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RIP To Me, The Person Writing This, A Real One
23.7.2021
Are you allowed to call yourself a real one? No, I would argue, you are not. That pretty much immediately disqualifies you from being a real one, so I’m already off to a rough start here. But today’s my last day at Kotaku, so I consider it my solemn duty to close out my award-wanting “RIP To A Real...
Video Games Are Part Of Climate Change, Too
9.7.2021
It’s hot! I don’t just mean in the sense that I am sweating while my window AC unit does its best to gasp cool air into my apartment; I mean that it’s historically hot. Last month was the warmest June ever in North America. In honor of the increasingly agonizing heat death of the planet, this...
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
Pfft, The Medium Isn’t Even That Scary
19.4.2021
Full disclosure: I am a wimp. Horror games? Can’t do ‘em. So it is with a modicum of surprise that—and I say this hesitantly—a couple hours in, I’m not scared of The Medium. At least not yet.Read more
The Weight
8.4.2021
More than 20 years later, I can still remember my grandmother handing me the silver diet book with the cartoon cover and the sense that I needed to do something. I was probably around 13; the specifics have mercifully faded with time, but the cover and the feeling are burned into my brain. And...
Gina Torres on fighting demigods, flying through space, and the time she unofficially played Catwoman
17.2.2021
The actor: “Formidable” is often used to describe Gina Torres’ onscreen presence, whether she’s playing the unflappable second-in-command on a ramshackle spaceship on Firefly, a midriff-baring Sumerian princess on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, or a high-powered lawyer intent on making the most...
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14.2.2021
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13.2.2021
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32 Movies That Will Help You Chill the Eff Out
12.2.2021
This year was supposed to be better than last year, but apparently 2021 didn’t get the memo. The world is still just as tumultuous, and we’re all still just as frazzled by nerves, overwhelmed by the news, and desperate to find some kind of escape.Well, for the past year, we’ve had little else to...
Over 10 Hours With Bravely Default II
9.2.2021
Bravely Default II offers a return to a simpler time where heroes lined up on one side of the screen, fought monsters on the other side of the screen, and then rinsed and repeated until peace and tranquility were brought back to the land. I’ve spent over 10 hours with it, and while what I’ve played...
For The Streamer From The Last Of Us Bunny Meme, Virality Led To Death Threats Over Things She Never Did
4.2.2021
If Emme “Negaoryx” Montgomery’s chat moderator hadn’t gotten up to use the bathroom, 6 million people would not have seen what happened next. During a stream last week, a viewer asked Montgomery, “What color is your thong today?” Usually, Montgomery doesn’t acknowledge those sorts of messages....
Glitter, doom, and elephant sex: An oral history of Southland Tales
28.1.2021
In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of ’80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called Donnie Darko, first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously...