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“ScottyEnn wades into Shang-Chi controversy with shocking take.”

Wouldn’t this indicate that there’s at least one way to misinterpret Chapek’s statement?

Look, I'm as pro-game preservation / emulation as a force for good where the industry constantly fails as anyone. But the difference here is that he charged access to stolen property, and if I remember right from the last set of articles, made a couple hundred thousand dollars doing so. This is not the grey area that…

No... Just No... This was a bad rom site that charged for access. There is zero chance anything of value was lost. The effort this person put in was the bare minimum just to make some quick cash and they did it stupidly too, this is why they are being so badly burned by Nintendo on this. ANYTHING that was on this site…

There are literally thousands of other sites hosting the same roms and the Internet Archive. It's going to be alright. 

The thumbnail gif makes it look like it’s made of a mountain of cocaine, which for GTA would be appropriate.

Ah yes. The classic Cascading Failure. A thing that goes catastrophically wrong, causally linked to an endless chain of other Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong that all set off Even More Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong. Like a circular row of dominos, except each domino is an open oil drum filled with…

Yeah, that works

If a video game is just an implementation of an existing party game, is the movie based on the video game? In any event, I’ve been excited for this since the first trailer and think I’ll try and watch it this weekend. 

I wasn’t really sure what was happening in that trailer, but damned if that sped-up classic G title theme didn’t keep me watching...Hope you get your Biollante (in the Rose form, if you’re a person of distinction)

This is the perfect example of Art Direction trampling a thousand times “Realistic Graphics” it looks ugly as all hell yeah its nice for some close up textures shot but actually try playing with that, you’ll want to gauge your eyes out

Hey now, that’s not fair.

In particular, a lot of people are mourning the loss of a fully-developed Dante being added to Smash Bros Ultimate.

Hey, Kotaku. I’ve been in the video game industry for 12 years and have been following your blog as my favorite video game news source since, I believe, before that. I love what you do and think your voice is very important. You advocate for progressive ideals, call out things that others won’t, and generally say what…

My personal defense of the Mii Fighters is wow, this game has 80 fighters and still managed to cram in 50 skins for all these other popular characters to at least give their fans some content? That’s ming boggling!

I’d beg anyone to do better . Smash Ultimate is already the largest roster, and arguably accomplishment, in all of fighting games. I get that it sucks when you see so many characters added in, but not the on you’re fighting for, but it’s not possible to add everything.  Just enjoy what’s there.

Separating oceans has always felt weirder to me than even the borders of countries. It’s like the imaginary line in the back seat to keep the kids from fighting. What are the criteria? Can you commit a crime in one ocean and flee to another to escape capture? Are there bouys with signs letting you know when you’re…