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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.
Project Rap Rabbit, a rhythm game by the creators of Parappa and Gitaroo-Man, ended its Kickstarter campaign today far short of its goal. Its creators say they won’t pursue another crowdfunding campaign, but had a “very busy E3 filled with meetings about our vision” and are “determined... to bring Project Rap Rabbit… Read more
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Another prototype of EarthBound for the NES has been discovered, this time at a garage sale in Portland, Oregon. It seems identical to the prototype found back in the 1990s. Nintendo has since released the game officially on Wii U as EarthBound Beginnings. Just goes to show you what might still be out there at garage…
Keith Robinson, the godfather of the Intellivision, passed away Wednesday at 61. Robinson designed games for the pioneering Mattel console, but that was just the beginning: He bought the rights to Intellivision in the 1990s and kept the games in print via the Intellivision Lives! collections, while documenting the… Read more
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Metroid Prime 4? Shadow of the Colossus? I don’t know. For my money, the best thing announced at E3 is the Super…
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Nintendo’s not done announcing games yet at E3. On its Treehouse Live stream, it just unveiled Mario & Luigi…
Hey, do you still have your original Xbox? And an Xbox 360? And an Xbox One? And are you planning on buying an Xbox…
Bethesda’s about to begin its highly anticipated and extremely late E3 2017 presentation. Seriously, a 9 PM Pacific…
Microsoft is expanding Xbox One’s backward compatibility program to the first Xbox, it said today at its E3 media…
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Super Lucky’s Tale, an Xbox One and Windows 10 version of the Oculus Rift VR game, is coming out on November 7, Microsoft said today. No, it’s not VR on the Xbox. It’s a non-VR version. Also that’s not Conker.
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The latest in the Metro series, called Metro: Exodus, is on its way to Xbox One, with Xbox One X enhancements,…
Square Enix gave a pretty nifty thank-you gift to the developers of A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV—a replica Super…
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Square Enix just dropped the new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III onto YouTube, after premiering it at the “Kingdom…
E3 kicks off earlier and earlier every year, and 2017 is no exception: Electronic Arts is beginning this year’s show…
Got a pile of old NES carts? Want to play them on your HDMI television? Recently, a number of solutions for that…
I’ve been playing Super Nintendo games on my Switch all week, and it is a glorious thing.
While we’re prepping for E3 this week and reminiscing about the great moments from expos past, let me regale you of…
How much effort should today’s console makers put into keeping the classics in print and playable on modern…
The NES Classic was the #2 best-selling console in America in April, right behind the Nintendo Switch, the NPD Group reported today. Yes, that means the $60 mini-console outsold PS4, 3DS, and Xbox One. Good thing they discontinued it, huh?
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With Nintendo’s motion controllers now into their second decade of life, I find myself… agnostic. I like Wii Sports…