Hey Kenneth, if you don’t want people criticizing your avatar, maybe stop making it the focal point of every article you write. That or stop erasing people’s comments about it.

Pfft how can it be 16 years ago when my friends and I were just waiting outside GameStop for the midnight release of Halo 2? Oh..no wait I'm just getting old..damn it.

My uni days, around the same time as yours (2005-2014 for me), were probably somewhat opposite of yours. Didn’t live in a dorm for more than one night at a time, didn’t drive (heck for a time I couldn’t drive), etc.

As a dev myself this was my first thought. A lot of people are about to switch to UE5. 

It’s unsurprising that all of this is happening 3 years after Unity had an IPO and just 1 year after they took major investment from venture capital and private equity. This is classic short-term profit boosting at the expense of long-term brand value. It’s also predatory rent seeking behavior from a company looking…

Level-gated, action oriented structure of Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla have been the worst aspects of the games. This is the first AC game I’m excited for since Syndicate (which I didn’t finish). 

Replying to you but it’s actually a response to a grey.

There are quite literally 100 things more interesting in Valhalla character development than you cherrypicking the most interesting (and still mostly fucking dull!) capstone abilities you get after a billion points of investment and “challenge” grinding. The fact that shit like “health regen out of combat” and “you…

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

Imagine having fun discovering the game... Some people will spoil the shit out of themselves beforehand, often overhyping themselves into disappointment. We can only discover things once, better enjoy that experience as best as possible!

I’m curious why this article is being written about Oppenheimer when Barbie is the one making money hand over fist, has audiences showing up in full costume, and has people so jazzed they’re willing to buy a ticket to both Barbie and Oppenheimer back-to-back.

Wait, so WHAT exactly makes this film a videogame? Because tickets were scalped, like graphics cards? Because Kojima tweeted about it?

It’s 2 things

It may potentially have some uses as a boring behind the scenes industry technology. But it’s absolutely worthless as a consumer level technology, hence why the NFT market crashed and burned. Ultimately it’s at the consumer level where the grifters have been trying to sell people on the blockchain and it’s why people…

Another dog shit ironically unenjoyable cash-in tears up the twitch charts for its fifteen minutes. Everything about this absolutely screams asset flip and scam, and scrupleless influencers of course eat it up hand over fist. You could lead the entire body of twitch streamers off a cliff if you told them it was…

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Posters there are using “artificial intelligence”-powered media creation tools to create fake videos that purport to show actual murder victims, often children, sharing grisly details about how they were killed.

In keeping up with Kotaku traditions, respectfully, EAT SHIT!

do you just go around these threads accusing folks of no empathy? While telling people to die? maybe you should get another hobby. Seriously.

I feel like that was true 20 years ago but these days, indie devs have so many more avenues for exposure. There are plenty of small publishers (Devolver, Team17, Kepler, Humble, Annapurna, Coffee Stain, Playstack, etc) constantly searching for indie games to sign. Online events like Steam Next Fest and IGN Summer of…