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Stephen Totilo
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Former Editor-in-Chief. Kotaku forever!

I’ve barely seen any Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (just Iron Man 1 and Black Panther) and that’s despite reading tons of comics from Marvel and others. Not sure if that counts, but some find it weird that I love all these comics and don’t care at all about seeing the movie versions. Read more

It’s going to be niche until it doesn’t require strapping a thing to your face that physically blocks the outside world. The moment they can give you glasses that you can wear comfortable and see through but then just switch them to occluding the outside world and have you in VR, then it’ll be good to go. I think. Read more

1) Keep doing good work that lots of people read and watch and hope whoever pays us sees value in that. Hard to say what else we could do. Read more

Some rural areas do have speedy internet and some cities have pretty slow connections (it ain’t so great here in New York). PC gaming seems to be doing ok without much physical media. Fortnite is huge without (ever, right?) shipping on a disc. Seems like those days could be coming if not for the fact that games keep Read more

I’ve been a reporter for quite some time, but right before that I worked on TV shows at Vh1, where I planted a time capsule of irony by co-creating Hulk Hogan’s reality show. But I always wanted to be a reporter or editor and hope to never have to do anything other than that.  Read more

I was reviewing the most recent Prince of Persia and had a glitch right before the final boss. The game is fairly short, so I went back and started from scratch , only to realize well after the fact that there was some hidden trove of auto-saves accessible on either the 360 or PS3. I can’t even remember which format I Read more

It’s a pain, because more than games on any other format I find myself having to talk about the economics of the game, too. Mobile gaming is the sector of the medium that most transparently intertwines an effort to amuse you with an effort to get you to part with your money, and the fact that so many popular (and Read more

More outlets on stronger financial footing doing great work, as more competition is good for everyone.  Read more

Time management. It’s very easy to let something slip to the back burner as other news developers. Keeping up with sources is on the one hand very easy to do but also very easy to let slide. But keeping up with sources is integral to advancing stories and finding new ones. Read more

Ask around about as many stories as we can to as many people as we can, but we can’t tackle every story. Read more

Weekends are a work in progress. We don’t have more to share just yet. Sorry! Read more