Tim Rogers, Kotaku Australia

Tim Rogers

Kotaku Australia

New York, NY, United States

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  • Kotaku UK
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Past articles by tim:

Xbox One Elite Controller Series 2: The Kotaku Review

The Xbox One Elite Controller Series 2 is the best Xbox controller that a person who just found $249 on the street can buy. → Read More

I Cannot Emotionally Prepare For Final Fantasy VII Remake

The Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming in April. I could only watch the first 30 seconds of the new trailer released today before I had to close the tab in fear. I can’t possibly become emotionally ready in time. This video represents my best, most terrible attempt at making myself ready.... → Read More

I Cannot Emotionally Prepare For Final Fantasy VII Remake

The Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming in April. I could only watch the first 30 seconds of the new trailer released today before I had to close the tab in fear. I can’t possibly become emotionally ready in time. This video represents my best, most terrible attempt at making myself ready. → Read More

If Anybody Gives Animal Crossing an 8 Out of 10 I Will Die

What will happen to the world, and to me, if some horrible critic out there dares to do it? → Read More

I Reviewed Cyberpunk 2077 Based on Its Trailers

It was the only logical course of action, really. → Read More

1994: The Kotaku Review

In this, my most enormous video yet, I tried to capture the essence of what I believe to be the secretly best year in video game history: 1994. Yes, I reviewed 1994, by writing reviews of each of my 25 favorite games released in 1994. → Read More

Tim Rogers' Games Of The Decade

The end of a decade looms. I succumbed to the irresistible lure of making a ranked list video chronicling the best games of that decade. I made the first decision instantaneously: for 10 years, I’d pick 10 games. Then I froze. How would I pick the 10 games? Days later, I’d somehow made a 50-minute video.... → Read More

Let's Remember Donkey Kong Country, 25 Years Later

Donkey Kong Country, from a technological viewpoint alone, represented the next step in the evolution of the video game medium. → Read More

The Only Holiday Gaming Gift Guide You Need

Anywhere you click this time of year there’s an 80% chance you’re going to wind up looking at a gift guide. I figured I had to get in on the action, so I made this gift guide for the discerning, adult video game player. In this video, I do my best impression of a QVC host. The purpose of this affectation was... → Read More

The Only Holiday Gaming Gift Guide You Need

Tim Rogers, accompanied by an impossibly cute ball of floof, does his best QVC host impression. → Read More

Pokémon Has a Lot in Common With Confidence Games

Pokémon’s game design follows the blueprint of a criminal scam, and I mean that as an enormous compliment. → Read More

Pokémon Sword & Shield is Not a Metaphor For Brexit

A video where I try to answer your Twitter questions using 20-second clips from the game. → Read More

Let's Talk About Death Stranding Spoilers

A video wherein we discuss the game’s darkest plot secrets at length. → Read More

Xbox One Elite Controller Series 2: The Kotaku Review

If you love your Xbox and you’re curious about fancy controllers, this is the best one. → Read More

Death Stranding: The Kotaku Video Review

How does one make a video review for Death Stranding, a game with like 900 trailers—many of which the game’s director, Hideo Kojima, edited himself? On November 8, 2019, the meta-game of guessing what Death Stranding is will end and the meta-meta-game of playing Death Stranding will begin. Until then, while we... → Read More

Death Stranding: The Kotaku Video Review

Please enjoy this bizarre, spoiler-free, one-hour video in which I review Death Stranding five times. → Read More

My Ridiculously Specific PlayStation 5 Predictions

I have been keeping a PlayStation 5 wishlist for about two years. Now that Sony is starting to announce concrete details about their new console, I realise time is running out: if I’m gonna make a video about my predictions—many of which are already coming true—I gotta do it right now. So I stepped in front of... → Read More

My Ridiculously Specific PlayStation 5 Predictions

When Sony finally announces all the details of the PS5, we’ll have this to look back on. → Read More

Let's Remember Final Fantasy VI, 25 Years Later

Also enjoy dissection of this beautiful game’s literature-like structure, and finally, address the question: is this the best Final Fantasy? → Read More

We Distracted The Director Of John Wick Hex While He Played Its Hardest Mode

Watch as he answers my increasingly specific questions about his difficult game while playing its hardest difficulty setting. → Read More