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Patrick Klepek
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Senior reporter at Kotaku, streaming Mario deaths at youtube.com/patrickklepek

Right now, the sourcing on what happened is speculative and hardly official. If I’m able to provide more information that I’m confident about, I will. Read more

The current information available is enormously speculative. Read more

Did you forget The Witcher 3 comes out in just a few weeks?! Read more

The fallacy of GamerGate is also contextualized in this line: “but that’s actually what most GGs are concerned about.” How would you actually go about proving “most”? By being an anonymous group that’s opposed to formal organization or outward hierarchy, you cannot by any measure say “most” anything. This group cannot Read more

I’m not saying it was (or will be) an easy bug to fix, but when you decide to charge full price for a brand-new version of a game, you had better have a good reason for why this wasn’t addressed. Read more

That was a fan theory—or, at least, fans trying to rationalize why it would work that way. One theory speculated the console versions at sub-60 FPS were the ones actually glitched. Read more

Oh, good point. Since the trailer just came out, I took that to mean he meant this coming winter. Read more

When straight characters express love/sexuality, it’s normal! When gay characters express love/sexuality, it’s pandering! Read more

You think that’s something to address in a major overhaul to the engine—Scholar of the First Sin—that you’re charging full-price for! Read more

The dual maces in power stance just WRECK fools. It’s definitely OP. Read more

You could buy the original game, which is still available on Steam, but I wouldn’t recommend it. This version look so much nicer! You’ll be okay. Read more

Yeah, I’m with you. The exact same thing happened to me. I felt cheated, but the impact was still brutal. Read more

This game is full of tired cliches, but for whatever reason, it feels honest enough to work. Read more

That was my bad. I’ve fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out. Read more