“My story,” says Tidus. “My ears,” I reply.

No, Sega Doesn't Have Its Own Mini-Genesis

Despite reports circulating to the contrary, the Nintendo/Sega console rivalry isn’t flaring back up in miniature form. Nintendo’s upcoming mini-NES is a brand new device. AtGames’ Sega-branded mini-Mega Drive is a shoddy emulation box that’s been around for years.

Mike Fahey

5/08/16 6:05pm

The results post for last week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has been pushed to next weekend, while I deal with a very high fever and other fun medical things. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The Saturday Morning Stream will return next weekend. Fahey is currently battling strep throat and doesn't want to risk infecting you all through Twitch. This also means he won't be making the Games Journalism panel at Momocon in Atlanta today. As an apology, he offers this tiny GIF he found of a doggy on Reddit.

Free-to-Play? Star Wars: Galaxies Cannot Make "a Change of this Magnitude"

Owen Good

7/16/11 4:00pm

When Sony Online Entertainment said it would shut down Star Wars: Galaxies by the end of the year, many teeth were gnashed and many garments were rent. A lot of people, thinking SOE failed to consider this, postulated about taking the game to a free-to-play model, and voila, the orphanage is saved! If only they wanted…

Crytek Boss Says Crysis 2 "Backfired a Little Bit"

Luke Plunkett

6/24/11 1:00am

The first Crysis was tailored directly towards the glorious PC master race. So the fact the sequel pared back the hardware demands in favour of something that would run on a console did not go down well.