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Video games’ version of paternalism is usually reductive: parents and children rarely stray from the roles of…

Earlier this spring, Kotaku reported that Jeon “Dara” Jeong-hoon announced he was retiring from professional gaming…

Last month, Isao Takahata passed away at the 82. Known for Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of Princess Kaguya,…

Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft and his son visit BitSummit

First time visitors notice them right away: Sickness masks. People in Japan wear them for numerous reasons,…

During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent trip to Israel, he and his wife Akie dined with Israeli Prime…

Last night in Tokyo, a 30-something-year-old tourist from Singapore made a wrong turn, driving a rental MariCar (the…

Did you just arrive in Japan? Oh dear. Bad timing. I’m sure you’ll have fun, but there are better times to visit. Why…

There are a lot of cool sequences in God of War. Let’s talk about the coolest one.

There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that…