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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.
When Konami releases its Castlevania Collection on May 16, it will include eight classic games from the venerable…
A new report on Nintendo from Japan’s Nikkei newspaper has some details about the future of Nintendo Switch…
Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will support the Labo VR Kit shortly after it…
The Boss Fight Books series, for which I wrote the volume on Final Fantasy V, launched its first-ever Humble Bundle today. You can get the entire Boss Fight library, including books on Katamari, Kingdom Hearts, EarthBound, and more, and donate some or all of your payment to the Girls Make Games charity. Read more
Punch-Out!!, Star Soldier, and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, aka the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, are the…
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Sega announced the latest in its Sakura Wars series at Sega Fes this weekend in Japan. It also confirmed that the PlayStation 4 game, tentatively titled Project Sakura Wars, will be released in the West in Spring 2020.
Sega will release its Sega Genesis Mini worldwide on September 19, it said today. It will include 40 games,…
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The first thing I noticed about Streets Of Rage 4 was the weight. As I walked series mainstay Axel down a familiar,…
The Sega Genesis has had by far the longest shelf life of any of the 16-bit systems. You could buy Sega’s final…
My friend Frank Cifaldi, producer of many retro game collections like SNK 40th Anniversary, sums up his company’s philosophy in two sentences in a GDC session today. Read more
The retro-themed, hand-animated indie darling Cuphead is headed to Switch on April 18, and its developer is excited…
The technical director of Bluepoint Games, the tech wizards behind the Shadow of the Colossus remake, just said he would show the GDC audience “what’s next,” and then just showed this slide instead. He did say that its next project would be more than a remaster or remake—more of a “re-envisioning.” Read more
Another game you can find around GDC is the hilarious Sloppy Forgeries. Using just a few sizes of paintbrush, you have to recreate a masterpiece in about two minutes. Very clever game! Feel free to guess which shitty fake was mine. Read more
“Hey Gooch, why don’t you make Tetris with music?” — Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s recollection at GDC of how The Tetris Company’s Henk Rogers pitched him on the creation of Tetris Effect. Read more
From the Panzer Dragoon GDC panel, here’s a look at the motion capture sessions from the 1998 Sega Saturn game Panzer Dragoon Saga. Note the actor riding a budget “dragon” made out of plastic beer crates. Read more
What year is it?! If you still want to make 8-bit NES games, you can demo and buy “NES Maker” software here at GDC, which lets you create an NES game with a GUI interface, no programming necessary. The games you make can run on actual NES hardware. Read more
Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are all coming to the PC, all exclusively to Epic’s store,…
Another very cool Xbox One demo at GDC is The Wild At Heart, which is sort of like Pikmin meets EarthBound. I realize that describing a game like that is bordering on irresponsible since it may give people heart attacks. But what else would you call a game about a kid with Pikmin-like pals who root through trash bags? Read more