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From Xenogears To Xenoblade: The History Of Monolith Soft

If you’d told me back in 2006 that Monolith Soft would go on to become one of Nintendo’s most talented and indispensable first-party development groups, I would have said the same thing as everyone else: “The guys who did Xenosaga?”

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Marvel's Avengers Didn't Sell As Expected, Says Square Enix

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That Night, Steeped By Blood River Looks Like Nothing Else You've Played

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PS5 Owners Say They're Receiving Bans After Selling PS4 Users Access To The PS Plus Collection

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Video Games Sure Do Have A Lot Of Bad Dads

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Cyberpunk 2077 Is Very Definitely Coming Out December 10, Probably

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What My Video Game Family Is Bringing To Thanksgiving

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In The Console Wars, Astro's Playroom Is Extraordinarily Effective PlayStation Propaganda

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There's A Bridge In Red Dead Online That Can Fling You To Mexico

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Super Cable Boy Is A Precision Platform Game For Normal People

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Twitch Streamers Are Opening '90s Pokémon Card Boxes Worth Thousands Of Dollars

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The 12 Best Games For The PlayStation 4

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The 12 Best Games For The Xbox One

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The 10 Best Deals of November 27, 2020

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Cracks Can Turns on Gaming Console Takes a Sip Let’s Get to Work on the Best Black Friday 2020 Gaming Deals

Giovanni Colantonio

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Overclock Your Savings in Newegg’s Black Friday 2020 Ultimate Sale

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Let's Compare Hyrule In Age Of Calamity Vs. Breath Of The Wild

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Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Is A Game Of Challenging Beats

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Godfall Is Good For Some Simple, Satisfying Hack And Slash

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Check Out The Kotaku Game Diary

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Welcome To Cosplay, Kotaku's Website About...Cosplay

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PlayStation 5: The Kotaku Review

I’m sitting at my desk, staring at the PlayStation 5 looming over my media stand—“entertainment center” is a little too grandiose for the small piece of Target furniture that holds all my gaming stuff—and wondering how the hell I’m going to review…

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Here’s How Fast Games Load On The PlayStation 5

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales: The Kotaku Review

Mike Sholars

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Two Weeks With My PS5

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15 Tips To Make The Most Of Your New PlayStation 5

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Report: Saudi Arabian Investors To Acquire Stake In SNK

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What Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Thinks Of The PlayStation 5

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Square Enix Aims For Work-Life Balance With Permanent Work-From-Home Option

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Korean Baseball Team Celebrates Championship With A Video Game Sword

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REVIEWS AND IMPRESSIONS

12 Best Games for Every Platform

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The 12 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch

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The 12 Best Games on PC

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The Best Games For The Game Boy Advance

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The 12 Best Games on PlayStation Now

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The 12 Best Games On Xbox Game Pass

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The Best Dreamcast Games

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#MeToo

A summer of reckoning for video games

Twitch

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WWE Crackdown On Wrestlers' Twitch Accounts Is Causing A Lot Of Drama

David Bixenspan

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Twitch Streamers Are Opening '90s Pokémon Card Boxes Worth Thousands Of Dollars

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New Cyberpunk 2077 Mode Will Help Streamers Avoid DMCA Takedowns

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Streamers Baffled By New Twitch Option To Buy Affiliate Status

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Beware This Weird Blindness Bug In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

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How To Easily Uncover Every Skill In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

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How To Zoom In On Small Text In Any Xbox Series X / S Game

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How To Make Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Feel More Like Classic Assassin’s Creed

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Borderlands 3’s Final Song Makes Me Miss The Heck Out Of Live Music

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Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There With The Persona 5 Soundtrack

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I Don’t Actually Play Melty Blood, I Just Listen To It

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Astro’s Playroom Made Me Love My PS5’s GPU

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My Heart Is Fully Open For The Nanny & Married With Children Cosplay

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Fantastic Ghostbusters Cosplay, Dogs And Cats, Living Together

Metroid Cosplay For The Ages

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Western Empires: The Kotaku Review

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Assault On Hoth: The Empire Strikes Back: The Kotaku Review

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Undaunted: Normandy: The Kotaku Review

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Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America Is A Very Timely New Board Game

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YEE-HAW!

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Has An Amazing Photo Mode

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That's Not A Sword, This Is A Sword

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Sleepy Samurai

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Weird Mods

You Can Play Doom (And Loads Of Other Games) Inside Minecraft

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This Red Dead Redemption II Mod Lets You Ride A Giant Cougar

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Baby Yoda Mod Is Here To Wreck Shit In Battlefront II

Red Dead Redemption 2 On Lowest Settings Looks Like It Came From The Early ’90s

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Bowser Is Only Four Feet Tall, Judging By Luigi’s Penis

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Video Game Controller Buttons, Ranked

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BioShock Infinite: The IGN Review: The Kotaku Review

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Yesterday, Our Headlines Rhymed