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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.

More than 300 million mod downloads for the console mods on Fallout and Skyrim, Hines says. Read more

Pete name-checks Nintendo. Is Skyrim Switch going to show up? Probably. Read more

Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of PR and marketing, arrives to chants of “Pete.” Read more

From montage to montage. Now a series of game clips, to remind us of the kinds of games Bethesda makes. (Many kinds.) Read more

We’re opening on an adorable montage of Bethesda staff’s kids talking about what their parents do at work. Read more

The thirty-second countdown just kicked in. Here we go. Read more

If all the photos I saw on Twitter of “Bethesdaland” are any indication, by the way, that whole audience is completely plastered by now. Read more

I’m starting to honestly think we’ll never get the next Terminator sequel.

I am at home with my beautiful family. We just made stuffed peppers. I am eating one. Read more

Hello, Kotaku! This is your features editor Chris Kohler, and we’re live at—um, sorry, at is a strong and frankly incorrect word. We’re watching Bethesda’s press conference on a livestream. I’m here doing play-by-play, and by my side on color commentary is Heather Alexandra. Read more

A Taiwanese developer actually did a full (unofficial) de-make of FFVII for the NES, many years back. That’s likely what this is! Read more

I think it’s... over? I think? Is it over? There’s a trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the mobile game, and it’s now flipped over to Galaxy of Heroes talk, but I think that’s the end of the official press conference. Thanks, Gita, and thank you all for being here with us. Read more

Patrick Soderlund is back on stage, thanks everyone. Read more

And that’s the game. Darth Maul was MVP with 36 kills. The bad guys win! Yay! Read more

Can John Boyega tweet that we need to be able to play as Watto? Read more

“This is when it gets insane,” says one commentator. Everybody’s in a much more confined area now. More heroes will come out now because players have racked up more Battle Points, which they can spend to transform from lowly Troopers and Droids into individuals such as Darth Maul et al. Read more

Rey showed up for two seconds and was immediately murdered. Read more

“Fall back to the throne room.” Phase 2 didn’t take too long, and Phase 3—the final phase—is imminent. Read more