Ocean Scenes

Each season there are shows I, and perhaps you, look forward to. But this summer, there is one show that I am…

The Final Fantasy franchise has been many things to many people in the decades since the series debuted in 1987: a…

In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them…

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

Skies of Arcadia released in 2000 for the Sega Dreamcast and while it wasn’t a huge hit, its cheerful tale of air…

A month ago, I proclaimed that Nintendo’s Animal Crossing mobile game lacked heart and soul. Repetitive dialogue,…

The back page of Alex Hall’s economics textbook was filled with scribbles. Diagrams, notes, story beats, a web that…

In my first few minutes with the PS4 HD remaster of Final Fantasy XII I was awestruck by how fresh it looked. As a…

Last night, Kotaku’s intrepid anime and snack reporters, me and Mike Fahey, saw the anticipated and controversial…

You’re four years old, maybe five. Your parents got one of those Nintendos that everyone’s been raving about, along…