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Honestly, as someone who has trouble limiting his time gaming (and going to comment sections to talk about gaming) I can respect this approach.

You get to choose how you spend your time. Read more

I love how "I like to do my own research" has become such a convenient shorthand for me to instantly dismiss the person saying it as a complete fúcking moron. Read more

It’s really terrible when people jump to disrespectul conclusions. Anyway, like I was saying, most western men are feminine and weak... Read more

“Harry Potter game has no concept of morality” is the least surprising thing I’ve read all day. Read more

So you just go and murder a whole camp one night and show up to herbology the next morning and everyone’s just okay? Fine not to have a morality system as they are rarely implemented interestingly enough to warrant their inclusion, but this will easily surpass GTA IV levels of ludonarrative dissonance.  Read more

There’s always a weird, gross subsection of capital ‘G’ Gamers who cheer any time the established games press takes a blow like this or shutters another site. They’re under the opinion—either grossly uninformed or deliberately so—that an Influencer culture is all gaming needs. Read more

I’m pretty sure nearly every episode of TLOU is going to end with tragedy. There will of course be brief moments of self reflection, happiness, and even accomplishment, but always tragedy.

That said, loved the episode. Read more

Changing the context of this scene feels like a weird choice, especially when the payoff is this pretty tasteless ending for that character. It feels like out of place exploitation. Read more

I felt the clicker scene was very good. Tense, well done practical effects, really showcased the horror aspect of the infection. Read more

Speaking of ‘Cancel Culture,’ I wonder how many games have just been canceled by Microsoft’s layoff culture >_> Read more

It should be a tough, relevant watch. We probably need more stories that hammer this point home. I work with ppl that still say “I don’t believe in the vaccine”, and that’s in the face of other co-workers getting sick 3-4 times over now. It’s both infuriating and exhausting, but they are brainwashed, plain and simple.
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I bounced off The Last of Us pretty hard the one time I tried playing it, but as somebody who has been working his way through the various PlayStation exclusives from the last ten years and has just finished the four main Uncharted games, I’m thinking about taking another look. Read more

See, you have to understand that Kotaku has different writers. There is no Kotaku hive mind. So one writer can hate a game (or anime) to death and another can love it to death and there is no hypocrisy. There are very few things that you can say that ‘Kotaku’ has a united front on, other than being generally opposed… Read more

I like that he sucked at this and admitted he was terrible at Clue too.   Read more

I saw your writeup for Return to Monkey Island in the cozy games story, so it didn’t surprise me to see it here. Really great experience. I think it’s probably due for a replay so I can get 100% (plus I can’t remember if I did easy mode or hard mode).  Read more

I bought myself a Super Famicom for Christmas this year...

Bold praise Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them! Read more

Man, I don’t know you, but after reading this piece I am so god damned happy for you my eyes started welling up. So many people suffer for so long in situations and places not suited for them. Most of those people don’t get to leave their purgatory. So awesome for you that you are getting to live the life you deserve… Read more

I got mine a couple days ago, and so far the collection rocks. Sure, not many of the games hold up as they would decades ago, but as the article says, playing them in context really shows how brilliant most of them are. Read more

wow this looks incredibly interesting! I generally don’t want to play Atari gamers for longer than a couple of minutes (I appreciate the history but...yeah, video games are better these days lol).

still, if I’m getting a history lesson at the same time, I could be sitting down with this thing for hours. Great write up! Read more