Mayday has it 100% here. Centering a game on “happy” characters as your protagonists is downright idiotic if you’re trying to achieve any interesting conflict, especially in the narrative of an interactive medium like video games. Conflating yourself and characters with whom you identify from fiction, and then…

Hot take: Nasir is very good. Nas’ verses weren’t the best of his career (strong exception with “Cops Shot the Kid”) but Kanye’s production was wall-to-wall phenomenal. I just don’t understand the hate for this album.

What an incredible waste of time this was. It’s almost as if you didn’t do anything journalistic at either CDPR demo, like asking the developers any of these questions, or researching fantasy further than LotR. The CDPR reps at the demo spoke on a lot of the thematic concerns this “article” brings up with most of the…

The article is a little disingenuous. I’m from Maine and moved to LA, and Allagash’s White in particular is still readily available here in tons of bars and well-stocked liquor stores.

WhySoCicero fucking gets it. Regardless of one single person (on a huge team) having shitty ideologies, if you thought a game that even grasps at Late Middle Ages realism is going to come anywhere near modern political correctness, you only have yourself to blame. I totally understand having a conversation about…

Luke Palmer is also one of the creators of the 2 Kawaii 4 Comfort web series you guys have featured!

Did you write fanfiction about people who play a videogame? Like, a video game that exists in real life? For nine chapters? As a review for that game?

Unrelated, is Kotaku hiring?

Actually Luke, there’s still one more episode to be released!

How do you get picked to write this little blurb when you haven’t played some of the most popular open world games of the last 5 years? Why can I not get a writing job? Sigh. Sorry.

WHERE THE FUCK IS SHOKUGEKI NO SOUMA?!

As someone who just graduated film school, this is so fucking cool.

This sounds wonderfully scary, but as a side note, do you guys proofread this shit? I can do it if you don’t want to. I need a job.

Munich?!?

Totally.

I'm sorry you aren't good at anything.

I completely disagree. Not only do I find it visually appealing (especially considering we have a lot more to work with than the actual retro titles), but these are the games that will run smoothly at full resolution on almost any OS. As @sderria said, don't like it, don't buy it. No one wants to hear you bitch about…

This conversation is so pointless. The show runners have come out and said, "No, that scene was not supposed to depict Jamie 'raping' Cersei." Obviously some people disagreed, but not only is that always ultimately going to be the case when you're analyzing art/fiction/whatever, but it's also completely irrelevant.…

Personally, out of all the Pokémon games in the franchise, Emerald—the final game in the third generation—defined my childhood way more than Red & Blue ever did. I can still hear the music in my head, sometimes, even though it's probably been like a decade.

You are an astute observer of the world.

Czechoslovakia wasn't a member of the EU until the 2000's, after it was already reconfigured into the Czech Republic. And even though it was on the Soviet end of the Warsaw Pact with Nato in the 50's, they were never part of the USSR. And as someone already said, they're in the EU now, so Putin doesn't really have any…