This. Or at the very least, removable batteries should become standard again.

“Because I’d argue that a Mario game nowadays has to be first and foremost about Mario’s own propulsive abilities, the jump and (to a lesser extent) run.”

I wonder if this was part of the reason Spyro was so popular. The first game was pretty easy and forgiving, if you weren’t trying to 100% it; but it was a joy to move around and explore.

“Meanwhile, his hair stylist might want to get a cut in too”

Depends how you build it. The life-drain augment makes for some interesting runs.

The phrase “goes live” in place of “releases” is enough to put me off.

“emotionally manipulative or editorializing language that never would have been allowed by any editor of the hayday(sic) of print”

If this is about the main page, try https://kotaku.com/latest

For the main page: https://kotaku.com/latest

Didn’t read the article, huh?

That sounds both realistic and relevant to me.

Honestly I’ve yet to hear a console startup that isn’t amazing. I’m guessing a fuck-ton of work goes into them, since players will be hearing them a lot.

Console startup splashes in general tend to sound amazing. They must get workshopped to hell and back.

Depends on how games are optimised, I guess. While there’s still overlap with the last gen, a lot of games will likely be made assuming an old-school harddrive. Same goes for games that also release on PC.

Yeah, I’d be very tempted by the XBSeX if I hadn’t gone PS3/PS4 previously. atm I’ve got a veritable fleet of consoles hooked up, it would’ve been nice to consolidate my setup.

Yeah, this felt weirdly hype-y for Kotaku.

I’ve used the PS4 one a coupla times just for taking screenshots.

This strikes me as a spoiler.

That’s not notable for the Mail.

I hear that. I’m still on Chrome on desktop, where I do most of my browsing; switching browser was just the path of least resistance on mobile (wherein all I really have cached is my Kinja login).