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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Shield You From The Cold
15.12.2023
It’s that time again: We’ve arrived at the weekend after another long series of cursed weekdays, and that, hopefully, means it’s time to get some gaming in.Read more
I Miss Smashing Gears Of War In One Weekend With My Bestie
21.8.2023
Like most people who play and love games, I’ve got so many memories of moments with them that have stuck with me over the years. Watching my sister beat Final Fantasy VII for the first time on the TV in the living room of the house we grew up in. Begging my grandma for the Xbox 360 she finally...
You're Solid Gold, I'll See You In Hell
14.7.2023
It feels weird to be writing one of these. Lord knows I’ve read enough of them over the last 17 years. But it’s finally my turn: today is my last day at Kotaku.Read more
You're Solid Gold, I'll See You In Hell
14.7.2023
It feels weird to be writing one of these. Lord knows I’ve read enough of them over the last 17 years. But it’s finally my turn: today is my last day at Kotaku.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077, A Game As Broken As I Was, Helped Me Bid Farewell To Closeted Life
7.6.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 launched as a broken game. But as someone who was going through the early work of gender transition during a world-stopping pandemic at the time, it somehow made sense that the big-budget, mega-popular video game everyone was so hyped about was also falling the fuck apart. Read more
The Week In Games: Twisted Therapy And Toy Soldiers
16.5.2023
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Spanish rehab center adds crypto trading addiction to services list
6.2.2023
The rehabilitation center estimates that about 1% of cryptocurrency traders will develop an "extreme" addiction to crypto trading
Welcome To Kentaku
12.12.2022
Oh, hi. I didn’t see you there. I’m Kenneth Shepard, Kotaku’s new staff writer.Read more
My OCD Doesn’t Want Me To Play Horror Games, But I Do It Anyway
27.10.2022
It’s difficult to know how to start talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder, the debilitating anxiety condition that has made persistent laps around my life for 14 years, like a flickering koi fish, and I’m the swampy backyard pond.Read more
PowerWash Simulator Is Getting Me Through Covid
25.7.2022
It’s certainly fair to accuse me of being a latecomer when it comes to Covid-19. Despite the pandemic being my number-one source of crippling anxiety for the last two-and-a-half years, it’s taken me this long to actually contract it all for myself. And pow, it’s taken me out hard. To which I say:...
Your Boy’s Here, So Let’s Get Real
14.9.2021
What’s up, Kotaku? I’m Jeremy Winslow, your second Black staff writer, and while I hustled for this spot and know that I earned it through years of hard work and dedication, part of me still can’t believe I actually made it here.Read more
Therapists Are Reckoning With Eco-Anxiety
15.4.2021
Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was 2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His partner wanted one, but the young man couldn’t stop envisioning this hypothetical child growing up...
The Undeniable Legacy of Anti-Asian Violence
17.3.2021
It takes at least 30 minutes to drive from Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Acworth, Georgia, to the nondescript block in the northern Atlanta suburb of Buckhead where one can find another cluster of Asian massage parlors, including Gold Spa and Aromatherapy Spa. On Tuesday, according to local...
Novartis Gene Therapy Treatment Might Cost Much Lower than $5 million to $4 Million
23.5.2019
Swiss drug manufacturing behemoth Novartis has almost always been at the cutting edge of drug research and one of the most ambitious projects that the company had embarked on in recent years was the one related to gene therapy. Gene therapy is needed to treat spinal muscular atrophy and consists...