Heck to the yes on double jumps (and, as you pointed out, grappling hooks). I think my favorite experience with airborne mobility in recent times was likely the early days of No Man’s Sky when a momentum glitch let you hurl your avatar across the surface of strange planets by moving slightly sideways.

Great interview. I’m really sad about both of you leaving - I was enjoying Joshua’s articles and Gita has long been one of my favorite parts about Kotaku (I still miss the podcast!). Good luck in the next phase of your careers and keep kicking butt.

I was really excited for this after the announcement yesterday, but the shaky performance in the demo bummed me out. It is absolutely beautiful though.

A fair number of lost Pokémon are lost for good reason (glad as I am to have a public record of them), but Madame is a gem. I wish she'd have made it into a game.

This is an absolutely brilliant analysis, Maddy. It should become one of the core secondary sources for people looking for a succinct yet detailed summary of significant video game community trends (and their personal impact on us) during the 2010s.

This is an excellent list! I’m not sure I’ve played any of these, despite having a lot of experience with indie and AA releases during the last decade. All are going on my wishlist!

Thanks for keeping What Are You Playing This Weekend alive, Will! As for what I’m playing:

Mass Effect 2 feels strangely more of a piece with the 2000s than the 2010s, didn’t it?

It’s so hard to decide, isn’t it? Your list is wonderful, by the way. How could Person 4 Golden not be at the top? Here is my best shot at the moment:

Love these lists every year - thanks for compiling and including links so lazy folks like me can easily find them online!

It really is. My jaw straight-up dropped riding Roach around White Orchard. It just doesn’t feel possible.

I’m going to be playing a lot of The Witcher 3 on Switch, as it’s significantly better than I was expecting. I’m enjoying my time with it much more than on PC. I’ll probably also get in some Neo Cab before bed and might even get to boot up Silent Hill 2 - for the first time! - when my wife borrows her mother’s PS2 on…

I can say that I was supremely disappointed in MGSV after playing through the rest of the series over a roughly 1 year period. Peace Walker ended up being my favorite.

Sounds like you and I had the same experience with MGS3. I missed aspects of MGS2, as its sequel was more of a straight put, but the last hour or so is among the most wrenching, beautiful sequences I’ve encountered in a game.

Haha, those Mario spinoffs sound pretty zany. As for Goose in Smash Ultimate, my case would be for an item trophy which summons the Goose to pop in and steal whatever weapon or item your opponents are wielding. Simple and true to the character. Ta-dah!

I wasn’t sure what to make of this when the news originally broke - I assumed a buggy mess with an unstable framerate - but I’ve been pleasantly proven wrong. Looking forward to picking this up tomorrow and making The Witcher 3 the next Switch port that I manage to actually complete thanks to it being available in a…

Anecdotally, I was going to be a day one buyer and now have no plans to pick it up. 

This is an insufficient response as far as I’m concerned. Blizzard plainly backed down from a fear of the Chinese government in the first place and then haphazardly offered a half-measure to cut down on their domestic protests. And in doing so offered the opinion that pro-oppression and pro-freedom opinions have no…

Thanks for reporting on this. Like so many others, I deleted my Hearthstone account this week. I also decided not to pick up Overwatch on Switch, excited as I’ve been for it since the announcement. It can be irritating to vote with our wallets, but it’s one of our most powerful tools to effect change within large…

I was pretty excited to pick up Overwatch on Switch. Will not be doing so now. It shouldn't be that hard for companies to have a basic level of moral integrity.