Where do you think Microsoft’s cloud technology came from? Microsoft absolutely leverages other parts of its company to advance its gaming business.

It sounds frankly like part of the problem was that there wasn’t much negotiation at all, on either Platinum or Helena’s part. Both sides made a half-hearted initial offer, and when the other side balked, they both dug their heels in and didn’t bother discussing the situation or offering serious concessions. (Aside…

Yeah, I’m not sure who “we” is supposed to be here, or when exactly “the chance” was.

> Also, weird that the Batfamily is okay working with a guy who mainly uses two big pistols to shoot bad guys?

Once a Robin, always a Robin

> Prior to the launch of the Xbox One, in 2013, Microsoft caught heat for saying it’d require players to connect to the internet every 24 hours

“We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways,” is an incredibly shitty thing to read, because under zero circumstances is a subscription-based model an acceptable substitution to actually owning a game.

I still buy CDs. (And DVDs and Blu-rays and physical game discs.) I am that guy. And it is  partly for this reason.

I was sure that second one was a Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man cosplay.

Wii U (Gift! Free)

I feel like you're conflating two separate things here. One is whether choices early in the game can affect your options later in the game - the degree to which your decisions have consequences or can "lock you out" of things later. The other is whether the choices presented are something other than good/evil. I…

Bravo to the Sliders reference. Bravo.

Is it just me, or does Reggie Fils-Aime have incredibly outsized influence at Nintendo, considering that Nintendo of America is chiefly a business unit, not a development branch? I think he'd make a fascinating subject for some Kotaku in-depth reporting — What's it like to be the highest-ranking American at Nintendo?…

It's standard across Russia as well. This is just Western journalists freaking out about having to stay in a not-first-world country.

Not flushing toilet paper down the toilet is standard in many parts of Russia. Has nothing to do with Olympics.

Sometime after io9 became Jezebel with science fiction.

The first Bubsy game was great! It's all the sequels that blew.

No love for lang-8? http://lang-8.com

JRPG doesn't have Japan in it's name, either.

I don't play multiplayer and I never played Dungeon Siege 1 or 2, so I won't comment on the wisdom of those design choices.

What bugs were in Dungeon Siege? I played through both it and the expansion and don't remember any problems.