As previously mentioned, High Score Girl is getting a TV anime. It will debut this July and if this first teaser is…
This Is A $2,200 Retro Gaming Machine
This is the Zette System, handcrafted from wood by Swedish artist Love Hultén. In its resting state it resembles a…
The Genie Level In Aladdin Is Unadulterated Disney Magic
Disney is at its best when it abandons pretense. Every great Disney animated film has that moment when the wheels come…
The RetroBlox Wants To Be A Virtual Console For All Of Your Old Games
There’s no shortage of third-party retro gaming consoles promising all sorts of advantages over their proprietary…
3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy
Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had…
JRPGs, Grand Theft Nightmares, And Retro Horror
Hail Kotaku Readers! My name is Peter Tieryas and I’ll be your guest editor today. That means lots of retrogames,…
Dream Arcades Wants To Build A Very Fancy Emulator Console
Known for creating full-sized arcade cabinets packed with emulated arcade games, Dream Arcades is getting into the…
PC Gaming Looked A Lot Different In The Late '90s
Flat widescreen monitors? Glowing keyboards and mice? Controllers with analog thumbsticks? The late ‘90s PC gamer…
Game Of Thrones' Most Brutal Battle Now Sounds Like A SNES Game
Game of Thrones plus old-school video game sound effects? Suddenly a lot of profoundly heartbreaking scenes are, um...…
A New World Record For Beating Pokémon Red
Despite being criticized for being too easy, a typical play-through of any given Pokémon game might take around 8-25…
The Super Retro Trio Is Three Classic Consoles In One
With my children rapidly approaching gaming age, I want their introduction to my favorite pastime to begin with the…
Now You Can Own An Incredibly Expensive Neo Geo Made Of Exotic Wood
Are you serious about the Neo Geo? Like, really serious? Then you should check out Analogue Interactive, a company that…
8-Bit George Washington and Adolf Hitler Fight With Cyborg Dinosaurs in This Time Travel Art Show
Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history's greatest leader…
High Score Is The Reality Show for Classic Arcade Games
If you're lucky or just old, you can remember the classic stand-up arcade era, where Pac-Man machines stood next to De…
American Icons Gallery Show Recognizes Classic Gaming Consoles For the Works of Art They Are
We live in an age of gaming gorgeousness. Gamers' lives nowadays are filled with fancy normal mapping and illumination…
A Retro Gaming Room I Could Die In
I've seen many a lovely retro gaming room in my lifetime, but this one from Netherlands resident donkey*kong makes me…
It's a Very Mario Christmas ...
Reader Adam E. and his co-workers decked the office with 8-bit jolly, dressing up their manager's cube to look like the…
Puzzling Over Adventure Game Puzzles
There's a really nice (lengthy) article over at Adventure Classic Gaming that takes a look at puzzles in (as you can…
Preserving Abandoned Treasures
Along with 'legitimate' means of preservation, there's the whole specter of abandonware, which Les Chapelle takes a…