Uninspired would be "Some thoughts on the Counter-Strike scandal". This is classic contrarianism-without-substance clickbait.

What is there to reply? It's an obvious stance that everyone is taking.

what a clickbaity title.

Well what do you expect from underpowered hardware. The specs of the PS4 and XB1 were already mid tier PC at best when they were announced. Compare that to the PS3 and 360 who had GPUs that weren't even released for PC the time those were announced.

You think this is a fucking game?

I understand what they were trying to do, but both Greenlight and "Early Access" have essentially turned Steam into the same kind of crap-filled wastelands that are the iOS and Google Play stores.

Aside from the big AAA stuff, it's almost impossible to sort through the mass of shit clogging everything up. It'd be a lot…

I've been going through greenlight for a while and voted on over 1000 games and 95% of them were no, because they are total shit. For you people it might not be obvious, but there are programs out there made specifically for game creation and any dumbass can stand up and make some shit and wants to sell it. There are…

They can do it if they want to, but if Valve starts banning people for it, as long as it's on ToS, they won't be able to complain afterwards.

If it couldn't get media attention, then the developers need to find a better way to get media to pay attention to it. They have to fight the same battles as every other indie developer across any platform trying to get their game funded/sold. They have the fight the same battle as every mobile app dev that has to…

Meanwhile self-promotion is a big no-no on some major gaming forums, and gaming publications (Kotaku included) are often bombarded with so many tips that it's easy for some to slip through the cracks. In many ways the system asks too much of smaller developers while not really giving them a clear avenue toward success.

Oh look, indie devs acting in a shady way and trying to game systems for each others benefits rather than acting within the existing rules of a system intended to help them out which had never existed before.

Yes it's such a horrible service to have hundreds of games at my fingers. It's such a horrible service that allows countless indie devs sell their games and allow fans of such games find said games. Horrible, worst Digital Distribution system ever, except it's better than origin, ubisoft's, Nintendo store, PSN, Xbox…

That's a little bit over-simplified. The original harassment of Quinn was because she slept with game journalists while promoting her game, which #GG saw as a breach of ethics on both parts. It later spread out into game journalism ethics in general, but it's not as if the whole thing was some random flash mob…

Has Kotaku written ANY articles laying out these 'ostensible' ethical criticisms? Not that I've seen. Instead they focus on the select few rotten apples in an otherwise valid movement which is a long standing well documented tactic to shut down people who disagree with you. This fact alone brings serious question…

You seem to have it backwards. It started as a scorned lover exposing his ex-lover as being somewhat corrupt, as were those that dealt with her. You seem to also forget that game journalism, especially those that were implicated, are apart of the 'influential AAA scene'. Was there hatred, was there vitriol, and…

what is at odds with what you wrote is that there are plenty of people saying that gamergate is full of violent women haters and nothing but. This isn't true.

That resolution ain't gonna lower itself!

I thought Ultra was with the extra HD pack and that High was the one that required around 3GB of VRAM. I guess I'm wrong here?

which doesn't change that they reuse mechanics from other games in newer games.

Another day, another cut and paste Ubisoft game. Snore.