A common thread linking my complete revulsion for all things blockchain and AI is the sheer inhumanity of it all. Devotees of these techbro causes are so focused on technology, profits and market forces, while remaining oblivious to their effects and consequences, that at times it feels like they have become…

Now you know what it’s like for non-Americans who have to deal with everything being localized by Americans studios!

Every time a writer here types the word “orientalism” in article they should consider that fact 

Please no one listen to this article for relationship advice. This an article built around manipulation and control, by someone who wants TO FIX other PEOPLE

To be fair, it’s easier to not care about delays when you are an indie studio that created a bestseller.

This is all just the MMO boom repeating itself. Companies see 1 or 2 successful efforts at a Live Service game and want to make all the money too. But they fail to see that a) not every game works that way and b) just because you make it doesn’t mean players will arrive. Even if your game is great, when it comes to…

The article actually glosses over it, but the mods weren’t free.

I never played as a kid. I didn’t watch Squid Game. I will never press play on a “Mr Beast” video, and the first time the words “Green light, Red light” came up in this article, I figured it out before the explanation. It doesn’t seem that hard of a concept.

As far as I’m aware in my 20 years of shipping titles on all the major platforms (including GameCube), no studio is writing their own general purpose compression formats. Textures and audio (and video in games that contain a lot of it) is by FAR the most costly data in a game, and best of breed compression techniques…

Dear Zack, we in the UK use pounds, not dollars. I could see saying “money” so as to avoid confusion with the weight but saying dollars is just wrong.

Just FYI Luke, True Colors wasn’t developed by dontnod. It was developed by Deck Nine.

It’s been really sad to watch Kotaku gradually become what its critics have long said it is. I have been reading Kotaku since around 2010-2011, I’m guessing, and it was once by far my favorite site for coverage of games and the culture around games. Over the last year or two, though, and especially over the last few…

You don’t have to rebuy it though? The Yuffie DLC is $20 and the PS5 upgrade portion is free if you bought FF7 (not free for PS+ copies).

I’m no expert, but I’d have thought it would count as copyright infringement if you decompile the code and then distribute it, even if the EULA didn’t explicitly prohibit it.

Brutal but accurate. Most MMOs, you can say “This is I guess sorta fun” (rarely) or “Oh god this sucks” (mostly) after about 5-10 hours, if not sooner. FFXIV is the only one where fans, including journos (looking at you Heather!) troll you constantly with promises that if you just devote probably hundreds of hours to…

The fuck!?! I’ve already seen the movie, so it’s not a spoiler for me, but right in the fucking article picture? That’s just fucked up. Not cool.

I swear, Americans think anything located in Europe is “quaint”, even if it was built last year. Going to go to the US and talk about how charming and colonial all the highway on-ramps are.