Ethan Gach's discussions

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Ethan Gach
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Senior reporter at Kotaku. Have a gaming industry tip? You can reach me securely at ethangach@protonmail.com.

Those were the days. And now I feel old. Read more

Yea it feels like it could be as chaotic as FFXV. Read more

When the ice caps are all gone you can bet that this is exactly the kind of game I’ll wanna escape to. Read more

Good point! In that respect it’ll be really interesting to see what they can do with the Materia system in a real-time action setting, e.g. different Materia could augment one another in some way similar to Transistor. Read more

Welcome to a black hole filled with For Honor gifs. Read more

It’s really escalated the craziness of some of the end game stuff, which I think puts interesting pressure on teams to try and push their advantages earlier instead of hoping to manage the late game with all its new chaos. Read more

A lot of good answers in this thread, but basically, yea, it’s a grey area, as there are lots of different patents that go into hardware design. But patents only last 14-20 years depending on the type, unlike copyright (which is what the games themselves fall under) which lasts much longer. Read more

I remember the first time I saw a Pump machine and my brain could not make sense of the layout. Read more

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll try to fix that. Read more

It depends on the league and the organizer. But like drug-testing in other sports, its prone to false positives and doesn’t catch everything. Read more

Yea I’ve heard only great things, which is impressive given the saturation in the Dark Souls-y genre and also how many different chefs were in the kitchen throughout the game’s development. Read more

Agreed—it feels like it brings a lot more of the mindset of a strategy game with a lot more room for different things to happen. Read more

Got tickets for the tour when he hits Philly next month. So stoked. Read more

The The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam EP is pretty good but the newest album is out soon and going to be dynamite. Read more

It’s been great to see so far, I only wish the pro league seasons weren’t so short. Read more