Final Fantasy IX, one of the best Final Fantasy games, is coming to PC and smartphones at some point in 2016, Square Enix announced today in Japan. Square didn’t announce a western release but it’s safe to say one will follow, given that every other Final Fantasy mobile and PC port has made it to…
Valve has finally apologized for last week’s Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the information of around 34,000 users. Valve said they’re still working to identify the affected users and will contact them once the process is complete.…
Nearly four years ago, Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2 for western release. That still hasn’t happened. But at least we’re getting the anime? Sentai Filmworks, a North American anime distributor, announced last night that they’ve licensed the animated version of Sega’s wayward MMORPG and that it’ll be out next year. Meanwhile, Sega still won’t…
Suikoden II is $5 right now ($2.50 for PlayStation Plus members) on PSN, in case you’re interested in checking out one of the greatest games of all time
Four days after Steam’s Christmas fiasco, we still don’t know exactly what happened. We don’t know how many people were affected, how much personal information leaked, or if some friendly Team Fortress players saw our addresses and plan to stop by our homes for an impromptu New Year’s celebration. We don’t know any of this…
Video game development studio Red 5, best known as the company behind the online game Firefall, missed payroll last week and could not pay its staff on Christmas day, according to several people familiar with goings-on there. One source close to the studio, requesting anonymity so as not to endanger their career, shared messages and…
Steam faced something of a catastrophe this afternoon, giving players across the world access to some of the personal information in other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this happened, but it’s a doozy. Call it the Steam Winter Fail. Various players across the world logged into their Steam clients today to find their…
Did you know that Pols, the rabbit-looking things in the original Legend of Zelda, are meant to be destroyed not with arrows but by talking into a microphone? And that the Japanese version of the Zelda board game was way better than the North American one? Legends of Localization Book 1: The Legend of Zelda,…
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Christmas is all about spending time with family and friends. But when you get bored of those family and friends, why not play some video games? As the holidays fill the air—except here on the East Coast where it’s somehow like 70 degrees—here’s a list of games that are doing special things for Christmas. You…
When Square Enix brought Final Fantasy VI to PC last week, they brought with it a graphical overhaul that most fans can’t stand, complete with washed-out sprites and inconsistent tiling. It’s a bummer, to say the least. Fortunately, modding exists. Since the PC version of the best Final Fantasy game came out, intrepid fans have…
Last week, I got an e-mail from a reader with a simple yet challenging question: Which video game console should they buy? It’s a question we often discuss but have never quite answered definitively here on Kotaku. As we enter 2016, there are six main gaming machines—four stationary, two portable—that compete for our time and…
Two days before Christmas, Naughty Dog’s dropping a bit of coal in our stockings: they’re delaying Uncharted 4 to April 26, 2016. “This is our largest Uncharted game to date, and the team has been working incredibly hard to meet the challenge of closing out the game’s development in a timely manner,” directors Neil Druckmann…
Today on Facebook, you might have seen an exciting little news nugget in the corner of your homepage. “Dreamcast 2,” it read, “Sega Reportedly to Release New PC-Console Hybrid.” All day, “Dreamcast 2” has been one of the top items on Facebook’s Trending Topics feature, which launched last year and has been particularly awful in…
Old-school Sega fans will undoubtedly remember Wonder Boy, a series of lovely sidescrolling action-RPGs starring heroes with big swords and colorful hair. Two game companies—FDG Entertainment and The Game Atelier—have partnered to bring it back. Well, sort of. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a sequel in everything but name, and this promising gameplay…
Take a dash of Suikoden’s world-building, add some Grandia-style combat, stir it all in with the setting and social links of Persona, and bam, you’ve got Trails of Cold Steel, which comes out for PS3 and Vita today. I haven’t played too much of Cold Steel—been trying to finish up Trails in the Sky SC…
Before Banjo-Kazooie was Banjo-Kazooie, it was Dream, an RPG-adventure hybrid that might have been the best-looking Super Nintendo game ever made. Today on YouTube, Rare released a neat little mini-documentary about Dream, which was pushed from the SNES to the Nintendo 64 before it evolved into the Banjo we all know and love today. You…
Here, have 15 minutes of English Fire Emblem Fates gameplay, thanks to the fine folks at Gamexplain. Skip to 5:55 if you just want to see battling and not a chunk of story from the newest Fire Emblem, which comes out for 3DS this February. It’s weird that they all have feet, isn’t it?
The PC port of Final Fantasy VII came to PlayStation 4 earlier this month. Maybe we should play it? I’ll be streaming the seventh Final Fantasy for the next few hours, because why not? Watch here, or come over to Twitch if you wanna hang out in the chat UPDATE (12/21/15): Let’s play some more!…
After placing second at the Capcom Cup this year, Street Fighter superstar Daigo Umehara is donating his winnings ($60,000) to NYU’s Evo scholarship fund. Nice dude.
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