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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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RIP, Disney Infinity, And Thank You

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First Look Inside Super Nintendo World, Which Opens In Japan Next February

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Uri Geller Says Nintendo Can Print Kadabra On Pokémon Cards Again

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Two Of The Worst Zelda Games Have Been Recreated On The PC

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Bully Doesn't Sound Like Your Typical Rockstar Game

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Official Die-Cast Poké Ball Replicas Run $100 Apiece, Should Not Be Thrown

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The Week In Games

The Week In Games: Empire Of Fenyx

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

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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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Monday's Best Deals: Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Acer Nitro 5, Ugly Star Wars Sweaters, 4TB NVMe SSD, AA Batteries, and More

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Yakuza: Like a Dragon is Down to $40 and I Promise I'm Not Mad About it Even Though I Just Bought it at Full Price

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Get 12 Months of Switch Online and a Nintendo-Branded 128GB MicroSD Card at Best Buy for $35

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Videos

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Bakugan For Switch Has The Most Boring Battles

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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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Check Out The Kotaku Game Diary

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

Next Gen: PlayStation 5

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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

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Two Weeks With My PS5

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15 Tips To Make The Most Of Your New PlayStation 5

Next Gen: Xbox Series X/S

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Sega Shows Old Handheld Prototype Publicly For The First Time

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Thirty-Four Years Later, Ys 1 and II Are Getting PC Floppy Disk Ports

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First Look Inside Super Nintendo World, Which Opens In Japan Next February

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Report: Saudi Arabian Investors To Acquire Stake In SNK

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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

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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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Tips

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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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Anime

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Bully Doesn't Sound Like Your Typical Rockstar Game

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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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Now 2021 Cosplay Shows Are Being Cancelled As Well

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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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The best community screenshots

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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

Fine Art

A celebration of the work of video game artists

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