The Final Fantasy XIII series—the original, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns—are all heading to Xbox One’s backward compatibility next week, Square Enix said at X018 today. They join the other Final Fantasy classics heading to Xbox One in 2019. Read more
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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.
With the PlayStation Classic’s release less than a month away, I went to PlayStation HQ this week for three hours of…
Shigeru Miyamoto is “front and center in the creation” of the upcoming Super Mario animated film, the studio’s founder Chris Meledandri told Variety. “I’ve rarely seen that happen with any adaptation where the original creative voice is being embraced like we’re embracing Miyamoto,” he said. Read more
Historical game sales data can be hard to come by, so I was quite interested to see NPD analyst Mat Piscatella tweet…
Deraciné, the first PlayStation VR game from Dark Souls maker From Software, definitely isn’t for everyone. It’s a…
Ever since I played the first demo of Lucky’s Tale, I’ve been convinced that third-person platform games are a…
Editor’s note: Happy Halloween! We’ve prepared a special treat (or is it a trick?)—our horror games reporter Stacie…
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At the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last weekend, I teamed up with my friends Frank Cifaldi and Steve Lin of the Video…
Jade Raymond has left Electronic Arts. The original producer of the Assassin’s Creed series, Raymond founded the EA Motive studio in 2015 after a 10-year stint at Ubisoft. Originally tasked with overseeing Amy Hennig’s now-canceled Star Wars game, Motive is now at work on a different Star Wars project and a new IP. Read more
Almost nobody wakes up one morning and decides out of the blue that they want to be a video game collector. In my…
The writer-directors behind Zero Escape and Danganronpa have formed their own studio and are teaming up to create…
When I was in sixth grade, my best friend at the time penned a short story for a school assignment that was titled…
The first game in the Professor Layton series, 2007's Curious Village, is now out in a beautiful HD version for…
If you know anything about me, it’s that I love Japanese curry. At a party at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, a friend…
AtGames will release a “Legends Flashback” console on October 1, with 50 console and arcade games including Mega Man 1 and 2, Super SFII, Joe & Mac, Bad Dudes, and, weirdly, the Famicom version of Tetris. It’ll have HDMI out, save states, and rewind. Read more
Another Tokyo Game Show has come and gone, and Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft and I were both there to see the sights, play…
Wandered into an Akihabara store last night and had an amazing score: Nintendo’s 1970s electro-mechanical Duck Hunt toy! This was what inspired the NES game. The store, notorious for its high standards, had it marked at 3000 yen ($27) because it was missing the battery cover. Read more
I mean, you can't go to Japan and not order their national dish (corn mayonnaise pizza)! Read more
Sure, sure, everybody’s excited about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, but let us not forget about From Software’s other…
Real video game professionals know that Tokyo Game Show isn’t just about trying out new games, it’s also about…