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I am building a computer. I never thought I’d write those words, as my crafting ability is typically limited to LEGO…
How do you follow the biggest role-playing game of all time? How do you look at Final Fantasy VII and make something…
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The Disaster Artist, the incredible true-ish story behind the making of one of the worst movies of all time, came…
Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re revisiting our predictions for 2017 and seeing what we got right (aka: mostly…
If you’re a PS4 owner, you may turn on your console today and find a surprise home-page advertisement for Destiny 2,…
In a world where Japanese publishers have finally started to embrace global simultaneous releases, and there’s no…
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Super Mario Land 2 is one of the more underrated games in Nintendo’s library, with a suite of interesting ideas and…
I am in the market for a brand new gaming PC—thank you Kirk Hamilton—so today I decided to start browsing a bit. And…
From Tales to Dragon Quest to a brand flippin’ new Persona, this has been a stellar year for Japanese role-playing…
In late 2013, veteran Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell finished Music of the Spheres, an eight-part musical work…
As thousands (tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?) of people wake up this morning to find Nintendo Switches…
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This year, I published a book, fell in love with a brand new hardware system, and played a ton of video games. Here…
It is time for part two of our annual Kotaku Splitscreen tradition, where we talk about EVERY VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR.
Xenoblade 2 gets a patch today that tweaks a few small things. You’ll get an extra zoomed-in map overlay when you press L3, and hitting X will now open the fast travel menu right at the area you’re in. “Tiger Tiger” gets an easy mode and there are a bunch of bug fixes. Sadly, this patch does not make the Switch game an… Read more
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Nintendo has not yet released a two-dimensional Zelda game for the Switch, but Blossom Tales is as close as you’re…
Apple announced a sweeping revision to the guidelines for its App Store yesterday, which now includes a provision…
Square Enix’s Akitoshi Kawazu, director of the SaGa series, says he doesn’t want to go back to Final Fantasy. He…
Final Fantasy and I have a lot in common. We’re both charming, aging rapidly, and occasionally haunted by anime…