Ha! “Rampage 3 is an important movie.” Yes it is Uwe, now our world is poorer for it’s absence.

I really enjoyed Brink. It was one of the first single-player (really a multiplayer only) games I’d played. The parkour element made it different from other games (until Titan fall and CoDs exo suit stuff). It fell short with abilities in the end. After about 20 hours I’d found the perks that worked for me and never…

?? I never thought there were plot holes in MW2, or that the plot was dumb. But I still didn’t like it. It felt like a massive let down after MW. When I try to put my finger on it all I can think is “too much”. Part of the appeal of the earlier CoDs was that you got to play different soldiers, but they were largely…

I wonder if it’s a symptom of their contemporary business model. Being a flat organisation that encourages initiative, they’ve become extremely adept at taking a a small idea and getting it to full production. That’s worked very well up to now for a lot of their ideas. But now they’ve reached behemoth corporation…

One step away from Westworld.

Flawed survey - The odds of Kotaku readers to click and and actually vote biased towards people who have played Destiny, and even more so those still playing Destiny. When is everyone going to admit that these types of polls are just another media hook, like "Top 10" lists? (And yes I'm aware of the irony that I came…

I wonder how much of this pre-order bonus is just an attempt at free marketing, like this very article? They've tried releasing dev diaries, announcing features, etc. But slap the word "yak" and a game title together and people are more likely to click and look. It may not encourage many to buy the yak mission but the…

It's all about the super powers. The idea seems to start you off underpowered, so the first 5-10 hours seem difficult and you die, kicking off the "nemesis" system. I found it cumbersome, to the point of annoying, and even boring. But once you get Shadow Strike, and more use out of the bow it gets a lot more…

How much of this is a result of Sony effectively destroying Evolution Studios? I don't think it's intentional, but first of all their Motorstorm Apocalypse is ill-timed by the Japanese Tsunami. Then they get subsumed into Sony to make a racer (when they already have GT but they want someting arcadier?) Somehow it…

Evolution have been making games for years. I can't see ANY studio at that level ever saying "fack it". Clearly they've lost the plot though.

Well, I know this isn't true. Bubol the Cave-Rat has been executed 3 times with X+Triangle by me, and he's still around. To be fair it's never chosen the decapitation animation but usually the dagger to the head. I've no idea why this is. I'll try the dominate then square to kill next time as he's level 20 even though…

I like it, I rarely read Kotaku until about June this year so it definitely works for me. I like reading about new things in games I'm actually playing. As you say most game coverage pre-release is fairly opaque. It's sketchy, hyped, and often repeated ad nauseum by every other site, and usually part of a managed…

Here's the thing I've noticed. Often people will have some issue, depression, bad parents, auto-immune disease, something that they think makes them less dateable. This may be true, there's always a small percentage of people who expect their partner to be flawless, fortunately most people grow up. However, these…

My belief is that we're seeing generational growth. Except for the Wii, most consoles are built for the initiated gamer who knows how to use a twin-stick controller. If you look at consoles sold and total population, not that many people own a console, even in Western societies. That's because learning to use…

Heavy breathing is just one more aspect of human arousal. Haven't you seen Masters of Sex? I think it's an interesting cultural phenomena which aspects east and west focus on. The west seems to have a higher fascination with high heels (the arched 'orgasm' calf... apparently), and bums, whereas eastern cultures focus…