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Senior reporter covering gaming and internet culture at Kotaku

Contact: [email protected] / ethangach on Discord

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The Sony Ponies beg for more multiplayer slop
February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Like seriously what is going on! nymag.com/intelligence...
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Everyone's looking like a fool by rushing to not look like a fool
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Websites should blog more imo kotaku.com/magic-gather...
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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The live service game death spiral is a bleak one.

It's difficult to avoid and all but impossible to escape. Here's what the heads of Specter Divide (remember that) said about the dead game stench back in 2024.

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February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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The Dragon Ball Sparking Zero Discord is not taking the news well
Alright @everyone next month as some of you may or may not have heard Discord has announced that they are planning to implement global age-verification to restrict users from certain features starting next month unless the user sends a face scan or Photo/scan of your ID. They are going to automatically switch over every servers security settings to these new defaults and it is my understanding to turn it OFF Admins/Moderators/Users will need to verify they are an adult with these new scans. Discord will soon be expanding teen safety protections worldwide including teen-by-default settings and age assurance designed to create safer experiences for teens. - OFFICIAL DISCORD SUPPORT POST The MAJOR problem with this is that Discord had a MASSIVE leak of over 70,000+ Users ID's/Scans from when they launched this in the UK/Europe. Over 1.5 TERABYTES of users data was stolen and uploaded to the web. Discord has tried to gaslight people by saying they are switching to a new third-party company/system that is more "Secure" with this kind of thing. But they literally said there is still a "Risk".
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada explains why he's not in the Epstein files
That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile. This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration. We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun. Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option. When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns. Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting? And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom. Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop. Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started.
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Helldivers adding millennials as the newest enemy faction
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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A Witcher 3 NPC says people have gotten crazy.
February 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Media biz brains will yell at you too look at the data and then you open chartbeat and it's an algorithmic craps table where this is randomly the most popular story on the site on a random Sunday morning
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Declining empires be like
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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The Kotaku Weekend Guide is back kotaku.com/super-bowl-f...
Another week is in the books at Kotaku. Anime got more expensive, Ubisoft fired more people, and the bosses in charge of Build a Rocket Boy continued to be very weird. Blizzard revealed its ambitious plans to make Overwatch better than ever, including stripping the number two from it, and Nintendo tried to get people pumped for the Switch 2‘s next couple of months, but did a pretty poor job of it unless you’re a JRPG sicko (complimentary). symbol 00:38 02:24 Read More Sony announced another live service game, Valve announced the Steam Machine is delayed, and Take-Two announced it’s already investing in summer marketing for Grand Theft Auto 6’s fall release. Oh, and HBO’s making a Baldur’s Gate 3 TV show, but without any of the makers of Baldur’s Gate 3 involved. Sweet! Are you watching the Super Bowl this weekend? Football only exists for me when the Eagles are playing, so I’ll be playing the newly released Super Bomberman Collection with my kids instead. Stay safe out there folks. It’s getting weird.
February 6, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Machinegames director director Jerk Gustafsson confirms the studio has always wanted to finish its Wolfenstein trilogy.

Kotaku corroborated reports that a third game is currently in development. www.gamesindustry.biz/machinegames...
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Lots of people noticed Nintendo doing everything possible not to show enemies getting stabbed or shot in its latest Direct, but it's extra funny when you consider how devs show their Switch 2 games when Nintendo's not watching
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Neat!
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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DID THE MONADO DO THIS?
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Emails exchanged between Kotick and Epstein suggest multiple meetings following the latter's 2008 plea conviction to solicitating a minor for prostitution.
February 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Take-Two treating Borderlands 4 like Connor from Succession
February 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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lol what is this
February 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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"So my suggestion is simple: Let’s start making fun of celebs for selling out and reminding them that its gross."

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February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Remains interesting to me that the most expensive Switch sold better than the cheapest one.
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Rip to everyone who completed Dragon Quest VII Reimagined in time for the embargo
February 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM