Ethan Gach

Rule of Rose Is Now 10 Years Old And Still Savagely Twisted

I was young when I saw the not-at-all good 1990 adaptation of Lord of the Flies, but the scene where Piggy dies is still etched into my memory. It’s the first time I can remember seeing kids kill other kids on screen. Since then, Battle Royale and The Hunger Games have made the concept much…

Focus Wins Over Flair In This Morning’s StarCraft II Tournament

“ByuN” Hyun Woo took home just under $35,000 after winning the GSL (Global StarCraft League) Season 2 finals earlier today in South Korea. You can watch him almost completely dominate his hot-shot opponent, Kim “sOs” Yoo Jin, across five separate matches below. The technologically advanced Protoss, helmed by sOs, took on ByuN’s brutish space marine…

Steins;Gate is now on Steam. Richard Eisenbeis called the game “simply a fantastic visual novel” when he first reviewed it and I have to agree. So go send emails into the past and watch the diabolic horror that ensues, if you’re into that sort of thing. The follow-up, Steins;Gate 0, is already out in Japan

Hey Kotaku, It’s Me, Your New Weekend Editor

What keeps you up at night? The fear of failure? The fear of success? Bills to pay? That one exotic engram you can never seem to find? It’s a weird question to ask so early on a Saturday Morning, I know. I began this introduction the night before. I thought it would be easy to…