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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.

Everything we just saw will be out this year, Hines says. That’s a packed year! Read more

Removing all the adjectives from how Pete Hines just described Wolfenstein II, the game contains: story, characters, graphics and action. Read more

I have no idea what that last scene in WII:TNC was, but you have to watch it for yourself later. Read more

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. That’s the name! Read more

Lots of funny cut scenes. William J. B. is trying to get a resistance started against the Nazi occupiers. He is not able to convince everyone that it’s a good idea. Maybe if he just jumps in there and shoots everybody? Read more

A woman threatens to shove a grenade far up B.J.’s ass. Read more

I remembered, the main character’s name is B.J. “Bliffy B” Bleszinski Read more

An SS officer walks into a malt shop and orders a strawberry milkshake. He’s talking at the camera, at us, laughing and asking the player for our papers. Read more

We open on a man named William, who is probably B.J. Don’tKnowHowToWriteTheLastName, and his wife who is having twins. Read more

“Danke Schoen” plays. Just the regular version, not a creepy cover. Read more

Now the channels are flipping. Another show. A cartoon. A game show called “German... Or Else!” This is clearly some kind of alternate reality U.S. in which Germany won a certain war. This is clearly Wolfenstein. Read more

The whistle calls over her gigantic robot companion, who smashes the car. “Good girl, Liesel!” she says to the robot. Who keeps smashing the car. And breathes fire on the car. “Bad girl.” She says. Awww. Read more

This is a live-action video, set in what looks like the 1950s. A girl buys groceries at a gas station, and walks home. Sees a man whose car has rolled onto him. She blows a whistle. Read more

Evil Within 2 is coming out Friday, the 13th of October, 2017. Read more

The Evil Within 2's official title is The Evil Within 2. That makes it easy. Read more

Sebastian is back as the game’s protagonist. Poor guy. Went through so much already. Read more

Yep, it’s creepy. Set to a creepy cover of “Ordinary World.” Read more