picture: Nintendo You’ve heard Yasunori Mitsuda before, even if you haven’t heard it before from Yasunori Mitsuda previously – the Japanese composer created several foundational video game soundtracks, including those for Xeno gearbox and Chrono trigger. He is also responsible for the cascade of boops that make up the soundtrack to the 1998 original mario ...
picture: SegaSoft | my box In the mid-’90s, with the Saturn bombing and the video game landscape changing rapidly, Sega rolled the dice and made some risky bets. One of which was, um, pouring $3 million into the development of an adult-oriented FMV game called Sacred Pools this was so bad that it ended up ...
Can I uhhhh… get a happy ending?illustration: Square Enix When a game’s online servers are down, players typically don’t get a chance to step out in a confident glow of glory before the final dawn arrives. But then again, most games don’t have the bizarre kidney Creator, Yoko Taro, as its director. The game in ...
Oh shit, it’s the President!picture: Arc System Works / Kotaku / Chip Somodevilla (Getty) If you’ve been following the fighting game community, you might have noticed that something strange has been happening lately Guilty gear tournaments. A native of the United States named Joe Biden has swept the competition, placing in the top 10 in ...
picture: Platinum Games/Nintendo The former voice of bayonet has come off Calling for bad pay for talent in the gaming industry to pocket the controversial anti-abortion group Billboards 4Life. It all started with her boycott of bayonet 3, after misleading fans about her removal from the project. She’s now urging them to take the money ...
screenshot: Sega Rieko Kodama, one of the most important developers in the history of Sega and the broader RPG genre, has died at the age of 59. As IGN reportShe actually died back in May, but her death was not publicly announced by the company at the time. However, fans recently spotted a tribute to ...
picture: bayonet 3 Hellena Taylor, the original voice actress for PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta and one of the parties at the center of a protracted and chaotic public row over casting and wagesShe issued a new statement tonight addressing allegations made against her over the past week. The saga that has seen Expectations the underpayment made, voice ...
screenshot: Nintendo Today is the internet filled with handy previews for the next month Pokemon scarlet and violet. But not from us, because Nintendo has us on its naughty list. So instead we read everyone else’s coverage and handily compiled everything we learned along the way. Take theCompany. With that in mind, here are nine ...
Ay yo, this train looks mighty on-track 😳.picture: PlatinumGames/Nintendo/Kotaku/pxl.store (Shutterstock) With each new one bayonet game is coming a new look for the Umbran witch who is “big enough to kick your ass”. But in bayonet 3Cereza takes on an entirely new form: a demonic train. This might sound like the setup for a shit ...
picture: Capcom/Kotaku This is the season of the spooky video game remake –Alan Wake has been remasteredKonami is working on Silent Hill 2, and Capcom is preparing one Resident Evil 4 make new, among many other things. But you will not find Resident Evil Code: Veronica in the latter developer’s pending batch of projects, at ...
