No, the right to discuss unionization is legally protected in the US. It would be a blatant and serious violation of employment law for a company to have that clause in an employment contract. 

Nintendo was definitely at least this bad during the Wii U days. The difference isn’t that this stuff is new, it’s that it’s getting coverage.

Contract companies in the game industry are basically just a paperwork smoke screen for companies to skirt labor laws. Nintendo picks who to hire, does day-to-day-management of employees, and makes firing or extension decisions.

Usually the only thing that the contract company does is sign the paychecks, provide…

Sounds like it’s in everyone’s best interest to NOT get used to it then

Why put effort into becoming more picky?

I feel like “huge leak” a massive overstatement when it’s just people getting hands on retail copies a few days before the street date.

I mean, that is a great article, but I don’t know why it would be be particularly relevant in an article on Sakurai’s new content, or why you would WANT Kotaku to interrupt their writing with even more forced cross-promotion of articles.

They clearly don’t need to spend resources on “amazing graphics” if they’re already that successful without them

There has almost never been any relationship between popular success and graphical fidelity, in fact. Miyamoto famously talks about feeling like Super Mario 64 lost to Tamagotchi. The Gameboy outsold the…

They’re saying that, say, EA/Epic/indies/etc should be able to sell you a game at their own websites or storefronts, and then you turn on your Playstation, enter the code, and have that game on your account without having to go through the Sony store

Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, might be their biggest IPs

You just had to throw in some casual sinophobia I guess

Mobiles games are generally designed to fit into 5-minute intervals in your day, to be picked up and put down at a second’s notice. They can co-exist easily with “conventional” gaming because they aren’t even TRYING to be the same thing.

Playing a 20s match in a mobile game while on the toilet or waiting for a bus isn’…

It’s a service that MOST of their readers are probably already paying for, that comes with a bunch of free games but almost nobody realizes it. Some of those games are excellent.

Why on earth would your brain jump to “oh the only reason they’d be posting this is if they got bribed to do it”? It’s extremely relevant to…

Man I wish someone had already made this kind of cut when I watched the series. I LOVED IT, one of my favorite shows of all time, but man did I skip a bunch of worthless shit. Entire episodes of nothing but flashbacks even in the canon episodes. Garbage

Too bad it’s dubbed though, I could never watch this dubbed. Good…

Man I know it’s getting critically lambasted, but damn that header art is COOL

A shame. 

I’m buying the book regardless, but I couldn’t tell from either this article or the book description:
Is this just a reprint of the Satoru Asks interviews or is there new content? 

I am super anti-Rowling and think TERFs are a goddamn blight on humanity, but the studio likely didn’t know she was a a TERF when they signed up for the project.

It’s only recently that this has become widespread knowledge.

Ah yes, the good old “why would you punish someone for an opinion” defense of hate speech. 

Damn, he did Leorio in Hunter x Hunter, Maes Hughes in Full Metal Alchemist, and Captain Hannes in Attack on Titan, on top of a ton of other stuff. If you want much subbed anime, odds are good that he’s voiced a character you know well.

This seems pretty bloated with shovelware and niche indie games. It’d be nice if the format of these posts helped pick out the noteworthy releases in some way, ideally wihthout completely LOSING all the less noteworthy ones, since there are likely hidden gems in there.

So where does the “fresh” part come in?