Welcome to the current general mindset. It’s all about me and never thee. It’s a damn shame it’s been culturally accepted for people to be entirely self centered.

THIS. If anything, it should make the platinum hunters think about the depths they’ll drop to just to get a stupid worthless trophy or two. But no, they blame their obsession on the creator instead.

 Honestly my only takeaway here is how offensively low they managed to pay for Control’s exclusivity.

As one of those “freeze peach” advocates, Yes.

It’s basically an encrypted jpeg/gif/etc or video file. Supposedly this makes it worth something despite most of these things are made using perfectly findable images or videos. It’s like a digital baseball card but in a world where you can already get something exactly like those baseball cards for free.

Remember when Bitcoin was “crashing” because it hit 30k and then fairly quickly dropped to 10k? Now what’s it at?

I look forward to the dozen or so articles about how this shouldn’t exist because of the atrocities of the Vietnam war, how journalists don’t need to advertise it for them and how Steam etc shouldn’t allow it on their storefront.

People constantly conflate the first amendment with censorship believing that it’s ONLY censorship if the government is involved. This is incorrect, but it’s a depressingly widespread belief.

You answered it in the first line... it’s their darling.

Played himself? No. Not at all. That was the entire point of the article.

“...it’s nice to see Nintendo continuing to support the console.”

Let’s be honest, that headline was intentionally misleading because clicks.

I doubt you’ll find any change in opinion with Bowser’s Fury then. Despite all the game journalists acting like it’s some unique innovation, all it really is is a single Odyssey-style world released as a standalone game, where Bowser attacks you at random times.

I don’t get this take that every journalist seems to have that this is “open world Mario”. It’s not really any different in design from Mario Odyssey.

Call me crazy, but I get the feeling it wouldn’t be too hard to copy the new background data into another mod without his approval...

Finally!! The hard hitting political and gaming news I expect from Kotaku!

We don’t know that. Yuzo Koshiro often created soundtracks THEN ‘ported’ it into whatever system the soundtrack was for. For example the Actraiser soundtrack was made using Sound Board II and then programmed into the SNES (the SNES version in that case was IMO much better). Both versions were released by him on iTunes…

I admit, I haven’t played it since launch, but when did Trackmania become part of GTA Online?

Yes. This is why Claire in Cyberpunk is a great trans character and that one from Mass Effect Andromeda who screamed from the heavens that she is trans, including deadnaming herself, to any random person she met is awful representation.

Nah, River and Panam are straight, just as Judy and Kerry are gay. Meredith Stout is Bi. The characters, like real people, have preferences, and that’s not a bad thing IMO.