As someone who works “on the inside”, I can kinda see it from PR and Marketing’s perspective. You spend a long-ass time in meetings with Production hammering out schedules and dates, get everything set up with manufacturing, try to work in the assorted various countries and all their assorted moving pieces into one…

Uh. I’ve worked — and continue to work — in the games industry, including several years of QA. I’ve shipped a ton of titles on the publisher side, and was a QA manager for a couple years. I’ve got enough experience to address this from a firsthand perspective. Understand, I’m honestly not trying to be an asshole or…

Seems like everyone’s more or less on board with the idea of censoring a flag in a military simulation being completely absurd; maybe I can give some context as to why this happens so frequently with Apple.

Yeah I’d totally agree with this. The comic works much better in collected format. Individual issues don’t hold as much water, I’ve found, but taken as a whole? Amazing.

Mike I love these and I hope you never stop doing them; Man, you have turned me off from ever eating this thing and I was on the fence to begin with.

Is there any chance you could do a Snacktaku with objectively good food, maybe as like a special treat? Maybe some local stuff that’s super good and if you happen to be…

Lying cat is female. But yes, best character/plot device ever. I fucking teared up when she got flushed out the airlock.

See you and raise.

I see what you’re saying, and you’re right in that “Hey we have to populate a default character here, welp let’s just default to male and they can change it” is likely the reasoning behind so many games defaulting to male.

They’ve been able to do this since the 360 launched as well. The PS4 can also be remotely deactivated, for what it’s worth. Anyone in the industry who’s had to work with test kits can tell you how this is done.

Oh man this has “Giant Flaming Disaster” written all over it, doesn’t it?

Oh they very much still do all those businesses! Just...Only in Japan, where most of us can’t see them. Outside Japan, yeah, that’s pretty much all they’re known for, so from our perception they’re just pulling out of the market entirely and that’s that.

Can’t decide which is more impressive, that costume or those cheekbones.

To everyone saying “Konami will be gone thanks to this!!”

No. No they won’t. Their video games division might, though! And that’s both probably what you mean, and also probably what they want to happen, unfortunately.

To the folks saying they tried one of the games and didn’t enjoy feeling punished for adapting to the controls or having sudden “gotcha” moments sprung on them: I feel you completely.

I think D’vorah might be my favorite new character. The stuff she spouts at her opponents before all the fights in 1v1 are hilarious, and they made her just alien enough that she pulls off the horrifyingly-amusing thing better than I’ve seen anyone do outside of 80’s horror flicks. She’s like a bug-filled,…

I caught this playing through story mode and did a double take, unsure I trusted my ears about what I just heard.

Oh come on. Duracell understands wireless charging perfectly; they also understand that Joe and Millie Walmart do not, but they sure can buy this high-tech thingamagagit from Duracell that turns their old Samsung Exhibit Computer Phone™ from a few years back into one that does wireless charging just like a newer…

Hello! I'm an early-thirties middle manager in the videogame industry; I found io9 back through an announcement on Kotaku when it first launched and have been reading it ever since. It's been one of my first go-to sites since I found out about it.

I hate exclusives. I get why they exist — hard to argue with “Get our box or you can’t play Awesome Game X” — but the practice sucks for the consumer more often than not. There’s some edge cases where you could say “Oh well they can focus on a single console instead of trying to hit several targets” but that argument…

Oh man oh man oh man oh man, Season 2!!