I had no idea what I was getting into when I first put Rygar into my NES. I had borrowed the game, released in 1987…
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Peter Tieryas is the author of Mecha Samurai Empire & Cyber Shogun Revolution (Penguin RH). He's written for Kotaku, IGN, & Verge. He was an artist at Sony Pictures & Technical Writer for LucasArts.
Thanks as always Kotaku for letting us host the site for the weekend! Hope you enjoyed our thoughts on Animal Crossing, the Xbox, Starfleet, Trails, the Famicom, robot revolutions and more. While all good things do come to an end, sometimes they can come back in mysterious forms. Cing, the developers behind Last…
NPCs can make or break a game. My PC introduced me to some of my first NPCs. In Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a…
This upcoming Friday is Valentine’s Day and Nintendo released a bunch of Animal Crossing inspired Valentine’s Day…
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” was the best way to finish one of my…
Last month, I wrote about the first leg of Lost Odyssey and how much I was enjoying it. The second disc and first…
I recently had lunch with a friend who works in tech and he posited to me the ethical question of how we should…
Hi everyone! I’m back to judge the shop contest for this week! Last week, Zack asked everyone to create some photos…
The duology of Last Window and Hotel Dusk has become my favorite series on the original DS. The two games are noir at…
Hi Kotaku! It’s Ben, Narelle, and Peter back as your guest writers for the weekend. It’s been too long!
Every December, I wonder where the year went. Every week before January 1st, I wonder what games from my backlog I…
There’s a game I keep coming back to every few years. It’s Lost Odyssey for the Xbox 360. Developed by Hironobu…
What’s it like to be the strongest person on the planet? If you answered that it’d be a boring depressing state of…
Constellations, block puzzles, magic, and a Taoist monk collide in this odd but extremely difficult puzzle game…
I loved Yakuza movies growing up, and the Yakuza series reminds me of the best of them. I actually enjoyed films…
Thunder Force IV is the ultimate adrenaline rush and hands down one of the best shooters on the Sega Genesis. It…
This past Friday was Black Friday and had a splurge of gaming and electronics deals. I saw lots of people looking…
Hi Kotaku! I’m signing off for the weekend and wanted to give a big thank you to all the readers for taking the time to read my retrospectives/essays and leaving some very interesting comments over the Thanksgiving break. I try to read as many as I can as I always learn really fascinating things and discover new…
When I was younger, dropping hundreds of hours on a RPG was no problem. It was actually something I was proud of. I…
Whenever I got a new Sega Genesis game, I used to plug in the earphones to the console’s headphone jack to play it.…