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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.

Finally, Reggie says, it’s Hollow Knight. It’ll come with all the previous DLC and is available today. Read more

Killer Queen Black now. The arcade game is coming to Switch. Two teams of up to four each can play. “2018.” Read more

Now Reggie is setting up the indie games portion of the show. Read more

Reggie is here to tell us that Fortnite will be available at 10 AM Pacific today. Read more

“Play together, play anywhere.” A scene of four teens sitting in a school playing together. Download it free, now, today. Read more

Just running through the typical Fire Emblem stuff. Battles! Conversations with characters! Also it seems like there are scenes in which you actually run around and talk to people, rather than just go from battle to battle, so that’s a thing. Spring 2019. Read more

Another RPG-looking trailer starts. Talking about gods and goddesses. And anime. Lots of anime. Fire Emblem: Three Houses. It’s the real Fire Emblem for Switch. Read more

Now the cool hipster adult couples are playing a baseball Mario Party game in which they each look at their own Switch tablet screens.

Now we’re running down many different Mario Party mini-games. It’s Super Mario Party, October 5, 2018. Read more

Now let’s check out something else, Reggie says. A video of adults playing the Switch. They’re playing Super Mario Party. It will have games that you play with two Switch tablets, in which you arrange the two of them on a table and play games across them.
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Reggie’s still recapping Pokemon announcements, including the Pokeball Plus controller. Mew comes exclusively with the Pokeball Plus, Reggie says. Read more

Reggie’s recapping the Pokemon Let’s Go announcements. Read more

Reggie’s now here to talk about how cool the Nintendo Switch is. Read more

Torna - The Golden Country, an expansion for Xenoblade Chronicles 2, September 2018. Read more

Another trailer starts. Pencil-sketch sepia artwork, Japanese voiceover, talking about blades and dragons and bloodlust. A gray-haired protagonist talking about stopping the monsters and stuff. Looks like a Tales game? Is this Tales? Read more

Daemon X Machina, by Marvelous Entertainment coming in 2019 for Switch. Read more

They’re grinding and sliding all over the place. The letter “X” keeps popping up. “X Machina,” now. Robots keep fighting, with guns and laser swords. Heavy metal screaming music. Explosions. Read more

We’re starting off with two robot mechs fighting each other in the desert. Stylized graphics, almost cel-shaded in parts. Read more