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One Of 2025's Best Games May Have Saved Its Company From Going Under
11.7.2025
Before Too Kyo Games released The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, the tactical RPG/visual novel hybrid that is, in my opinion, secretly one of the dark horses for 2025 Game of the Year, co-creative director Kazutaka Kodaka had been pretty candid in saying that the studio needed the game to...
One Mysterious Tease Has Danganronpa Fans Imploding
8.7.2025
It doesn’t take much to reawaken a fandom that has refused to die even as its favorite series seems to have ended. In 2017, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony seemingly ended Spike Chunsoft’s murder mystery series with a decisive metacommentary about letting art die with dignity. Four years later...
A Game Of The Year Contender Is Passing Right Under People's Noses
21.5.2025
Despite having spent 45 hours with the game, I’m still not quite ready to slap “The Kotaku Review” on anything I write about The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy yet. Too Kyo Games’ tactical RPG has 100 endings and I’ve only seen a handful, the game’s “true” route not among them. But, my god,...
Everything You Need To Know About Overwatch 2’s Gundam Wing Collaboration
30.4.2025
People in the center of the Overwatch and Gundam Venn Diagram got some fantastic news last week when Blizzard announced the collaboration of the iconic mecha anime with one fo the most popular hero shooters out there. Overwatch 2’s Gundam Wing event starts on April 29, 2025, celebrating the 30th...
Our Thoughts On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Marathon Alpha, The Hundred Line, And More Of The Week's Top Takes
26.4.2025
This week we spent some time with the Marathon alpha and tell you what we loved and hated about Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter. We also found ourselves seduced by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, smitten with the new time-travel-themed point-and-click adventure Old Skies, and impressed with...
The Hundred Line Is Danganronpa And Zero Escape’s Final Form
21.4.2025
When Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape director Kotaro Uchikoshi joined forces to found Too Kyo Games in 2017, I was curious to see just what the two legends of so-called “death games” would create together. But although the team has put out several games in just under a decade...
Report: Sony To Buy Owners Of Elden Ring Developer, FromSoftware
19.11.2024
Reuters is reporting that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation, the company that owns FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft and many other Japanese businesses. If successful, it would be a big move for Sony, gaining names as big as Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Danganronpa, and be a strike back...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's First Update Is Live, Bringing Bean Daddies Everywhere To Their Knees
24.10.2024
The first patch for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is out and it has demolished Yajirobe players even more ruthlessly than that Saibaman wasted Yamcha. There is no coming back from this nerf, bean daddies. But at least the game runs better now due to some menu improvements and other bug fixes, even...
Dark Fantasy Manga Jujutsu Kaisen Is Finally Ending And I Couldn't Be Happier
20.8.2024
After six years, Shonen Jump’s mega-popular sorcery-fighting manga, Jujutsu Kaisen, will publish its final chapter on September 30. In the years since it began syndication, it was nominated for (and won) a few literary awards, and both seasons of its anime series brought home Crunchyroll’s Anime...
Five Years Later, Fire Emblem: Three Houses’ Best Character Is Still Edelgard
26.7.2024
Amongst an impressive library of games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Metroid Dread, 2019’s Fire Emblem: Three Houses will still go down in my books as the best Nintendo Switch game ever made. It’s a grand fantasy story and an excellent tactical RPG that feels unmatched, even...
Olympic Athlete Keeps Bringing Yu-Gi-Oh Cards To His Races—And Winning
28.6.2024
When the hell did you get into Yu-Gi-Oh? Where were you all when I was the last holdout of my middle school lunch period trying to do synchro-summons because I thought they were the coolest thing in the world? I ask this because there has not only been a discernable uptick in the trading card game...
Legendary Anime Studio Behind Neon Genesis Evangelion Files for Bankruptcy
7.6.2024
It’s not every day that you wake up to find a company with a legacy like anime studio Gainax is shutting its doors. The prolific studio behind works like FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and the legendary Neon Genesis Evangelion has been struggling financially for several years. On June 7, the company...
Call Of Duty’s Next Crossover Brings Gundam To The Game
20.5.2024
Each season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and free-to-play battle royale Warzone includes crossovers with other pop-culture franchises. The games have seen King Kong, Dune, and more in past seasons. None of them have been that enticing to me, but then again I’m not the audience since I don’t...
This Underrated 2023 Gem Is Getting A Second Chance On PC, PS5, And Xbox
7.5.2024
One of 2023’s most criminally underrated games is getting a second chance. Master Detective Archives: Rain Code is Spike Chunsoft’s spiritual successor to its beloved murder mystery series Danganropa. It launched on Switch to decent reception last year, but several reviewers noted some technical...
Dragon Ball Creator Praises Sand Land Game From Beyond The Grave
25.4.2024
Legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama, character designer for Chrono Trigger and creator of the Dragon Ball series, passed away in March 2024. He was just 68 years old. Though he’s gone now, publisher Bandai Namco has shared a note Toriyama wrote in January 2024 about developer ILCA’s Sand Land,...
Sand Land’s Video Game Adaptation Is A Devilishly Good Time
24.4.2024
Sand Land caught my attention as soon as I saw the game’s booth at New York City Comic Con last year, with its enormous recreation of the Royal Army tank. The game’s setting, character designs, and of course the tank, stuck with me, even though I wouldn’t consider myself familiar with much, if...
Woman Leaves Yu-Gi-Oh Event Because It Smelled Horrible
11.4.2024
A woman went viral on social media after claiming she left a Yu-Gi-Oh card game event due to how terrible many of the other players smelled. Read more
Xbox Adds Dynamic Blue Dragon Background In Honor Of Akira Toriyama
29.3.2024
Earlier this month, the world learned of the passing of legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama, the creator behind Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, and Sand Land. In the world of games, he is best known as the prolific artist behind games like Chrono Trigger and the Dragon Quest series, as well as...
Sand Land: The Series Is A Fitting Sendoff For The Legendary Akira Toriyama
20.3.2024
When news of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s sudden passing hit social media, I found myself staring at a black-and-white photograph of the legendary artist. Toriyama’s iconic work has always been immediately recognizable, a charming calling card that defines everything from Chrono Trigger’s...
Toonami Is Holding A Dragon Ball Kai Marathon In Tribute To Akira Toriyama
12.3.2024
In the wake of Akira Toriyama’s death, thousands of tributes to the legendary creator of the Dragon Ball franchise have been pouring in online. Toonami, the Cartoon Network offshoot now hosted as part of Adult Swim that aired Dragon Ball and its various sequels and spin-offs in its prime, is having...