as someone who worked on marketing once, this whole situation smacks of “let’s gently poke the hornet’s nest because there’s not such thing as bad publicity”, and the idea probably came from a Senior Creative with little knowledge of the market but a lot of sway in the ad agency.

Or they said “apparently we can’t get away with half-assing things on the cheap, so don’t bother.”

So either they completely misread why the GTA remasters were received poorly... or the GTA4/RDR remasters were looking just as bad.

All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels...

It's not about language, it's about bigotry. Just using language as a way to push out, and detere brown ppl.

I’m french Canadian and I think exactly the same way. I’m bilingual and live in Quebec City, my girlfriend is from Montreal and her parents speak both languages at home, so we also speak both languages in Quebec CT and I wouldn’t have it any other way. English is rhythmically awesome, it sounds great and is fun to…

Kotick more like K.O. this tick. Lmao, got him.

Italian-American here: I don’t give a shit if Chris Pratt is Italian or not, nor if he offends Italians. Who I honestly don’t think give a shit about Mario that much one way or the other, unless my relatives have been keeping this a secret.

Remember when Kotaku wasn’t just a video game site? Remember when Kotaku covered anime? Japanese snack foods? Nerd culture in general?

Between this, the Jeff Hardy DUI, and Activision Blizzard clearing Activision Blizzard of all wrongdoing, this week has been full of surprising news that really wasn’t at all surprising

OK, I believe them.

I guess we’ve reached the stage of our societal collapse where a cop NOT immediately killing a Black person is a news story 

I just checked for shits and giggles and every single one of these games has more players on Steam than Babylon’s Fall.

They really can’t fathom the idea that normal people aren’t excited about a future where everything in the world, even escapism, is an endless grind. They’ve sublimated their own lives into nonstop #hustle bullshit and they just assume everyone wants to be as joyless as them.

“Saying magic words because I think it’ll make impossible shit happen” is the core tenet of crypto

For a long time, you know, white-color crime was considered not real crime and it flourished. We, in this community, still remember the Washington Mutual Bank disaster where nobody went to prison, nobody went to jail, nobody got criminally prosecuted, for what should have been serious criminal offenses. And when…

You’re absolutely right. Viewing one person as a person immediately diminishes all other injustices in the world. Truly, justice and goodness are part of a zero sum game.

Yeah this article is phrased oddly. The “controversy” wasn’t about the outfit or how she looked in it (both were fine!) but the very bizarre Photoshop choices, which had nothing to do with Nicole.

May the boulder continue rolling, this rules.

Why does SF need an open world? If Capcom wanted to give any fighting game an open world it should be Final Fight. That makes far more sense.