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

Fair enough—I’ll add it—but the speedrun isn’t the important part here, really. It’s just never been done. It could have taken him three hours and it was still amazing. But point taken! Read more

Huh? The video is labeled June 7.

I’ve gone ahead and altered the story to reflect that. I’m not an MMO player, so that was unfamiliar to me, but Wander has all sorts of other problems worth pointing out. Thank you! Read more

You could theoretically farm high-level mutigens, but you can already do that if you’re fighting level 27 enemies, really. Read more

Have you thought about how to deal with stream sniping in SpyParty? Essentially, what’s to stop people from tuning into a game and cheating? Read more

I think about that sometimes. There may be stories better expressed through other mediums, but as more people grow up learning how to design games, they’ll just happen through there because that’s what people know. Read more

I thought the Dark Souls endings were OK, but the Dark Souls 2 ending left me cold. Read more

Some people are telling me it’s randomized. I tweaked the story to reflect that, don’t want to cast aspersions on a game that doesn’t deserve it, when I’m merely pointing out a pattern. Read more

I suspect we’ll see a swing in the other direction soon enough. It’s been several years of horror games without guns, and we’re due for someone to tackle that again. Read more

We’ve done lots of Kickstarter follow-up in the past. Here are a few pieces! Read more

People wanting to use a useful, convenient feature that’s bragged about by Microsoft is...lazy and pathetic? You have pretty low standards for that, buddy! Read more

There’s no better copy editor than the readers of Kotaku. You people are terrifyingly fst. Read more