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@synaesthesiajp @Wermutton I'll let him know!

@ethangach @Wermutton Good faith and Kotaku haven't been said in the same sentence since Totilo left.

WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE CRITICS!? They prioritize being up right at embargo for the clicks and traffics but bemoan that they got a code late. Just post the review later.

@MitzieteTTV @SynthPotato there's a series of post-game missions that are built around Bond's full toolkit

@SynthPotato @ethangach Does it have replay ability like hitman?

IO Interactive joins the crunch review club with 007 First Light, code for which went out late on Friday ahead of a holiday weekend with an embargo first thing in the AM.

@synaesthesiajp @Wermutton Oop! Mistook you for someone engaging in good faith!

@ethangach @Wermutton Then maybe reconsider the woe is us post? Kotaku’s shtick has been old for 20 years. Thankfully, enthusiast media is about as relevant now as a rotary dial telephone.

@synaesthesiajp @Wermutton This review was handled by an freelancer who was given the option of filing later

@Wermutton Yep. That’s the irony. They will breathlessly report on the evils of crunch. Then crunch when it is their money on the line.

@timmyfuck1 @SynthPotato $70

@SynthPotato @ethangach how much is the game 60 or 70?

Kotaku's James Bond review: "First Light is less than the sum of its parts, but those individual parts are almost all much more interesting and alive than those usually found in the genre First Light desperately wants to imitate." kotaku.com/007-first-ligh…

for my hot summer games preview i spoke with @computer_gil about goblinamerica, speedrunning to save goblin abraham lincoln and why real political action is beginning to look a lot like super mario kaizo world kotaku.com/surreal-boomer…

hilltop works baby best in the biz

One of the largest networks of gaming sites around is trying to pay writers by the click instead of a flat rate per story. They could get as little as $5 a story or even nothing at all.

Malicious, conspiracy-based slander campaigns often linger online because it's incredibly time consuming to refute nonsense and has little impact on the bad-faith people spreading it. So kudos to Del for debunking it regardless.

i still hold on to the hope that the internet can revert back to a constellation of cable access channels and will celebrate every inch we move in that direction kotaku.com/stephen-colber…

If you work for a tech company and you’re doing shit that sounds like it’s a lore fragment in Cyberpunk 2077, then it’s time to play: Leak That Shit!!

While I still enjoy a good IPA or Stout I've entered the stage of my life where I'm usually too exhausted or preoccupied to deal with choice and novelty in most things and increasingly default to what's simple and cheap but still decent.

My (free) piece about today's settlement Key thing to know: This suit may technically have been about whether Activision was sold for the best price, but it became more and more about litigating the 2021 misconduct allegations against Activision Blizzard gamefile.news/p/microsoft-25…

This is the Marathon / Crimson Desert divide

They just drained one of the great lakes to make this

For anyone trying to understand the context of this. (rewrite - please read the final line before replying) Alyssa Mercante (journalist) is suing SmashJT (YouTuber) over what she in court describes as an extended harassment and defamation campaign tied to "videogame culture war". It pretty much boils down to allegations that he: - repeatedly wrongly accused and defamed her across Twitter & YouTube, - encouraged people to ostracize and target her, - damaged her reputation and career, - and contributed to her losing income through journalistic opportunities. The big issue for him is that he apparently just... kept going. Publicly. Constantly. He could have stopped being a horrible person at any time. Even after the lawsuit was filed he just never stopped Tweeting and Streaming talking about her. And there are tons of screenshots, tweets, clips, and YouTube videos documenting it. Now from what we're seeing, he's losing major parts of the case, is reportedly closing in on $80K+ in legal debt, and could potentially end up paying punitive damages on top of that. All because he seemingly refused to stop posting about her online, disparaging her reputation and making false accusatory tweets. Alyssa just wanted to not be falsely accused of weird things and harassed constantly, and SmashJT didn't want to stop attacking, now he's facing consequences of his actions. No winners here, not because Alyssa isn't going to win. But because she DESERVES more money than whatever he can pay for what he put her through.

Take-Two suggests they may acquire more studios in the future from infusion of cash flow practically guaranteed from GTA 6 ➡️ kotaku.com/take-two-ceo-c… #GTA #GTA6 #TakeTwo #GrandTheftAuto

This is a lot of money kotaku.com/microsoft-agre…