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

Given EA’s tendency to turn everything into a basic TPS, I shutter to think what they would do should they get the hankerin for a KOTOR remake. I’m thinking it’ll play more like the Force Unleashed than it would the stat based game the original was.
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I’ll just sit over here, getting killed by Dark Wraiths that don’t like to be staggered.
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Doesn’t the pontiff’s life bar drop twice? Or is that just a glitch in the gif?
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...But you can save boards courses locally on your Wii U right? RIGHT??? Read more

Excuse me but, WHAT THE FUCK?!? I bought both a DK1 (after the kickstarter) and DK2, pre-ordered retail in the first few minutes the it was available. I’ve got an end of May, beginning of June estimate..and now people are just going to be able to walk into a Best Buy this weekend and leapfrog my pre-order? It’s Read more

My vive arrived last week.
I canceled my Rift pre-order, not because it’s not likely to be a good product but simply because a two month delay off my pre-order time is unacceptable. Read more

I’m a lawyer who has gotten trademarks, as well as sent out these types of letters. On the one hand, I am a little amazed the USPTO gave out a trademark for “Wasteland.” That’s pretty generic and I’m sure the word has been used in many video games in the past. Read more

Since according to these lawyers, words seem to confuse people, all future games will just be a unique number starting with the next released game. Read more

Playing through Dark Souls 2... and the hitboxes are STILL really bad. I keep teleporting into grabs and struck by blows that clearly are nowhere near me.

My favourite example of this is the Pontiff in DS3. Saw someone just use a sitting gesture to make all the swings go over his head. Read more

While From does not get a free pass on their coding issues, it takes a really unpleasant asshole to spend hours ruining other people’s free time. Read more

As a digital only buyer it sucks how digital games don’t go down in price as much as physical games go down in price. Read more

Starhawk is an underrated gem. One of my favourite titles from the last generation. Read more

Y’all’s rivalry is the best thing to happen to the Wii U. Sold me on Mario Maker. Read more

As someone who beat Dark Souls - offline - three times, twice legitimately and once with mods... I preferred the one with the mods that made the game “easier”. Read more

Civility and Souls fanboys have a hard time co-existing. I wouldn’t could on it. Read more

That’s awesome. I’m surprised nobody wrote about that “Waluigi Amiibo Please” sign at this year’s Wrestlemania. (Green sign)

So here’s how to get automatic, incremental, _versioned_ backing up of your save to anyone on Windows 8, 8.1 or 10: Read more

I love the “thank you for supporting Dark Souls III” at the end.

It’s like ED-209 saying “thank you for your compliance” after it’s riddled you with machine gun bullets. Read more