Thank god for Jim!

I think it was a matter of enabling the crimes, or at a bare minimum knowing they were occurring and not stopping them. I think that may have been the technicality they nailed them on, but I haven't looked that up for a while.

My hunch is that the size of these teams means that every level is designed primarily by a part of it, and thus, if a weapon or tool or some kind were to be implemented across all levels, it would require more thought and communication and require every level could accommodate X item. Make them all one-off set pieces…

I thought precisely the same thing. Apparently if you advertise a comparative dud enough, it'll sell millions of copies regardless.

Sometimes things like this scare me when it comes to the games industry. It tells publishers they can release horribly generic schlock with enough "maturity" and advertise the fuck out of it, and still several million copies of it.

Not sure the difference for sure when it comes to units shipped versus sold, but the article quoted above says 9 million units SHIPPED for Watch Dogs. The number nonetheless stuns me given how generally poorly received the game was, but sold versus shipped seems like a distinction worth making.

Seeing giants like Amazon fall flat on their face releasing a phone makes me wary of Nintendo doing that. I mean, I think I'd be all about a Nintendo phone, in theory, but I love my Nexus 5 and Android too much to be willing to make too many compromises on that front, so I think it'd be wise to stay out of that market.

I just hope it eventually sees the light of day. Honestly, I think L.A. Noire was one of the most interesting games I'd ever played when I first encountered it.... largely due to its fantastic story and storytelling style. It had more punch to its story than almost any other game I've ever played, and I loved it for…

If you're looking for a cheap web machine and/or can be productive with Google Drive (Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.) then you'll find the Chromebook to be a great machine for light work and surfing the web. The main advantage is that for the price of them, you get a machine that is typically much better than other new…

If you're looking for a cheap web machine and/or can be productive with Google Drive (Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc.)…

Your character is simply known as "Player" (get it?), to give one example, and that moniker is brought up in passing dialogue with other characters very, very often. Whenever "Player" does something that would seem arbitrary or out of place in the real world, a disembodied voice might come in to remind you that you're …

Hmmmmmm. This should be interesting. I want to believe that Riccitiello became the figure he was because of the corporate state and interests of a company the size of EA, and not just as a form of concentrated evil that made EA the bad word/name is largely still is. I'm hoping he brings a lot of years of industry…

In fairness, I don't care for Sarkeesian and how she makes her points, but I largely do agree with the points she's making. It's one of those things where, as much as anything else, I can't really reasonably say no to any of the things she says (regardless of cherry-picking some poor examples); whether or not the…

So you're an expert on argument now, eh? And your first move is to equate someone to Nazis? How does GG fit into this alleged metaphor? The heroic America, "saving" everyone? The persecuted Jews of Europe? Both? If your go-to in ANY argument is "this is just like when the Nazis...." I don't think there's useful…

I can definitely see that and think it makes sense. I think the difference is that they want to be represented and typically haven't, whereas the opposite seems to be true in the case of GamerGate. It gives the impression that one supports inclusion and the other doesn't, whether or not they're both arguing for the…

Well, now that I'll have one......

You know what? I'm actually totally cool with and respect your opinions and how you're conducting them. You're not happy about the way(s) Kotaku might be changing, you're expressing that, and if they don't change, you're leaving. That's the way it should be, and kudos to you for understanding that this is a matter of…

Ah edit timers. I meant to write:

I love wireless controllers too much to have done that, though I did think about it. A bit more than I'd like to spend as well on one game, which really made that Amiibo deal attractive... I wouldn't want to spend like $120 on a single game. That's horrifying.

Again, go somewhere you do trust, and when you have reason not to..... Leave. Pretty simple. Everything is trying to police thought and coverage. If you have this much trouble with who to trust in something as trivial as writing about videogames, I can't imagine how you make it through day to day life with the amount…

That's a hilarious false equivalency.