I get what you’re saying but the backlash is because we’re pretty fed up with this narrative that games are so immature and only a few big *cinematic* AAA blockbusters can make you FEEL THINGS TM or tell a worthwhile story.

AFAIK he was never outed as one. All that means is: We don’t know.
I’d say it’s unlikely that he was one of the big issues himself because then we would likely have heard about it by now considering how big a “name” he is, but that doesn’t mean he in his various leading positions wasn’t shielding or ignoring bad…

“A thing”, yes. But Getty didn’t have a web archive until around 2001, so they got the release date wrong but not the Getty timeline.
Though it could have been, I doubt it was in the original though. The fact that it was a PSP game is a compelling enough argument to me. I very much doubt they’d be able to extrapolate…

I capped that one as well and sent it to my gf - sad neither of us got one, but at least the fact that the first pull of the night was Milf Hunter gave me chuckle

I passed on the game because I’ve been SICK TO DEATH of zombies for a *decade*, and it had nothing else interesting going for it.
I can relate to wanting to look at my partners ass, but that’s hardly enough to make the game interesting on its own.

Ok, but what’s with the sausage fest?

Don’t look at me, I drank Fanta Exotic... today

Exactly - he knew his limitations, and that’s awesome! He realized that he’d have to give up some control over his passion project, and that he can’t do that.
Even if a game was ultimately produced, it would have been a misery for everyone involved.
To me that’s completely fair, if unfortunate for the people who were…

Glad I’m driving a well-kept 2004 Ford Fiesta.

Yeah it’s taking the piss, and so it still is for games too.

I have completely stopped thinking in terms of having “a backlog”. That concept is insane to me now.

What I have, is a collection of games that I at some point thought was worth supporting and therefore buying, some of which I have played, some of which I haven’t.
I don’t regret a single one, even though I will never…

Y.I.K.E.S!

100000% But ain’t gonna happen, because it keeps fat cats fat.

As I understand it, FTX issued the FTT coin, most of which recently turned out to be held primarily by another company owned by the CEO of FTX, which doesn’t look great for the strength of the coin.
When this became public knowledge, remaining investors started panicking and pulling out, sending the coin and company…

I 100% agree that not enough criticism is being leveled at Genshin Impact and its ilk, especially here at Kotaku, but this particular piece is less complaining about New World, and more about tearing Bezos down through the lens of juxtaposition.
It’s not really about gaming at all, it’s about billionaire tax avoidance.

Yeah.. I’d been looking to get back into MTG recently but flinched when I saw the release schedule.
I have unopened boosters lying around now, because I got exhausted just looking at the plan. 3/year was stretching it for me already.
They are absolutely overreaching IMO.

I always participate in No Nut November. I have a nut allergy so eating them just really throws off all my constant premarital sex and masturbation anyway.

Nailed it.

Some launchers get a pass - if they add value.
Paradox launchers are often in that category for me, because they allow you to tweak settings and configure/select mods (and mod profiles) or game versions before the game launches, so you don’t have to restart it for the mods to kick in.

(and no, Workshop does not do this…

That’s franchises in a nutshell. There are basically two types:
1) “The first game was a diamond in the rough, and we have found the polish to make it shine, huzzah!” or
2) “The first game was exactly what you wanted so here’s more of that, huzzah!”

The problem in #1 is usually if they miscalculated what facets you…

Also, the dude saying that is an employee - not the owner, like people keep insinuating.
If he said it to advertise the shop it’d most likely be because his boss had told him to.