I don’t know how this can be a surprise to anyone who’s covered Diablo III or other current ARPGs at all. The introduction of seasons, which work on exactly this model, was WILDLY successful in keeping Diablo III engagement relevant for years after it last released any new story or character content. What did you…

I mean, that makes sense as to how it literally happened, but it’s sort of exactly what I suspected: corporate regency bias. The PE guys put two established, high value, legacy brands under the umbrella of a newer, buzzier, currently popular but much less stable brand. Which is a classic PE move, since the only goal…

I will never understand corporate recency bias. I probably won’t take the time to go down this internet rabbit hole for answers, but how in the world did this company come to be known as “Instant Brands” when it has PYREX and CORNINGWARE on its roster? Those are two unimaginably successful, popular, cost effective,…

I just don’t understand why anyone would say something like this publicly, even if they fully believed it to be true. Hasn’t anybody ever heard of “under promise, over deliver?” Now any launch bugs they experience, even if they’re relatively minor by comparison, are going to be held up against this statement. 

Not gonna lie, I have mixed feelings about them immortalizing someone who knowingly and openly used an exploit to win this race. I realize the streamer doesn’t technically have any other option but to play the game in the state it’s released, bugs and all, but I vaguely remember Blizz (separate team, I know)…

$50 limit and qualifier that they should be considered “gadgets” (I don’t think cast iron pans, toaster ovens, or utensils qualify, no matter how much I love my skillet and my fish turner) limits options, but I would wholeheartedly endorse the meat thermometer. Getting a good digital instant read changed my cooking…

As a dad who grills/smokes constantly and owns a Yoder YS640 (which I love), a Thermoworks Thermapen One (which I also love) , and a dead Thermoworks signals (which I did not), I have a few thoughts to add:

I can only assume that the writers who are completely ignoring the Grim Harvest nerf aren’t playing anything corpse explosion dependent. Bone spear/Corpse Explosion got hit HARD on the resource generation front. 

You skipped the single most important rule of Diablo anything: Town is lava.

It was heavily nerfed in response to the betas, and then slightly buffed up.

Have to assume this is at least part of the calculus behind putting the 4-day early access behind the deluxe and ultimate tier pre-orders. By splitting the launch playerbase due to a $20 premium, they will significantly reduce each “launch” day’s server strain.

I agree with the other posters that a 20 lb tank is massive and unnecessary; I’ve been filling my Sodastream canisters off of at 5 lb CO2 tank (oh yeah, CO2 tanks are measured in pounds, not gallons) for years with a refill adapter. My partner would kill me if I had the CO2 tank sitting out in the kitchen instead of…

In six years of Apple Watch ownership, I never once got Messenger’s watch app to work properly anyhow. For years I just got a notification that I had a message, without readable content. Some of my friends and I are guilty of this as well, but maybe the takeaway from this is “you probably shouldn’t be doing your…

35 incidences of breakage in over 2 million units.... literally a 0.0016 percent failure rate... and you’re suggesting they should REFUND them? For a part that is easily replaced in minutes?

While I hate wading into the comments on legal issues given how few actual attorneys are present, yeah, it would appear to be a commerce clause issue on top of a First Amendment issued. Given that the vast majority of TikTok creation and consumption in America is between American interstate consumers and creators, I…

So, basically they’re taking the existing HBO Max, shoveling a lot of additional content onto it that an enormous percentage of HBO viewers probably don’t want, and now charging a $4 a month surcharge for the 4K streams that are currently included. Great. I swear, the streaming services are in a conspiracy to try and…

“[A] legal concept known as the “rule against perpetuities.” I can’t fully explain it, but from what I understand . . . “

Two different authors kvetching about the dodgeroll cooldown, and now I’m curious if anybody at Kotaku actually played it on PC.

Meanwhile in PC land, in addition to the mobility skills every Diablo player had to use into in the 25 year non-console version of the series, we still have access to those and for some inexplicable reason have gained an additional mobility ability on a separate button. Did ya’ll console folks just... not pick up the…

I am a lawyer, specifically a litigation attorney, and the standard is not “has a litigation hold been filed,” its “reasonable anticipation of litigation.” Far and away the biggest difference between the two is when the potentially guilty party (in this case, Google) becomes aware of a likely litigable event but the…