to recreate the feeling Miyazaki had as a kid scouring gaming magazines for hints, or swapping strategies for popular games in the schoolyard. Some of Demon’s Souls bosses were almost…

Great article, but there’s a typo towards the end that is pretty serious:

There are only hints of it in the film so far (and the same is true of the first book), but Dune is very much aware of “White Savior Complex” and in fact the central theme of the whole saga is the dangers of saviors and heroes in general, the treacherous pull of a good “Hero’s journey”-like story upon a downtrodden…

Weeelll... as a Swede/Norwegian who can trace his family in a straight line to Harald Hardradi’s invasion fleet, I don’t see anything wrong with a black Angrboda. The Vikings had certainly met and traded with lots of black people, and it’s important to remember that a lot of the different realms in Norse mythology are…

That’s exactly what it sounds like he’s doing in the original recording (I’m Swedish). It sounds like she’s saying to him that he made her feel cheap, and he’s apologizing for ghosting her. He also sounds a little bit frustrated, like someone has made him apologize to her so she’ll go away.

Having listened to it (I’m Swedish), it sounds more like he’s sorry about making her feel bad *afterwards* by ghosting her. I’d say this in no way corroborates her story of rape, quite the opposite. 

This is massively disingenuous - either that or you haven’t been listening to him over your own screeching about “why’s he going to spaaaace when there’s people staaaaarving!!?”.

It’s not just stolen nuts; the companies will also smuggle the nuts in order to avoid having to pay for the very costly safety measures required wheb transporting pistachios. They can, after all, suddenly spontaneously combust causing actual explosions. Seriously.

That quote is spectacularly unfair on Netflix; as opposed to the traditional channels that really would cancel a show after a month in the middle of a season (Love Monkey, I hardly knew ye), Netflix ALWAYS gives a show at least one whole season, and they renew them if they’re successful, it’s that simple.

I still don’t understand the hatred for the Wii U here on Kotaku. Is it just Kotaku? Or is it a US thing? I bought one for the family, and it saw more play than the original Wii (once the novelty of that machine had worn off, it was mostly a Wii Sports and No More Heroes-machine). Some absolute cracking games (I mean,…