On one hand, yes, Sony has a habit of announcing games years in advance and then showing us an endless number of trailers for them. (E3 2017 was basically a remake of E3 2016.) It can be exhausting. Read more
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As I said in the comments of my Mass Effect Andromeda piece, if you read this article, you are now legally obligated to go buy/read my book: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent/dp/0062651234/ Read more
100% due to tensions that were already there. As Cecilia reported on Sunday, many of the moderators who quit were already frustrated by how the site had been handled. Read more
Look at the byline... Read more
I don’t want to make a big declaration or anything, and I’ll certainly keep an eye on GAF for reporting purposes, but I can’t imagine posting there anymore. I’m seeing lots of familiar names and lively discussion on ResetEra already, so maybe I’ll pop up in threads on there once in a while. Read more
I’ve been working with Cecilia on this story since Thursday, when I warned her that things would likely blow up over the weekend and that she might have to work Saturday and Sunday. Which she of course agreed to do immediately, because she is a trooper. Her hard work is the reason that this story is more thorough than… Read more
By “handcrafted” I don’t mean literally drawn by hand, I mean that each attack was animated individually rather than procedurally. That’s a LOT of work. Read more
Right?? Read more
A few reasons it likely took so long: Read more
Sure, I liked it. But I don’t really want to reduce this to a binary - you can go to a lot of websites for answers like that. I have a lot of complicated thoughts on the game that I tried to unpack here and will no doubt talk about more on the podcast and in articles in the days/weeks/months to come. Read more
You can read my overall takeaway just above where it says “About the Author,” and below where it says “South Park: The Fractured But Whole: The Kotaku Review”! Read more
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Here is the official ESRB description for the Real Gambling tag: “Player can gamble, including betting or wagering real cash or currency” Read more
DLC is almost always planned before a game is released, for various reasons. (Many departments, like writing and design, are done with their work on the game weeks or even months before ship, and so they can start working on DLC then.) Wouldn’t you rather have the information before you buy? Especially if you want to… Read more
“Zombie Pharaohs” has a nice ring to it. Read more
Yeah, it’s really disappointing how little respect these companies have for their history, and how few companies are making real strides when it comes to preserving classic games and keeping them playable for everyone. Read more
2) The purpose of keeping old games, is not to play them, but to remember them. What I did, is remove all my cover art, and my wife made them into a lovely scrap book. Serves the same purpose, takes up less space, and looks good. If removing/cutting up the art hurts your OCD (it did mine at first, but again, toys.),… Read more
See my above point about all multi-billion-dollar corporations. Anyone who believes in brand loyalty and puts Scorpio symbols on their Twitter profiles and thinks that these console manufacturers care about anything more than making as much money as possible is deluding themselves. Read more
True though I have no doubt that if Microsoft had the opportunity to pay for exclusive content for 2 years, they’d do it in a second. Read more