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Yakuza's Producer Would Like To Bring Its 17th & 19th Century Spinoffs To The West
24.2.2021
While Sega has eventually managed to bring all the main Yakuza games to the West, we’ve still never gotten the series’ two historical spinoffs, Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! and Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!.Read more
Final Fantasy Got It Right With Two Black Fathers
23.2.2021
Lately, dads have become the video game industry’s pet trope. There are a ton of games that have won a lot of awards about trying, failing, and in very few cases, succeeding at being a dad. But that trend largely excludes Black fathers (with one extremely notable exception), since the video game...
PlayStation's 'Play At Home' Program Returns, Ratchet & Clank Free Next Month
23.2.2021
Last year, Sony kickstarted the Play At Home initiative, a program that provided free game to PlayStation players in the hopes of promoting social distancing. Next month, Sony will bring the program back.Read more
If You're Looking for Sailors, Shenmue III is $10 and It Includes a Steelbook Case
23.2.2021
Shenmue III + Steelbook Case (PS4) | $10 | Best BuyRead more
Forrest 64 Is What A Fictional Nintendo 64 Game Sounds Like
22.2.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. We’ve got an odd one today: the soundtrack to a make-believe Nintendo 64 game hidden away in the Switch version of Firewatch.Read more
I Was Wrong About An Award-Winning Final Fantasy Author
22.2.2021
Back in 2014, I wrote about author M.J. Gallagher’s attempts to turn the Final Fantasy series into a giant novel, and said “it’s not going to win many literary prizes”. I am here today to eat some shit.Read more
Happy 35th Birthday, The Legend Of Zelda
22.2.2021
On February 21, 1986, the original Legend of Zelda was released on the Famicom in Japan. It did OK, Nintendo made some more Zelda games, and we’ve all been having some good times ever since. Read more
A Fully Playable Build Of Rare's Unreleased N64 Game Dinosaur Planet Has Leaked Online
20.2.2021
A group of gaming preservationists has released online a fully playable (and a bit buggy) build of Dinosaur Planet, a canceled Nintendo 64 project developed by Rare. It would eventually become Star Fox Adventures, which was released on the Gamecube in 2002.Read more
'Shop Contest: The Legend Of Zelda 35th Anniversary
20.2.2021
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Zelda franchise. But specifically, it seems today Feb 21 is the actual day the series hits the big 3-0 (plus five.) Let’s celebrate the long-running franchise by creating silly images. It’s how we do things around here. Read more
There's Been An N64 Mini-Game Hidden Inside The Switch Version Of Firewatch All This Time
20.2.2021
Yesterday Cabel Sasser, the co-founder of Panic, revealed a little-known secret only found in the Switch port of Firewatch, a game his company published back in 2016. Turns out, there’s a fun platformer hidden in it. And (almost) nobody found it! Read more
Final Fantasy VII Has Been Upscaled To HD Using AI
19.2.2021
If you want to play Final Fantasy VII in HD on your PC you could wait for the remake to get ported, or you could play the original game using this mod that employs artificial intelligence to upscale its visuals.Read more
You Can Finally Import Your Owned Levels Into Hitman 3 On PC
18.2.2021
Hitman 3 PC players who own Hitman 1 or 2 can finally import their owned levels for free, developer IO Interactive announced today.Read more
The Makers Of Minit Are Back With A Clever New Spin-Off
18.2.2021
Minit took the sense of exploration and discovery from a classic Zelda and recreated it in black and white in 60 second chunks. The result was fantastic, so it’s not surprising its creators are returning to that world in their latest game: Minit Fun Racer.Read more
Here’s Where To Pre-Order All of the Latest Nintendo Direct’s Biggest Games
18.2.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD | $60 | Best BuyMario Golf: Super Rush | $60 | Best BuyNo More Heroes 3 | $60 | Best BuyRead more
Thank God For Wario
18.2.2021
These are trying times we are all living through. If only we could live through them with half the gusto—and fashion sense—of Wario.Read more
Skyward Sword Has A Neat Workaround For Its Motion Controls
18.2.2021
The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword, bless it for trying, was a Zelda game on the Wii that went all in with its motion controls, making ports to systems that aren’t the Wii a tricky proposition.Read more
Everything Nintendo Showed During Today's Direct
17.2.2021
Nintendo held it’s first full-length Direct in nearly two years today, and it was chockfull of smaller announcements and some neat surprises. Read more
Nintendo Sorry There Isn't Any Breath Of The Wild 2 News
17.2.2021
When Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma made a brief appearance on today’s Nintendo Direct, it sparked some brief hope that there might be news on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2. There was not.Read more
Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword Is Coming To Switch
17.2.2021
Brightly colored Legend of Zelda dark horse Skyward Sword is getting a second lease on life. Or a third, if you count the Wii U eShop re-release. But I don’t.Read more
No More Heroes 3 Launches On August 27
17.2.2021
No More Heroes 3 is coming to Switch on August 27, according to today’s Nintendo Direct presentation.Read more