PlayStation Now, Sony's streaming/renting service for games (well, some games), is moving into open beta. A word on prices: they're kinda ridiculous, though Sony says " you will start seeing reduced pricing on some 4-hour rentals" in "a few weeks". » 7/30/14 9:52pm Wednesday 9:52pm

Corgi Time: check out the latest game by hilarious game designer (and occasional Kotaku columnist), Tim Rogers—it's called Tuffy the Corgi and the Tower of Bones. You kind of need to watch this absurd trailer. » 6/25/14 8:00pm 6/25/14 8:00pm

August is going to be unbearably cute when Road Not Taken comes out on the 8th of the month. Click here for more about Spry Fox's cartoony fable about life's unexpected paths and saving lost children hits PS4 and PC. » 6/25/14 1:15pm 6/25/14 1:15pm

Why is Amazon France taking pre-orders for a PS4/Vita bundle? Why does that mock-up image look so convincing? Did a retailer just accidentally leak one of Sony's E3 announcements? » 6/04/14 3:30pm 6/04/14 3:30pm

Child of Light will be coming to PlayStation Vita on July 1. Ubisoft's very pretty role-playing game will be a digital download for Sony's handheld game system. You can read Kotaku's review of the game right here. » 5/20/14 12:15pm 5/20/14 12:15pm

Remember Borderlands 2? It came out a couple years ago, everyone played it a lot and generally really liked it? Of course you do. Well, it's back. » 5/12/14 5:30pm 5/12/14 5:30pm

Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers. » 4/14/14 4:00pm 4/14/14 4:00pm

Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies.… » 4/14/14 10:22am 4/14/14 10:22am

When I sat down at a park bench in the Yerba Buena gardens by the Game Developers Conference last week to play a build of Road Not Taken—a game named after the Robert Frost poem—my initial thought was that it seemed too adorable to say anything particularly deep. Like say, commenting on the inability to lead a perfect… » 3/24/14 4:30pm 3/24/14 4:30pm

Trippy game gets trippy, interactive trailer. Metrico—which charmed the heck out of me when I saw it at PAX Prime last year—offers a small glimpse at the gameplay and design sensibilities inside its infographic, puzzle-heavy world. There's a bit more about the upcoming Vita release at the official PlayStation blog. » 3/14/14 4:30pm 3/14/14 4:30pm

The creators of Magicka have never made a console game before, but their first—Helldivers—is one hell of a doozy. The chaotic co-op charm of Magicka never quite felt right on a gamepad, but with Helldivers, Arrowhead Game Studios hits that mark hard. » 2/19/14 10:00am 2/19/14 10:00am

These beautiful compendiums are must-buys for Walking Dead fans, and the perfect way for those new to the series, or even to the medium, to jump in. At only $25/piece, no reason to hesitate in adding these to your collection. » 2/13/14 2:00pm 2/13/14 2:00pm

In the biggest Kotaku Deals roundup so far this year, we've got pre-order discounts on all the biggest games of 2014, deals on PS+ and LIVE subscriptions, Xbox One bundles and the Playstation 4 in stock, a new Humble Weekly, the new Playstation Vita up for pre-order, your PSN/LIVE/eShop updates, and more. » 2/12/14 1:15pm 2/12/14 1:15pm

The new Playstation Vita is lighter, slimmer, and has a better battery, and this bundle includes the excellent Borderlands 2, complete with cross-save functionality with the PS3 version. $200 gets you the console, the game, and an 8GB memory card, and you can pre-order now with price-match guarantee. No charge until… » 2/11/14 5:02pm 2/11/14 5:02pm

The new, slimmer version of the PlayStation Vita is coming to North America as part of a $200 Borderlands 2 bundle, Sony just announced. It'll be out this spring. » 2/10/14 5:23pm 2/10/14 5:23pm

She'll make your PlayStation Vita virtually sing. Today Sega announced a March release for the portable version of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA f. The PlayStation 3 version, released in North America last year, was one of my top ten games of 2013. This one is just like that, only with a touch screen. Joy! » 2/05/14 4:01pm 2/05/14 4:01pm

Not content to just delivery a great month of free games for Playstation Plus members, Sony has announced the 14 for '14 sale, which is actually a lie since there are 28 games discounted. Normally we would pick the cream of the crop to post, but almost everything on offer is both worth playing and a good deal. As… » 1/13/14 2:15pm 1/13/14 2:15pm

Through January 31st, trade in $20 or more of games, consoles, or accessories to Amazon and they'll give you a bonus $20 digital PSN credit, which, if you've got games you're planning on trading in anyway, and a Sony device, is a great deal. [Amazon] » 1/09/14 10:15am 1/09/14 10:15am

A retailer in the UK has accidentally sent some customers a free PlayStation Vita. And is now resorting to some heavy methods in an attempt to get them back. » 12/10/13 6:19am 12/10/13 6:19am