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Ethics in Games Media: Stephen Totilo of Kotaku comes to the table to discuss

The last few months have raised many questions about ethical practices within games media. This is a lengthy interview with Stephen Totilo the Editor in Chief of one of the largest gaming sites Kotaku, who will answer allegations of conflicts of interest and express his opinions on games media and its role in the industry.
Audio podcast version for download - https://soundcloud

Blacktric3465d ago

And all he does is give vague answers to everything.

I really shouldn't have expected more from someone who's working for the publication that releases such great articles about "women sh**ting themselves during intercourse" and "sexy watermelon butts".

WilliamUsher3465d ago

I love the part where Totilo loses spaghetti and skips over the Game Journo Pros blacklisting Allistair.

Ha, I tuned in just to hear how Stephen was going to spin that one. He couldn't.

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Dee_913465d ago

Kudos for Stephen (sort of ) addressing the issues.But of course, like his original response, he see no wrong.
"Kotaku investigated Kotaku and found Kotaku not guilty."
From the original article
http://kotaku.com/in-recent...

"On March 31, Nathan published the only Kotaku article he's written involving Zoe Quinn. It was about Game Jam, a failed reality show that Zoe and other developers were upset about being on. At the time, Nathan and Zoe were professional acquaintances. He quoted blog posts written by Zoe and others involved in the show. Shortly after that, in early April, Nathan and Zoe began a romantic relationship."

I think it was about a week afterwards to be precise.I guess Stephen optimism blinded him from the reality of that situation... They went from being "professional acquaintances" to knocking boots in a matter of days.. riiight. The text between her and disgruntled ex says otherwise, but eh, what ever.Keep denying eventually people will believe you Stephen... at least for your sake hopefully

turdburgler10803465d ago

I knew a girl who $#@£ the bed. She told her best friend and said "don't tell anyone." Sure enough she told everyone. It's a real thing. Worst of all the bed wasn't even their's lol.

Amuro3465d ago

this Totilo guy and Kotaku are a joke. I don't know what is their insistence in calling themselves "journalists" when they are clearly just a blog. Come clean like Destructoid did: http://blogjob.com/oneangry...

viperman2403465d ago (Edited 3465d ago )

Here's a follow up TB did with 8chan.

http://i.imgur.com/x169C6h....

Its a bit long, but the first couple paragraphs he wrote really hits home. As he said, we now have Stephen on record on all these issues, and he clearly doesn't see a problem with many things.

I guess that's Kotaku for you.

Theyellowflash303465d ago

Man, this dude Totilo dances around everything.

Kotaku has a lot of traffic, but the site is junk "at times."

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2626d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905071d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5071d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905071d ago (Edited 5071d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5071d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5071d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5071d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495071d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5071d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5071d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2662d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One