Why Xenoblade Chronicles represents the past, present, and future of Japanese gaming This is a column by Kat Bailey dedicated to the analysis of the once beloved Japanese RPG sub-genre. Tune in every Wednesday for thoughts on white-haired villains, giant robots, Infinity+1 swords, and everything else the wonderful world of JRPGs has to offer. [..]
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Kotaku Talk Radio: Past, Present and Future of PC Gaming [Podcast] In this week's episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we'll be talking about PC gaming, where it came from and where it's headed. Are you a PC gamer? A console gamer? Both? With the roll out of Windows 7 later this week and recent news of Modern Warfare 2's lack of h [..]
Braid PC demo past due, now present on Big Download
A brief announcement is in order. Now that Braid is neither 'cool' nor 'in,' all the haters are allowed to like it. Yes, Braid is out of the limelight so it's now officially o [..]
The Present And The Future Howard Lindzon has been asking people to think about The Next Ten Years. He says:
Few of us are thinking of the next TEN years. It’s hard not to get excited and short term distracted with Twitter, Groupon and Facebook adding billions in value as private companies in just a few years.
Thinking about the future is what VCs and entrepreneurs [..]
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The Present And The Future (Continued) It's the theme of the weekend. What looks great today may suck tomorrow.
Case in point, Blackberry and their parent company RIM. I was at dinner a few weeks ago with old friends. Both of them carry Blackberrys and they love them. I predicted that they would be using a [..]
Get A Present? Give A Present [Night Note] To: Crecente From: Ashcraft Gearing up for the big New Year's holidays here in Japan. The entire country has already shut down. Last week, we sent out presents to family members who gave us presents for the Micro Bash's birth. For celebrations here, you don't really get presents (sometimes you do!), but rather, celebratory envelopes with cash in them. [..]
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The past and future Pac-Man Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani brought a rather incredible historical artifact to the recent NLGD Festival of Games in the Netherlands: a notebook full of sketches from the original design of Pac-Man. The thirty-year-old sketches show that Iwat [..]