Take it from another small games blog guy: for now, consider this a hobby. Right now is a terrible time to be looking for a job in the games press. Did you see how the parent company of IGN just shut down UGO, GameSpy, and 1UP, and laid off some IGN staff? There are so few real, full-time editorial positions out there…

Good for Nintendo. I really think that reviewers take for granted just how huge the disconnect is between them and us. You get games for free. We don't. We pay for them. You play games multiple times before they come out. We don't. We sit and wait, eager to finally get our hands on them after months or years of eager…

It's like you didn't even play Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

Or 300. That movie had something for everyone.

The ones that are "Lucy Bradshaw says (once again) that an offline mode isn't coming" are all basically the same because it's her just reiterating the same tired (and it sounds like false) lines over and over. That said, I'm still personally fascinated by the whole thing, even if I have no interest in playing the…

No, he's just saying that the news is the same every time, which is pretty much is, and it doesn't make sense to reiterate the same news in slightly different ways each time. Kotaku is doing their job by reporting everything to come to them, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the same every time. But hey,…

I'm literally just going off of the little they've talked about in interviews where THEY used words like "calculations." So I think it'd be interesting to see if all that holds true on a computer that's at the minimum end of the system requirements.

Yeah but I bet your computer is pretty good. They were saying in an interview that they needed to offload a lot of the legwork to make sure that the system requirements could be as low as they are. Try this again on a crappier computer and that'd be interesting.

Even if he has a point, the whole "PC Master Race" mentality is super annoying. Consoles and PCs both serve distinct purposes. There's no reason to be elitist about it.

You guys are going to feel ridiculous five years from now when games of today look like shit.

Holmes isn't really shown actually fighting all that often, but it's often implied that he's quite skilled.

I think that's what Hadrian was getting at, but it seems so silly on so many levels. It's just an ocean overworld with exploration. That's not ripping anything off. Plus, the other guy already admitted to having played it. So why lie? The other guy said "some on the team have played it." Some. These guys are French.…

Why would he lie? What possible reason could he have to lie?

Do I trust the Killzone guys, the men who brought us such memorable characters as "That Fucking Asshole" and "Bland Guy," to make characters I care about? Not really, no. Does that mean that he's wrong that better technology can help make more convincing characters that are easier to identify with and care about?…

If I'm going to tell it to stop updating games, then what's the point of Steam?

"The worst-kept secret in gaming" is my least favorite phrase in the gaming space from the last decade. It's used for everything. It can't be true for everything.

No problem! Yeah, it wasn't impressive at all from a gameplay perspective. I think it was just supposed to be like, "Check it out—this is a live demo of this stuff actually working already." I hope that game turns out to be good though. It seems tonally all over the place. Goblins? Tanks? Cute robot that turns way not…

What are you talking about? It's called "competition." You know, capitalism? It spurs competition. Did it make the iPod better? It's impossible to tell, but it did get Microsoft to design the Zune, which I like infinitely more than the iPod. I love my Zune, but then bought a Macbook (which the Zune doesn't work with)…

Because it's annoying.

Sorry for the delay. I hate Kotaku's notification system. I never notice that number.