Callie and Marie splitting apart was what lead to the events in Splatoon 2, so people jumped to conclusions that Pearl and Marina were were splitting up since Marina wasn't in the photo. Therefore, Splatoon 3.

That said I’m also a person who very rarely watches trailers, doesn’t watch a lot of live TV, and mostly watches terrible tv shows and movies between big binges of good stuff so maybe my standards and outlook are different.

I’m kind of in the same boat. It’s very rare I run across a spoiler that completely ruins a story for me. A lot of stuff you can kind of see a mile off or it doesn’t really change the movie much. Like, maybe it’s surprising in the moment like “oh, these characters are secretly related” or “this character gets killed…

Heck, I totally forgot Apex even came out this year. It feels like it’s been going on for a lot longer! I guess the Seasons just make it feel like it’s been out longer than it has. I’m glad it was a surprise because it was easily my most played game this year.

I recently remember Gravity Rush 2 existed and man... what a good game. It's got some of the coolest characters and and wildest settings. And Kat is such a plucky hero that it's just infectious. Real shame it released and was almost completely forgotten not long after.

I mean, I don’t order Papa John’s for the garlic sauce, but if they don’t send me a free sauce I get upset. The main reason I order Papa John’s is for the pizza and the shame.

They work pretty good for multiplayer games, especially ones you’re interested in playing in the long term and the developers are interested in maintaining in the long term. Good ones will give you plenty of different rewards (cosmetics, XP boosters, in-game currency, etc) to work towards as well as additional…

I’ve already had my opinions shared to the front of Kotaku, but the main reason I don’t like Hop as a rival is that I like Hop as a friend character. He’s nice dude who found out way too late that he’s not the player character in a Pokemon game. He was destined to be a loser the moment he became best friends with the…

Gravity Rush 2 has a KILLER soundtrack! It really nails the all the feelings the game is going for. Crazy anime characters, soaring through the sky, dreamlike otherwords, European architecture, mechanized military marches, jazz clubs, frantic battles with giant monsters, triumphant fanfares. EVERYTHING. It’s all great.

It didn't work like you said, Nathan.

Why do you think that?

Literally the only reason I couldn’t say with 100% certainty that Overwatch was the superior game was because Battleborn had great PvE year round. Now with Overwatch 2 coming out... It’s a shame though. Battleborn was pretty great for what it was and it’s a shame it got completely overshadowed.

This is like saying that if you take Woody and Buzz out of Toy Story 3, it wouldn’t have beat out How to Train Your Dragon in the 2010 Oscars. There’s a nostalgia factor for sure, but they’re welding that nostalgia so that it resonates with everything new. Breath of the Wild doesn’t coast of the nostalgia of the…

Not to mention some of the job descriptions are pretty sketchy. Someone really posted “Send me Pokemon who can see the dead” and “Send me Dark Types so I look intimidating NOT FOR ILLEGAL REASONS” up there on Pokemon Craigslist.

If anyone was gonna kickstart The Running Man in real life it would be Elon Musk.

Yoink Mitts

In 2007 I lived in France and the country was hosting the Rugby World Cup and it was WILD how pretty much the whole country switched to “heck yeah rugby time” while the cup was going on. All TVs were tuned to the game, the scores were posted at the train stations, and even my local baker was making rugby-shaped loafs…

Meanwhile in parts of the game that aren’t 2 seconds of utilitarian overworld cutscene:

Im not as familiar with the newer Pokemon, so I though it evolved into Bergmite (Which hate “mite” in it’s name so I assumed it was also bug-themed? And it's in the area right after Snom???) Guess I need to actually evolve the little guy.

With all the Dexit uproar, it’s hard to tell if this is just some NPCbabble or some great shade-throwing.