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Sakuyamon is the best Digimon and Rika is the best Human. I solved my own conundrum! :O Read more

Shadow Warrior 2 is running into that health bar problem I mentioned. You can turn them off, I’ve been told, but... is that really enough? No. I don’t think it is. Read more

A friend of mine who’s into Phoenix Wright said it was, if I remember right. Read more

The thing about games is that you want them to be unrealistic. The stronger the feedback is, the better it feels. The talk by Jan Willem Nijman does a great job of explaining why that works. Read more

I cut my mention of Monster Hunter because I haven’t played those games enough to feel like I could say anything authoritative. Read more

Battleborn drops these weird little challenges throughout to keep the game more engaging. The problem is that its feedback is so off point that it just doesn’t feel that great to play. Read more

I am pretty sure I made both mentions, and I have plans for a deeper dive into the game, but I need more time to pull that off. Read more

Politically correct? Why, because I want Duke to feel like an actual 80s action movie instead of a bad parody with strippers because it’s edgy? Read more

I’d love to get hired full time somewhere. I really appreciate Totilo giving me the chance to handle the weekend, and I hope someone likes my work enough to give me the chance to take my skills to the next level. Read more

Isn’t that literally the summary of the comic that the header image is from? Read more

So, personally, I think when Anotonov said AAA games, he was referring to boxed retail games. Valve made just one more game after he left, Portal 2. Everything else has been Software as a Service titles. Read more

I think so, yes. It sets up Digimon as completely new. Read more

It’s very rambly, because I wrote it in the middle of the night. Read more

I wanted to write an article about story. The article about design would take significantly longer to write, and if you haven’t noticed, I’ve published like 18 things on Kotaku since yesterday morning, and I’m prepping more to go soon. Read more