“This trailer was created with abuse, manipulation, [and] theft... People who have worked on every shot of this are no longer with the company holding IP rights. Some were not even paid for their work. The real IP for the game was stolen from the creators via foul play.”

I’m not too clear on the claim at the moment. Are they saying the company stole the employees’ work, or the CEO stole majority ownership of the company from other part owners?

Agree. This should be a case study in what NOT to do in terms of user interface. This is the complete opposite of “user friendly”. One quick look at this and my brain freezes from all this content all over the place without any form of definite logic. I literally can’t look at it without my brain telling me “stop, or…

Senior Exec, two months from now: “Usage stats of the new page are low? People keep going to /latest instead? Why don’t we just kill /latest?”

There’s no white space. There’s no heirarchy. The visual weight is set to “YES”.

But where, though? Polygon’s clogged with “entertainment” and clickbait, and all the majors (IGN, Gamespot, etc) are bought and paid for

The day that happens I un-bookmark kotaku and look for gaming news elsewhere.

Kotaku was already like those before this change. It’s just a matter of time before both of those website changes to this mess.

Yea. Of all the types to copy, this is easily one of the worst layouts to use.

“Sir, the commenters are revolting! There isn’t a SINGLE person that likes the updated layout!”

“Perfect! Let’s get started rolling this out to all the other sister sites.”

Who is this even for? Are noted herb Jim Spanfeller and his herb gang trying to lure in intermittent visitors? What is even the point?

GO Media is determined to sink this ship, eh?

It’s only awful if you don’t like things that are bad in every way

Missed opportunity to use “A Link To The Past”

I did the same here! Thanks for polygontaku but no

It's a blog. The vast majority of people want it in chronological order, everything else is in the way. And it actually matters, because the autoplaying, centered, scrolling video that pops up in front of the articles on mobile... Make mobile completely unusable. 

hard agree. It’s difficult to even look at

Been around Kotaku for a while, so what I’m gonna say is that even if it’s not getting any better at redesigning websites at least they seem to be more aware of the need to give people an opt-out? So... progress?

*Changes bookmark to the old version*

Whomever ok’d the new design really should rethink things. Good lord that’s a massive fustercluck.

Of the three, Cash was the only one working under his birth name, unlike those other two counterfeits.