there’s a joke to be made here about how first party nintendo games never go on sale, but this is ridiculous

At first this just came across as an “oops” sort of mistake. After seeing the way that the mineral sounds kind of like Dolemite, I’m now of the belief that this was someone on the localization team thinking they were being clever and getting caught. That does not seem as coincidental as one may first presume. Glad…

It’s a Japanese word play. ‘Dig’ in Japanese itself is ‘horu’, so without being immediately familiar with the name in this game I’m guessing that it was possibly written 掘るホール, horu horu. Which weirdly enough is also a specific term for those post tools that you use to shove into the ground to pull dirt out of. I’m…

In a post about the name change on the Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Reddit group, some players lament the renaming, while others wonder why it was necessary in the first place

Harmony's Odyssey looks really quite special. I'm glad it's coming to the Switch!

A huge thank you to you for writing these articles today. My wishlists have gotten a little bit bigger, and even though my wallet and backlog are eyeing me angrily, I’m very excited for some of these games.

This is the sort of content I come to Kotaku for, and it’s a crying shame that it apparently doesn’t pull more eyeballs.

Just commenting to express my appreciation for the hilarious wordsmithing deployed throughout this article. A true joy to read from top to bottom.

Remember always what our Lord told his flock: “Follow me.” And he went on to say, “Set me free. Trust me and we will escape from the city.”

They make a good point here

You might not like it but this is what peak patriotism looks like.

Having been to Japan I think the commenters touched on it as well as what you are saying.... It’s basically a hybrid of Akihabara in Tokyo, Dotonbori in Osaka, and GitS (not just the hyper-density, color, and skyline, but obviously the music). It’s Japanese-influenced, but only a very small and flashy chunk of it, and…

Luxury huh? “while also finding a market for more mundane (but also more essential) items like heaters” apparently dear old dad thinks heat is a luxury

There are sensible ways to do it but Team Capitalism likes exploitation and try to make it sound like you hate success and innovation, even when it is using morally questionably and creates artificial scarcity. 

A wider issue that this highlights is how capitalism has been transformed throughout time. At some point in history, the way we were attributing value to things completely changed. Value was in some way loosely, more or less, tied to manufacturing costs. But then this shifted when some “genius” figured that goods…

Not to mention that most of these scalpers are only able to get this stuff by using bots. So they’re not even waiting in line or getting lucky like the rest of us.

This guy and his son are both terrible and they feel no shame because our terrible society rewards them.

It’s owned by Rupert Murdoch, and its own (conservative) political writers quit after being ordered to mislead the public. What exactly were you expecting from them? Lionizing scalpers is basically right up their alley unfortunately.

There’s evidence to suggest that the widespread availability of ROMs for the DS was part of its phenomenal success. It’s certainly the case that the most pirated platforms are always the most successful, from the Speccy onward. (The 3DS, which took an awful lot longer to crack, sold half as many units.) And more…

I say this as someone who really enjoys Evangelion quite a bit and is v. jazzed to see the new film as soon as possible: even if she shared what Anno told her, would it make any damn sense? This is a series where a bro put a fetus in his hand so he could use a battlemom to hijack God and turn mankind into a delicious…