Dec 5 20191112/5/19GoodbyeCecilia D'Anastasio118Three years after anime fan Dr. Steve Brule told me in a Kotaku comment to “fuck off” after I wrote the blog “Girls…
Features12/5/19Dec 5 20198Features12/5/19FeaturesRazer CEO Berated And Threatened His Staff, Former Employees SayCecilia D'Anastasio366Min-Liang Tan was “officially pissed off,” he wrote in an email to members of Razer’s marketing team in February of…
Dec 2 2019712/2/19Riot Settles Lawsuit, Will Pay Every Female Employee Since 2014 With $10 Million FundCecilia D'Anastasio123Riot Games will pay out a huge $10 million proposed settlement collectively to every woman who has been employed by…
Features12/2/19Dec 2 20195Features12/2/19FeaturesInside Twitch's Wildest Talk ShowCecilia D'Anastasio82It’s the beginning of another episode of the Rajj Show, a livestreamed reality show with what may euphemistically be…
Twitch11/26/19Nov 26 20191Twitch11/26/19TwitchTwitch Loophole Is Still Inflating ViewsCecilia D'Anastasio22Saqib “Lirik” Zahid, who has 2.5 million followers on Twitch, is the last streamer to need a viewbot. Nevertheless,…
Nov 18 20193811/18/19How To Choose Your D&D Character ClassCecilia D'Anastasio262“What Dungeons and Dragons class should I play?” is the kind of question you could answer with a cursory quiz, but…
News11/14/19Nov 14 20192News11/14/19NewsRare Is Making A New Open-World Adventure GameCecilia D'Anastasio51Rare’s upcoming game, Everwild, is a delightful and fantastical-looking adventure game set in a natural paradise.…
Kotaku Game Diary11/13/19Nov 13 20192Kotaku Game Diary11/13/19Kotaku Game DiaryI Can't Stop Playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Even Though I Hate ItCecilia D'Anastasio144Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is not a game I can claim is good. It’s got big-money polish, cinematic orchestral…
News11/11/19Nov 11 20192News11/11/19NewsTwitch Streamer 'Trained For 3 Months' To Try And Break 569-Hour Streaming RecordCecilia D'Anastasio95Humans do lots of inadvisable things in public for attention (see: hot dog eating contests, “the worm”). There is,…
Nov 11 2019111/11/19Peak 'OK Boomer' Reached As Naruto Voice Actor Says It On CameraCecilia D'Anastasio165Only a couple of weeks into the meme, we’ve already reached peak “OK boomer.” How do I know that? Someone got…
Nov 8 2019111/8/19Fans Honor Deceased YouTuber Etika With A Stunning MuralCecilia D'Anastasio18When YouTuber “Double A” watched Desmond “Etika” Amofah’s final YouTube video, one sentence stuck out to him: “I…
Nov 7 2019Save11/7/19I’m streaming Terry Bogard in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate alongside Nathan Grayson! Okay! Tune in!Cecilia D'Anastasio
Nov 6 2019211/6/19Smash Bros. Might Make A Terry Bogard Fan Out Of YouCecilia D'Anastasio27Terry Bogard, who made his debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate today, wasn’t exactly the most-requested Smash fighter…
VGChat11/5/19Nov 5 20192VGChat11/5/19VGChatWhat We Like (And Don't Like) About HBO's New His Dark Materials ShowGita Jackson and Cecilia D'Anastasio39Last night, the television adaption of His Dark Materials premiered on HBO. Cecilia D’Anastasio and Gita Jackson sat…
Nov 5 2019411/5/19Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pros Weigh In On Which Characters Are StrongestCecilia D'Anastasio28Five Super Smash Bros. Ultimate pros recently shared their thoughts on which character they think is the strongest,…
Editorial11/4/19Nov 4 20195Editorial11/4/19EditorialFive Years Of 'F' To Pay RespectsCecilia D'Anastasio169“F” in a moment of internet tragedy, when a YouTuber confesses they were mercilessly dumped. In a flash of live,…
News11/1/19Nov 1 20192News11/1/19NewsOverwatch 2 Announced With Emotional TrailerCecilia D'Anastasio262Blizzard has finally announced Overwatch 2, the next iteration of the developer’s massively popular first-person…
News11/1/19Nov 1 20193News11/1/19News'We Moved Too Quickly': Blizzard President Apologizes For Hong Kong IncidentCecilia D'Anastasio266Before Blizzcon’s opening ceremony, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack somberly addressed the crowd with an apology…
Nov 1 2019211/1/19The Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn LoudCecilia D'Anastasio71At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team…
Esports10/31/19Oct 31 20193Esports10/31/19EsportsIncredibly Stable Company WeWork Appears To Be Investing In Incredibly Stable Industry: EsportsCecilia D'Anastasio33With its dying breath, it looks like startup-turned-laughing-stock WeWork is investing in esports.