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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.

This is a rally interesting observation.   Read more

For real. Someone had to render those nips. Read more

Error on my part unfortunately, it comes out next month in Japan but doesn’t have a Western date yet. Read more

Totally agree with that point (which a lot of other comments are making) that this is a big missed opportunity. DBFighters has drawn in a lot of new fans/players who don’t usually get involved in Dragon Ball Z games and so it’s a real opportunity to sort of break the mold established by the Tenkaichi and Xenoverse Read more

I still think the best way to play this game at this point is on the SNES Classic, unless Nintendo gets the original via the upcoming Switch subscription program.

The pixel art and music are both gorgeous, something the remake completely scraps. Sword of Mana was a great remake of the original Mana game (Final Fantasy Read more

It can offer a cool and different aesthetic. Especially as screens get more detailed, exacting, and vibrant, it’s nice to see more archaic forms, either because of the times they remind us of or simply the feeling that comes from getting to see the artifice and limits of technology.

I’m a big retro media geek to be Read more

It’s the studio’s first outing since it was formed from in part ex-Avalanche Studios people, so it’s far from clear how the end game will turn out. But I’m looking forward to it an unreasonable amount, even if it turns out to be a weird euro jenk-fest like Piranha Bytes ELEX, a similarly ambitious but flawed Read more

No it doesn’t, and nothing in the game should take away from those facts. Read more

His logic was similarly one-sided when talking about people being too trigger happy, blaming the culture of celebrating death allegedly promoted by popular media for slain police officers but not unarmed victims of police shootings. Read more

It’s definitely something PC players are likely to put up with and hold tight, but when your disc is on sale on store shelves a whole other standard comes into play. Read more

You’re first mistake is joining party chats with 15-year-old vapers Read more

Yes, good clarification. Part of the only draw I can see to playing through subsequent times (let alone once) is to build out your weapons/hideouts/stats. Unfortunately you blow through the hardest challenges so easily so early on it all feels beside the point. Read more

Yea the wolves, tigers, etc. are no joke. Occasionally you’re run into very over powered bandits in the woods too, but it’s extremely rare. Read more

I’ll defend Shadow of the Colossus any day of the week. Read more

It has changed a lot. I recently picked D2 back up to see how my memory of it compared and it’s rough but also pure in a way (though D3 and later games obviously improved on it a lot).

The game definitely plays like a hail mary that only might have worked if the studio resources were there. Read more