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Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, And Pop Culture Effortlessly Shines A Light On Black Nerd Experience
10.8.2022
When I was a child, I excitedly anticipated the commute my mom and I took every Sunday to our humble Black Lutheran church in Cabrini Green. But what excited me wasn’t hearing the children’s sermons from our youth pastor or the potluck lunches that followed morning service. My excitement came from...
EVO 2022's Hypest Moment Was Everyone Losing Their Minds During Dragon Ball FighterZ
8.8.2022
The Evolution Championship Series, commonly shortened to EVO, took place over the weekend. Dedicated to all things fighting games, during this year’s EVO I saw copious hype moments, from amazing comebacks to unstoppable combos and everything in between. Just as you’d expect. But there was...
Rollback Netcode Announcements Made For Multiple Fighting Games At EVO 2022
8.8.2022
EVO, the year’s biggest fighting games event, went down over the weekend, and in terms of news perhaps the biggest announcement was that not one but two games will be getting Rollback Netcode improvements over the next 12 months. Don’t know what that means, or why it’s important? I got you!Read more
HD-2D, The Unique Retro-Inspired Art Style, Took Off In 2022
28.7.2022
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Every Mainline Yakuza Game Is Coming To PlayStation Plus
28.7.2022
Sony just announced that Sega’s widely loved Yakuza series of criminal underworld sims will soon debut on its PlayStation Plus subscription service. The entire mainline series is coming, in fact. Read more
Dragon Ball Z Horror Game Out In October, May Confirm Frieza As Bi
21.7.2022
Today, Bandai Namco revealed the release date trailer for its Dragon Ball meets Dead By Daylight game Dragon Ball: The Breakers, showing off the many daring ways you can escape the dastardly villain Frieza.Read more
Please Enjoy This Very Brief Look At Yakuza 8
20.7.2022
Because we get new Yakuza games all the time, and because they’re so often set in the same places starring the same people using the same engine, the series has never needed big, staged reveals before. Take the next game, for example, of which we’re getting our first look...over a developer’s...
EA Is Killing BioWare Points, So Mass Effect And Dragon Age DLC Are Now Free
15.7.2022
BioWare Points. You remember them, right? Once purchased in “packs,” they’d allow you to buy DLC for BioWare games on PC that you weren’t allowed to just directly buy with real money for some reason. In October, EA will be phasing out the premium currency. The publisher has sent out emails to those...
WWE’s Asuka Is The Shitposting Queen Of Wrestling
13.7.2022
If you’re a wrestling fan, you likely already know that WWE’s empress of tomorrow Asuka is a force to be reckoned with in the ring. But unless you’re terminally online like myself, you might not know that she excels in the art of shitposting as well.Read more
Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell And Other Superstar Developers Star In...A Dragon Ball Z Video
12.7.2022
Comedy group Mega64 just released a super impressive new video in which the team re-enact the entire, epic Maijin Buu story arc from Dragon Ball Z in just five (well, five-ish) minutes. To get it done, though, they needed some help.Read more
Dragon Ball FighterZ Player Has Awesome Anime Comeback That Would Make Goku Proud
11.7.2022
Over the weekend, life imitated art in the grandest way imaginable at a fighting game tournament and folks, it’s a tear-jerker.Read more
This Stunning Dragon Ball Fan Film Finally Gives Vegeta His Due
7.7.2022
It’s not every day that you watch a fan film that rivals the quality of the genuine article, but Legend - A Dragon Ball Tale effectively gives series creator Akira Toriyama a run for his money. Read more
EA Roasted For Dunking On Single-Player Games After Everything It’s Done
1.7.2022
It’s been a while since Electronic Arts was the video game villain of the moment, but on Thursday the FIFA publisher sucked up all the oxygen in the room thanks to a bad joke made even worse by the company’s cutthroat history. If there’s one mega gaming company out there who shouldn’t have been...
Everything Shown At Today's Nintendo Direct Mini
28.6.2022
Switch-owning JRPG fans are feasting today. The biggest standouts from today’s Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase include Persona 5 Royal and Nier: Automata ports for the Nintendo Switch, but there were also neat-looking indie titles like the beautifully handcrafted RPG Time: The Legend...
Yakuza Fan Is Fixing The PS2 Original's Mistakes
23.6.2022
It’s easy to forget in 2022, now that it feels like we get a new or remastered Yakuza game every six months, that for a very long time the series was MIA from Western shores, in large part down to the disastrous decisions made by Sega for the original game’s release back in 2006.Read more
Smash Bros. Ultimate Fan Mod Adds Crono From Chrono Trigger
17.6.2022
Last year, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate announced that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be the last character in the fighting game roster. But that hasn’t stopped fans from trying to add their own favorites to the game. Yesterday, a fan uploaded a mod that lets Smash players turn Hero into Crono from...
Fanoušci JRPG slaví, chystá se pokračování Dragon’s Dogma a Final Fantasy
17.6.2022
Dlouho se o tom spekulovalo, teď už je to jisté. Nedoceněné RPG Dragon’s Dogma se po deseti letech dočká druhého dílu, nedokončené dobrodružství v remaku Final Fantasy VII bude pokračovat příští rok
Confirmed: Dragon's Dogma Is Getting A Sequel
17.6.2022
It’s official: Dragon’s Dogma, the cult-classic fantasy RPG, is getting a sequel a decade after its release. Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno confirmed as much during a livestream tonight, but didn’t share any details besides its name, Dragon’s Dogma II, and a logo.Read more
New Dragon Age Anime Suffers From Typical Netflix Blandness
10.6.2022
I started screaming in Kotaku Slack when my fellow weeb (and staff writer) Isaiah linked a screenshot of Dragon Age: Absolution. My favorite western fantasy RPG is getting an anime adaptation? Sign me up. But then I started watching the trailer, and my enthusiasm deflated immediately. Absolution...
Manga Bizarro World: One Piece Goes On Hiatus, HxH And Berserk Return
7.6.2022
Hey, it’s 2022 and not the mid-90s right? I only ask because I’m not sure which of us otaku worked some magic–possibly making a wish to Shenron, or sacrificing a loved one with a behelit–so that we might live in a time where hiatus purgatory bunk buddies Hunter x Hunter and Berserk both announce...