Reddit is the true replacement for an official forum.
Discord is the replacement for IRC chat plus Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Mumble, and Skype. Those have all been rolled up into one, superior, app. But it is no forum.

Oh wikis, yeah definitely the best spot for raw information most of the time

What sucks here is that fans don’t want this, this has been made clear repeatedly (in this case too, as PC Gamer’s collection of negative feedback shows), but it just keeps happening because companies presumably see it as a way to save a tiny amount of money and resources. 

Outside of maybe the Technical Support section of the forums, that’s mostly been my experience for a while as well.

Company owned forums are always just toxicity, whining, and unanswered questions. Game subreddits are the only place I EVER find valuable discourse happening about a game anymore

Companies should not be able to “own” parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. this is insane.

YOu WOULDn’t downLOAD a COLOR

Pirate Adobe products, always

Thanks Unfettered Capitalism, you truly have saved us all

Every day we grow closer to the seven seas.

Not including Ronald McDonald in a McDonaldland Collab is blasphemous.

It must have gnawed at your soul to write all this and deliberately avoid saying anything about the extra set of eyeballs on these godawful things.

With those toys I’d be worried if the burgers are radioactive and make me grow an extra arm or something.

Jesus Christ, these are ugly enough to be a new NFT trend.

NO SHIT like what in the actual fuck, and why on earth partner with a clothing company that has a grand total of 3 freaking items.

Ahh yes. Nothing screams “designer created” these days quite like one half-baked character design concept superimposed lazily across every possible licensed IP on the planet. Thanks, Kaws!

where those toys generated with Dall-E or what??

Sone curators are also journalist outlets. They could have played the game on another platform (Epic, GoG, etc). They could have played with a beta or press key that has been revoked. A professional outlet (like Kotaku) may have had their reviewer redeem the key on their own personal account rather than the branded…

The article doesn’t exactly help here, but in Steam terms curators make recommendations, not reviews. The difference is recommendations have no effect on the game’s review rating (the ‘mostly positive’, etc thing) and the recommended/not recommended flag (‘informational’ was added later) only appears in the curator…

The weird giant head aesthetic does not work with the style of the game (which I like otherwise).