Image: Shift Up / Sony, Atlus, Kotaku / SB Arts Media (Shutterstock), Fellow Traveller, HoYoverse, Don’t Nod Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks, Screenshot: Paramount / Kotaku This week, debates raged about supposed censorship in Stellar Blade. We also took a look at the upcoming game from the makers of Life Is Strange, remembered how [...]read moreThe Stellar Blade ‘Censorship’ Row And More Gaming Opinions
Image: Square Enix Spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI and its expansions follow. Rarely has a game confused me as much as Final Fantasy XVI. Though I loved most of my time with it, thanks to its pulse-pounding action, heartfelt performances, luscious visuals, and impeccable score, it undoubtedly faltered. Final Fantasy 16 abandoned [...]read moreFallout 76’s Redemption Arc & More Gaming Opinions For The Week
2024 Toyota Sienna Limited AWD Image: Toyota The automotive world can be a strange one when it comes to opinions. Some people speak in such a matter-of-fact manner that you would swear what they’re saying is the truth, or at least they believe it to be so. And because of that, [...]read moreOld People Cars, Bad Opinions And Features You Can’t Live Without In This Week’s QOTD Roundup
Image: Molleindustria The goal of The New York Times Simulator, a new, free game, is simple: keep readers happy and don’t get shut down. It’s a problem any modern media outlet knows well. But this new game doesn’t just make you any old journalist struggling to make a living in today’s fraught media landscape. No, [...]read moreDestiny 2 Hype, Dragon’s Dogma 2 Hate, And More Gaming Opinions
Image: Square Enix I’m filling in some gaps in my RPG history. I’ve been playing series like Final Fantasy since I was a kid, but there are countless other landmark RPGs I’ve rarely touched, including the fantasy RPG Mana series, which splintered off of Final Fantasy Adventure in 1991. The only installment in the long-running [...]read moreSnow Day, & More Gaming Opinions
On this day 76 years ago, my ancestral village Beit Daras, located in the northern Gaza district of Palestine, then under the British mandate, was attacked by Jewish militias. The Nakba, or the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine, had already begun. The systematic torment, brutalisation and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias, aimed at establishing [...]read moreBeit Daras and Gaza: An intergenerational tale of struggle against erasure | Opinions
On March 7, the European Union and Mauritania inked a 210-million-euro ($227m) migration deal. The agreement was spearheaded by the EU and lobbied for by the Spanish government, which is worried about an uptick in undocumented migration to the Canary Islands. In January, more than 7,000 arrivals were recorded on the islands. The migration deal aims [...]read moreThe EU-Mauritania migration deal is destined to fail | Opinions
On February 29, an independent inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty police constable in London published its first damning report. The Angiolini Inquiry focussed on the “career and conduct” of the murderer Wayne Couzens, who used his police warrant card and police powers to convince Sarah to get [...]read moreThe problem with British policing is not ‘just a few bad apples’ | Opinions
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, more than 200 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed alongside numerous archives, universities, and museums. There have been reports of the Israeli army looting historical artefacts and even displaying some of them at the Knesset. Destroying Gaza’s heritage has far-reaching social, political, and emotional ramifications. It is a concerted attack [...]read moreWhy archaeologists must speak up for Gaza | Israel War on Gaza
On Friday, armed men stormed the Crocus Concert Hall outside Moscow, killing at least 137 people and injuring more than 100. A day later, President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation, promising to “identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists who perpetrated this atrocity”. Some observers may see this moment as history coming full [...]read moreHow will the Moscow concert hall attack affect Putin? | Vladimir Putin