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Today is April 1. I recently read someone somewhere saying that April Fools’ Day is not a thing in Japan. Oh how…

You may have noticed a lot of people talking about the new PS4 game Bloodborne. It’s good, they say. It’s really…

A few exceptions aside, video games are pretty shitty at sex. It's often presented as a stilted, awkward "reward" or…

Recently, after I completed a mission in a popular big-budget video game, one of the "good guys" I was working for…

It used to be that a player's 'extra lives' were an immediate, ever-present concern. It's a staple from the arcade…

It’s been a long half-a-year, but last episode, Sailor Moon Crystal wrapped up its first story arc. And while it…

"I knew I should've trained him better," a friend said somberly of her Luigi Amiibo after he got steamrolled by…

The Xbox One has been upgraded to a "Yes" by Kotaku, and the half-life of Black Friday deals will let you snag…

Gail Tilden used to work at Nintendo. She was one of the founding editors of Nintendo Power, so knows better than…

You're going to want to keep track of six video games coming from New York University's Game Center. One of them…