I just always have to laugh about that Streisand lawsuit. The image had been downloaded 6 times, 2 of which were by her lawyers. In the month after the lawsuit received national attention it was downloaded 400,000+ times. 

The why is the big one here, someone commented in the previous article it’s the money (cue DJ Shadow sample). But I’d love to hear what other politics at play as well, and hopefully in time that will come out.

I’m hopeful that most of these vets who still have a few more games in their proverbial tanks will realign in…

One of the coolest moments I’ve experienced in my social gaming life, was sitting in the cold darkness of space with 1000 other fleet members, while our fleet commander played acoustic guitar and quietly sang over mic. 

The endboss is easier than those goddamn crabs.

If it helps, Smouldering Lake is a side area, so you can put it on hold and come back when you’re stronger.

Yeah, it’s pretty satisfying. I think you can play with up to three people. I’ve been playing alone, but I have a friend grabbing it too, so we’ll probably play.

I wish the sound effects were a bit meatier. They’re not bad, but the guns feel like they could punch a little harder.

As people have said, it’s relatively…

Do you write these ahead of time?

I need you to dial back the weekend productivity. I nap for half the weekend and you’re really making me look bad.

Gonna play It Takes Two with a friend this weekend. We also played their previous game A Way Out and I’m hoping this next game is just as fun a co-op adventure. I wish there were more of them...

Picked up Dungeon Defenders: Awakened and Monster Hunter Rise, so while I hope to play them this weekend along with Yakuza: Like a Dragon, this weekend will largely be spent painting my partner's office. I'm also expecting my new planer to come tomorrow, and I'd really love to set that up along with its cart.

After playing by myself for about 60 hours and failing to rope a friend into playing Wolcen, I have since been roped into playing Last Epoch. Which is silly, because it doesn’t even have multiplayer yet. It’s been good so far. I like the way the skills have their own skill trees and become pretty customizable, on top…

My physical copy of Hades arrived last Friday, so I’ve been chipping away at it for the past week. Fantastic game, and 100% deserves all the accolades that it has received (and should have received). I don’t like rogue-likes but Hades does so many things to fix the typical “git gud” issues that I’m thoroughly enjoying…

I’m doing a new game plus play through of Xenoblade 2 (incredible game), and I’m playing Dark Souls III for the first time after playing Demon’s Souls remake and Dark Souls Remastered recently (also an incredible game so far).

Coming soon to Kotaku’s voice-actor series: An interview with Medved, the Novgorod-based Eurasian brown bear behind your favorite video game bears.

I imagine there’s a library of animal sounds that a lot of games pull from, been more than a few games where I hear a sound and think “I’ve heard that exact sound clip before”.

You didn’t help in a little way - it’s more accurate to say you helped in many little ways that have added up to a larger whole. What’s the opposite of death by a thousand cuts? Grace from a thousand kindnesses? You (not just you Zack, but also all of Kotaku’s staff), your humanity comes through in your posts and your…

If you don’t end up liking Forspoken you may prefer the inevitable sequel Circumspoken.

Says you. I think Foreskin is a great name and I look forward to playing it.

It’s nice to see a woman of color as the main protagonist!

At first, the pandemic definitely provided an opportunity to catch up on some of my backlog and act as an escape during the uncertainty. As time went on however, I found myself having a more difficult time both staying focused while playing games and enjoying them as much as I once did.