flashback
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Listen To The Developers Talk About That Flashback Remake
2Here’s how much I loved Flashback: The Quest for Identity: when a clearly unsanctioned version of the classic sci-fi platformer surfaced on the iTunes App Store a few years ago, I knew better than to buy it. But I did anyway. I think the janky code successfully ran only once. It wasn’t enough to rekindle…
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What Sony’s Past Console Reveals Could Say About Tomorrow’s PS4 Reveal
As you might have heard, Sony is (most likely) officially announcing the next PlayStation tomorrow. This isn’t the first console reveal Sony has done though. Let’s think back to those times. What information was Sony willing to part with during its very first reveals for its other big consoles? It might give us some insight…
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What People Used To Say About The Sega Dreamcast
Today, we have Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony vying for control of the console market. But there was a time when Sega was also a contender. Its last home console, the Dreamcast, is still getting games (sort of) despite being 14 years old. But what was it about the Dreamcast that inspired such devotion? Let’s take…
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The Pac-Man Dookie Epic, Now Digitally Remastered
This week marks my third anniversary with Kotaku, spending all of that as the site’s weekend editor. In April 2008, on my third weekend here, my brother Fletch and I unloaded this post – “Two Brothers Meditating Upon Questions of Pac-Man,” originally published April 19, 2008. A hypothetical calculation of Pac-Man’s, er, metabolic functions, it…