Copyrighting a ruleset only covers the specific and exact order of words used to describe those rules.

MrBeast may be a good man existing within an unjust system, but when he sleeps, the system groans on. MrBeast is not a compelling argument for the status quo; he is an argument for radical change.

Ukraine has been on a circuit of grtting stomped by russia for the last 180 years, most gamously by Lenin, Stalin, and then later, Brezhnev, and now, Putin. Russia has not been on the receiving end of Ukranian attacks since Pyotr III

Dozens of fangames languish in obscurity, unplayed. If you wsnt to feel sad, look at GameJolt

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Game launchers are good, actually, and every game should have one. Age of Empires had one. Fallout 1 had one. Freddi Fish 3 had one. There have always been launchers. There should always be launchers.

Good. Much overdue.

surprisingly this is only the second time an amouranth antic has been covered on Kotaku since Grayson went to the Washington Post.

Grayson is over at the Washington Post, for the record, still churning out 12,000 word pieces two minutes before end of shift on Friday, to the chagrin of everyone. (It gets the clicks.)

but they didn't lose a byte

Jim Stephanie Sterling, thank god for them, is finally getting their due. Definitely one of the most entertaining personalities in the gametubeosphere, and gloriously so. I wasn’t a big fan of their The Escapist era content, but the Magenta Magician era has been so iconic.

Take, for instance, the article we’re all responding to: who are the subjects? What are their histories? What are the probable consequences of the actions of the subjects? What are the likely and possible future implications?

The good old days never existed. No publication has ever been totally good, and the sooner people stop wanting to go back to a time that never was, the sooner we can take a long hard squint at the world we find ourselves in. Better starts right here, right now, it starts with you, it starts with me, and it starts with…

The game is $80 CAD, but if someone really really wants to play it in the best possible way, they might just be better off investing that $399 console purchase into a graphics card purchase and emulating it instead. Like, Nintendo only makes around $20 in profit from each unit sold, anyway— that's a lot of money that…

Kotaku is not an institution like The Economist; writers at Kotaku are frequently encouraged to have differing opinions and tastes in video games.

To the pockets of James “Jim Is A Herb” Spanfeller, mainly, to the owners of G/O Media (Great Hills Partners), and then a teeny tiny bit to staff salary.

Literally as old as 1984 (the book)

that challenge was a real pain to complete — resorted to using the rocket launcher + cindershot  + hookshot to complete that one, flying around the map like a punch-drunk Greek God with brain damage.

and two of then are really shitty Chinese EV kits strapper to mutant bicycles that are barely worth being called an automobile

Here’s a stupid, hypothetical, but probably soon to exist example: digital in-game art prints that exist in the game world.