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Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Senior reporter at Kotaku.

It’s more aerodynamic and also perfect for lazy animators who only need to draw blurry moving legs. Read more

I used to work in Customer Support for a F2P gaming company. The amount of money some people pour in is just horrendous. And though the companies are quick to deny this: The more you pay, the better the support you get, and you also get replies a lot faster, they were sorted in the ticketing system from most-paying to Read more

How exactly invisible does your child or finances have to be to have them spend $1000 a week on something and not notice it almost immediately in your account?  Read more

That’s a lot of names I haven’t heard in quite some time... Hanging with Rob$, Caveman, and the other Crystal City players back in the day was always exciting and full of laughs. The story above is pretty much how I heard them tell it way back in 2004/2005. Read more

What absolutely miserable human beings these people reporting her must be Read more

I never played two or three, but as a proud owner of my free Nintendo Power subscription copy of Dragon Warrior, I can’t imagine playing more than fifteen minutes of that game today. While the monster designs remain both charming and impressive for a NES game, the random encounters combined with the single player, Read more

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is my first DQ game and it’s seriously one of the most fun games I’ve played. Definitely plan on picking up XI:S when it drops later this month. Any recommendations on which ones to pick up out of these 3 (or all 3)? Read more

First NES game I ever rented. I was 6 years old and fell in love with the box art, thanks largely in part due to the thousands of fantasy novels my parents had collected.

The cart didn’t work, despite blowing all the air my young lungs could muster, and I never got to play it.

It’s been roughly 30 years since that 3

This is literally gamified Whisper. Read more

This would be a lot more convincing if he didn’t have an iron fucking cross on his collar come on man Read more

I … I don’t understand...
- dude makes anti-Semitic jokes
- dude gets shit for it, rightfully
- dude says he’s going to donate to ADL as a way to take responsibility
- some idiots on the internet don’t like this
- he decides not to donate to them, as a way to... take responsibility??

I feel like I’m missing a piece of logic Read more

So the next time this dude claims sincerity, we’re just supposed to buy it wholesale, right?

Real courage of your convictions there, Pewds.
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The fact that his fans think he was blackmailed into doing something like this says a lot about who he is as a person. They so strongly believe that he is the racist, hate-filled person they want him to be that they assumed an act of charity was coerced because it was so against his typical behavior. He should take Read more

Just goes to show, piracy and fan projects like this are what happens when consumer demand isn’t met by legitimate means. Read more

As a history buff this review excites me. From what I read it sounds like they captured the feeling of colonial expansion to a ‘T’ (whether or not you agree with it). It was a harsh time but it is what lead to the social change that came to be. Read more