All I could think as I played through a few levels of The Stretchers, Nintendo’s new eShop-exclusive Switch game, is…
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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.
On Sunday, I went to the flea market, and found exactly what I was hoping for: a big pile of cheap video games. In…
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I haven’t watched much Jeopardy! since my personal hero James Holzhauer left the show, but had I tuned in last…
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I’m on two recent podcasts yammering about old video games if that’s the kind of thing you like: Memory Card, talking about the SNES CD-ROM with Kotaku contributor Ben Bertoli, and Axe of the Blood God talking about SNES and Genesis RPGs with the USGamer staff. Read more
Amongst all the many, many games coming to Nintendo Switch soon, you should pay close attention to Moon, a port of a…
He’s finally done it. After years of talking about Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima finally showed off a full mission’s…
Sega was always more loved than it was successful. At no point was the maker of the Genesis and Dreamcast the…
A cool bit of news from the Japanese Nintendo Direct: In 2020, Nintendo will release Switch remakes of its Famicom Detective Club adventure games, originally released on the Famicom Disk System in the late 1980s. No English version planned yet, but who knows what’ll happen.