I think they have to pay a lot more than $60 in order to legally rent the game out. I remember seeing our local video store’s catalog that they purchased movies from, and they had to pay a $200-$300 to get a movie that they could rent out. I suspect video games are similar. Or maybe there’s some kind of…

Yeah, sorry, I ninja-edited my post. And that probably wasn’t the best example, anyways, as those are first-party-developed games. There’s still plenty of third party exclusives, though (Yakuza, Street Fighter, etc.). I’m sure there’s gotta be one out there that’s based on some non-video game IP or sport.

It’s not really like Madden, though, since that’s developed by a third party.

And yet, they have a combined 42 stars, and you have 1. It sounds like you’re the one people don’t want to listen to, not them.

What happened to Deadspin is indicative of goings-on at other G/O sites, including this one. Go read D’Anastasio’s farewell post from yesterday, for example, and read about how one of the first thing the new owners did was kill the investigative part of Kotaku.  You’re going to care a lot more about what happened to…

Edit: lol, I just realized that he’s playing a completely different game.

I’ve also likened the feeling of playing this to The Witness. It’s one of those rare games where you, the player, and not just the character you’re playing, are an integral part of the game and the story. I felt the Zero Escape series accomplished this, as well. It’s you that’s learning, it’s you that’s progressing,…

I think you’re mistaken about a few things in BL3. Mayhem is independent of whether you’re playing on Normal or TVHM. As soon as you beat the game, you can turn on Mayhem 4 if you want. And if you restart in TVHM, you can turn it on immediately (though this wasn’t the case on launch). By the time you beat the game,…

Assuming it’s a representative sample, sure it is. At least for the higher games in the list. For example, 10.5% of people answered Dragon Quest. A 95% margin of error for that is only 1.2%: 1.96*sqrt(.0105*(1-.0105)/2362).

If you took your complaints to their competitors, and turned their actions into a media field day where they got deluged with bad press.

Well, the connection is that you Deadspin folks are taking all the goodwill and sympathy you might get from other Kinja users, and are burning it.

Blizzard’s actions were largely seen as pro-China and anti-Hong Kong. Continuing to back Blizzard probably wouldn’t have upset China. However, it could have likely upset Taiwan.

Given Taiwan’s relationship and history with Beijing and the fact that Beijing has been trying to push the “one country, two systems” onto Taiwan (something that the vast majority of the population opposes) that they have with Hong Kong, I’m guessing Mitsubishi Taiwan’s pulling back is, at least in part, to not piss…

3) Wear a sports coat.

I’d like to think this header on the main Deadspin site today was algorithmically generated to highlight some of the best Deadspin posts from the last year.

They never told anyone the game was based on the Western version.

Comparing the morality and legality of homosexuality or fire-arms has nothing to do with the morality of consumerism

This is one country. It’s not illegal in that one country. If we went by the “illegal in many countries” defense as a barometer for morality, then I guess we should be berating and reprimanding everyone who’s homosexual.  Or that owns a gun.

So wait...every single second that the puck isn’t in the net, referees are making a call of “no goal”? How exactly do you expect there to be no call, then? And there’s been plenty of examples where the refs don’t signal “no goal”, and later it gets turned into a goal—a famous one being where the puck dropped into the…

They wait until the next whistle in that case (and if it turns out it was a goal, everything that happens after that gets nullified and the game clock gets reset).  The next whistle in this case just happened to be 0.2 seconds later.