How does that change things? They have third party titles on Gamepass AND they have platform exclusives--which makes it a more attractive platform, increasing its ability to flex monopolistic powers. 

boy journalists hate the word ‘metroidvania’ since they didn’t get to choose it for the plebs.

UK argued Game Pass had the advantage because Microsoft also owns one of the worlds largest cloud computing businesses, including dozens of data centers and back end support.

It was highly doubtful that the CMA was just going to blanket approve this, they have been on Sony’s side since day one and all Sony really cares about is CoD on gamepass, they don’t want that because they are worried that $0 cost of entry means people will play on Xbox/PC and spend more money there. It’s always been…

Sweet! Looking forward to the EU and the FTC following suit!

we get to see how weird things get when a corporation digs into its trove of IP and mixes it all together with little care or concern for thematic coherence

Bought it last night. Yes, I am such an ally please pat me on the back. Only got to play for a few minutes but so far: it looks fantastic, the writing is at least as good as the main campaign, the lead voice acting is good to very good (again, on par). So in essence these people review bombing either haven’t played…

Couldn’t said users just mod around a ban and run thier own servers? I thought Garry’s Mod was fairly easy to well, mod. Am I wrong on that?

This article is so bad

Between this and ethan gach starting all his titles with “[company] steps up their war on [opponent]”, I am seriously wondering if kotaku is just written by an AI.

The farcry 3 segment was amazing, what do you mean “but all the queer folks knew this was lame as hell” seems a bit strange 

Don’t fuck with Mario. 

It’s definitly an obvious outcome to doing something criminal like this. So it’s definitly a “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” thing.

But at the same time, I don’t think the punishment is suffient or ethical either. The whole thing is just depressing on so many levels, lol.

Honestly some of my favorite CCGs have long gone out of print so fans have just scanned all the cards and just print their own now to play. Sure it means stronger cards are scene more often but it also means you get to play whatever you want, whenever you want.

The continued weekly drama over the ups and downs of the fake-scarcity market is extremely funny.

This fucking gotcha bullshit is stupid. Asking someone what they think of a thing they didn’t fully understand so people can roast them online is a cheap fucking shot. Fuck the Sunday Times, and stop asking these people what they think just so you can stir up shit. 

Jesus christ leave Judy Blume alone. What, exactly, was the point of trying to force a trans rights “gotcha!” moment out of her—beyond driving controversy clicks, of course?

Makes sense when they’re making the Conker’s Bad Fur Day movie.

No, actually. The general consensus of movie critics and writers of articles like this is that the Mario movie is obviously terrible. Audiences are loving it, based on the box office numbers.

“If a good movie is successful, people will make bad movies." Is this a joke I'm missing?