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Sega’s ill-fated Saturn console is much more loved today than it was when it was released in 1994. Game collectors…
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Features Editor, Kotaku. Japanese curry aficionado. Author of the books Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.
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Practically everyone who owned a Sega Genesis back in the day had a copy of the original Sonic the Hedgehog somewhere…
What do Red Koopa Troopas think about as they’re shuffling back and forth all day on top of platforms? Where do Shy…
Nintendo’s next big Switch game is Paper Mario: The Origami King, announced less than two months ago via a humble…
The live album of last year’s Chrono Cross live tour is available now on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. I’ve been listening and it’s just beautiful, a stellar live rendition of one of the all-time great game soundtracks, performed by composer Yasunori Mitsuda and his hand-picked band.
Atari collectors all know about the so-called “Taiwan Cooper” line of bootleg cartridges that were sold around the…
Electronic Arts had a small slate of announcements for its not-E3 presentation today, including a new Skate game…
Persona 4 Golden, the formerly Vita-exclusive enhanced version of Atlus’ classic role-playing game, launched today…
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What were Sony’s big hits and misses in today’s PlayStation 5 reveal event? Ethan Gach and I pick the biggest…
The sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn, the eighth Resident Evil, a new Spider-Man starring Miles Morales, and a bold…
Anybody else still playing Super Mario Maker 2? My kid started playing it so I guess I’m playing it again. Somewhere in the experimentation, this level showed up. Are you a bad enough dude to save this frog?
I forgive you if you didn’t even notice that the TurboGrafx-16 Mini was officially released last week. Who could…
PlayStation 5 will be backward compatible with PlayStation 4 games, but Sony said today to expect it to be a gradual…
A prototype of a never-produced video game machine colloquially known as the “Nintendo Play Station” has sold at…
Nintendo’s Japanese store will start taking preorders for the Animal Crossing Switch dock and Joy-Cons on March 7. Check out our story about how to import them if you want to buy either one of them separately without having to buy the whole bundle.
How badly do you want to play another Space Channel 5 game? Your personal level of yearning to see Sega’s…
Bidding on the so-called ‘Nintendo Play Station,’ a prototype of a doomed collaboration between Nintendo and Sony,…
Bidding has begun on the “Nintendo Play Station” prototype at Heritage Auctions. This extremely rare and valuable piece of gaming history will go to the highest bidder when the gavel falls on March 6. Read Kotaku’s previous story on the auction for more.
The next batch of NES and SNES games hits Switch Online on February 19. On SNES, it’s Pop’n Twinbee and Smash Tennis; on NES it’s Shadow of the Ninja and Eliminator Boat Duel.
A new documentary released today looks at the ongoing tension between physical and digital video game releases. Not For Resale attempts to capture all facets of the conversation, like the fate of independent game stores, the struggle over preservation, or the problems with today’s digital marketplaces.