Players requested the chance to submit music for Dreamfall. Then the contest was opened up to more people, and it caused a shitstorm. Kind of sad, in my opinion. I get that asking people to work for free is shitty, but I don't really think that was the case here. I talked to Tornquist myself and it was pretty clear…

Exactly what I was thinking- if you know full well you're not going to get paid but still want to do it out of your heart and dedication, then go for it! If you expect money then do commission work.

It's a pretty simple solution, when you think about it. If you don't support the fact that they're not going to pay you if you make the music for the game, and you don't think it's worth the time and effort to not get paid, then just don't make the music. Simple as that.

You could argue they were "paying" the musician with exposure and getting their work featured in a game. If I had a choice between getting my work featured in a big game or never selling it ever (which lets face it, is the reality of this situation for most of these fans), why the hell not?

I happen to do a lot of…

See, I've never been concerned with labels. If people don't consider video games art, fine. Not sports, fine. There doesn't need to be some agreed consensus about what they are or they aren't as long as you enjoy them. I find the people who insist on characterizing certain creative outputs or activities as such are…

E-sports are skill-based challenges that rely heavily on reflex and physical dexterity. You can certainly make the argument that those aren't sports, but then you'd have to say the same about games like golf, air rifle shooting, bowling, etc. Otherwise the definition is inconsistent.

Man, I don't skip on discs because of the environment. I use downloadable as much as possible to skip having actual physical discs that take up space and I have to move around.

So the real question I have now is "is this character defined only by his sexual orientation?" Because it seems to me that being gay should really be a secondary property over his other personality traits. I don't want the character to be tossed out there as a token or a pedestal. "Look! We have a gay character!"…

Why didn't you capitalize the W and A? Show some respect, jeez.

As a resident of the great state of South Carolina—epicenter of the War of Northern Aggression—I must point out that Mr. Montgomery broke the first law of SC automobiling: minorities, especially imposing and colossal ones, have no place talking to police officers, especially dimwitted and…

Protip: If you can't find someone on FB by their name, search their email address(es) and phone number.

I knew I already heard that song before: Ouendan!!!

Corgi Time: check out the latest game by hilarious game designer (and occasional Kotaku columnist), Tim Rogers—it's called Tuffy the Corgi and the Tower of Bones. You kind of need to watch this absurd trailer.

You're doing it right.

I bought that game at midnight release and still never managed to finish the main quest.

I'm a man who plays as an italian who plays as a cat in games.

I thought like this for the longest time. I tried playing Skyrim as a female and when people said "she" I wouldn't know who they talked about for minutes at a time.

Why is she beeing led by a flying pokemon ball?