
Nidzumi writes: Flat Fact is a column for Nidzumi that entails the ramblings and rants of one Matt Maharaj. This week, a look at the past…
This month, 9 years ago we were sitting at home playing our first generation Playstation consoles. Knowing that in a few weeks the Playstation 2 (In north America at least, a month away if you were in EU) was coming and that a new era of gaming was about to be born. Some of us were excited, unable to sleep and games journalists were constantly on a hunt for new information, calling PR and trying to find out, from developers, just what the console would offer.

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.