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

This hasn’t been my experience at any outlet—period. However, I have worked at places where certain games would show up later because they had a feeling how our review would end up. Read more

Also known as video games journalism vs. PR, the eternal battle. Read more

I didn’t include Microsoft-owned games because it seemed like a given. Read more

Please feel free to share some of your favorites! Her Story is just what got me thinking about this. Read more

I’ve been looking into reporting a larger feature about PC versions/ports, so we’ll see! Read more

The “eight weeks” rumor comes from someone scraping the game’s Steam DB profile. When a game shows up on Steam’s database, however, does not directly imply when a game started development. It simply reveals when Steam integration has been brought into the game, so it’s a completely unreliable metric when it comes to Read more

Any recommendations on overclocking? I hear people have safely moved their 970 into nearly 980 territory. I’ve never messed with overlcocking, but wouldn’t mind using this an excuse to experiment... Read more

Rocksteady does not choose when their game ships, Warner Bros. does. You cannot blame anyone but Warner Bros. in this situation, full stop. They chose to ship this game. Read more

I suspect it’s the final Dark Souls game, allowing them to move into a new “age” and reinvent the formula a bit. Or, at the very least, ditch the current medieval aesthetic that’s aging quickly. Read more

Kinja has been broken every since this post went live, forcing me to relive this typo for an hour. Read more