On a story which has nothing to do with Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling in the first place.

“Quidditch, the favorite wizard sport of transphobes everywhere,”

Are Kotaku writers like, required to add some political commentary to every article now?

…Quidditch, the favorite wizard sport of transphobes everywhere,…

As much as I couldn’t care less about ‘top tier streamers’ getting effed over their own mistakes, I still find it pretty unfair that someone can get taken down over a few seconds of copyrighted music, yet I could go on and stream myself drawing any comic book character I want without any penalty. Laws are weird.

People say this all the time but it has never negatively affected other publishers like Sega who haven’t gone after creations DIRECTLY using the names of their IPs (mainly Sonic).

Since he seems loathe to just explain what he meant, I think he was saying he wants the modders to port over their MODS from the N64 to the PC version.

“Not enough corporate branding” is the biggest flaw you could find here? Okay.

It’s raining, it’s pouring

I mean, Nintendo’s Switch Online YT Video was the most disliked YT video since last week. But surely, Nintendo would never threaten others completely out of proportion for doing something online they don’t like...

im sure it was entirely to protect people and not at all influenced by large corporations getting indignant over people disliking their videos.

They certainly did not make you re-buy all the Wii VC games for the Wii U. In fact all Wii VC games were playable on the Wii U in the Wii emulation mode, and if you wanted to do additional Wii U things like play in handheld mode, you could pay a $1 upcharge for each game. It was really nearly as bad as making you buy…

This headline is kinda misleading and clickbaity. There is no link between the generic corporate speak of “we will continue to improve and expand” and the backlash the latest update received.

having a signer on screen is basically dubbing the game in sign language

The best Metroidvania of the year and not one mention of the actual Metroid that just came out?

Sorry to be That Guy, but what has happened to the editing process at Kotaku as of late? Is it G/O cuts? Kinja jank? Both? So many pieces get published lately where you scan it for 30 seconds and you’re like oh wow, this is completely scuffed.

In Metroid there’s almost always a hint — not a visual hint, but a design hint, like walking into a room that has seemingly nothing to do in it, or what you’re seeing and the map not lining up, or it being the only logical way for two areas to connect (something the player can make assumptions about because the games…

At a relatively early point in the game, it literally gives you the means to scan for hidden blocks in any given area and then will highlight those blocks for a significant amount of time, which is *way* more than any previous Metroid title has done.  Mountain, molehill, etc etc

In reference to the clips provided at least, those are not normal scenarios. Those people have went out of their way to sequence break from the normal, intended flow of the game. I’ve done my share of sequence breaking in this game already as well and I’ve not personally encountered a softlock and there’s always been…