After Atari was acquired by Warner in the 1980s, the new chief executive it installed called the game designers “a bunch of high-strung prima donnas” in an interview. Atari’s designers retaliated with this shirt. On display at GDC Retro Play this week. 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.
Ever since the days of Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi has always wanted you to not just play his games, but feel them, too.…
Once the red-headed stepchild of the Nintendo family, indie games have now established themselves as one of the main…
The shittiest kidnap van I’ve ever seen was doing laps around GDC all today. I guess if you want to kidnap kids you spray-paint “Free Candy” on the van but this is what you do if you want to lure in tech bros? When it fills up do they drive them straight to Burning Man? Read more
The backstory of Sonic the Hedgehog used to involve a fighter pilot with Sonic painted on the nose of his plane, the…
Why is Sonic blue? Because Sega’s logo is blue. A simple answer to one of life’s great mysteries. From the Sonic panel currently ongoing at GDC. Read more
Players of indie games on Switch are driven in great part by “nostalgia,” Nintendo said today at a Game Developers…
“Call me when you’re on Switch.” I think this sign at the Double Fine “Day of the Devs” booth may have single-handedly captured the indie game mood at GDC. Read more
The Moscone Center, the sprawling downtown San Francisco convention hall where Game Developers Conference takes…
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Secret of Mana is a broken game that I will always love. Playing through the recent remake forced me to reckon with…
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We just got a whole bunch of awesome Nintendo Switch game announcements in today’s Nintendo Direct, but as usual, Jap…
GameCube launch game Luigi’s Mansion is coming to 3DS in 2018, Nintendo said during a Nintendo Direct today.…
What’s your first gaming memory? Is it your dad’s Atari 2600? Struggling to figure out how to use the controller on…
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The name Square is closely associated with RPGs, and for good reason. But in the days before it had its first huge…
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An extremely rare, officially-licensed Donkey Kong game has finally been released to the Internet, and now the…
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It’s strange to think about it now, 12 years later, but there was a time when I wondered if Shadow of the Colossus wa…
While video game collecting is a popular hobby, video game art collecting is a more rarefied avocation. That’s…
This morning, Konami released the TurboGrafx-16 games Battle Chopper and Necromancer for Wii U. That’s right: It’s…
Nintendo has sold 4 million SNES Classics worldwide, it said today. Its president confirmed that it will bring back NES Classic this year and sell it alongside SNES Classic “as an opportunity to garner interest in Nintendo Switch from those who have not interacted with video games in a long time, or ever.” Read more
Genyo Takeda might not be a familiar name to Nintendo fans, but he’s been the driving force behind the company’s…