A Foreign World

What’s the fighting game you remember the most from the arcades of your youth? Street Fighter II? Tekken? Mortal…

Everybody calls Rob Kuntz last, he says. Those who want to know about the history of Dungeons & Dragons start with…

The very first time I was a guest writer for Kotaku, I wrote about Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV, which was my…

A trio of strong South Korean competitors traveled to Peru last weekend for a major Tekken 7 event, but they were…

Evo 2019 hosted a special panel titled “The Women of the FGC,” allowing female members of the community the…

I am generally suspicious of games that people say are “better with friends,” simply because most things are. Manual…

One of my first memories of moving to Japan in 2001 was the surprise at seeing how everyone lined up on one side of…

Smash Ultimate is finally getting a hero: a Dragon Quest hero, that is. Today at E3, Nintendo announced that heroes…

There is no main character in the new Watch Dogs, no “guy on the box” in this adventure set in post-Brexit London,…

Until recently, Japan didn’t have much of an influx of foreign tourists. Now, it does, and with that comes problems.