kotaku game diary
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My Co-op Gaming Night Turned To A Couple Sad Hours Of Downloading Updates
Recently, a close friend of mine returned after having been out of town for a little while—like way out of town, where time zones made real-time communication out of the question, even though we live in The Future. To celebrate his return to my time zone, we decided to play some games together online and…
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I Can’t Help Reading Every Damn Text Box In Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has been a little bit of a slow burn for me. While I’ve been a fan of the series since Awakening, I found myself beset by choice paralysis in Three Houses when I realised that I did not even remotely feel attached to any of the three precocious rich children with…
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I Play Destiny As A Warlock But Now Think I Should Be A Titan
As far back as I can remember, I, like Ray Liotta, have always wanted to be a Warlock. My daddy was a Warlock. His daddy was a Warlock. Warlockin’ is in my blood, I thought as I started up Destiny for the first time in 2014. When Destiny 2 was released three years later, I…
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I Love When Video Game Music Is So Good I Forget To Actually Play The Game
One of my favourite games of the last several years is Facepalm Games’ The Swapper. I like it for a lot of reasons: It has this beautiful stop-motion clay art style, an immediately compelling hook in the titular Swapper, a gun that lets you clone yourself and zap your consciousness between those clones, and a…