Alpha Protocol!! Hells yea! I looooooooooooved that game it was fucking awesome! Read more
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Hi, it’s me, Phil Owen. The mean guy. I’m going to be hanging out here on this cool web site all weekend, and I’m…
Really? Because their whole method and approach is changing significantly. At MassivelyOP they’re calling it SWTOR 2.0. Read more
This feels unnecessarily harsh, Phil. It’s placeholder box art! I’m as skeptical of kickstarters as anyone — probably more — but it feels a little off-the-mark to rail against a game so many people are excited about because the placeholder art looks like... placeholder art. Read more
yeah, but when i make an image i take 5 minutes to look at it and decide, hmm, maybe i don’t want this to be known as my work, guess i’ll try again.
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While reading Nathan Grayson’s assertion that Batman: Arkham Knight should have borrowed Shadow of Mordor’s…
“Extreme Bold Zesty Fiery Jacked Intense Doritos? Those sound delicious!” Read more
It sounding “awesome” says so much more about you than it does about the article. Actually, it’s pretty hilarious that the article is about keywords that developers ALWAYS throw out to make a game sound good and here you are defending a game that has nothing but marketing spiel and a single concept image with it. Read more
Nah, I think Randy Pitchford’s tweet about Battleborn has these guys beat.
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If you write about games professionally for a while, and get suckered into writing game reviews freelance, a couple…
It isn’t just humans who are upset that development for consoles might have caused The Witcher 3 to lose some visual…
Keep using terms like “binaries” and “engine reversion,” you clearly are an expert on game development. Read more
Hi! I’m Phil Owen, and I’ll be your Kotaku guest editor for Memorial Day while everyone else is enjoying the day off…
Mr. Owen, this is a lucid, thoughtful, and, I believe, wholly accurate analysis. You've said everything which has begged to be said for years about the relationship between two wonderful, distinct games. Thank you for so skillfully and passionately advocating for absolutely one of my favorite games of all time. Read more
A few days before my dad died in August, I got the call I'd been dreading from my mother. She told me it was time…
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I enjoyed reading this article and liked your distinctions between the two games. That being said, I recall liking Kotor 1 more because it felt like a more complete story. Kotor 2 had some amazing dialogue, but the conclusion felt underwhelming after such a great buildup. I also thought Kotor 1 was a pretty deep game… Read more
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This is the worst article I have ever read on this site, which is saying a lot considering how much bullshit you have to go through to get to decent articles. Completely pointless, seems like you just decided to talk out of your ass for 10 minutes and hit submit. How the hell did you get hired? Read more
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