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Levi Winslow
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staff writer, kotaku. they/them. beats: esports, creator culture + internet discourse, preservation + sustainability, news. send me tea and tips 🖤

hey, leave my streamers posts alone ! lol but in all seriousness yeah what’s happening to kotaku is seriously a bummer and i’m sorry to all of you, you dedicated readers who’ve come to the site for years - decades even - only to watch capitalist vultures pick apart the slow rotting corpse Read more

literally ! i can’t exactly remember what i was doing - i think i was in the middle of a fight? - but suddenly all the haptics and vibrations in my dualsense just died. the controller itself worked fine. but i tried a different game? still dead. i closed and reopened rise of the ronin? still dead. i even restarted Read more

strictly game news? well, i would say kotaku dot com but... Read more

very that ! it isn’t the looker that ghost of tsushima is but if you enjoy team ninja combat (particularly the gruesome elements in nioh, wo long: fallen dynasty, and ninja gaiden) then you’ll totally click with rise of the ronin. it’s actually why i’m still playing it: the combat variety is me hooked Read more

yeah, it kinda does give that. the project’s ambition might’ve outpaced the studio’s skillset but rise of the ronin is still a p solid game. i mean i can’t put it down. the only reason why i’m not done with it is because i’ve been basically 100 percenting each of the three cities’ smaller zones like a perfectionist Read more

oooo great questions ! i think i found 50 or 60 so far? and you can start finding them the moment you hit the first major city of yokohama. each of the cities is split into smaller zones so you do need to increase you bond with those zones to unlock the location of the cats but no they aren’t like gated behind story ch Read more

as i understand it, yes, tags are automatic. i believe we can go in afterward to change them but when a story goes live and the tags are there, that’s not us attaching them like that, it’s a bot. it’s something we as staff constantly talk about behind the scenes so y’all’s frustration is our frustration too :( Read more

maybe it’s just my circle of friends and peers but no one knows what i’m talking about when i reference way of the samurai so i’m glad y’all do <3 Read more

lmao took me a while to get it but i’m drowning in crying tears now Read more

sometimes. kinda like in ghost of tsushima how there are foxes that show you shrines, there are white dogs that lead you to collectibles that, depending on how long they stay in the area, you can pet with the cutest animations possible :) Read more

i was playing it recently and while i think the combat is a little stiff, the sorta steampunky victorian setting is enthralling, makes me wanna dive back in Read more

lmao “those mother motherfuckers,” i’m ded Read more

i stan mid games. one of my faves from last year was wanted: dead, a game so aggressively mid that i’m sure barely anyone played or even remembers it. what happened with suicide squad is something different imo. it, at least from the outside looking in, feels like a game built to chase a deadend trend in the hopes of Read more

the “Report:” in front of stories like this should hopefully clarify that this isn’t an original story and is largely based on reporting from another - or multiple - pubs Read more

honestly, unizionation. it might not sound like anything. hell, it might not always result in job protection, but a unified workforce is a scary workforce. that’s why corporations are always union busting; they don’t want workers to engage in collective action. the moment workers realize they actually hold the means Read more

yep, phil spencer’s crocodile tears make everything better. we can rest easy. Read more