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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.

Certainly everybody’s waiting to see what exactly Smash on Switch will look like. Of course, I can’t imagine the basic gameplay will differ too much from the Wii U version, so really we’re just looking for what sort of smaller tweaks they’ll make to the character lineup, the bonus modes, online play, etc.

It would be Read more

I could see Metroid Prime 4 simply skipping the show if Nintendo doesn’t have a big update to share. Would it make sense for it to show simply a non-interactive trailer or faked-up gameplay if it’s not playable at the show? I feel like it’s gonna wait until Metroid is playable on the floor, which it clearly isn’t, so Read more

Good morning, Kotaku! Just one presser left, and as usual, it’s Nintendo’s. The E3 2018 Nintendo Direct starts at 9 AM Pacific, and Maddy Myers and I are here to bring you the text-based updates you crave.

I just want Mother 3. Read more

Here’s a bit of that From Software game, titled Déraciné. It’s VR!

And we just cut back to the talking-heads panel from earlier. Sid Shuman says there’s another game to announce, but I’m not sure when and I’m not sure if we’re going to still be live-blogging when that’s done. Read more

Oh, um, a sizzle reel of all the stuff we saw is starting... and it’s over... is that it? Read more

Pretty sure this is Bloodborne 2.

Finally, Death Stranding gameplay; if you were beginning to think that Death Stranding was just a mini-series of indecipherable animated avant garde film vignettes.

This is Kingdom Hearts III, believe it or not.

Trover Saves The Universe.

Control (Remedy, published by 505, 2019).

This reminds me I still have to watch last night’s Westworld. Read more