“The Witcher probably got allowed on PS3/PS4 because Sony didn’t know about the nudity...” 

Ah! Thanks, that explains it then.

Godot? He didn’t show up until the third game... does this mean they’re skipping the second game, compressing it, doing a two-cour season, or what?

While the punk scene is undeniably white, their lineage isn’t - it only takes two steps back of inspiration to get to the likes of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, via the Rolling Stones. Other lineages, like those via the Who, are certainly whiter, but they all trace back to rock and roll, which is undeniably black in…

Welcome to the fundamental problem of writing rules. You try to write a rule separating white from black in the middle of a sea of grey, and you end up calling too much “white”, calling too much “black,” making it so complicated no one can understand it, or making the line itself vague. There’s no perfect solution.

It hurts the company’s reputation, which makes people less likely to buy future games of theirs.

On the other hand, Nintendo is the only one of the giant AAA companies to have resisted the urge to load up their games with microtransactions (with a few exceptions, notably on their f2p mobile games). So at least with them you’re still getting full games without bonus paywalled off.

As an amateur writer myself, the big reason I find it important to keep consent clear and present comes down to empathy for my characters. When I get deep into a character’s mind, it’s impossible for me to be complicit in something as horrible as rape happening to them (and I see anything shy of explicit consent to be…

A Link outfit!? Well, that certainly makes it worth buying it twice!

This comment is great! I just have one question: Do you have any plans to port this comment to the Switch?

Well, there are always remasters to look forward to, at least.

Probably something along the lines of:

That is, in fact, the real reason. Adding braille to machines that don’t need it is a very minor expense compared to setting up two different assembly lines for those that do and don’t need it.

If you’re traveling, remember that different places have different tipping expectations. Nowhere tips more than the US, so the only places you’ll get in trouble are those where they consider tips an insult (like Japan). Otherwise, if you forgot, you’ll just hit the “knock your socks off” point much more easily, which…

When I woke up today, I didn’t expect to read a story where Howard Stern was acting as the moral conscience. Well, here we are.

Yeah, I’ll agree it isn’t a straightforward application of Poe’s La. The reason I brought it up is that I think what went on here is due to the same underlying cause: That there are people who could misinterpret what you said and fully believe that misinterpretation, given the fact that there are people out there who…

There are people out there defending Jerry Sandusky even now, so seeing someone defending Polanski wouldn’t surprise me. Don’t forget about Poe’s Law.

Because they’re a news site, and piracy is a rather important news item when it comes to games.

I’ve heard from firefighters who dislike the term “fireman” because it does in fact have another meaning - someone who shovels coal into a train engine - and they don’t appreciate being confused with that job. (Granted, that job has a confusing name itself. Probably should rename that to something like…

TIL that Kotaku is secretly a collaborative clicker game.