I love you guys who boycott things and then have to tell everyone about it at every opportunity. Because what’s the point of a personal boycott if you can’t tell everyone about it to act superior?

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was always my favorite non Arthur story in canon and I am ready for this. 

Being “rewarded” with a chance to win gifts from a raffle system where tickets are “paid” via mandatory extra hours is the premise of a Black Mirror episode that has yet to be written.

Swatting is low level terrorism. It needs to be prosecuted that way.

This was an interesting perspective. I haven’t played OW in ages, so when I saw the image, all I though was ‘Oh, they’re doing a Japanese mech anime thing with D.Va. OK then, moving on.’

Here’s our teen mech pilot, in our game which tries to be inclusive of all people, but it’s not political, but we use feminism to promote the game, while being not political, but we want to sell skins, so sex sales right? But that’s fine because we’re not political. Also our mascot character is a lesbian.

I always got the vibe that they wanted D. Va to be a Japanese character in order to pile on all of their retro-game-fanboy-and-oldschool-otaku-ness onto but didn’t for whatever reason. (Probably a half-baked attempt to try and pander to Blizzard’s giant south korean fanbase) ...and then decided to do all those things…

I feel like I’m almost obligated to post on this article but i am very tired

This isn’t to discount the concerns of these folks, but this is what happens when you co-opt a corporately owned piece of IP as a stand in or representation of the political identity or yourself or movement. When the ugly truths, that that piece of media was only ever meant to sell you something or somethings, and…

The whole premise of the game is “hot people shoot each other sorta” combined with a weirdly out of touch street fighter attempt to be global that was never not going to be problematic, so it’s a tough position to find a character who was absolutely 100% designed as japanese “tiny evangelion pilot” first and then…

I think it’s happened because fans have become attached to the characters and tried to attribute meaning to them that doesn’t exist. Overwatch is a revelation in cultural representation to the same extent as Street Fighter - sure, there’s a bunch of races and genders, but they’re mostly there because one of the…

This article paints such a vivid experience of watching the last decade in transformation and the duality of representation and exclusion that has come with a renewed interest in video game gender politics. It’s not one I experienced firsthand, but one that I was painfully forced to watch my gaming friends suffer…

They goddamn better. 

Well, what else would you expect regarding something so important to the human condition?

I was stiffed out of payment by my employers, and when I woke up I was a carrot.

Cecillia D’Anastasio.

You were, are, and will always be my favorite Kotaku writer. From your Riot exposé to your genuinely amazing journey to find the lost American Sailor Moon Pilot, something that I personally failed to make any headway on several times, your articles have always been a delight.

And, if you put all 3 together, the sinister subliminal enslavement message of the Pier One cult fades into view.

Who knew the key to reaching across the aisle was Hearthstone?

Batman and Robin actually filmed those scenes on flat ground with the camera rotated 90 degrees, so no, that won't work.