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In the latest episode of Fave This, Gita Jackson and Maddy Myers talk about the never-ending debate around games like Bayonetta. What do people miss when they obsess over whether or not something is ‘sexist’? Beyond their lurid character designs, what do games like Nier: Automata and Soul Calibur actually say or… Read more
On Super Bowl day, I wasn’t all that interested in the outcome of the football game. I was excited for something…
Last weekend, I spent hours chasing after a single elusive strawberry in Celeste. Over and over again, I kept dying…
Nintendo’s upcoming grand experiment with cardboard is unexpected enough that people have reacted dramatically to…
In the first Fave This podcast of 2018, Gita Jackson and I discuss the controversy around fans shipping Rey and Kylo Ren as a couple in Star Wars (31:08) what the No Man’s Sky community is up to, and where open world games go next. Listen below. Read more
Often, video games are about making decisions, and you won’t always make the right one. Sometimes, there is no right…
There’s a new episode of Fave This, featuring Alex Bedder, who takes care of Kotaku’s social media. We talk about his new show, TL;DR, why gay gamers are really into Super Mario Odyssey, the pageantry of awards shows and why we both love The Room. You can grab the MP3 here.
Breath of the Wild makes you care about Zelda by making her pain palpable. By that measure, Zelda’s journey is a…
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On today’s episode of Fave This, I’m joined by special guest Danika Harrod from Waypoint. In between talking about…
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The folks behind EasyAntiCheat, a service that stops people from cheating in video games, deal with one of the…