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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 story is actually important for a lot of reasons that are still relevant (disclaimer: I work with these people and on these stories.) Here’s the original report:
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I for one am shocked a brick and mortar retailer that sells physical video games and funko pops isn’t doing well in the year 2023. Read more

But wait, there’s more! To dig into the nitty gritty of battle passes for a second, some rank-up rewards will contain cosmetics while others offer a resource called Smoldering Ashes. These can be used to purchase various Season Blessings that let you earn extra XP, Gold, or Obols (used to purchase loot from the

As a former Neversoft 3D modeler, I am blown away by this. We worked incredibly hard to make all the props, environments and characters. I was largely responsible for guitar and other instrument models on GH3 and then when we added the ability to change textures we increased the instrument team to three people. Read more

More reviews by Toby, please. My new favorite Kotaku reviewer. Read more

Want to say, this list is fine but some missing things I want to add.
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hi! former kotaku and (until a few hours ago) current launcher reporter here, and I just wanted to say this is pretty much exactly correct. leadership never gave us the resources we needed, and promotion of even our biggest/best stories was sporadic at best. loved having the time and space to report out good stuff, Read more

I wouldn’t go that far. Dishonest and untrustworthy sure, still it’s hard to feel any sympathy for the companies he broke his legal agreements with. Ubisoft and their 67 new AC games can fuck right off. Read more

So basically he’s a scumbag.  Read more

this looks like an entirely different game and i’m not sure i’m interested. Read more

While always good. I hope that means money and action. Read more

I’m not going to respond to any of the depraved, unhinged trolls here but i will say this: The new, explosive, emerging era of P2E is here, already, and it isn’t going to go away. Ever. You either “get it” or you don’t. Clearly, Mr. Gach... You don’t. That’s ok. There were plenty of Read more

hmm interesting, ill have to get my stock fish to look over the details
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Congratulations. I’m looking forward to your articles. Read more

Reminds me of a tweet I wish I saved when Tetris VR and Tetris 99 released on PS4 and Switch. They tweeted: Read more