The answer is simple. In years past, when it came to portable devices everything was a specialty device that served 1 purpose. (Digital camera, cell phone, mp3 player, game handheld, etc). Nowadays, with modern devices it's all about having one device that does everything. People don't want to carry 5 different…

I'm a software engineer at EA and I get weekly emails from recruiters trying to get me to work at Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and dozens of other small companies scattered all over the place.

Planes was not made by Pixar, it was made by DisneyToon Studios, which is Disney's own internal 3d animation studio. Pixar didn't want DisneyToon to touch the Cars main brand, but they allowed them to make a spinoff series. Disney is basically competing with themselves now because they have both Pixar and DisneyToon…

I never have understood how these things work. He says the 3DS was the top-selling platform in the US last year, selling over 11.5 million units, but because it sold less than the bean counters predicted it would it's considered a disappointment. Why? It seems to me that the bean counters failed at their job of…

Yeah, except this guy is 18, so he's legally considered an adult. If he's old enough to vote and join the military then he isn't a child, and people need to stop referring to him as a child when defending him.

That's bullshit. Having a qualifier word at the beginning doesn't mean something is less legit. Is drag racing not really racing because it has the word drag at the beginning? Is professional table tennis less legit than regular tennis because it has the word table at the beginning?

If you could legally use any copyrighted material while advertising your product as long as the product itself doesn't violate any IP, then why wouldn't every indie game developer who makes a platformer plaster the Mario logo all over their advertising materials just to generate interest? There has to be a legal…

Please allow me to explain something to you that you seem to be missing: By putting the Ghosts 'N Goblins name and logo on the kickstarter, they are effectively using a well known IP to generate interest and get an increased number of backers for their project. Even if they change the actual project so that it's…

Here's what's wrong with your explanation:

As a professional in the games industry, and as someone who has studied game theory and game creation, I'd like to politely point out that we in the industry make a clear distinction between the terms game and toy. You will never hear someone refer to football as a toy, for instance, but it's common for people to…

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Ok, fair enough. I respect your integrity, and I sincerely wish you luck in your quest to make the internet a more civil place.

I don't necessarily disagree with your idea that the unflattering picture is unnecessary, but I still think this white knighting bit you're doing is misguided. There are plenty of sites that are much higher profile than Kotaku that Lindsay could visit if she wishes to lower her self esteem. It's not like some random…

What he means is that the guy probably isn't a gamer, and therefore doesn't care about the launch lineup. He knows the PS4 is a popular item right now and just wanted to steal it to sell it at the local pawn shop. That's all speculation though. At this point we don't know what his motives were. However, I'd…

For a giant company like Amazon, it's all about the numbers, and this thing can only deliver to people who live near warehouses, and the warehouses are all in metropolitan areas. So here's the real question:

I think you pulled the figure in #1 out of your ass. Amazon has warehouses in most metropolitan areas around the country, and far more than 10% of the populace lives in metropolitan areas these days. In fact, the people who live in rural areas are probably the minority. Remember, 30 minutes by air is not the…

I see Nintendo as being primarily a software company who happens to make cute little hardware devices to play their software. Even if Apple made a 3DS killer and destroyed the hardware portion of Nintendo, that wouldn't stop Nintendo from owning all the software IPs they own and continuing to make great games with…

Plenty of home theater enthusiasts have a media server with their blu-ray collection ripped onto the harddrive, and they stream those movies in realtime to a HTPC hooked up in their living room.

This is really no different from that in terms of network bandwidth. The "rendering" computer is processing the game,…

Here's what I took from this article:
The Wii U sales haven't been as good as the Wii sales thus far. Luke was hoping that this game would change that and become the "flagship system selling" game for this system. Is the game great? Yes. Is it THE killer game for the Wii U that will sell the console the same way…