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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.

I think it depends on the person. If you feel you need to set a budget to keep yourself in control of your finances, do it. But I wouldn’t tell someone they had to always stick to a budget because you might spend $0 one month and $500 the next month, if you were to, say, chance upon $3000 worth of games selling for Read more

Very interesting, I hadn’t even heard of that. Seems like only Nintendo UK had this up, and took it down quickly. Read more

Yes, turns out you can legit die even after that fake smackdown. Read more

Ah, see, I used to be you. Cocoichi multiple times per trip. You should experiment around!  Read more

Hey, if you’ve tried the rest and Cocoichi is your favorite, who am I to stop you? Read more

Yeah, there’s a lot of curry specialty places in Vegas now! I don’t think I’ve ever been able to eat at one of them. Read more

It’s almost a completely different food. However, there are lots of very bad Japanese curries in America. You should go to a place that specializes in it, like Go Go Curry in New York City. Read more

I am quite surprised to hear that somebody actually had one for sale at a US convention! Read more

If you're curious as to what is inside the box... here you go. The gun, a projector that shines the ducks onto the wall, an extra lightbulb for the projector, and instructions. It's all in really nice cosmetic shape.

No, I *jokingly* gave it a 7/10. We don't do review scores at Kotaku.  Read more

I asked. They’d never do it without permission, of course. Read more

Yeah, they even telegraphed back when they were developing the Switch that one of the design philosophies behind the hardware was that it would be able to handle Wii U ports. They’ve got all these really great games that nobody played. They’ll sell the crap out of this for sure. Read more

Oops, in my haste to write several sets of italicized Roman numerals separated by commas, I accidentally put Final Fantasy VIII in the opening paragraph. It’s not part of this announcement! Read more

You know, I have argued the same thing in the past purely based on the development timelines - but I’m not entirely sure. We don’t know when Sony officially pulled the plug on its device. Or what Square had to work with. Or if it even was developing with any extra specs in mind at all - maybe it was just creating a Read more

I was reading it since it was The Unofficial Squaresoft Home Page, or UoSHP, and it was basically the only website on the entire Internet dedicated to RPGs! But Cunningham joined the site in 2006. Read more