There are entire swaths of the internet that apparently live in a massive bubble and haven’t played a game that actually looks and performs bad in years, and it really shows. The Kotaku Forspoken review compared parts of it to a shoddy PS3 game, and let me tell you, as someone who’s recently gone into a deep PS3…

Enjoy this new grand adventure as Cassie Drake, taking on the mantle from her parents as she travels the world to exotic locales...to apologize for her family’s role in destroying countless priceless historical sites and convincing wealthy investors to donate the funds to restore them. Only on PS5!

Referring to women as “females” is like the free space on a MRA / incel bingo card. It’s fucking weird and gross, and a dead giveaway that they don’t see women even remotely as equals.

I haven’t played Snap in a month or so, so I’m a bit out of the loop. However, when I was playing regularly I appreciated the randomness and chaos of these weird zones that really make you experiment to deal with them. Without the chaos, it felt easy to fall into strategic ruts with a 12-card deck, which really…

It’s been very dispiriting (although not at all surprising) to see the backlash against even the suggestion of legislating to make gas stoves safer, let alone banning them. The chuds are really coming out of the woodwork on this one, and it’s a strange hill to die on. Then again, we’re three years into a pandemic with…

I’ll acknowledge that the original was interesting and creative and important, particularly for having a strong female lead in the early ‘00s (peak years of gaming being aimed at the teenage boy demographic). As you’ve said, I think the window for releasing a sequel that anyone has cared about has long passed, even if…

Lone designer toiling away at BGE2 in a dark basement storage room, hearing the announcement ringing through the floorboards above: “My god, they do remember I exist...”

Uh, so if you can’t breed the Charizard you can only get from these events, how is the mystery trade full of lv 1 Charmanders? (I haven’t been motivated enough to get to the point where I can do these high level raids, so that’s how I got my Charizard) I’m assuming the same thing will happen after this event too.

It’s a valid point, and I’d say it even extends to the older Batman movies too. Maybe the best way to focus more on the hero and less on a particular villain is to adapt a story like Long Halloween, Hush, or Arkham Asylum - Batman’s put through the ringer in an endurance test over a short period of time, contends with…

Parks and Recollection is a great recap series that’s currently working its way through Parks and Rec with Rob Lowe and Alan Yang (as well as guests here and there). Highly recommend it.

This might sound strange, but I’d be curious to play this mod without the voice acting, just using the retranslated text.

Emudeck is fantastic and makes it a breeze to set everything up as long as you have everything stored in internal memory or SD card. I’ve been trying this week to set it up on a USB-C flash drive so whenever I want to play retro games I can plug that in, leaving my SD card open for modern games. It’s been a lot more…

I think you have to take into account the fact that the first game launched early enough in the Switch’s lifespan that everyone was still really hungry for anything to play, so it also may have succeeded in part due to lack of competition. I remember picking it up out of boredom, enjoying it just enough to finish it,…

Isn't it a long-running thing from old shows that Shaggy is actually really smart and accomplished, but then just lost interest at some point and became a stoner?

Mildly hot takes:

On top of the fact that, while Link’s Awakening is an all-time classic and one of my favorite games, it’s also a faithful remake of a 30 year old Game Boy game that you can easily beat in like 6 hours. Not that gameplay time should correlate to value or quality much or at all, but it’s still a tough sell for a lot of…

I didn’t realize you could simultaneously successfully steal this much money and product while also creating this many giant red flashing arrows pointing at yourself. It’s impressive in its own brash and stupid way.

Whoa, two whole games! One of which is basically a glorified tech demo! You’ve changed my mind.

Late 90s: Squaresoft nearly goes bankrupt due to a wildly ambitious CGI movie, merges with Enix to survive.
2024: Square Enix nearly goes bankrupt due to wildly illogical push into pyramid schemes, acquired by Epic purely so that Cloud and Sephiroth can be in Fortnite

Hi, welcome to Kotaku! Coincidentally I just started listening to Normandy FM a few days ago since I also listen to Axe of the Blood God and love it so far (already nearly done with ME1), so your name at the top was a nice surprise. Glad someone else enjoyed Arceus as much as I did!