Do people seriously not remember the Bethesda acquisition..? It hasn’t been that long. Bethesda has publicly stated that their future titles will be MS-exclusive. The same will be true of Activision. MS didn’t pay $68 billion just to add more games to Game Pass. They paid $68 billion to add more games to Game Pass AND…

Because Microsoft is making formerly non-exclusive series exclusive. It’s a huge difference.

Give it time. It’s clear that they’re going to buy up every studio they can so they can prevent big titles from being released on PlayStation and get more people to give them money every month for GamePass.

Here we go again. What’s next Microsoft, Ubisoft? 🙄

Ghost of Tsushima had a TON of hype. There were a half dozen individualized commercials showing every aspect of gameplay. There were behind the scenes exposes. There were ads on every site. Sony went all in behind this game.

I’d much rather this discussion actually be lead by trans people, instead of know-it-all cis folk who preach down to us about just how exactly we should feel and how we should go about fighting for our own place in society. Don’t you think that’s a lil’ messed up, that someone who has absolutely no idea about how it…

No, actually, it won’t be normalized until people like you stop getting upset every time you see the word “trans.”  Shoving somebody’s gender under the rug is the opposite of normalizing it.

Given her own statement that appearing on the show could “let her send ‘a positive message to the nerdy trans girl who wants to be on the show too.’” I think she’d be pretty happy Kotaku was highlighting her trans status in this situation. 

Acknowledging her trans identity is worlds different from harassing her for it.

Bobby Kotick needs to be fired. Out of a cannon. A real one, not a circus one.

But he was. And that wasn’t long time ago. It was friggin September. You sound like it was a decade ago. Thats not the case. And he didn’t work there for some months but over 23 years.

It looks like it wasn’t even a big secret what he does. Still they kept him for years and as I understand it even protected - it looks…

It’s a common stance of white men (at least conservative ones), they have spent hundreds of years on top of the food chain and the prospect that there is more competition/level playing field (it wouldn’t be) is considered harmful to them. They forget a very simple truth, while the views have modernized, it’s still…

He doesn’t even work for them, and hasn’t for years.

Let’s not forget that they are simultaneously arguing that the person should be able to say whatever they want without being exposed... but also that this website SHOULD NOT be able to say what they want in kind.

Did you seriously not read the part where he said that stuff while he was working at Blizzard? It’s not hard to look at the dates in the article.

The abhorent sexism and racism speaks for itself, but what I found most interesting about the linked Discord was the awful assumption that workplace culture “belongs” to him. It’s a cliche, but a cliche for a reason that the hard right assume everything is a battle in a culture war, because to them it is. The idea…

I mean making anime refrences to joke about this isn’t in good humor.

Yup - “Fuck you I got mine” is the operating playbook for about half the US population. It doesn’t divide strictly on political/economic lines, but you’ll definitely see some correlation as Jvook notes.

It was about hating women right from the start, it all began when a man angry about his ex went online and got some fellow manchildrem to brigade her.

Given that the first VGA had Mike tyson as a special guest, I’d say it has been firmly on the pro rape side of the argument for years.