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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.
Just saying a little prayer before today’s Nintendo Direct. Read more
Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That…
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Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, the shrunk-down version of Square Enix’s RPG with adorable characters and…
There was a moment, about three hours into a performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last weekend, when the…
Michael Cunningham, the editor-in-chief of the long-running website RPGamer, died this weekend following a battle with cancer, the site has said. Cunningham had written for RPGamer, which covers role-playing video games, since 2006. RIP. Read more
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After nearly 25 years lying dormant, Sega’s Streets Of Rage series will continue on.
When Sega announced the “Sega Ages” line of classic games for Switch back in April, it said that the new versions of…
The next project from Until Dawn’s developer is an anthology of smaller horror games with branching stories. The first entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology will be a South Pacific diving trip gone wrong, called Man Of Medan. It’s out in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
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Good morning! Some release dates were announced today. They are Luigi’s Mansion for 3DS (Oct. 12), Brawlhalla for Xbox One and Switch (Nov. 6), and Trials Rising for Xbone/PS4/Switch/PC (Feb. 12). Read more
Game developer Patricia Pizer was arrested in Rock Hill, South Carolina yesterday on charges that she assaulted a…
Various game emulation sites are pulling down their software libraries, or ceasing to exist entirely, following a…
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How much do you love EarthBound? Do you love it so much that you’d shoot it into space?
The first time I ever played a WarioWare game, I was drunk.
This week, I’ve been playing the latest entry in Nintendo’s series of wacky compilations of seconds-long…
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Remember opening up your first copy of Secret Of Mana? Those memories are probably quite different, depending on if…
It’s a worn-out cliche these days to say that a game is “perfect for the Switch,” but that really does apply to Capta…
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In the 1990s, a company called Wisdom Tree made serious bank selling Bible-themed video games for consoles. And in…
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AJ Styles, the WWE wrestler announced this week as the cover athlete for the game WWE 2K19, has an interesting…
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Well, this one should make collectors cringe a little bit. Believe me, it hurt to do it. We took a copy of StarTropic…