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The 11 Best Video Game Sequels, According To Kotaku Readers
4.12.2023
Earlier this week, we asked you all to give us your choice for the best video game sequel. Any sequel would count and everyone was free to suggest any game they wanted, no matter how old, obscure, or divisive. And we tallied up all the answers, crunched the numbers, and figured out your top...
Classic Nintendo Racer F-Zero Returns As A...Battle Royale
14.9.2023
During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed that the classic high-speed futuristic racer F-Zero will make a return as a...battle royale speedster.Read more
Baki Hanma Has The Most Exciting, Ridiculous Battles In Anime
16.8.2023
Recently, my friends and I have become born-again sports anime fans thanks to the pay-per-view feel of classic boxing-themed shows like Tomorrow’s Joe and Hajime No Ippo. While these shows maintain a sense of realism that doesn’t require me to suspend my disbelief too often, Netflix’s new season...
Xbox Just Got A Huge Library Of Classic Retro Games
24.7.2023
For a few years now, unbeknownst to many of us, a subscription service called Antstream Arcade has offered users legal streaming of hundreds of classic games, from arcade hits to gems for home platforms like Amiga, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, among others. Growing over time, its total offerings...
Hyped RPG Baldur's Gate III Took Six Years To Make Because It's Scary-Big
29.6.2023
Baldur’s Gate III director Swen Vincke doesn’t think the sprawling fantasy role-playing game would exist if the team behind it, Larian Studios, had been gobbled up by another game company. “It would have been canned, guaranteed,” he told me during a recent interview. “There’s no way that a...
Lego’s Newest Set Is A RadPac-Man Arcade Machine Made Up Of 2600+ Pieces
22.5.2023
The unending war between Pac-Man and ghosts continues, but this time in the form of a massive Lego set recreating a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, complete with moving parts, a light-up coin slot, buttons, and more.Read more
New York Times Joins Last Of Us Ending Discourse 10 Years Later
13.3.2023
Last night’s The Last of Us finale on HBO Max ushered in the inevitable, the thing so many of us have feared for a decade: Major publications, the same ones who refer to video games as if they’re all still like Pac-Man, are weighing in on its controversial ending.Read more
5 Classic Retro Games You Can Play For Free
17.1.2023
In the down moments of playing a distressingly long Mario Party 2 game this weekend—my friends get a garbage truck full of NES and Super NES games with their Nintendo Switch Online membership—I started wondering what other retro games were only a download away on publishers’ official...
Billy Mitchell Says His Doctor Won't See Him Because Of Donkey Kong Cheating Allegations
8.9.2022
I think we can all agree that whether or not Billy Mitchell cheated at Donkey Kong that one time is basically the most important event in all of human history, and must be forensically dissected until the heat death of the universe. But in the latest round of the ongoing battle between this famed...
NFT Psycho Advocates Turning Players From 'Developing' Nations Into NPCs
7.9.2022
A common thread linking my complete revulsion for all things blockchain and AI is the sheer inhumanity of it all. Devotees of these techbro causes are so focused on technology, profits and market forces, while remaining oblivious to their effects and consequences, that at times it feels like they...
Ms. Pac-Man Bizarrely Replaced With New Wife (?) In Pac-Man Game
8.4.2022
While long-time fans of the series will know that Ms. Pac-Man is the wife of Mr. Pac-Man, and appeared as such in the 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land, a new re-release of the game has gone to the trouble of changing the character.Read more
Hacker: Elden Ring May Suffer Same Serious Online Exploits As Dark Souls III
10.2.2022
All PC versions of the Dark Souls games will remain offline for the foreseeable future, according to a new tweet from series publisher Bandai Namco, in order to fix at least one major security vulnerability. Further, the developers are working to ensure that the same serious vulnerability does...
Legendary Namco Graphic Designer Hiroshi Ono Dies At 64
18.10.2021
Hiroshi Ono, better known as “Mr. Dotman,” passed away on October 16. The news was announced by his official Twitter account. According to Automaton, Ono had been hospitalized for autoimmune hepatitis. He was 64 years old. Read more
Former Pac-Man Champ Billy Mitchell Can Now Sue World Record Leaderboard Group
14.10.2021
Billy Mitchell, a pro gamer best known for making the numbers on an arcade machine get really big, is going to court. As spotted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, a U.S. appeals court gave the green light yesterday for Mitchell to proceed with a defamation suit against Twin Galaxies, the popular gaming...
And The Final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Character Is…
5.10.2021
Well, for every person who’s thrilled, ten more are pissed. Probably. During a digital presentation this morning, Masahiro Sakurai at long last unveiled the final fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It’s Sora, from Kingdom Hearts. He’ll be available October 18.Read more
Billy Mitchell’s Old Website Now Debunks His Controversial Pac-Man High Scores
21.9.2021
If nothing else, you’ve gotta respect the bit. Billy Mitchell, the so-called “video game player of the century,” appears to have let ownership over his old website, perfectpacman.com, lapse some years ago. Now someone else has commandeered the domain, and is using it to publish a multipart...
Seriously, There’s A Frogger Game Show Now?
20.8.2021
Frogger, the 1981 arcade game about one amphibian’s quest to shed light on the insidious evils of the automotive industry, is getting an obstacle-course game show adaptation. NBCUniversal will start airing episodes on its Peacock streaming platform next month, and just released an initial trailer...
A Stop-Motion 8-Bit Lego Masterpiece Nine Years In The Making
19.8.2021
12 years ago Swedish musical duo Rymdreglage released the now-legendary Lego animated music video, 8-Bit Trip. This week, after nine years of work, three of which were spent building a custom camera-control rig, Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh triumphantly return with 8-Bit Trip 2, one of the most...
Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
9.7.2021
Y’all! A Black woman was named the winner of not one but two world records for having the largest collection of LCD and playable gaming systems and my mind is alight with joy.Read more
'Vagina Bones,' Kirby's Eyebrows, And Other Bizarre American Video Game Changes
3.7.2021
America’s birthday is nearly upon us, and you know what that means: It’s time to loudly blow stuff up so that we can drown out the self-conscious voices in our heads that remind us how weird and bad America can be. In honor of All Of That, this week’s Splitscreen is about how games from other...