We just hired a new very intelligent and very socially adept young person at our office. She is definitely going places. I asked about a dragon calendar she had hanging in her office and she proceeded to tell me “in depth” about the two D&D gaming groups that she is THE DM for! One group she has been running for…

He is all our Kotaku dads :(

Mike, I don’t have the right words. So I’ll just say get well soon. We’ll be excited to have you back, but take your time to recovery fully. Until then, I’ll be thinking of you as I type away on my mechanical keyboard (MX Blues, BTW, to annoy my coworkers).

How about Skies of Arcadia, SEGA?

This is completely off topic, but where’s Mike Fahey been? Haven’t seen anything from him here or on Twitter for about a month...

“I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this.”

Or you take the high speed shots of other skaters out of context and it looks like a bethesda game

Oh yeah, it’s nice I guess.

Give me a minute. I’m writing a mod to make this comment less cynical.

I feel like this article is leaving out the fact each bundle includes the game cartridge containing each Toy-con’s respective game, which is where I’d imagine the bulk of the total cost comes from.

Why would anyone do that?

In fairness they’re quite...appealing.

Had a slight Kinja malfunction. But, uh, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now. Thank you. How are you?

Funny that you took garbage trucks as an example. The kid of my girl friend was into the movie Cars and garbage trucks waiting patiently at the window for the thing to show up. Now Disney does not have a garbage truck in any of the movies, so of course you cannot buy one as a toy car either. That was an oversight I…

Remember, if you don’t fawn all over a title a particular reader really wants to be good, then you’re biased and incapable of impartial, rational assessment.

I’m with you on being baffled by this evident demand for uniformity across reviews and reviewers. While I definitely make use of Kotaku’s reviews in making…

I chose to review it because, as I said in the second paragraph, I was hoping that Takahashi and crew would make something I enjoyed more this time around.

I think I am content with the 2007 Star Wars: Battlefront 2. It has all the same features and no lootbox system in sight. Plus it has Steam server support now!

If you really want the “Heather isn’t fucking around version,” here it is:

Loot boxes are, ignoring the hair splitting of insufferable pedants like yourself, gambling. They are crafted, from probabilities to visual to their contents, to condition individuals and encourage repeated purchase and use. People with…

Okay, some further editorial.

Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…