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Peter Tieryas is the author of Mecha Samurai Empire & Cyber Shogun Revolution (Penguin RH). He's written for Kotaku, IGN, & Verge. He was an artist at Sony Pictures & Technical Writer for LucasArts.
The Phantasy Star composer talks about how her classic melodies came about.
As a kid, I used to rush home from school so I could catch the latest episode of the Disney cartoon DuckTales. I…
Hi Kotaku, as always, it’s been a huge honor getting to be the guest writer for the weekend. I love reading the comments and so many of you share so many awesome things, I always feel I’m learning so much (and also getting some really cool game recommendations). Please have a safe holiday season and I genuinely hope…
I asked this same question last year and looking back on the list of games I hoped to finish, I actually am…
I wish I were immortal just so I could play all the games on my backlog. Lost Odyssey for the Xbox 360 is about…
Almost every day, I go for a walk with my kid. She’s just over two. There’s a strange serenity in the isolation of…
I can’t believe the year is almost over. 2020 has felt interminable. Between work, taking care of my kid, a new book…
I crashed eight times during my playthrough of Deadly Premonition on the Switch, often at critical moments. In a…
Phantasy Star III was a game I wanted to love, especially since its predecessor was a science fiction classic and…
In Time Hollow, time travel is a painful, convoluted, and sloppy mess that makes history worse with every…
If all the video game characters ever created got together in a big rumble, who’d come out on top? Kratos, the one…
Considered part of the Quintet Creation Trilogy, Terranigma was the culminating tour de force from the Japanese…
The PS4 had some great horror games. The best had a way of creeping into my mind subconsciously, lingering until a…
2020 was tough. There were nights we wondered where and how this year would end. Just when things seemed like they…
The end of the world was both darker and more humorous than anyone could have imagined, and in the original Fallout,…
I always approach classics with a certain sense of trepidation, especially if I’m playing them outside of their…
Hi Kotaku! The last time I was a weekend editor for Kotaku was way back in February and honestly, that seems like a…
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is widely considered not just one of the greatest games in the Zelda…
I’m a huge fan of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but I hadn’t played all the way through its direct sequel…