Agreed. They’re mostly targeted at different audiences. I know some people who like/enjoy both, but most people I see tend to gravitate more to one or the other, which I doubt is a coincidence.

The concerns are understandable/fair, but so much of the problem, as a society, we have to get past these archaic notions of “stable career paths/guarantees”. Millenials are the first generation to live in a post guarantee world (A bachelor’s degree means less than it ever has, despite costing more than it ever has,…

As always, I see ‘Gita Jackson’ in the author column, I click and read. Rinse/Repeat. Great read also. Never consciously thought about games fashion (outside of knowing that I loved to customize characters in classic Sims/Sims 2,Def Jam Fight for NY, etc) until I started reading your thoughtful Kotaku articles about…

As much as people (lazily) want to just be cynical about it and lay the blame at GTA Online (and of course, the childish need to “blame”anyone in the first place), it’s not a difficult situation to decipher, both based on the way everything with GTA Online has developed over the years, and the rare interviews and…

I’m playing the Xbox One X enhanced versions of the Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy XV, some Forza Motorsport 7, Doom, and Battlefield 1.

Same. My Samsung Galaxy S8 playing Clash of Clans literally hums louder than a 4K/HDR premium video game console lol. Insane.

It’s insanely quiet. I’ve had the Project Scorpio Edition since launch day and I’ve literally heard it make noise like three times. And, it’s not like I’m not pushing it. Forza 7 Enhanced, Gears of War 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Witcher 3, Battlefield 1, etc. Whisper quiet. Easily the quietest device (not just…

Beautifully written, and spot on. Creator/writer myself, and I’ve always championed collaboration. Having total control almost never goes well. It’s been proven over and over, humans need checks and balances. Even the most brilliant among us, in most cases. When I look at someone like Tolkien and I read about him, get…

“I have to say I think the whole design of the prequels is awful and looks like it was just made to sell toys”

Same thing wrong with a lot of (especially white) people. Apathy. Short term and long term, it’s America’s greatest threat. And it’s reached an unprecedented new high under Trump. In most cases, manifests as either one of three things:

From the beginning, in every interview, (Phil Spencer included) it was acknowledged and touted as a box that could do full 4k, and also acknowledged (I can link YouTube videos with that being acknowledged by Xbox top decision makers specifically) that developers were free to use the power for what they choose, and…

Look at how many chances Jay Cutler’s gotten at a much higher price tag. Josh Mccown, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Mike Glennon, Etc. So many easy examples. Matt Cassell got a 100 million dollar contract a few years ago from KC. Never heard it even mentioned in the media (let alone criticized, even though he was a marginal…

Mixed bag, apparently. First time they’ve ever just ported the full game straight up to consoles. But, apparently there’s a lot of bugs and the interface was poorly redesigned for a controller sensibility (unlike Cities Skylines, which was near perfectly adapted to controller). I’d wait for it to eventually go on sale…

Not absurd at all. Between the exorbitant amount of money they have to pay Disney for the Star Wars license, and the cut Disney takes off every sale, naturally, that would mean prices for everything would need to go up in order to account for the huge losses. Same thing happened with Porsche and its former exclusive…

Eh. I don’t mind. Cheers.

I normally say prolific attention to detail. In this case, swapped attention to detail with journalism since by nature, journalism is intended to be thorough analysis and investigative reporting.

pro·lif·ic/prəˈlifik/
adjective

(of a plant, animal, or person) producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring.
present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful.

Catfish: Video Game Industry Edition (As always, prolific journalism, Jason)

Doing God’s work.

Agree in full. Play a lot of open world games, and very few have that extra stuff that makes it truly an experience/immersive subconsciously. Rockstar in particular excels at this.