Games are becoming more mainstream – apparently. But if that’s the case, why does mainstream media continue to take potshots at gaming as a medium? We hook up with our counterpart Alex Kidman from Gizmodo to discuss.
Some exciting news: Starting tomorrow, we’ll have a weekend editor writing fresh stories, actively moderating your comments, and making sure the US posts are properly polished. Kotaku AU will be humming seven days a week! But that’s not all the news we’ve got to share…
Today is my birthday – today I turn 30 years old. Turning 30 is hard. Leaving your 20s behind, embarking on a new era of life, getting older. But I came into my office today to the best birthday present in history – all thanks to the amazing community here at Kotaku [sob] .
Both myself and Nick Broughall, from our sister site Gizmodo, managed to get hold of Kinect early this week, and we’ve been messing around with it for the past couple of days. So we thought we’d do a quick little convo, just to let you know our early impressions from both a tech and a gaming perspective. Let us know what you think below – has anyone picked up Kinect yet? Impressed? Disappointed?
Last week, you had your say on the future of Kotaku – and while I’ll only be here for a few weeks, I vowed to try out new things based on your suggestions. The beauty of it is, if it’s successful, it can stay. If it’s not, you can just blame it on the ol’ Jungster.
So, what sort of new things can you expect?
You know we love you, right? Cos’ we do. We love you like a obese child loves chocolate cake, with choccie chips and lotsa, lotsa cream. And you know we’d do anything for you, right? Say, if you had a blog, we’d nominate for you in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Fo sho.
So please take a few minutes from your very hectic and important life of gaming to nominate us, Kotaku Australia, for Best Australia/NZ blog 2008.
See, we love you so much, we even included the link.
