Candy Crush: Celebrating 10 years of pissing away your time with a match-3 mobile game.

Growing up, I have fond memories of a yearly summer drive down the East Coast to Florida, where we would visit family and spend at least 1-2 days at the Disney parks. This would have been nearly every year from 1988 - 1995. Thinking about our experiences from before vs. everything I see about how they’re running the…

Yeah like I said Overwatch ain’t my jam. It’s a game in a genre I don’t play, pretty much at all. But I can recognize gacha mechanics when I see them, and no matter how “generous” the percentages are, loot boxes are still a predatory system that preys upon your time, wallet, or both. It doesn’t matter to me if…

If it comes out that the solution to this puzzle hinges on something that isn’t introduced until the DLC is released, I’m going to roll my eyes so fast and so hard that I will most certainly require medical attention. 

I was already eager to play Powerwash Simulator on account of all the blight you get to remove, but now that I know that ancient gods are involved I really can’t wait to get in there. Good thing there’s only one story for every game. /s

Anyone else have fond memories of the three novels they published, further fleshing out the worlds and backgrounds of the characters glimpsed in Myst & Riven? I remember the imagery being remarkably vivid.

Crank 2 > Crank. Everything that was already over-the-top in the first movie is pushed further in the sequel.

I think you’re close, but selling digital items doesn’t come with zero risk or zero cost. It may be close to negligible in the long run, but up front you still to pay someone (or several someones) to design & code the item in question. Then there’s (hopefully) testing the item to make sure adding it doesn’t break the…

It shouldn’t, as long as the servers that provide the updates are still live. Once they’re gone, though...the discs will be coasters. But at that point the digital copies are also hosed, so...shrug emoji?

The answer to all of your questions is yes. Not “yes, always” of course, but yes - people still want these things and still do these things.

Just a deluge of “listicles” in general, recently. I miss the more focused, insightful articles that used to be more common on Kotaku.

Agreed. That is a melted Croc.

Have worked in HR, can confirm that this is correct. 

More like a value war of attrition I guess?

I feel a little insane to be saying this, because I hate advertising, but for this to succeed Netflix needs to get the word out that they offer games in the first place, and that means an advertising budget. If not for Kotaku I still wouldn’t know about the mobile games that Netflix offers (still haven’t checked them…

Overwatch isn’t my jam, so I’m not trying to yuck anyone’s yum. But clamoring to get loot boxes added back into a game sounds like some Stockholm Syndrome shit.

Pokemon cards make excellent bookmarks. I remain unconvinced of their utility in other applications however.

People? Objects? Doesn’t matter.

Doesn’t mean we have to like it, and the more you ignore/accept it the more ubiquitous it gets.

Gotcha covered.