If I made a video game I would never reach out to gamers directly. Ever. Everything would be blanket announcements. There is literally nothing to be gained by talking to them

My fav was how Kotaku used to lambaste all the other online stores like Epic... and now the new take is that Steam is a monopoly lol.

AWS already has it’s own blockchain development tools, they spent a lot of time on it... The NFT and Crypto fads have become so tarnished that we immediately recoil whenever we hear the words.

I was just playing single player yesterday and opened a chest that specifically said I had earned armor for multiplayer...?

The first Splinter Cell is still the best because of how little it actually does. As game franchises grow, so does their scope, which often leaves behind the things that made them great in the first place. Hopefully they can go back to the roots of Splinter Cell and give us that minimal, tension-filled, steal…

Gotta say— play Yakuza 0 if you haven’t already! It was my first Yakuza game and tbh none of the other installments come even close. The entire thing is like a bingeable HBO show or Stephen King page-turner. You seriously wont be able to put it down!

Idk why i need a whole box set when I’ll just be listening to Have A Short Rest on repeat for a week.

“Even on Microsoft’s crappy servers, that wouldn’t be an issue.”

This place is just Reddit + Twitter combined. Just angry rants.

It is unfortunate that the Crypto bros of the Twitterverse have tarnished the reputation of NFTs from beyond repair.

Psychonauts 2 was a Day 1 Gamepass title and offers zero microtransactions. It is also up for GOTY on some lists.

Tbh to me this is like the Cyberpunk situation... I don’t really care too much about the bugs. Like yeah, they put a damper on it, but the real issue is that the game just feels so hollow. And I’m not just talking about missing features too— the gameplay itself is just so vanilla. There isn’t any impact to it and…

Titanfall 2 is the most 7/10 game in the world. Idk how it gets so much praise other than it being some hip, underdog to rally around (boooo CoD!, etc).

How is there no difference lol. This is like the opposite of FOMO since you can take each pass at your own speed. You can’t “miss out” since it’ll be there for you whenever you want.

Gamers: “Stop taking away the battlepass, it makes me have FOMO if I don’t finish it in time.

343: “Ok, we won’t take it away.”

Gamers:…

This is awesome. A game developed with speedrunning in mind, and a delicate narrative about listening to one’s selves.

Sometimes it’s like... would people be happier if there wasn’t even a battle pass at all lol? Like just don’t even offer one so people have nothing to be angry about...? I just don’t get it— i feel old af, but this game is free and everything else is just a bonus.

I played like 4 matches of Battlefield the other day…

Free multiplayer games are always hot beds for cheaters. I imagine a franchise as successful and historic as Halo is constantly iterating and improving upon their fair-play systems. The race continues...

I do not own a single NFT or piece of Crypto. I would highly advise not spending large amounts of money on any NFT right now.

Kotaku (and its readers) are swept up in the Twitter-Tech-Bro buzz of NFTs. And I don’t blame them— $30,000 GIFs are absolutely insane. But as our lives get more and more digital, the concept of original-digital is definitely cool. NFTs provide us some sort of way to have ownership in the digital world... but the…

I thought the game in the thumbnail said “Yaas Return” lol

“Pure choas fun”, isn’t that exactly what Battlefield is? Why does Halo get the “it’s just fun!” excuse but Battlefield doesn’t? Probably because Battlefield is more popular now...