You’re right, we’re totally in the pocket of big publishers and would never call out their terrible anti-consumer practices.

Who’d they have working on the model, Ubisoft?

PSN and other big shops are free to stock whatever they think will further the shareholder’s profits. They probably believe (correctly) that stocking loli porn will negatively impact their brand which can materially affect the stockholder’s profits. They’re not obligated to stock anything. Nobody is telling you what…

Oh, well in that casFuck this Game.

The AO rating is an example of the free market, not the stifling of creative freedom. Places don’t want to stock AO games. That has nothing to do with the devs. Next you’ll say that places should be forced to stock AO games?

I saw that, and while anyone who reads Kotaku knows that I’m as harsh a critic of Destiny as there can be, I don’t think it’s fair to make assumptions about what they may or may not have intentionally held back as DLC just because we can see a few shots of the Reef in an early trailer.

In all of this horse shit that’s been going on, I think the call for objectivity is just misleading. Asking for objective reviews, is the same as asking for politics to be removed. Both are really about the removal of feminist viewpoints in video game content.

I can’t answer your last question, but I will say that despite the fact that for the past eight months a large contingent of people have been trying to make our lives as miserable as possible, this is still a dream job and I love coming into work every day to write and report fun and interesting things for you all.

Interestingly the creator of SDB, Lisa Brown, has struck out from IG to release more of her own games. Apparently absolutely nobody at IG was surprised at this considering that she’s constantly participating in game jams! She’s a cool gal, came on in Resistance 3 and designed a few levels, as I discovered when I…

First Cloney, outfitted in a fedora and overcoat, physically tried to stop Switzer, but she avoided his clutches.

As long as there’s no clopping I’m okay with it.

1. No, it’s usually not (although reveal/launch long hours are common, and of course events you lose the weekend for usually).

If GamerGate were actually about ethics in journalism, they would not be actively trying to destroy Kotaku — a site that refuses press junkets, regularly pisses off game publishers through aggressive journalism, and is just about as transparent as any gaming site can be — they’d be going after Metacritic and exclusive…

They weren’t asked to leave because they have different views. They were asked to leave for disrupting discussion panels.

While panelists can choose to not answer a question, the problem here is (as the GGers even admitted) their goal wasn’t to have a back and forth with the panel, but rather to disrupt it with a line of derailing questions. So choosing to not answer questions would’ve been used as fuel against the panel just as much as…

It’s funny how GG is trying to spin it as “different political opinions are banned!” or “Leftists kick girl gamers out! Misogyny!”