Last year, Gizmodo Media Group editorial had layoffs. But because we’re unionized, we were able to get a seat at the table to ensure that we were all kept informed, and we convinced our parent company Univision to instead offer buyouts, allowing those who wanted to leave the company to leave by choice (with 4 months…

While our financial results for 2018 were the best in our history, we didn’t realize our full potential.

Heads up: Fuck off, I don’t care what you think. This will be my only response to you.

There is very much an in-depth discussion long overdue for Black America about understanding the lives of Caribbean, European, and African Americans. Too much is lost in translation of how Blackness is defined,and often Black America is very dismissive and blind to its own xenophobia.

I know this is going to really blow your mind, but Die Hard wasn’t a documentary.

People analyze the actions and rationalizations of characters in fictional entertainment all the time.  

So say that if that’s what you meant.

The whole point of this article was in regards to Sony and its decisions. It created the PS Classic, chose the 20 games to put on it, and set the initial $100 price point. Saying “someone else found a way to improve upon it but it’s illegal” isn’t really relevant to the conversation and we shouldn’t give Sony any…

The US Army continues to be profoundly disgusting in how they operate. I loved the article, it was informative and interesting and pretty objective considering the content. I personally found the story utterly repulsive. Video games are fantasy. The army murders people. Period. End of story. There should be no…

Lol MMO. 24 max players is not an MMO. Don’t liken this akin to the unknown environment of mid 2000s MMO development, where nobody knew anything. What an intellectually dishonest comparison.

If my child stopped playing video games and started going to church, I would be very concerned.

I do enjoy the traditional campaigns, but i’d hardly call BO4's multiplayer, battle royale, and tons of Zombies content half of a game. There’s a lot here. Just minus a single player campaign. 

I think their point was that it would have added nothing to the story Insomniac chose to tell.  Which I think is correct.

Some people took issue with the game’s portrayal of cops and Spider-Man’s relationship to them. Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra critiqued the game’s black and white approach to law enforcement as predominantly unimpeachable good guys and criminals as violent anarchists, but she wasn’t alone. The Ringer, Deadspin, and Dot…

I mean...all respect given, but what were your expectations here?

Do you really want a mission in a Spider-Man game where Peter has to investigate an NYPD officer for killing an unarmed man in the street? That, or something equally as topical and troubling, is a bell you can’t un-ring. If the game were to get that…

Police are an unimpeachable group in Spider-Man. They show no real flaws and make no mistakes.

There are also several lines where he talks to officers and makes comments like “Tell your colleagues to maybe not shoot at me next time”. It’s addressed a bit, while not being the focus of the game. He helps the cops when it’s the right thing to do. He stops crimes. He’s not raiding people in their homes whose only…

Spider-Man’s portrayal of policing feels divorced from reality

Kotaku is probably the least “echo”y of all the GMG blogs lol. Go to Gizmodo or Jezebel or Splinter or The Root and you get a lot of:

Exactly this. This is why I don’t take opinion articles seriously.

Besides being pissed off about fans not recieving his album Revival well, mostly because he was trying some new flows and things on it, he’s been fed up with the current state of Rap/Hip-Hop. A lot of these new artists are garbage that don’t put any…

His new album is great