Why does a game about assassins in Japan not work thematically? Do you just mean the backstory with the Templars and all is out of place?

Ghost of Tsushima was almost entirely rural sandbox, with only small sequences in populated areas. I would expect AC:Japan to be primarily in Edo or Kyoto, with emphasis on the parkour and architectural exploration the series’ earlier games were known for and not another Valhalla-styled sprawl.

“But remember that the Marvel actors have always tended to be prickly about the subject.”

This kind of thing is why I could never be a corporate business type. I’d hear this Sony guy spilling the tea just to whine about it and think ‘alright fucker, how does zero years sound?’ It’s not like Sony is out there volunteering to put Spider-Man or FF7 Remake on the Xbox…

I think the bare minimum should include the GoFundMe that Fahey’s partner set up to help cover his medical care and funeral expenses. Even if everything else comes later, so many Kotaku readers loved him that I think they would be happy to donate.

And I think it sucks that you’re taking a run at people over this. People are only asking because Fahey meant something to them, too.

I agree. There’s a difference between an announcement and a eulogy, and the former seems to be called for here. It’s unreasonable to expect the staff to compose heartfelt tributes to an unexpected tragedy over a holiday weekend, but just letting folks know… I found out in a random thread yesterday and thought it was a…

Surely there’s a middle ground between hurried expressions of grief and just not acknowledging Fahey’s passing at all. An open thread for people to share stories, with a nod from editorial towards formal eulogies from staff yet to come, would seem a proper bridge. I heard it first in one of these random threads and…

So you mean to say that Gabe Newell will still go to sleep on a mattress stuffed with thousand dollar bills? I was worried there for a minute, it sounded like rando anti-trans dude and his game I’d never heard off were gonna send Valve to the poorhouse...

they get a triggered about it.

Once they’ve taken the tax write-off, declaring the film a total loss, they can never release it. Doing so would expose WB to tax liabilities and penalties, etc, and this story is way too visible for the IRS to overlook. Frankly I expect WB would destroy the footage, just to ensure it never sees the light of day.

It’s not. In a recent interview with the directors, they made it clear that they still had some filming to do and that nearly all of the effects and post work remained to be done.

I remember a lot of grumbling on the intarwebs about it, but in the way there’s grumbling about most things. While the attempt at a sandbox game was a bit rough, I thought XV had some of the best character work in the series - it’s a bit unappreciated as the more modern FFs go.

Yeah, but he’s got those dead eyes, though. He must be guilty of something, else they’d be all twinkling and lively.

GenCon is interesting in that how you think of it is probably in part related to how you found out about it. I became aware of GenCon during the late 80s via Dragon Magazine articles, when it was all a TSR operation. I still think of it as a D&D/RPG con that happens to have some other geek stuff as well.

The production value and effects for this series look exceptional, movie quality or at least the next best thing. I have to wonder why Kenobi didn’t look like this; Vader and Obi-Wan clash in a SoCal gravel quarry while Andor gets the full ILM treatment?

I know a lot of G/O media writers get unfairly called out as plants and shills, but goddamn, this article reads like a straight-up commercial.

Yep, that did the trick. 

Right. I suppose it’s possible that Suzanne Collins, a then middle-age writer of children’s shows from Connecticut, was secretly into Japanese horror fiction in the mid-2000s, but that doesn’t seem super likely.

I’ve always thought that was a sketchy claim. Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy literally have a Night City in them; what are the odds another creator writing about a high-tech dystopia lands on that exact same name?