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.

Samurai Shodown! The rebirth of classic SNK games has been great to see.  Read more

I wish! Who knows. Maybe someday.

RIP Compete. Read more

All the time. In fact I find it incredibly hard to start new games, even though most of the time I’m extremely interested and into it after the first hour or so. Outer Wilds is a good example. I’m still struggling with that game, because even though it’s been work to keep going, I trust everyone who’s told me it’s Read more

That’s a hard one! Hmmm, probably:

SteamWorld Dig
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Kokuga Read more

Climate change, or trying to run an interior design aggregation mill  Read more

I don’t have any insider info on this, but I can’t think of anything they’ve done publicly since the release of the Switch that makes me hopeful they will make that a priority. It’s possible that because of the hardware being built around Nvidia this generation of digital games won’t be left on an island, but there Read more

Camus in the first several rounds but a knockout by Sartre in the eighth.  Read more

I can’t speak to the hiring side, but the layoffs were a huge blow for me personally. I’m friendly with some of the writers who were let go and even the ones I’m not I’ve been following for years. It’s terribly to ever lose a job but the brutal and seemingly careless way GameStop management handled the process was Read more

You can go into the save data part of your system storage and go to the upload to the cloud part you can reach the settings to make it automatic.  Read more

It sounds like you’ll get boosted either way, so while you can still complete that stuff, you’ll be over powered Read more

Also, one of the cool asides about the game appearing in the show: it’s multiplayer for the scene so both characters can play simultaneously, but obviously the game is not. The Dark producers approached Deck 13 about including the game since it was also German and fit the vibe.

But since multiplayer would have made the Read more

It’s a slow burn, but the conspiracy that unfolds through the environmental story telling and audiologs as you progress through the world are extremely rewarding imo  Read more

I forgot about this one! Good point--everyone should check that out.  Read more