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Kotaku Staff Writer | Zack Zwiezen is a writer living in Kansas. He has written for GameCritics, USgamer, Kill Screen, HardDrive, & Entertainment Fuse.

Is it really a surprise that fully immersing yourself in a world that exists solely to block out the real world and keep you captive to work is a bad idea? I mean, isn’t that the concept that Severance is taking to the extreme?  Read more

Before I ever actually played a Metroid game seriously, I was shown “Metroid Metal” by a friend and fell in love. I loved the music of the series before I loved the games and a lot of the draw for me to actually play the games was because of the love put into those cover tracks. I’m sure this experience isn’t unique, Read more

I don’t understand their goal. They seem insistent on coming down hard on their biggest fans while not really keeping up with modern gaming technology.  Read more

Kojima should be like …

Some people need a reminder that game developers are companies, not your friends. They exist to wring money out of you and if they can get even more by forcing you to buy new hardware, all the better.
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Bummed out is getting ice cream after dinner because you got a parking ticket. Starting a petition to cancel a project that has nothing to do with you is deranged. Read more

Man elements in fandom are just pathetic. When people say this fandom is toxic or that fandom is toxic they miss the point. All fandom is toxic, these sad people with their sad parasocial relationship where they’ve invested so much of their identity into the product a person who doesn’t know then and doesn’t care Read more

This is leaked concept art for Sonic Frontiers

Maybe they could, you know, explain it and help us understand what it is….? Read more

even if all of his famous catchphrases are just stolen from popular movie characters.

That is definitely an odd choice, but it might actually be interesting to see what the Cobra Kai people do with it. Read more

Soon Duke Nukem Forever won’t be the worst part of the franchise. Read more

I’m glad to know that this SR game’s character creator is just as powerful as the previous games for letting me create horrific monstrosities, such as nosferatu and pumpkin-headed goblins. Read more

Just from that linked clip he seems so obnoxious I’d almost enjoy if he lost everything on this… Read more

i should add that the guy in the unboxing video, john alvarado, also has a very interesting social media presence