When people ask me what Lightning Returns is like, I always respond that it's a lot like Final Fantasy X-2. A lot of people seem to take this as an insult to Lightning Returns. It's not. While I feel like I am in the minority, I loved FFX-2 and much of what made it so fun to play is also present in Lightning Returns.
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Few sequels are as different as Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is from the other titles in the FFXIII series. It has a new world and a battle system so highly modified as to be nearly unrecognizable. But when it comes down to it, these changes are all for the good as they make for a game that is simply fun to…
English teenager Peter Clatworthy made some very bad decisions during an Xbox One auction on eBay, paying £450 (USD$735) and not even getting a console. He got a picture of a console.
A new generation means new controllers—but the road to the current PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers was full of tweaks.
Capy—the indie studio behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery—will release their next game, Super Time Force
Every Xbox dashboard, leading up to the current dashboard on the Xbox One—neat to see how much stuff has changed, no? GIF via (r/gaming)
Flagship first-person-shooter Battlefield 4 is so troubled that the game's development studio won't proceed on development of any new, planned expansions until the game's problems are sorted out, BF4 publisher EA told Kotaku in a statement today.
Last month, we saw Call of Duty: Ghosts compared on PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4. In the following video, you can finally see the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game compared.
To access the voice-control functionality on an Xbox One, you say, "Xbox." To access it on PlayStation 4, you say, "PlayStation." But those greetings aren't very fun or sexy, are they?
Y'know, the collective chatter amongst Kotaku writers has unofficially dubbed Need for Speed Rivals as the best next-gen game so far. Several among us have raved about the way it draws you in and entices you to keep playing. But, man, the lines coming out of the characters' mouths in this racing game are terrible.
Day-one Xbox One adopters have had their consoles for a week and a half now, and the warts are starting to show. Over the past few days, we've seen a surge of complaints about the new Xbox's interface and operating system, and today, Microsoft's publicly promising that they'll do better.
Kinect-supported (or sanctioned) cussin' was introduced in the FIFA and NBA 2K series
Project Spark—a game creation suite that lets players make platformers, RPGs and much more—might be Microsoft's secret weapon for the Xbox One. Today, you can sign up to be among the first to try it out as long as you're using Windows 8.1.
Last week, I wrote an article about how the Xbox One startup sound is a little melody
If you'd like to take revenge on the Xbox One for watching you move and listening to everything you say, you can now get inside its brain and see a whole bunch of developer settings you probably shouldn't be looking at.
We've made it through November, a month packed with two next-gen console releases and a bunch of new releases from some of gaming's biggest franchises. Now we've got time to pause and reflect on the damage we did to our wallets over the past 30 days. How much did you pay for games in November?
Good news: the Xbox One has game demos! Bad news: they're kind of annoying to find.
Peggle 2 is coming Dec. 9 to the Xbox One via Xbox Live. This comes from PopCap, in a preview of the game in VentureBeat yesterday. Peggle 2 will have 120 levels and run $11.99.
We're settling in for a long winter's nap after Friday's release of the PlayStation's signature driving sim Gran Turismo 6. After that, well, there'll be news this weekend from the Video Game Awards, but it'll concern stuff well down the road. Not much cooking until February, so here is your week—or month—in games.
In the new console generation, the PlayStation 4 appears to be the second best choice—for robbers in Indianapolis that is.
With the release of every new console, I always have to ask myself: is this the year I return to PC gaming and stop buying consoles? The answer, every time, is a resounding no. Here's why.
The new consoles may be making headlines right now, but I won't be buying one. I haven't bought one since the original Xbox. Why? I already have a gaming machine with better graphics, a better controller, and more flexibility...and it didn't cost much, either. I'm talking, of course, about a PC.
