On the third floor of Nintendo’s U.S. headquarters, next to the conference rooms named after Mario and Donkey Kong, there’s a door that you can’t open. There’s no boss key or warp pipe here—unless you’re one of the handful of people with a high-security keycard, you’re not getting in. [This article was originally published on…
Have you ever wanted to watch Kotaku talk about Kotaku? “Hell yes!” you say? “I want nothing more in this world,” you say? Excellent. Here’s a video recording of our panel from PAX East earlier this month. We talk about games, new consoles, and what it’s like to work for everyone’s favorite video game website.…
Already announced for Japan, the sequel to Square’s wonderful rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is coming to North America in 2014. It’s called Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call, and it’s got a bunch of new characters, stages, and songs from the Final Fantasy series, including tracks from Final Fantasy Type-0, which was never released outside…
One of the world’s best RPGs could finally be playable on modern machines: the ESRB has just rated Suikoden II for PlayStation 3. ESRB ratings are often the precursor to a re-release on Sony’s digital PlayStation Network, where you can buy a number of classic PS1 and PS2 games to be played on PS3, PSP,…
Uncharted 4 won’t sound like it did during the brief glimpse we got last year—the actor who voiced the teaser trailer for the next Uncharted game says he’s no longer involved in the project. Todd Stashwick, who voices the above trailer (released last November during a PS4 launch event), told IGN today he’s no longer…
Last month, speedrunner Cosmo Wright beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 18 minutes and 56 seconds. Over the weekend, he hit 18:40. That’s with glitches, but without tools or cheats. He plays on a Chinese version of the game that loads text faster than the others It’s not quite as fun to…
Oh, Blizzard. Over the past two decades, no company has consistently gotten me hooked on video games the way you have. Just how do you do it? Yesterday I picked up Hearthstone, the free-to-play card game set in the Warcraft universe, which came out for iPad earlier this month. Blizzard first released Hearthstone for PC,…
The Game Boy officially turns 25 today—it is now a Game Man—and to celebrate, we want to hear your favorite memories of Nintendo’s influential handheld gaming system. What were your favorite Game Boy games? Where did you play them? What kind of Game Boy(s) did you have? Which was your favorite? I will never forget…
I’ve watched this like five times so far. It’s wonderful. This video is part of an ongoing series called Action Movie Kid, and I kind of wish creator Daniel Hashimoto—a special effects animator at Dreamworks—would turn it into a feature-length film. [via Laughing Squid]
Monster Hunter trailers are always entertaining—here’s a new one for the 3DS game Monster Hunter 4G, which will be out in Japan later this year, and out in the U.S. and Europe in early 2015. It’ll be called Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate when we get it.
Last weekend at PAX East, I moderated a panel called “The Golden Age Of RPGs.” This was quite fun, mostly because we spent the whole time yelling at Destructoid editor Dale North for not liking Final Fantasy IX. (I mean… come on.) The crux of our discussion: which was the best era for Japanese role-playing…
Looks like Danganronpa 2 is out on September 2 which is basically the only thing that matters this year. (via NeoGAF)
Last year, film-maker Travis Beauchamp released a fascinating documentary about the world of competitive Super Smash Bros. Now, he wants to make another. This time, Beauchamp is looking to tell the stories of Armada, Mango, Dr. PP, and other ridiculously-named competitive Smash Bros. experts. Beauchamp is asking for $26,000 on Kickstarter to make it happen.…
It’s official: Tales of Hearts R is coming to the west. It’ll be out for Vita in Winter 2014.
It’s not exactly abnormal to see bugs in an Elder Scrolls game, but this one’s special: an item-duplication bug has spread all throughout The Elder Scrolls Online, flooding the multiplayer RPG with illicitly-obtained items and gold. This morning, developer Zenimax Online Studios announced that they were temporarily turning off the game’s guild banks, likely in…
In a couple of weeks, Activision will release The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a game based on the movie. It’ll be out on just about every current-gen platform… except Xbox One. Though Activision originally announced the game for multiple consoles including Xbox One, it’s now gone MIA on the newest Xbox. Activision says it’s delayed indefinitely,…
Caption this one yourself. (Via Nintendo’s most recent batch of Super Smash Bros. screenshots.)
Rounding out today’s Nintendo Virtual Console update is Super Mario Bros. 3, generally considered one of the best platformers ever made. I have no idea why it took this long for Nintendo to release their NES classic on 3DS and Wii U, but hey. BABY STEPS. (Also out on Virtual Console today: the GBA games…
Imagine, if you will, a world where Activision’s crazy-popular Skylanders series isn’t just populated with giants and dragons, but Marios and Zeldas and Samuses. It almost happened, according to Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, co-founders of Skylanders developer Toys For Bob. Speaking to the gaming website Polygon as part of a larger Skylanders feature, Ford…
Hearthstone, Blizzard’s addictive online card game, is now available on iPad worldwide. New players get a free pack of cards.
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