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.

It’s by no means a make or break thing, and it’s not going to make up for the Xbox One’s struggling slate of exclusives, but it’s kind of a no brainer to me. A lot of the people in my life play games and it would be great if I could send them digital codes every once in a while. Read more

I think Super Metroid on the Virtual Console was the first game I ever gifted someone. It’s wild to think Nintendo had made a point of doing it back then and then decided to drop it for the 3DS, Wii U, and now Switch (at least for now). Read more

I love books, comics, print media in general. Loosing instruction manuals is definitely one of the most disappointing changes in gaming over the last couple of decades, even if its understandable. It was always great to see original concept art and weird flavor text and random lore between explanations of complex Read more

Pokemon for sure. It’s the obvious answer but it’s one of my favorite series that’s most in need of a dire shakeup. Hopefully Game Freak is looking at how successful Nintendo was taking a sort of outside-the-box/back-to-basics hybrid approach with BotW and seeing what that would mean for Pokemon on the Switch. Read more

A Gacha-style Suikoden mobile game, although I’m pulling for Legend of Dragoon: Origins on the Vita 2. Read more

Fortnite is surprisingly good. Especially the Battle Royale mode. Hopefully we’ll have some coverage soon! Read more

Yea it’ll be a really nice feature to have. I only wish I could go Switch to PS4. Read more

I bought an Xbox 360 years after launch, refurbished from Gamestop. It was fine for a couple months and then red-ringed. I think actually had the packaging and slip in hand to send it back, but was so lazy I looked up how to bake it to soften the glue and fix it that way instead. Read more

I’d love to still see Planetside 3 happen. Who knows how this will all shake out. It’s very possible, as Daybreak claims, that it’s just one big miscommunication. Read more

Yes. At the end of the day it’s the artists and programmers who end up suffering for mismanagement and weird money games. Read more

It still feels like there will be a bigger overhaul when the next DLC hits Read more

Summer’s a great time to binge watch...
*checks wikipedia*
...90 hours of television Read more

I keep meaning to just pick a night I can devote completely to that which means I’ll probably go to my grave with that thing still on my hard drive and incomplete. Read more