I find the entire notion of NFTs so absurd I didn't think of it that way.  I hope this is just a fad.

Edit: Okay I understand a bit more thinking on it further. As much as it’s possible to understand anything as absurd as NFTs

That’s a great point about the challenge of targeting nostalgia. Nostalgia goggles are very strong. EverQuest’s next expansion revisits the setting of its third, which released almost 20 years ago. It takes place on a moon and I remember looking up and seeing Norrath in the sky, the planet the bulk of the game takes…

Yep that’s it exactly. It’s like the linearity “problem” as well. It’s how Final Fantasy X is just as linear as Final Fantasy XIII, but the former gets dramatically less criticism for it because it’s executed in a way that doesn’t put a spotlight on that linearity. More developed side characters and details like towns…

I agree but it can work well when pulled off well.  Undertale in my memory doesn't feel as short as it is for example.

I’ll take it over “faux-NES style game #5,000,000.” Fox ‘n’ Forests did a great “faux-SNES” style, and there are probably more that I’m just not aware perhaps there is a threshold where the art becomes prohibitively complicated for a small developer. But still, it puzzles me games going for a retro style so often go…

Sony with very little effort could have supported PS1 and probably PS2 games on the PS4. That the company decided to be anti-consumer about PS1 classics is why I skipped the PS4.

No one is allowed any transgression real or imagined at any time present or past, but the outage mob will never have its thirst quenched. It is a movement based on an addiction to seeing others taken down, with people blind to the fact thier self righteousness is now merely an excuse to get thier fix. The would-be do…

True.  I'm just still in awe about the Wii U.  I know more than one person who thought it was a controller accessory for the Wii for years after release.

This is how bad outage hatred culture has gotten? Ending careers over things said, even years ago, isn’t enough? Now the self righteous mob demands charities turn down donations? A good reminder to people: the world isn’t populated by clearly defined cartoon villains, and self righteous people are just as capable of…

Do enough consumers actually pay attention to video game news enough for it to have such an impact short term?  Those of us that follow video game news are a minority of gamers.

That would carry more weight if the Switch wasn't extremely difficult to get for at least half of last year.

Unfortunately both the N64 and GameCube aimed for power and neither improved Nintendo's position.  True the N64 had the cartridge baggage, but if you look at the history of consoles you will not find a strong correlation between raw power and sales.

It would be nice if they Bleem!/Game Genie Sony, ideally surviving the victory.

Valve standing up to censor-crazed control freaks earned a ton of respect from me. While Tumblr was betraying and literally calling itself better than its users, Valve responded to the “think of the children” Bible-thumpers in disguise by relaxing rules. Then tech sites acted like that was bad because they couldn’t…

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Kotaku sometimes does over-the-top sensationalist pieces.  This isn't one of them.  Note the title emphasizes this is the workers' perspective.  You can find far less neutral titles than that.  This is actually fascinating.  I didn't consider how complicated this is 

It’s bizarre. I looked at NeoGAF a while ago and it was a cesspool of far right conspiracy theorists. Then I looked at ResetEra and it was like a parody of the opposite. People banned for “insensitivity” for the “crime” of opposing downright hateful comments. Apparently expressing any positive opinion about Harry…

I have no desire to ever watch his show but Netflix is right to stick to its principles here regarding censorship. There is a demand to conform or be destroyed. There is a willingness to ignore what people say and declare what they stand for, for them. This is offensive comedy. Should South Park have been cancelled…

What’s with not just Kotaku, but gaming sites in general just putting spoilers in topic titles lately?  It's really old, especially with "recommended for you" stuff on phones etc.  TV shows too for other sites, major spoilers less than a week after all episode airs.   Kotaku usually isn't as bad as some others about…