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Video Game Stamps Pay Tribute To The Classics, In Case You Ever Actually Need To Send A Letter

Britain’s Royal Mail is about to launch a series of stamps paying tribute to the country’s biggest and best video game creations from days of old, from Tomb Raider to Elite to Wipeout to Sensible Soccer They’ll go on sale on January 21, and will cost £14.25 (USD$18.75). The main collection also includes Micro Machines,…

Nvidia and Asus are showing off 360Hz gaming monitors at CES. Designed for esports, monitors like the ASUS ROG Swift 360 will refresh frames every 2.8 milliseconds. That is not very many milliseconds at all. At that speed, the friction should rip the paint right off your eyes.

A new When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) anime project has begun, Famitsu reports. Akio Watanabe is doing the character designs, while Passione is handling the animation duties. No word yet about a broadcast date in Japan or internationally 

Final Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Has Done A Vogue Cover

For its first issue of 2020, Vogue Italia is trying something new (and very old), by ditching photography and devoting an entire edition to fashion illustration. There’ll be seven different covers made to celebrate this, and one of them has been done by Yoshitaka Amano, who many of you will know for his extensive work…

Super Star Wars, A SNES Classic, Was Also Made For The Genesis

1992’s Super Star Wars, one of the best Super Nintendo games not actually made by Nintendo, was—along with its sequels, Super Empire and Super Jedi—one of the defining exclusives of the SNES v Genesis era. Turns out, though, it was also in development at one point for Sega’s console. The Cutting Room Floor and Hidden…

Indigo Prophecy Has One Of The Best Opening Levels Ever Made

I know all of you, or at least most of you, folks reading this don’t want to murder someone. But I also know most people think about how they would get away with a crime, like murder, every once and a while. Luckily, we rarely need to wiggle our way out of a murder, so…

Some NPCs In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Look Scary Up Close

If you dig around Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you will find some interesting stuff out of bounds. For example, a bunch of cool, unused stuff is hidden beneath some planets. But there are also some terrifying low-poly NPCs that players weren’t meant to see up close. Popular Youtube channel, Boundary Break, released a new…

Sadly, the last Mario Maker Contest didn’t receive enough levels for me to properly do a winners post. I’ll probably end this contest moving forward, but thanks to everyone who participated in the past contests!

This Breakfast Looks Deliciously Real But Was Actually Made In Dreams

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, according to science and my mom. But while this big plate of breakfast looks tasty, it sadly can’t be eaten. This entire meal was not made in a real kitchen but was actually created in the video game Dreams on PS4. The delicious image was created…

Blendo Games Has Been At It For 10 Years, And Has Consistently Kicked Ass

A decade can feel short, but it’s still plenty of time to build out an artistic catalogue. As AAA studios labored towards creating bigger and more expensive games in the 2010s, one indie developer helped shape how we think of video games stories, using narrative subversion, clever editing, and an overall sense of playfulness. The…

It’s a new year, so this is your semi-regular reminder that if you’re a freelance writer, you can (and should!) pitch Kotaku, using the email address [email protected], with your story ideas. Include some clips to let us know who you are as a writer and what you can bring to the table.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo Leaks Online, Dataminers Unveil More Details

Apparently the Final Fantasy VII Remake is going to release a demo soon, because some very credible leaks of a demo for the game have popped up online. After initial reports from tracking sites that a listing for a Final Fantasy VII Remake demo had been sneakily added to the Playstation Network, it appears that…

Yes I Know I Need To Put My Xbox One On An Actual Shelf (Someday)

My Xbox One has been precariously balanced on top of a stack of books for almost two weeks and will probably stay that way for several more because I am a monster with a million other things on his to-do list. I’d like to say I originally saw this set-up as an art installation, a…

Actually, Legend Of Mana Is Good

As one of the few proud PlayStation Vita holdouts (chants: Vita means life! It only rhymes with wife!) I spent a lot of my holiday travel time playing old PlayStation JRPGs I’ve amassed for $6 a pop. While it can’t compare to staying up late in front of a boxy old TV, it’s been wonderful…

One Punch Man Is About The Plight Of Being Too Powerful

What’s it like to be the strongest person on the planet? If you answered that it’d be a boring depressing state of existential dread, then you’d empathize with the hero of One Punch Man One Punch Man is a superhero anime based on the Manga of the same name that combines action, comedy, and satire…

The Weird But Memorable Sidequests Of Yakuza 0

I loved Yakuza movies growing up, and the Yakuza series reminds me of the best of them. I actually enjoyed films like Sympathy for the Underdog, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, and Sonatine more than their mafia-themed cousins we have here in the west. So when Luke wrote his great review of Yakuza 0, I…

Thunder Force IV Was One Of The Best Shooters Of The 16-Bit Era

Thunder Force IV is the ultimate adrenaline rush and hands down one of the best shooters on the Sega Genesis. It also had one of the most depressing endings on a 16-bit era game. Developed by Technosoft in 1992, it was renamed Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar in the US. I got it as…

If “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” from The Witcher Netflix TV show is still stuck in your head, then check out this remix of the song by Kyle Reclaim, which is better than it has any right to be.

EVE Online‘s Raffle System Adds Some Drama To The Game’s Economy

Gambling in video games has been a hot topic in 2019, with lawmakers in Europe and the United States making moves to stem the tide of loot boxes. EVE Online has had its own brushes with gambling, but they seemed to come to an end in 2016 when CCP banned all forms of gambling in…

How To Get Into The Witcher In 2019

Maybe you’ve heard of this thing called The Witcher. It’s a book series, three video games, soon-to-be a Netflix show, and a hallmark of Polish culture. Maybe you’ve heard about it but never really tried to figure out what the fuss is. Now that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to Switch, you say:…