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Side Quest, Episode 8: When Konami Blacklisted IGN Over Castlevania

"Unfair treatment."

Side Quest, Episode 8: When Konami Blacklisted IGN Over Castlevania

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Colin you may not realize, but Jim Sterling started the #fuckonami movement/hashtag during all of his reporting on their actions.

Jason Billingsley

Yeah Dan, I got all the trophies in LoS2 except for the arena challenges on the hardest difficulty. It was just too difficult and not fun at all

Brock Thomas Walsh

I thoroughly enjoyed LoS2 despite it's obvious shortcomings. I just really loved the combat and story enough to push through. I even enjoyed the crappy 3DS game, but neither of them hold a candle to the first

Brock Thomas Walsh

I got every achievement in Lords of Shadow, but gave up in the sewers on the sequel.

Don Wagner

The original Lords of Shadow was great. I have no idea, whatsoever, what they were thinking with the sequel.

Colin Moriarty

They're already down and out. No need to pile on! =)

Colin Moriarty

A little of both, I'd say.

Colin Moriarty

I'm glad to hear it! Thank you for watching.

Colin Moriarty

I like telling these stories!

Colin Moriarty

Great! Now I just gotta figure out what the video is gonna be... =)

Colin Moriarty

Thank you for watching! I'm glad it resonated with you.

Colin Moriarty

Another excellent episode of CLS - Sidequest. The first Lords of Shadow is one of my all time favorite games and my very first platinum trophy! Glad to hear you enjoyed it as well despite the poor treatment from Konami

Brock Thomas Walsh

Fuck Konami

Joshua Chap

Do you view Konami's actions as an attempt to influence reviews (warning to others) or just one guy's (maybe groups) petty vindictive actions?

Chris Holtzer

Fascinating video Colin! I definitely enjoy the behind the scenes stuff like this.

strawhatninja

Inside baseball stuff is my favorite aspect to games journalism, it’s always so fascinating, especially now that most people writing about games are turrible.

Michael Ferrari

Great story. Can’t wait for the next video!

Michael Akridge

Wow, I haven’t been glued to a video like that in quite sometime. Great job! Glad you’re back!

Anton Kaye

I'm not keeping up with its development, no. But I'll be all over it when it comes out!

Colin Moriarty

Great video Colin. Are you still keeping up with Bloodstained? I've never played a Castlevania type game. I'm excited to try it when it comes out.

Jimmy Valentine

I gave Konami a day and a half and Mercury Steam and Dave Cox nearly a day to respond. Not even to respond to actual questions or inquiries; merely to say they wanted to comment. If any had responded, I would have delayed the video to include their input. But I've still not heard from any of the parties.

Colin Moriarty

I love fascinating 'back' stories. Thanks for sharing, bud. (It sure would have been nice to have them respond, tight?!) But, onwards!) 😉

BettyAnn Moriarty

I've still not heard back from anyone I contacted, so I'm not holding out hope.

Colin Moriarty

I'm glad you enjoyed! It's a great relief to finally be able to tell this one.

Colin Moriarty

I have lots of good stories. I'll see what others I can tell as time moves on.

Colin Moriarty

Maybe one day. That's a ton of work!

Colin Moriarty

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say.

Colin Moriarty

I give Kotaku a lot of credit for being totally open and transparent about that.

Colin Moriarty

Very interesting.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Colin Moriarty

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

Thank you. I honestly didn't work with them very much at IGN. This was one of those extended periods of time, though, and they were incredibly petty and unprofessional.

Colin Moriarty

Where is he?!

Colin Moriarty

Mad Max ruled.

Colin Moriarty

I'm glad you enjoyed!

Colin Moriarty

You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!

Colin Moriarty

Thank you! Although I wish I was really talking about Castlevania, and not some unfortunate shit surrounding it. Ah well.

Colin Moriarty

Hallelujah!

Colin Moriarty

Get bitten.

Colin Moriarty

Very cool! It's too bad we can't hear comments from the other side

Alec Shaner

Stories like this are always worth the time it takes to hear them... I mean that as in, the time it takes for them to bubble up to the surface to be ABLE to be told. Thanks! Hope all is well.

Richard Straceski

So cool to hear this story. I’m sure you’re full of stories like this, most of which you probably can’t share. But hope you make more videos like this. So interesting.

Marius Skarsem Pedersen

this is what I'm talkin about. Love hearing these kind of stories. Would you ever consider doing more "History of..." developers? Some of the best game related writing I've ever seen.

Owen

Colin, this is an incredible piece of journalism. I’m quite taken back with exactly how good this is. Well done.

Anthony Wright

Also Bethesda & Ubisoft have blacklisted Kotaku b/c of Jason Schrier's scoops of finding early info on their games.

Jason Billingsley

The eastern block of Konami blacklisted Jim Sterling &amp; Destructoid around the same time as you, see Jim's video from almost 3 years ago. <a href="https://youtu.be/ynl4sIFazmM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ynl4sIFazmM</a>

Jason Billingsley

I could listen to stories like this all day. This is fascinating stuff. Loved the video!

Brent Lindquist

This is quintessential Colin! Great journalism!

Faremis Sound

Great episode and enjoyed the story. Konami in every story about them seems like such a slime ball company.

Eric S

The king is back.

Oakley Waldron

Haha, as I remember Colin's review of MGSV, "I'm playing MadMax". Anyways Konami seems to have the attitude, "We're "AAA" how dare you give us a low score."

Erhan Atesoglu

this was fun!

Joey Finelli

That was a great video. Just to hear about a world we all love so much and behind the scenes stuff was awesome. Thank you, as always!

It's been way too long since we last heard you talk about Castlevania. Keep it up, Colin!❤️

Moiz Khan

The heavens have opened, and bestowed upon us a beautiful CLS Side Quest video from a man from Long Island. Praise be to God.

Dylan Manuszak

Mm, vamps.

Steven Camilo


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