Jason Schreier
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How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy 5 Into English
10One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy 5. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy 5 had not actually come out in the United States. To play the 1992 Japanese game in English, you’d…
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‘Jedi Master’ Should Really Be The Easiest Difficulty Setting
You know what video games have gotten all wrong? Difficulty setting names. This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss.
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A Complete List Of Video Games I Played On Paternity Leave
I had a baby a couple months ago, and I took a few weeks off work to hang out with her. Mostly that meant giving her bottles, changing her diapers, and holding her on my lap as I played video games, because it turns out there’s nothing babies hate more than NOT being held at…
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The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo
On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applause, a Diablo game for phones. It was a baffling marketing decision that immediately set off controversy, as fans of Blizzard’s iconic action-role-playing game franchise loudly accused the company of neglecting its PC players.