When it comes to headlines, you can be less of a d*ck when the episode JUST comes out. Not everyone has all the free time to watch a long episode of something but probably has time to scroll through the internet while on the sh***er. Nobody is saying don’t discuss it, just that headlines can convey these things…

Raising the price after several years is odd, not complaining about it. “Inflation” is such a bullsh*t excuse too. Everyone uses it to justify raising prices constantly and everyone just accepts it. Granted this isn’t a major studio doing this, but it’s still sh***y. They could release some dlc or an expansion or…

Hahahaha, if you think that, then I DARE you to go up to your boss and tell them they’re a f***ing moron. You shouldn’t get “cancelled” for speaking your mind, right?

The person they say that to has a choice as well based on what their tastes are. “Cancel culture” isn’t something new, it’s just another label. If you are a sh***y person and have expressed so for all to see, why do you think everyone HAS to just ignore it? Why does everyone HAVE to just shut up about it lest they be…

Nintendo has a different target market for their titles. Sony and Microsoft have virtually the same. So comparing directly to Nintendo is a little disingenuous.

Audience scores are never ACTUALLY interesting as they can be manipulated. I haven’t taken one audience score seriously in over a decade. Critic scores can at least be verified and we can know the people giving it the scores and read the reviews. Audience scores don’t have any of that (sometimes maybe a small review…

Just an fyi for Kotaku in general, I have taken to stop reading the top halves of articles because the stupid ad that pops down and covers half my screen that I need to scroll way down to clear. I know you guys need the money but with all the other ads liberally peppered throughout every single story (don’t get me…

Ok, go do it at their level then. Go on. If it takes zero athletic ability then go ahead and do it.

Maybe they’re tired of promoting the kid and justifying the trolling. Unlike a certain site that’s had multiple articles about him along with plastering his face all over their headlines when it happened….

No, this is a shortcut for Microsoft. They could have bought a couple of good studios and had some better first party output (that thing they stopped caring about for a good while), but instead they’re trying to buy out mega publishers with crap tons of studios and franchises so that Sony loses access to them. The…

Sony has not bought any mega publishers so that is a lie.

What “monopoly” does Sony have here? Paying third party companies for exclusive content or to have games be exclusive isn’t the same as buying out a mega publisher that holds onto tons of franchises and studios. Why are so many going to bat for Microsoft here? Whatever little bits Sony went for, Microsoft is going for…

Good job trying to vindicate what this kid’s been doing Kotaku. Got two headlines at the top of the page for a good few days. You should be paying him for the stories. 

Who the hell was that game for? It was conceptually a “meh” idea coming waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late to the zombie genre. But no, it’s the fault of one stupid scene that I haven’t heard of until now and “woke” people (a common thing that douchebags complain about who can’t handle their own failures)….

What is this sites obsession with this streamer? Why should anyone give one s***? What a stupid thing to report on. I know, I know, I clicked, but this is the first time on any of the numerous stories they routinely publish about her. Is she related to somebody on staff? Does she pay you guys? I dunno, this whole…

Yah, but the games still sell and the majority of the time it doesn’t affect those initial sales which is what the companies and shareholders truly care about. Then they can put a smaller crew on eventually fixing the problems and get puff pieces later on re-promoting the game when they fix one or two things.

Even the mention of Vicarious Visions makes me sad now. Studio with a good name and one that’s been around for a while, gets more into the spotlight after the excellent and successful Tony Hawk 1 & 2 only to get tossed aside as a support studio from what I can tell and stripped of its name. God I hate the video game…

I wish you didn’t put the bit about the price of games in there because now the comments are filled with people b***hing about $60 (which is pretty cheap compared to Canada, I don’t think the value of the dollar makes up for a $30 discrepancy).

Of course they’re aware. They’re just copying other companies in the newer industry practice of releasing games in abysmal states to hit the holiday season and patching them up later. Sure, it results in a bit of negative press, but the initial sales are almost never hurt and then it gets to have continued coverage as…

Even putting aside the monotone, dull delivery, I don’t think anyone else besides the iconic voice that he’s had for decades would fit. The other character voices aren’t as big a deal, but Mario himself just sounds wrong with any other voice. Maybe if the character and world looked different from the usual Mario style…