I doubt it’s the internet brigading, it’s the approval of his peers. As the guy who tried to be Mozilla CEO after donating to prop 8 discovered, a businessman at the top is not every company’s most valuable resource. Facebook would drop Luckey if prominent employee(s) at Oculus who are vital for developing…

There’s certainly an argument to be made that the largest and most influential voices in gaming news (Kotaku, Polygon, etc) are staffed by young liberals from the coastal cities, writing for young liberals in the coastal cities, and that making assumptions of your readership is bad.

This is kind of how Communists would feel, but given the number of failed Communist states that have done horrendous things, it’s understandable why people reject Communism rather than “address different ideas.”

I mean, I supported the original Kotaku story about his donating money and time to a mini PAC as being relevant, but as we’re diving into his relationships all I can think of is the “it’s none of your business who they’re dating” response to the claims of developers and critics being in relationships. Can we just…

It’s easier to handle if you’re aware of his past as a far less influential UK tech journalist, his writings from back then makes it clear that his work today is more about acting and getting attention than actually believing in the things he says.

Trump is not so much Mr. Wall Street as he initially seems, and is much more of a traditional huckster in the guise of a serious businessman. He’s blacklisted from major US banks, and as such is having to look abroad for loans. The backing of Russian billionaires in his real estate business is one potential reason for…

I actually kind of admired Trump once in a past decade, back when The Apprentice was new, and I still don’t think he’s Hitler. And for a long period in the campaign (let’s say until May or so) I felt kind of bad for him that he was being pegged as such.

“Shitposting and meme magic” have got to be the least effective campaign tools ever.

It’s just another term for online play. It wasn’t even a very good name at the time, as people couldn’t tell if it was another pay-to-play premium network like TEN and MPlayer, or a server browser like GameSpy, or an ISP, or what.

I played this game a whole year ago at TwitchCon SF. It hasn’t changed that much, the ideas were set in place for quite some time.

Every character in Overwatch is borrowing from something beloved elsewhere, often (though not always) from gaming, so it’s always going to be compared to a lot of things. 76 is…

Nah, it doesn’t work like that.

They fell to the curse of everything having to be “epic”, though arguably this goes back as far as The Frozen Throne. The end result of so much “epic” feels like Zack Snyder is writing everything.

He did his best work when Blizzard was still trying to prove itself. Everything after Brood War feels like a very different company, one trying to emulate Marvel Comics a little too hard.

Also you don’t have to be a campaigner for social issue awareness to find some of the latest Warcraft stuff to be problematic as…

No, the water has a bacteria that eats your brain and kills you, which caused one fatality in the 80s when they had one water park that used water from the surrounding lakes. They’ve since abandoned that location, because they have much larger parks that use chlorinated water, but in the roughly 30 years of operation…

MCU music does really well when it’s mimicing that chorus-heavy symphonic stuff that was a staple of the 40s and 50s. There’s the song and dance number in the first Captain America, of course. Iron Man 2 has a track that riffs on the “the future is bright and convenient and sponsored by big friendly corporations”…

It would be more meaningful if SEGA hadn’t pulled the Streets of Rage remake five years ago. Especially since it was a quality tribute to a nearly-abandoned franchise, rather than the latest hot mess Sonic was placed into by a sexually awakening adolescent.

I guess I acted too fast in re-adding the non-Gawker blogs from this company after the Univision purchase.
Someday, your bosses will approve a story that gets you, the writer, personally sued by a billionaire and entombed in legal bills while your publication/employer is ignored. This already happens to good…