Addressing the Picture: Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think “zol” or “ee” are legal words in scrabble. “Qi” is debatable but it’s a second Latinization of Chi. Neither are english words, but are in the English dictionary, because it’s a concept we don’t have a word for. Anyway, that looks like scrabble game I’d play…

Haha, fair enough 😀. And I agree that live actors have the ability to display more subtle emotion through facial expressions and is easily more organic (well because the actors actually are living and breathing :p) while subtlety in animation is much harder for facial expressions generally and it’s not common to…

While I don’t want to defend “perfect fit” because it’s clearly hyperbolic excitement from the OP, but your counter arguments don’t make a lot of sense to me. “Serial Experiments Lain” was an Avant-garde anime where everything was intentionally stylized to create forboding air. Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop on…

I’m confused on how big an issue this is? Is it noticeable when you use it handheld? does it stop fitting into the dock? What other than aesthetics does this curving possibly hurt. Is the screen cracking? The early consumers sound like whiney babies “oh my expensive hardware is slightly bent, I can no longer use it as…

The history of this is worth noting. They had kept pushing their deadlines back and back, because they knew they weren’t ready. The people that got excited over the hype got unbelievably angry and felt like it would never come out. It was bad enough that Kotaku’s Jason Schreier got death threats for even reporting a…

I guess my biggest question is, if the contract he signed with Universal was that he needed personal approval over the use of his music, who’s fault is it really? Does he have evidence that Universal informed Bethesda of this? His problem might be with Universal not Bethesda. I have a feeling this is going to be…

It sounds like they mean it, but they have some trust to build back. I really hope they don’t allow it to go to early access. I just hope everything goes well and that the studio does it’s best to do right by the fans of the original.

I think this is particularly well hashed out with the replies below, but I did want to mention that in my recent change of thought I’ve realized that I want to create content for my community so that we can continue to have things that we can connect with. people make art to make sense of their situation in some way…

I hate to say it but that is a subtly homophobic sentiment... so how much is too much? If I wear makeup in public, will you have a problem with it? If I give my boyfriends a peck on the cheek are you going to freak out? If your wife decides to go to a gay bar cause she doesn’t want to get hit on, can I make out…

And that’s great!.... but.... not everyone has an experience like you. Being at a concert is wildy different from walking down a street in a small town. It’s different than discussing it with your fellow corporate executives, it’s different if you’re not white, it’s different if you express your gender in an…

Which thing specifically do you mean, being respectful or being queer? If we are talking about the history of representation and inclusion of a variety of identities, it has gotten a LOT better. Due to the fact that all minorities are still minorities and are unlikely to change drastically in that sense, there will…

I can’t tell if sarcastic or not, but why is it that someone talking about a video game that exists on website about the broad spectrum of video games is labeled as “progressive”? if the idea of kotaku is to talk about what unique things in gaming are out there, then this game fits the bill, as it is a thing that…

My issue with being an art snob, is that I can’t enjoy posts like these. I want to be like “wow these are surprisingly similar” but then I start getting caught up in the details and I think “well that one is clearly more baroque than renaissance, and that one has far too modern of a composition, and a couple of these…

Or check badges or bags.

I really did enjoy watching the audience at the Sony conference literally start falling asleep. I know the journalists were all very sleep deprived, but it was also kinda funny to watch a “huge” announcement while they rummage through their Ubisoft bags presumably for a pillow or a better life.

I went in like I always do, expecting AAA’s to be predictable and underwhelming, so I was pleasantly surprised by bg&e2, a good looking dishonored dlc, Spider-Man, assasins creed origins, new core Pokémon game in development for the switch, one last night (despite the director’s shitty views, which makes it hard for…

They did! Though they did the thing of “wait for more announcements at d23" which is what they done in the past... but I’m pleased enough for now.

Following the non-appearance of kh3 I will be hosting group therapy session to help us get over our unrequited love

Also twitch stuff tends to fall under kotaku’s realm... and it wasn’t much of an article so much as bunch of predictable responses from trolls that have nothing better to do than try to get under peoples’ skin. In that sense I’m curious why it’s even an article to begin with. So, there are a lot of trolls that are…

I still don’t think they have a duty to provide backwards compatibility, yet it’s annoying that an entire generation of games immediately becomes obsolete but the hardware is never cheap enough to purchase retroactively and still buy a new console... so if you missed a generation of consoles, you can either pay…