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Is Robin Williams the reason Sid Meier's Civilization is called Sid Meier's Civilization? I was just rereading our profile of the iconic game designer and stumbled upon this anecdote, which seems appropriate to share again now:

The game is more enjoyable if you play it side by side with a guide for how much to pay them. Not a guide for anything else, just that single feature. That said, it was a terrible feature.

Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland is kind of weird and amazing and fun and frustrating in equal portions. It's definitely worth playing (though the English-language version only got a European release), but be prepared for some tooth-grinding moments and extensive savescumming.

In recent days I've been asked several times about a possible breach of ethics involving one of our reporters. While I believe no such breach occurred, I feel it is important for Kotaku readers who have questions to get clear answers.

Or maybe that "leaked" fighting game they may be developing. I'd be down to play that on the Wii U, too.

Kotaku caption contest!

Hope you're going to be OK. Good luck under the knife.

Every pic of Evan Narcisse should in some way feature his pants. After those pink bad boys in the Necrodancer story I want to keep tabs on his style.

Just bought the bundle - the DLC episode isn't included.

The wonderful fifth entry in the Ace Attorney series is now out on iOS. You can download the first episode of Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies for free and buy the whole thing for $15 (or, individually, at $5 per episode).

I think the big piece of brand differentiation that EA can do for itself is to make it so that every game, ESPECIALLY an indie title, has to pass a quality-control standard (something something EA crap games irony hurr hurr). Do for new games what GOG did for old ones, basically. Once consumers get it in mind that…

But Origin is free, and you can just horde free games on it.

I'm with you on that, and I'll say something I say every time this comes up: It says a lot about EA that in a market that's just begging for a Steam killer, and with a service that has a lot of frankly great features, EA has so completely ruined any goodwill they had with potential customers that they can't unseat…

I wonder if he'll resort to posting ASCII art.

Was this a problem on Kotaku before the Jezebel article?

Great win for Microsoft; great loss for gamers.