King Kong

Greetings, Kotaku readers. Welcome to tonight's open thread, which we're doing animal style. Wait! Scratch that,…

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It was the hot, sticky summer of 1990. Japan's bubble economy, the period of rapid growth during the 1980s, would…

It's a country with 120 million people, with a deep and long history, with a complex and beautiful language. Yet,…

Forget 2007 documentary The King of Kong. That was a struggle for Donkey Kong domination between just two men. The…

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My new morning routine: Get up, dump, prepare coffee, boil a pot of water to do the dishes from last night.

Billy Mitchell, who supplied every villainous stereotype short of twirling his mustache in "The King of Kong: A…