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.

I’m only about an hour in but enjoying it so far. Gotten closer than a lot of recent SRPGs to scratching that PS1-era itch.  Read more

Oh and to kick off this thread on a less downer note, here’s an obvious bit of lore that I nonetheless was completely oblivious to and has really helped bring me closer to the wonderful world of Pokemon Read more

Curious, which games didn’t have cloud saves? Read more

I don’t know Rocksteady has spent over a decade making great DC games and had a lot of time to make this one unless it becomes clear that Suicide is also trying to be a top-down live service game.  Read more

Still don’t think they’d talk Harry Potter at an event called DC fandome Read more

It really is corny but these are strange times we live in.  Read more

That is correct! I finally picked up Blurays of MSG and have been slowly working through the series in order this summer. Read more

Yea, to be honest this would have been perfect for back when the shutdown began. It takes a bit of getting used to but Rocket League is one of the few games my gaming and non-gaming friends will both play together.  Read more

Yes. When the update hits later this summer (exact date not announced yet) it’ll be free on consoles and PC.  Read more

I’m going to take the additional time to platinum Destiny 1 Read more

I didn’t get a ton of time with it but it’s pretty smooth, except instead of island hopping your mostly hugging the coast to raid enemy settlements or exploring by traveling up river. The ships smaller, but feels more intimate as a result, and you can finally set it to auto-pilot if you want.  Read more

Yea, unfortunately nothing in my demo let me mess around with any of the settlement stuff. Hopefully you can spend as much time farming and fishing as pillaging the neighbors.  Read more

It is very small in the scheme of the current $16 billion number going around. But while it maybe doesn’t get Sony a big stake, maybe Epic can do a lot with that $250 million on-hand?

I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on this side of the business but it certainly seems like a bigger move for Epic than on the Read more

Yes, one thing that I think is important to stress that we know about some of these issues at Ubisoft Toronto because people there have decided to speak up and demand they improve. That doesn’t mean these problems aren’t entrenched in other game studios, just as they’re entrenched across a lot of workplaces outside of Read more

In the wave of allegations of misconduct a couple weeks ago, a number were about Ubisoft employees, including the two named above. Ubisoft appears to be trying to use the the Friday night before a holiday weekend to cut some people lose ahead of its July 12 press conference.  Read more