So there’s absolutely no chance I buy the game (because the hard working, presumably decent people in the studio do not stand to benefit financially from my purpose, but *she* does).  But my heart goes out to all the people at the studio who, when they started, were excited to work on a beloved pop culture property…

lol people actually thinking that buying a game from one of the biggest corporations in the world based on one of the biggest media franchises int he world is going to “support the developers”, like they’re going to see any of that money anyway.

I'm glad she isn't "directly" involved. Does she get any money, though? Would any portion of my purchase go to that bigot? 

believe it or not, most people actually own and play more than one video game

The NAACP should decline the donation and demand that Ubisoft make meaningful changes in their offices, starting with firing and turning over the rapists they’re harboring. 

What an absolutely inane attempt at shit-stirring.  

Oh my god shut the fuck up

If only I’d thought of that!

FINALLLLYYYYYY

It’s not really an obsession but a preference. You’re not obsessed if you prefer watching a good movie on a large 4k tv with surround sound vs watching it on an old tube tv. It doesn’t stop the movie from being good, but one experience is still significantly better than the other.

and not selling out so a bloated corporation that trades off the name to crank out crappy games- that’s rare, isn’t it?

Jesus CHRIST Ubisoft, what the hell is wrong with you?! I went into this article assuming it would just be a case of them using something a graphic or imagery similar to the raised-fist in a poorly thought out or negative context that somebody should have noticed and scrapped ahead of time. But the fact that the whole…

I was not aware of this trailer’s real historical connection to the absolutely stupefyingly stupid idea of Cultural Marxism. Pieces like this is why I read Kotaku. Thanks, Ian!

I’m just gonna leave this here, in case anyone thinks promoting far-right conspiracy theories is harmless or just an overreaction by the media.

Yes. And they’ve been crawling ever further down that rabbit hole ever since the original Modern Warfare - which had already turned the creepy jingoism up to 11.

Isn’t that a depressing thought?

Lots of people should realize that these conspiracies are borderlines to domestic terrorism in the name of “National Security”. There isn’t anything secure about shooting up people that want accountability in the police, there isn’t anything secure in kidnapping back foster children because qanon said so. To believe…

Didn’t take long for the dipshits to appear complaining about this article being “political” when it’s commenting on a game that is deliberately portraying cold war politics for fun.

The original Black Ops literally starts with you trying to assassinate Castro, become a sleeper agent for the Soviets, and ends with them trying to gas the US with VX-style nerve agents.

Excuse me, the movie is GREAT. Yes, it’s different from the comic in a lot of ways, but it’s an excellent adaptation that does its own thing while still being true to the comic.