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The other day, I tried to recommend Disco Elysium to Kotaku traitor and noted single-player game hater Cecilia…
Oct 16 2019
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Little Town Hero, out October 16 for the Nintendo Switch, is a Game Freak role-playing game about a young boy who’s…
May 20 2019
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May 8 2019
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Stream long enough, and you become mercurial. Either that, or you watch the passion you once felt for your favorite…
May 2 2019
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In March of 2018, a group of role-players from Final Fantasy XIV’s Balmung world published the first issue of Wark!,…
Apr 11 2019
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On Twitch, Grand Theft Auto V role-playing is a full-on phenomenon. Every day, streamers pretend to be criminals,…
Mar 18 2019
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For the past five days, I’ve been glued to Twitch, unable to look away from the virtual car crash that is popular…
Oct 22 2018
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Most players adventuring in Final Fantasy XIV worry about what new piece of loot will drop from a difficult dungeon…
May 18 2017
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Zack Zwiezen
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If you visited the Twitch home page over the last week you probably saw the usual suspects: League of Legends, Hearth…
Mar 27 2017
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Mar 22 2015
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Yesterday on Twitter I bore witness to something amazing—nine hours of Twitter-based Five Nights At Freddy's…
Jan 27 2015
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Lewis Packwood
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Douglas Adams dreamt up the Starship Titanic in 1982 as a half-page gag in Life, the Universe and Everything, the…
Jan 10 2015
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Some hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition, long after I'd made it out of the Hinterlands, I realized something that…
Oct 18 2013
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When you think of LARP, or Live-Action Role-Playing, you probably think of people in armour running around a field…
Jul 5 2013
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West End and Wizards of the Coast had their go. Now it's Fantasy Flight Games' turn at tackling Star Wars tabletop…
May 21 2013
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I could not quote scripture in my late teens, but I could tell you how many gold pieces a 25 foot length of rope…
Jul 9 2012
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It's been a few years since I first started to suspect I might have a problem.
Jun 20 2012
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In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, likely inspired by the release of an MMO-themed Monopoly game, curious commenter Draco…
Sep 20 2011
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In the World of Darkness series of pen-and-paper role-playing games, when your character dies there's no coming…
Sep 7 2011
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When I was twelve years old my friends and I attempted to decipher the mysteries of Dungeons & Dragons. As I…