100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…

no there’s a big difference between liking something and being a fan of something.

Maybe my memory is hazy in my old age, but I remember back in the day a movie/game/book/show/whatever could come out, and if the thing was mid or even bad...that was it. It was just a mid/bad thing, and while people might wish it was better, we’d just shrug our shoulders and then move on with our lives. It was okay.…

Thank you for writing this article. The dissociation and insistence on distraction or making little points to try and dismiss the heart of this - the heartbreak of this - are telling of how deeply seeded these views are. I appreciate your bringing them to light.

There are no heroes in this conflict, only villains (Hamas and the government of Israel) and victims (Palestinians, and to a lesser extent Israelis).

There is an actual definition of genocide and what Israel is currently doing absolutely meets that definition. It does not require the complete elimination of an ethnic group. The hallmark of genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a ethnic, religious or other group. Israeli leaders at all levels have…

Ocarina of Time has to be on the list. Anyone who wasnt gaming and in on the gaming zeitgeist in 98 just does not understand how much of a game changer it was. You could argue its not a sequel, just another game in the series. In that case I can understand.

I have to concur - call a spade a fucking spade, Kotaku. I’m all here for supporting just causes to alleviate Palestinian civilians’ horrible situation - but never, ever qualify those who committed a callous massacre and publicized their own atrocities for major shock and horror value as a simple “political and…

Just a couple things- “Hamas, an Islamic political and military organization governing the Gaza strip”- this whole thing should be replaced with terrorist organization. In this sentence- “..attacked Israel on October 7, killing nearly 1,500 people” I’d expand and write “..attacked Israel on October 7, decapitating,…

That’s like saying Miles shouldn’t be able to wear a dashiki because he’s not from Africa. As for the mixed race and not Wakandan argument, society sees mixed race Black folks as Black. Afro-Cubans? Black. Afro-Puerto Ricans? Black. My son will be seen as Black first and foremost, even though my wife is Mexican.

So you can donate to both, right? Because Palestinians are just as much people as Hamas’ victims. Right? That’s why you’re asking?

Imagine being so fucking thin skinned that optional pronouns bother you enough to download a fucking mod. These are the same chodes that will, unironically, call everyone else snowflakes for shit. Fuck these children, and good on Nexus for not hosting such a childish, dumb fucking mod. 

Imagine being such an asshole that you need to a mod to remove a choice for you and only you that you weren’t going to make anyway just to make yourself feel better. 

A sound and reasonable criticism that will not doubt be immediately turned into a gross looking Youtube jpg that says “Kotaku HATES FF16, Wants All Japanese Devs to Apologize for Slavery” or some such nonsense.

This was an incredibly well-reasoned criticism of the game, and expresses issues I had with the experience as well. Rest in peace as they will now be coming for you. 

I think that’s a disingenuous take. It absolves the development team for introducing deep ideas they couldn’t —- or wouldn’t —- deal with in any significant manner. The game explicitly sets up a world where slavery exists in mass form; the game is responsible for then navigating that appropriately.

Oh please, stop acting like this is a scandal. Let’s be honest here for a minute, the people this API change is affecting are a very loud, yet VERY small minority of Reddit users, much like MAGA idiots IRL. Reddit(and CEO boy, who has def put his foot in his mouth a few times over this) doesn’t care, because those…

I liked 2077 the whole time, but let’s not re-write history, mate, 2077 was widely panned, and a lot of people (including some journos) expected that CDPR wouldn’t be able to get people to have any kind of positive opinion of it, because the launch was so bad, and the issues so significant.

It was pretty much universally panned at launch for being a buggy, unfinished mess. It got pulled from the Playstation Store days after launching and remained unavailable until they could figure out how to make it stop crashing people’s consoles and every major digital storefront (Steam, Sony, Xbox) had to start…