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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.

Great resources, thanks! I got into city pop and japanese funk/fusion through vaporwave, and it’s a blast discovering all these great artists I never would have known about otherwise. Read more

It really is. They added single-player boss battles earlier this year, but it would be great to see them start rolling out short campaigns that let the artists have some fun. Read more

Yup! Hearthstone is great for a quick fix but I really enjoy the slow burn of Duelyst/Gwent matches more. Read more

Holy crap, that’s awesome (and I’m jealous)! Read more

As a big fan of the show who would love to have seen it get more attention and more time, it’s probably true that without its astronomically small viewership and AMC’s pity it would have turned into a different, not as good show. Read more

Handheld DBZ games were surprisingly descent. Read more

I wanted to include everything for the sake of this particular discussion—Dragon Ball and DBZ, GT, etc., so I figured I’d stick with the most general title, although I full respect that within the different categories there are different bests. Read more

I played all three Tenkaichis on the Wii. My brother would stand their for hours flicking our hands the slightest amount necessary to trigger the combo. The “Z” movement ones were especially inconsistent. Read more

It reminds me of the Power Rangers fighting game—a traditional fighting game with the flavor of a beat’em up. It would be great if Bandai found a way to do an anniversary anthology like Capcom’s been doing for Mega Man. Read more

That’s one thing I love about this category of “what’s your fav”: for so many people it’s going to be a game that never got localized. When I interviewed the bassist Thundercat he mentioned how he learned to jailbreak his snes specifically so he could play DBZ games. Read more

I’m really digging it and was relieved to see it as having more in common with his earlier stuff. Read more

I still have one more mission in Death of the Outsider, but I’m having a really hard time dragging myself to the finish line. Read more

I watched the original again last night and I can’t get over just how immersive it is. It really feels like a window into another world, and in the Final Cut at least, it’s remarkable how well Scott was able to stop the movie from feeling like, well, a movie. Read more

That’s actually a topic that came up recently in the community. Basically, it will be up to each game and the mods for that speedrunning community to come to a decision, but there are a lot of games where people don’t make distinctions between virtual console/original console versions, as long as the differences are Read more