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I Asked The Localisation Director Of Yakuza And Judgment To Tell Me A Bedtime...
On the last night of E3 2019, as I teetered on the precipice of rest, I talked to Scott Strichart, localisation director of the Yakuza series and Judgment—which is out today, by the way. He —came to...
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I’m Still Thinking About The Final Fantasy 7 Remake E3 2019 Demo
Despite the high possibility of my dying of brain-overload-related shock during my first experience with Final Fantasy 7 Remake, I lived. Two weeks later, I’m still thinking about it. Here’s my...
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Let’s See How Much Fun We Can Squeeze Out Of The Last Half Hour Of E3
Yes, E3 2019 ended three weeks ago. However, in my nightmares, I’m still there, slamming energy drinks and binge-sitting in every gamer chair my eyes can see. As long as my neck still hurts from the...
View ArticleDragon Quest Builders 2 Is Much More Than A Minecraft Clone
Dragon Quest Builders 2 makes me feel like a creative genius. It accomplishes this bold feat through use of brilliant game design. In summary, no, it is not a “Minecraft Clone.” I use plenty of fancy...
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Watch Goichi Suda Tell Me Absolutely Nothing About No More Heroes 3
Less than an hour after releasing a two-and-a-half-minute teaser for No More Heroes 3 last month, Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda graciously agreed to sit down with me for one hour and answer...
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A Mario Master Coached Me On The Hardest Mario Technique
I’ve been playing Super Mario games since the first Super Mario Bros. came out on the NES. I think I’m pretty good at them. However, whenever I see masters such as GrandPOOBear playing demonically...
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I Fixed Madden NFL 20’s Opening Cinematic
I found that Madden NFL 20‘s intro lacked both The Monday Night Football Theme Song and vocabularic loquaciousness. So I made this. Well, bye. Have a fun weekend everybody. Don’t get hurt playing too...
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I Don’t Need To Play Death Stranding Because I Already Love It
I don’t even have to play Death Stranding in order to review it. All I need is the 39 minutes’ worth of trailers released thus far, my hideous enthusiasm, and my terrible imagination. Allow me to...
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Growing Up Sixty-Four
Image: Sam Woolley I dare say the Nintendo 64 is The Most Interesting Game System Nintendo Ever Made. It’s interesting for a laundry list of historical reasons. This story was originally published in...
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Metal Wolf Chaos XD: The Kotaku Review
I hesitate to call any review of Metal Wolf Chaos XD complete if it does not include a long-winded anecdote about how I personally got rich in 2007 by selling off a stack of mint-condition copies of...
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A Lot Of Terrible Video Game Characters Wear Sunglasses
For today’s video, I tried to think of as many sunglasses-wearing video game characters as I could. Immediately Cool Spot, Rash from Battletoads, and Duke Nukem sprang to mind. It did not exactly go...
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I Described 47 Video Game Box Covers From Memory
My friend Alex Jaffe sent me a list of 47 video game titles. Without looking at the list, I stepped in front of a camera. Our producer CJ read the list one name at a time. I tried to describe what...
View ArticleI Remember Every Single Detail Of The First Thirty Minutes Of Zelda: Link’s...
Everything that anyone has ever liked about a Zelda game happens in its most perfect form in the first 30-minute setpiece of the 1993 Game Boy masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, a...
View ArticleControl Proves That An Office Building Is The Perfect Setting For A Metroid-Like
Control, a Metroid Prime-like game that takes place inside an impossibly vast US federal government building, is out now. As someone who has been paying the IRS back taxes for a decade, it feels like...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy VIII Remastered Is The Best Way Ever To Play Final Fantasy VIII
After years of its suspicious absence from Square Enix’s unstoppable barrage of ports and re-releases, Final Fantasy VIII has emerged remastered for all consoles (and PC). This is the best version of...
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The Switch Is The Best Way To Play Dragon Quest XI
Dragon Quest XI comes out on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow. I’ve played the original game four times all the way through on the PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo 3DS. I’ve now spent 20 hours with the...
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The Joker Sucks
A new film starring The Joker is out now in theatres worldwide. I can’t let him get away with this. In this video I step in to expose the Joker for what he is (boring) and clowns for what they are....
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A Dramatic Reading Of The Names Of 400 Guns From Destiny 2
I performed a dramatic reading of the names of 400 guns from Destiny 2. Why did I do this? Well, one reason would be, “Why not?” With the release of the Shadowkeep expansion, I started the game afresh...
View ArticleWe Distracted The Director Of John Wick Hex While He Played Its Hardest Mode
Yesterday I invited John Wick Hex director Mike Bithell to come into Kotaku headquarters’ streaming studio, where he answered my increasingly specific questions about his difficult game while playing...
View ArticleGrid Never Gets Between You And Driving Some Fast Cars
Codemasters’ Grid series of racing games gets its first new entry in five years with the release of Grid this Friday for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. I memorised all four pages of the press...
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Watch Us Play The Switch Version Of One Of The Best Games Of The Decade,...
Killer Queen, a five-on-five two-cabinet competitive independent arcade game released in 2013, has finally arrived on a console—the Nintendo Switch — in 2019. I like Killer Queen so much that I’m...
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Let’s Remember Final Fantasy VI, 25 Years Later
Final Fantasy VI was first released in North America (as Final Fantasy III) eleven years and two days ago, on October 11th, 1994. On Friday, I streamed the game for two hours—after reminiscing on my...
View ArticleHello!
Hello! I (Tim Rogers) am going to stream the PlayStation 4 remake of the PlayStation 1 classic MediEvil over on our Twitch channel. I haven’t touched this game since blasting through it on...
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My Ridiculously Specific PlayStation 5 Predictions
I have been keeping a PlayStation 5 wishlist for about two years. Now that Sony is starting to announce concrete details about their new console, I realise time is running out: if I’m gonna make a...
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Death Stranding: The Kotaku Video Review
How does one make a video review for Death Stranding, a game with like 900 trailers—many of which the game’s director, Hideo Kojima, edited himself? On November 8, 2019, the meta-game of guessing what...
View ArticleHappy Death Stranding Day!
Happy Death Stranding Day! Many critics (including myself) mentioned QWOP and Getting Over It in their reviews. I felt the need to go one step further, and invite Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy’s...
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Pokémon Sword & Shield Is Not A Metaphor For Brexit
Nintendo is famous among video content creators for enforcing intense embargo restrictions for new games. The restrictions for Pokémon Sword and Shield are the most intense I’ve seen yet. Watch this...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Death Stranding Spoilers
One does not simply play all the way through Death Stranding without yelling about it to a fellow player afterward. In this video you can watch Heather Alexandra and I discuss the game’s darkest plot...
View ArticlePokémon Has A Lot In Common With Confidence Games
Pokémon is one of the most popular media properties in the world. In this video presentation, I argue that Pokémon’s popularity owes a lot to its many structural resemblances to classic confidence...
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The Only Holiday Gaming Gift Guide You Need
Anywhere you click this time of year there’s an 80% chance you’re going to wind up looking at a gift guide. I figured I had to get in on the action, so I made this gift guide for the discerning, adult...
View ArticleLet’s Remember Donkey Kong Country, 25 Years Later
Donkey Kong Country turned 25 years old on November 21. I waited until yesterday to stream it on Kotaku’s Twitch channel, because to me, Donkey Kong Country’s release date isn’t as important as the...
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Tim Rogers’ Games Of The Decade
The end of a decade looms. I succumbed to the irresistible lure of making a ranked list video chronicling the best games of that decade. I made the first decision instantaneously: for 10 years, I’d...
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Tim Rogers’ Games Of The Year
It’s that time of the year again—the end of it. This year, I chose 19 games for my year-end ranking list. Why 19? Perhaps the answer is contained within this video. You might be wondering which game...
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1994: The Kotaku Review
In this, my most enormous video yet, I tried to capture the essence of what I believe to be the secretly best year in video game history: 1994. Yes, I reviewed 1994, by writing reviews of each of my...
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I Reviewed Cyberpunk 2077 Based On Its Trailers
Cyberpunk 2077, my most anticipated game of the year, has been delayed from April to September. April was probably already too late for Cyberpunk 2077 to save my soul. Waiting until September is gonna...
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If Anybody Gives Animal Crossing An 8 Out Of 10 I Will Die
A new mainline Animal Crossing game comes out on March 20. We have waited nearly seven years for this. It saddens me to say I simply can’t afford to wait those last two months before yelling myself...
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I Cannot Emotionally Prepare For Final Fantasy VII Remake
The Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming in April. I could only watch the first 30 seconds of the new trailer released today before I had to close the tab in fear. I can’t possibly become emotionally...
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Xbox One Elite Controller Series 2: The Kotaku Review
The Xbox One Elite Controller Series 2 is the best Xbox controller that a person who just found $249 on the street can buy. This article has been updated since its original publication. I reviewed the...
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Forza Horizon 4 Is Amazing
I have played 40 hours of Forza Horizon 4. I love it. I made a 22-minute video about how much I love it. In Forza Horizon 4, players experience all four seasons of a fictionalised British Isle, which...
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Football: The Kotaku Review
If Football — that is, the American National Football League football — used the same naming scheme as “Dungeons & Dragons”, we’d call it “Beer Commercials & Cheerleaders”. Like dungeons and...
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