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Kotaku's Brian Crecente: "Adieu"

Brian Crecente writes, "After writing 11,296 stories for Kotaku I find myself at a loss for words as I write this, my last for the site."

TurretKiller4495d ago (Edited 4495d ago )

Funny how on the entire Gawker network people seem to be leaving, some well known, others nobody seems to know have gone...they should have never changed the layout on the site, I think the new design hit them the hardest.

I think it's going down hill for them and people are leaving while they can. Just my opinion anyway

Andronix4495d ago

It used to be one of the sites I visited daily. However the redesign was horrendous. Comically bad because it made it hard to read, and hard to find articles. The fact that they now offer readers a choice on how to view it shows they are not sure what is best.

Mostly bias, and poor fact checking but with occasionally great in depth pieces. But they currently have a 'feature' comment on whether they like a game or not without having played it.

I hope New editor Stephen makes some good changes and I will give it another try.

MasFlowKiller4494d ago

Brian Crecente is whats wrong with this Media, am not sad to hear this at all

Megaton4495d ago

Good riddance. I think another Kotaku stooge just moved over to GameTrailers. Might be some big changes coming within Gawker.

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Pozzle4495d ago

Now can they get rid of the guy who writes those useless "LOL isn't Japan weird? This has nothing to do with gaming, let's all laugh at Japan cos they're weird!" articles.

bligmerk4495d ago

That is Brian Ashcraft or bashcraft. The weird thing about him is he has a japanese wife, lives and works for a japanese publishing company and all he seems to do at kotaku is dig up every pervert corner of the japanese pr0n market. Wow, the japanese have a pr0n market, how weird, so weird he has to dig into every nook, cranny, bar girl and prostitute. Kraptaku is more descriptive.

Pozzle4495d ago

Very true. I wouldn't mind the Japanese culture articles if they were actually about Japanese culture. But he seems to come up with any excuse to talk about Japanese porn, irrelevant and little-known popstars (like that girl who puts cats heads in her mouth), or transsexuals...even if they have nothing to do with gaming. It gives off such a negative and weird perception of Japan, when the country itself isn't really like that at all. Sure it has it's share of weird shit, but it's not the strange porn and transsexual filled kooky land that Kotaku makes it seem.

Baka-akaB4495d ago

Maybe Kotaku will be worth reading then , but i'm not holding my breath , with that horrible layout and some mediocre writers still around

jeeves864495d ago

The thing is, Kotaku doesn't always call themselves a gaming website. They claim that they focus more on culture rather than on gaming, yet a lot of times they fall back on their gaming website lineage. I don't read it particularly because of their fascination with all things Japan. I totally understand that people like Japan, but these guys seem to poke at it just because people know weird stuff happens in Japan.

The new EiC is planning to make Kotaku 'the place to go for gaming news.' Well let's see if that pans out.

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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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Takwin2624d 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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Godmars2905069d ago

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

Demons Souls5069d ago

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

Godmars2905069d ago (Edited 5069d 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.

ClownBelt5069d 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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Tripl3seis5069d ago

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

Jack-Pyro5069d 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.

Anon73495069d 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.

RedDevils5069d ago

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

ThanatosDMC5069d 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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Bismarn2659d 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