Kotaku: Drama

NBC's Parenthood Demonstrates Why Parents Are Better Off Letting Kids Game

Mike Fahey — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:30:00 EST

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This clip from next Tuesday's winter premiere of NBC's drama Parenthood is really only delivering the sort of common sense knowledge every parent already knows: If you turn off the game before your son or daughter completes the level, you're a total bitch. More »

Alan Wake: Building The Drama

Mike Fahey — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:40:00 EDT

As far as we're concerned, the main drama of Alan Wake is having to wait another day to play, but developer Remedy went to all the trouble of putting together this Building the Drama trailer, so here you go. More »

School Play Confronts Video Game Addiction [Updated]

Owen Good — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:30:00 EDT

If you're near East Brunswick, N.J., a high school play being staged this weekend certainly has a modern and timely subject - video games addiction, and relationships falling apart because of it. More »

BioWare Lifts Filter On Gay, Lesbian Star Wars Discussion, Issues Apology

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Yesterday, members of the official Star Wars: The Old Republic asked developer BioWare to "rethink" its policy on filtering the words "gay" and "lesbian" from posts. The official moderator response was not exactly... elegant. More »

John Romero and Mike Wilson Bickering Continues!

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:39 EST

To recap: First Doom creator John Romero (above, flowing locks) blogged that former colleague Mike Wilson (above, skirt) from Gamecock was up to his usual "jackass stunts" and said Wilson was responsible for those "Bitch" ads. Then Wilson wrote an open letter to Kotaku, telling Romero that his "unparalleled work ethic and strong character has... left only a bloody trail of ex-wives, fatherless kids, and ill advised breast implants strewn across this fair nation." Ouch. Over the weekend, Romero replied to Wilson's barbs, writing: More »

Gamecock Head Tears Into John Romero, It's Getting Ugly

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:00:00 EST

It would seem that the ghost of Ion Storm hasn't quite faded into the night, as two of its more prominent employees, John "Suck It Down" Romero, also formerly of id, and Mike Wilson, now at Gamecock, are engaged in a nasty war of words. Romero posted on his personal blog this week that Wilson was up to his usual "jackass stunts" and recalled his former co-worker's time at Gathering of Developers/GodGames "where he pretty much just partied all the time and after the whole thing got reined in by Take 2 he went underground for a while, waiting for his next victim/investor so he could go hogwild all over again." More »

BBFC Makes Take-Two Sad

Mike Fahey — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:20:54 EST

I can almost imagine in my head how this all went down. The Video Appeals Committee overturns the British Board of Film Classification's decision not to grant Manhunt 2 a rating, and the folks at Take-Two start setting up this massive, celebratory pizza party. Then the BBFC decides to apply for judicial review of the VAC's decision. As this news hits Take-Two central and a stunned hush breaks out over the jubilant office, the pizza arrives. Someone starts sobbing.

"We are disappointed that the BBFC has decided to appeal its own Video Appeals Committee's judgment in favor of an 18-plus certificate for Manhunt 2," said Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick.

GameRankings Drops GameSpot Review Scores

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST

As some of our tipsters and commenters have pointed out, game review harvesting site GameRankings no longer displays any scores from sister site GameSpot, despite both being owned by CNET. GameRankings still features prominent GameSpot logo placement and links, but the reviews have disappeared. CNET's other review gathering property, MetaCritic, still features GameSpot scores as part of its database. While conspiracy theories abound, it seems the real story behind the removal of GameSpot reviews isn't as dramatic as some might think. More »

On the State of Game Reviewing

Maggie Greene — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:00:31 EST

Everyone's been buzzing this weekend about the Gamespot shakeup involving Jeff Gerstmann and there's been plenty of talk flying around in various places. Gamasutra, for instance, has a good editorial up entitled Numerals, Game Reviews, And The Game Media on some of the problems with the review structure in the gaming industry; Destructoid has a brand new look to let us know exactly what they think of Gamespot; people are planning a boycott of Gamespot and other CNet sites; our very own Crecente posed a question to all the reviewers out there: Have you been forced to rewrite a review due to advertising pressure? We've been inundated with examples of bad journalism, bad bosses, and big, bad, mean companies. And of course Mark Wilson wrote his own take on the problem with game reviews. More »