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Chris Kohler
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Features Editor, Kotaku. Japanese curry aficionado. Author of the books Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.

Some people in this thread who clearly never went to E 4 All Read more

Well, it’s just a question of when at this point. Nintendo may decide not to reveal it in all the hubbub of E3. Then again, maybe a great time to reveal it would be after it’s got all of the Nintendo esports fans watching the Arms and Splatoon streams? Read more

The moment I realized I was an adult now is when a friend called from the Sony party one year and was like WHOOO ARE YOU GONNA COME OUT and I was like actually no Read more

We can exclusively reveal that the traditional “Ubisoft towers” in Mario vs. Rabbids will be replaced with gigantic, climbable Daisies. Read more

Over the last few years, Nintendo has really pulled back on how much they show at any given E3, choosing to focus on a few games (or one) rather than a deluge of announcements. Then they announce the good stuff in a Direct a few months later anyway. So yeah, I think they’ll continue the sort of quality-over-quantity Read more

I just want to say I appreciate the work you’re doing in these comment threads. You are appreciated. Read more

Yeah, Mario RPG is definitely one of the first ones I’d swap out if one of my other ideas didn’t work for some reason. Read more

Thanks! As I said, I think it might be dangerous to load this device up with too many role-playing games, so I restricted it to the very best! Read more

Capcom and Konami have been consistently enthusiastic with Virtual Console across all three platforms, so I think they’re a lock. Square Enix skipped Virtual Console on Wii U and 3DS (in the US, anyway), but they did put Final Fantasy and Bubble Bobble on the NES Classic, so it’s possible? One would hope Nintendo Read more

How about this: since the ampersand is just a ligature of the letters e and t, you can also write “&c.” Read more

Agree. Serious Eats is fantastic, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is my personal food deity, and this is a really good comparison post, so thanks! Read more

Replacing water with stock is definitely a good idea. I can’t see how it could go wrong, honestly. Tomato sauce also a good idea, although I personally am not that big a fan of tomatoey Japanese curry. Read more

You can turn those bricks into gold with these secrets! Try it! Read more

It would be so great to see this localized, yeah. Even though I’ll be buying the Japanese version immediately thanks to the wonderful region-free Switch. Read more