“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Ubisoft in Wolf of Wall Street territory

Me when someone tries to edit out my spliced comma

This is how you live a life

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You know nothing Jon Snow

Best Hard Drive post I've read in a while tbh

The latest edition of Morning Checkpoint goes out to Radiata Stories kotaku.com/resident-evi...

David Hayter is voicing Snake in Rainbow Six Siege

The eternal debate

Interested folks should check out @platanoranger.bsky.social's write-up kotaku.com/crisol-theat...

Starting an IRL snail mail group for gaming preppers where we pass around air-gapped harddrives and build physical media libraries.

Please tell me these stories! We can keep the details anonymous and generic. [email protected] or ethangach on Discord. 2673263042 for Signal

This is rough

Me that one time the gummy was supposed to be cut into eighths

Despicable

Update: Earlier this week, it was reported that 1,200 developers went on strike at Ubisoft in France and Italy. Days later, Ubisoft is pushing back saying that number was much lower as it focuses on "maintaining an open and constructive dialogue" with angry employees kotaku.com/ubisoft-stri...

My motherboard is 12 years old today

You know you're not Bloomberg's target audience when

for The Verge, I interviewed Edmund McMillen about Mewgenics' long road to release, unexpected success, and making a game with just about any disorder you can name www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

This is like 10x more brazen than anything you'll read in a Naomi Klein book or hear on Democracy Now

The director of Marathon is playing with a peanut to get people to buy the game

One of the new launch trailer screenshots from Bungie PR for Marathon is the one every story's gona use if it doesn't do well.

The Sony Ponies beg for more multiplayer slop

The viral AI covid poster being the viral AI slop game guy is making me go insane so I wrote about it kotaku.com/the-viral-ai...

Websites should blog more imo kotaku.com/magic-gather...

One of my favorite things I’ve published is this interview with the Knockout City team. I feel like you don’t see a lot of studios speaking so openly of their struggles like this. Knockout City was an all-timer, man.

The live service game death spiral is a bleak one. It's difficult to avoid and all but impossible to escape. Here's what the heads of Specter Divide (remember that) said about the dead game stench back in 2024. kotaku.com/highguard-la...

spending hours pouring over the Mass Effect codex like a narrative information junkie

I don't know, I feel like there's been an aggressive uptick in "TKTK proves the system is broken" when sometimes things are just completely perpendicular or tangential to "my theory that explains the whole mess"

"Labels are inevitable but standards are what matter"

If you work at Wildlight or did until today and want to talk about it you can reach us at [email protected] or on Signal/WhatsApp at 2673263042. This sucks.

There's an important overlap between explainer journalists dismissing AI skeptics and centrist liberals punching left in that they both ascribe outsized influence to the people who are not rich and not in power.

Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions on AI because it thinks it will represent a platform shift that it can get out in front of after losing gadgets to Apple, the web to Google, and social media to Meta. Companies are racing head first because being last is more expensive than being wrong

Masters of Albion looks too good for what its trying to do as a sandbox imo, which usually, though no always, means the systems will be unnecessarily hindered by a graphical fidelity that doesn't add much youtu.be/Y_Jph0SH_l4

that's better

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

There's an ongoing discussion in the art world about how it is vulnerable to slop because so much "art" created under capitalist incentives is already slop. I think there's some of that here too. Bullshit Jobs may be replaceable by AI, but not b/c AI is good, but because we have produced bad jobs...

Thrilled to have @gameonysus.bsky.social reviewing Reanimal on Kotaku dot com! Less thrilled about how the game sounds!

New horrors is this technology should not exist: They used Grok to nudify her then used the images to start an OnlyFans.

One of the things I really want to emphasize is that while FunFactor is centred around retro gaming magazines, it’s really a show about games history, media, community, and the way video games shape our lives and culture. Nostalgia for old gaming mags is not a requirement to enjoy the show!

The Dragon Ball Sparking Zero Discord is not taking the news well

There’s a sentiment among some locals that eyes on Minnesota are waning. The situation has NOT changed here. Local resistance is tired, but of course never giving up. Please stay plugged into the news of the Minneapolis ICE occupation and donate where able. We need endurance in this moment.

Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada explains why he's not in the Epstein files

Never seen a press release get patched like this

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