Fire Emblem Warriors is an upcoming hack and slash game featuring heroes from the popular strategy games. Staff writer Heather Alexandra and Kotaku editor in chief Stephen Totilo sat down with Masahiro Higuchi from Intelligent Systems and Yosuke Hayashi from Koei Tecmo to talk about the game and whether or not it will have Donnel the villager.

Fire Emblem Heroes is about to get a little more colourful. The Spring Festival tosses fan favourite heroes into bunny costumes and adds a new, lighthearted side story to battle through. But it's mostly about those absurd outfits.

I never played a Fire Emblem game until Fire Emblem Heroes. The game dazzled me with a colourful (if horny) cast and the promise of distant realms. I wanted to see more so I bought a 3DS and played Awakening. What I found was magical and inspiring.

It's been a long wait for Australians, but Fire Emblem: Fates came out a few weeks back -- both versions. How are you finding it so far?

You're going to need more than a cool dragon transformation if you want to survive out in the battlefield. Thankfully, we're here to help.

In Fire Emblem: Fates, you can make it so that if you lose one of your characters in battle, they're gone for good. You can also make it so that's not the case, and they return in the next chapter.

Fire Emblem Fates is out on Saturday, and it comes in two different versions: Birthright and Conquest. Which one should you play first?

Fire Emblem Fates is a soap opera strategy game. You'll spend as much time agonising over battlefield tactics as you will wondering which characters should, like, totally hook up.

After a humongous week last week, things have slowed down a little. Still, guess what! We get Fire Emblem Fates this week! It's only three or four months late, but whatevs!

Nintendo employee Alison Rapp, who's been a target of harassment over censorship controversies in recent months, said on Twitter that she has been fired. "Today, the decision was made," she wrote. "I am no longer a good, safe representative of Nintendo, and my employment has been terminated."

When Fire Emblem Fates was released for 3DS in Japan early last summer, it didn't have a US release date. Within 24 hours, fans were hacking the game and translating it on their own. What started as an experiment became a race to translate the game before Nintendo of America.

The team behind a nine-month-old fan translation of Fire Emblem Fates disbanded yesterday, appearing to cancel their project in the process. That decision prompted disappointment and anger, but there are reports a new team has picked up the project.

The confusion around the self-censored Fire Emblem petting/touching mini-game is finally ending. We now must clarify that, while the Western version of Fire Emblem Fates will not let you rub allied characters in exchange for gratitude, it will indeed let you tap your spouse in order to wake them up.

You might have heard that Fire Emblem Fates is getting rid of the infamous 'petting' mini game for Western shores. But even with that aspect of the game gone, much of the experience is still brimming with suggestive content.

Unlike the Japanese version of Fire Emblem Fates, you won't be able to "pet" your fellow soldiers, Pokemon Amie style. But that's OK. You still get something!

Despite being another sequel in a longtime Nintendo series, Fire Emblem Fates is... quirky. Its Japanese version sparked quite a bit of controversy among English-speaking fans when it launched last year. Nintendo is making some big changes.

When Fire Emblem Fates launched in Japan last year, there was controversy over a scene that was perceived as homophobic. Nintendo says that part won't be in the English version.

We've already written about the games we're most looking forward to this year, but that small selection doesn't cover the wealth of games that are aiming to release in 2016. So, in posts separated by genre, we're going to try and collect together every single notable game due out in the next 12 months. Today: horror and survival.

Each year, a ton of games are made and released in Japan. But many of them don't come out in the rest of the world at the same time -- and others never leave the island nation at all. So with that in mind, here are the best Japanese games of 2015 that have yet to come west.