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Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Senior reporter at Kotaku.

I would argue that everyone stops buying yearly iterations of the same game. Read more

If you’re mad about this you are a garbage human being. Especially in a game already loaded with product placement and egregious microtransactions. Read more

I think it’s important when thinking up a character like this that, like hundreds of Shonen manga have taught us, self confidence alone will defeat Cell with time to spare for dinner. Read more

The third paragraph is the most important. If everyone is playing joke characters its fine. But people do this type of thing in full campaigns and it can incredibly destructive and anti-fun. Read more

Uh, is it just me or does that actually look kinda awesome? Read more

I cannot put in words how exciting this is to me right now! This game has gotten so far, I’m really happy that they turned this ship around. Every big update is just a cornucopia of new options.  Read more

As a Lucina main, that...was a thing of beauty. *wipes tears away* Read more

ProtoBanham was a straight demon. Samsora match against him was amazing Read more

Good move. Games and their related streamers don’t stay relevant forever. Better cash in on big exclusivity deal while you can. Read more

My partner and I played around with him for a while last night and had a ton of fun! The level of chaos led to a lot of very exciting moments (like a lucky Snooze into a fully charged critical smash, or a perfectly timed last-stock Magic Burst) without ever making the character feel too overpowered. Read more

I hope Banjo and Kazooie make you answer multiple choice trivia questions before you preform their moves. Read more

Wow, this hits home. We hired a designer last year who has been an awesome addition to our team. We don’t do games, but we are in a field that has some overlap, so we sometimes get candidates who are from the game industry.

We’d been working with this new designer for 6 months before it came out that at their last Read more

Thoroughly interesting read, thank you Cecilia! Read more

Can’t wait for a Smash tournament to end with a kamikaze win. Read more

There is little dignity involved with being a prostitute who’s salary is dependent on exploiting lonely people out of their money. Read more