Levi Winslow

Levi Winslow is a staff writer at Kotaku, where they cover esports, creator culture and internet discourse, preservation and sustainability news. They have been with the company since at least April 2024 and can be contacted at lwinslow@kotaku.com. Levi has a history of covering topics such as League of Legends, Discord bots, streaming collectives FaZe Clan, gaming discord Spy Pet, and various video game releases and events.

Biography:  https://kotaku.com/author/xoelleslow

77%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

84%

Examples:

  • The anchor at British news outlet Sky News thinks that's a load of shit, as she said the boy wonder should 'go outside' because 'beating Tetris isn't a life goal.'. The author uses language that dehumanizes the teenager by saying 'go outside'. This shows a lack of understanding or appreciation for what Tetris means to this individual and their accomplishments.
  • The author uses language that dehumanizes the teenager by saying 'go outside'. This shows a lack of understanding or appreciation for what Tetris means to this individual and their accomplishments.

Conflicts of Interest

75%

Examples:

  • The author uses selective reporting by only mentioning teraflops and PSSR as examples of improvements in the PS5 Pro without providing any context on how these features will benefit gamers.

Contradictions

92%

Examples:

  • Microsoft is offering a free trial of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for Xbox Game Pass subscribers from May 2 to May 5.]
  • Tech YouTuber Moore claims to have leaked information from within Sony but does not provide any evidence or sources to back this claim.
  • The author sensationalizes 'Spectral Super Resolution' to make it seem like something new and exciting when in reality it is just an upscaling technology that has been around for a while.

Deceptions

72%

Examples:

  • Tech YouTuber Moore claims to have leaked information from within Sony but does not provide any evidence or sources to back this claim.
  • The article uses selective reporting by only mentioning teraflops and PSSR as examples of improvements in the PS5 Pro without providing any context on how these features will benefit gamers.
  • The author sensationalizes 'Spectral Super Resolution' to make it seem like something new and exciting when in reality it is just an upscaling technology that has been around for a while.

Recent Articles

Nintendo Switch Online Subscribers Can Play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Free, But Time is Running Out

Nintendo Switch Online Subscribers Can Play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Free, But Time is Running Out

Broke On: Thursday, 02 May 2024 From May 2-9, European Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can experience the legendary Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for free as part of the Game Trial program. This highly acclaimed RPG, released in 2003 and considered one of the greatest games ever made, immerses players in a galaxy far, far away where they must master the Force to save the Republic before time runs out.
Sony's PSSR: A Revolutionary Super Resolution Technology for the PlayStation 5 Pro

Sony's PSSR: A Revolutionary Super Resolution Technology for the PlayStation 5 Pro

Broke On: Saturday, 16 March 2024 Sony is developing a new super resolution technology called PSSR (P spectral Super Resolution) for the PlayStation 5 Pro. The PS5 Pro GPU has machine learning capability of 300 TOPS with 8-bit integers and can support single-precision compute at an estimated peak rate of over 3 times as much as the current PS5, which is around FP32.
First Person To Beat Tetris By Breaking It: Meet Willis Gibson

First Person To Beat Tetris By Breaking It: Meet Willis Gibson

Broke On: Friday, 05 January 2024
    Willis Gibson is a 13-year-old Tetris player from San Francisco. He has become the first person to officially beat the original Nintendo version of the game by breaking it.
    Twitch Bans Implied Nudity in Response to Meta

    Twitch Bans Implied Nudity in Response to Meta

    Broke On: Wednesday, 03 January 2024 Twitch has updated its sexual content guidelines to ban implied nudity on the platform. Streamers who covered themselves with black censor bars or positioned their camera frames in such a way that viewers could not see them fully clothed were responsible for this meta.