DAILY MANIFESTO

Hideki Kamiya vs. Kotaku

Posted on Wednesday, January 9 @ 12:55:55 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Hideki Kamiya is fucking pissed, and that's putting it lightly.

What could have been just an article written by Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis examining the general Japanese view on PC gaming and Steam was slanted by the sensational headline: "The Guy Who Made Bayonetta Is Clueless About About Valve and PC Gaming".

Anyone who follows Kamiya on Twitter knows that he's a bold, outspoken developer who ~~doesn't mince words~~ doesn't give a fuck. Just like Platinum Games, really. So being that "guy," he decided to take matter in his own hands by calling Kotaku "douchebags" outright on Twitter.

That's just the beginning of a multi-hit combo:

We all know, especially at Game Revolution, about the prevalence of click-grabbing headlines in video game journalism. Gettings hits through controversial or opinionated titles is part of the business, but that sometimes mars the integrity of a piece, no matter how well-founded it may be.

That said, calling a developer "clueless" about Valve when that same developer visited Valve several months ago and was quoted on it on Polygon is... not a good idea.

Since then, Kotaku has changed the title of the article to "The Guy Who Made Bayonetta Is Not Interested In Valve and PC Gaming. That’s Common In Japan." Unforunately, the article's original name can be found in the URL because it's already been catalogued as such in search engines. Only the more reason to get the title right the first time.

And now, a picture of Kamiya during his college years:

Tags: Twitter, Platinum Games

Comments

Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Kamiya is probably the most badass developer out there. If you put everyone else vs Kamiya, I'd still put my money on Kamiya.

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MandaloreHunter
Joined: Aug 2012

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 1:40 pm
Agreed, Kamiya is one bad arsed mofo

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Thumbs up for The People Speak.

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Keri_Honea
Joined: Dec 2011

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
I totally missed this drama when it happened. That is gold.

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MandaloreHunter
Joined: Aug 2012

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Haha! Like the Honeybadger, Kamiya Dont give a ****!

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oblivion437
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
His leather jacket is cooler than Kotaku could ever be. I don't trust a single thing they print unless multiple independent sources verify it. As Loltaku put it, they're way beyond regular told. They're in...No country for told men.

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Jessica_Vazquez
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Kamiya in college, wow.... I think I found my Halloween costume for next year.

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 3:10 pm
I can't stop laughing. "Do you eat ****?" If he got held up at gunpoint in a restaurant, I'm confident that I would have no trouble identifying his wallet.

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Jobin_Wendy
Joined: Mar 2012

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 9:06 pm
If he got held up in a restaurant, I think he'd be cooler than Jules and Vince combined, and turn that **** around real quick.

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oblivion437
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 5:11 am
"You robbin' me?"
"Y-yeah!"
"You ain't robbin' me!"
*British flag glove violence*
"Jules Pitt ain't got nothin' on me!"
*Somewhat confused Japanese chatter, mixed with applause*

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shandog137
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Terminator, michael jackson, clock work orange style is bomb! Please tell me the picture was taken in the 90's and he proceeded to give the lady next to him a british backhand...just because he could...even though she is his mom...that's bad ass

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LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
I am just going to say that Plunkett was being very unprofessional for trying to jazz up a story, and not making it a clearly marked editorial or op-ed piece.

Thats why I hate game journalism sometimes, most of it is just being yellow.

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LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 9th, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Excuse me, I mean Rich Eisebeis...still Kotaku is like Destructoid sometimes...and completely avoidable to me.

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oblivion437
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
It's entirely possible that the headline wasn't Eisenbeis' doing. If I were him I'd seriously start looking for a job with a more ethical employer. I wouldn't want my name attached to that kind of thing. If an editor imposed an attention-grabbing headline on my writing I would only be okay with it if 1) It was germane to the article 2) It did not in any way misrepresent the contents of the article 3) It did not in any way misrepresent the tone of the article. Run afoul of any of these three things and my work is no longer for sale for that outlet. I don't write professionally, though I would very much love to. But I won't even try to make a living of it if it requires I be unethical or mistreat interview subjects.

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Kassen
Joined: Aug 2012

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 7:07 am
When was the last time a GR journalist got into a fight?

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Heath_Hindman
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 7:27 am
Do you mean like a fistfight or an online journalism fight?

And do you mean with a developer/publisher or another journalist?

Also does it have to be within the context of Game Revolution?

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Kassen
Joined: Aug 2012

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 7:35 am
Any kind of fight.....wait a minute....one of you been in a fist fight?

Well id say it had to be within the context of gr but if you have a good story lets hear it ;-)

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Heath_Hindman
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Eh (before I worked at Game Rev) I got into some tumbles wit allrpg.com for a number of reasons. The first run-in with them, this guy Kurt Feng was plagiarizing my news stories. Any time I'd write a feature, he's have a post up within a day or two containing whole paragraphs of nearly identical wording. Private queries only lead to stealth edits so eventually I called them out.

Then later their writers (I forget the names of the second guy...Thomas something?) were using my Japanese translations without giving credit -- we're talking the days before Siliconera and before Andriasang, when this info was available nowhere else, and yet there they were with eerily similar posts, aaaalways a few hours or a day after me, like clockwork; even if I made a mistake or exaggeration, they would "coincidentally" do it too. I don't think any of those staffers are still at the site (or what remains of it), but man, they were *******s.

My fistfights ended with high school, thankfully.

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Kassen
Joined: Aug 2012

Posted: Jan 10th, 2013 at 11:57 pm
Cheers! What no other gr crew got any stories?

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