To paraphrase Kotaku’s own Tim Rogers, sure the game is grindy *puts on sunglasses* if you don't know how to count cards.

Nah, seems very likely to me. Ratchet & Clank (2016) was Insomniac’s most successful game at that point in time. And Shawn Layden in a recent interview said,

“It’s not that its star is a rapey scumbag, it’s that its protagonist is a statutorilyrapey scumbag.”

And technically while it’s more recent Dragon Quest XI S will technically just be the definitive edition of a 2017(for Japan) game that even adds in a 2D mode with more classic-styled DQ overworld for extra nostalgia feature and so on.

And it release just 7 days after Zelda. Which would seem bad for it until you…

Eh, it’s fine for what it is.

Whatever. It’s not nearly as bad as the internet makes it out to be these days. 

Pac-Man at an Acme shopping center in Norristown, Pennsylvania. 

“the” or “is”, because it would be an intriguing linguistic challenge

You know, they keep telling me that Kotaku should only cover sports, and I’ve just had to say no.

What Stephen said. But it’s important to note, and this is something that I think confused a lot of people around E3 time, that if a leak pops up elsewhere and we know it’s true, we’re often obliged to cover it. There’s a big difference between info that’s sent to us via sources/tipsters and info that is already…

Jason and I have talked about this a lot, as recently as this morning. We weigh a lot of factors, including the public’s curiosity, whether the news would ever be known otherwise if we didn’t report it, any public good that might be served, any ways it might expose some wrongdoing (seldom relevant to the kind of leak…

I want to give you an answer that’s less cliche than bastion, but... bastion

No question, just want to say I love you guys and keep up the great work!

Hahaha, oh no, never

black eagles, so much so that I might join them AGAIN on my second playthrough. a friend and I have been talking *a bunch* about the psychic trauma of leaving our good, good emo children behind, so I think buddying up with them again might be my only option

GTA V

Super Metroid

i once read something from, i think, kieron gillen that said that US games writing modeled itself on car writing, and UK games writing modeled itself on music writing, and in the end, the US mode won out. feels pretty likely to me.

I... You know what embargoes are, right?

Well I certainly think there are people and companies that would put out hits on me if they could get away with it!