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Kicking Off Kotaku Presents: Lisa Foiles

Hey guys! Lisa Foiles here, kicking off my month-long season of content on Kotaku with a comedy sketch starring SMBC Theater’s Jon Brence. In this true-to-life documentary, you’ll witness many of my ideas getting hastily shot down by Jon before he realises they’re actually brilliant. Reminds me of the time I crept up behind Tom Clancy while he was writing Rainbow Five and said, “No, no. Make it Six.”


Oh, The Pageantry! My Unofficial E3 Awards

I’ll admit, after watching the E3 2012 press conferences at home on my couch while drinking Heineken and using a spray bottle on my eight-week-old kittens every time they used my scalp as a scratching post, I didn’t have high hopes for the show floor. No Fable 4? No God of War 4? No Dreamcast 2? Pffh. Yawn.


The Konami Code Shows Up In The Strangest Places

There are misdemeanours I have committed in this life, I’ll admit it. For example, I recently got a ticket for jaywalking and it cost me $US200. For jaywalking. I’m still very angry about this situation and am actively devising a plan to exact revenge on the LAPD, and guess what! Now you’re all accomplices.


There Are No Brunettes In ‘Miyamoto’s Angels’

This four-star send-up by The Game Station is clever any day of the week, and especially timely given whatever the hell it was that just took place in the past 24 hours.


Let’s Eat More Video Games For Breakfast!

I know what you’re thinking, and stop it. “Hey, Lisa, what makes you think you are an authority on such a hard-hitting journalistic subject like breakfast cereal? Redheads are unreliable sources 65 per cent of the time, plus they make up statistics.”


New Life+: If Life Were A Game, How Would You Replay It?

You’re lying on your deathbed. Family members of the closest kind test the capacity limit of the hospital room, and finish off what was left of the tissue boxes. The nurse’s shoes squeak on the tile floor from the many fallen teardrops. She checks your monitors one last time. A warm hand clasps yours; you squeeze back.


A Birthday Letter To Myself About Video Games

Many video games turning twenty-five this year could set themselves on a podium and brag until their throats are sore. “Hey, I’m Castlevania and I’ve released over 30 games in the last quarter-century. What have you done?”


The Gaming Tragedies That Didn’t Kill Us (But Nearly Broke Us)

My proudest moments as a tap dancer are displayed in my parents’ house in the form of sparkly, obnoxious trophies.


How Video Games Changed Me

With hairpins jabbing into my brain, an assistant director yelling “Hold the noise!” and a vegan Rice Krispie Treat sitting on the edge of my keyboard that may have actually been a prop, I’m writing this from the set of an independent film – a project that never would have found me if it hadn’t been for video games.


What You Really Missed At E3 2011

If there’s one thing I don’t want to talk about regarding E3, it’s video games.


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