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Darksiders’ Creators Are Making An 1800’s-Themed Co-op Shooter

Crytek USA’s debut title will be a third-person co-op game. With 1800’s guns and 1800’s zombies. The game is called HUNT, and it features a band of four badasses whose sole job is to hunt down dangerous creatures. They do so in procedurally generated encounters, on procedurally generated levels, as they occasionally come across the…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?

E3 is a-comin’. Next week, great gaming companies will take to the stage to show off all kinds of games and make all kinds of promises, as they did in the past. Like last year, for example. Let’s look at what Microsoft told us at their 2013 briefing. After the somewhat unfocused reveal of the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: It Isn’t Time For 4K Gaming Yet • Why I’m Giving Final Fantasy XII Another Chance • 8 Tips for Mastering Mario Kart 8 • Minor Issues: What’s Wrong With Mii? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Forza Horizon Is Getting A Sequel This Fall

The open-world racer will come to both Xbox 360 and Xbox One, reports IGN Forza Horizon 2 is being developed mostly by Playground Games, who are collaborating closely with original Forza developers Turn 10 games on the project. “Hundreds” of cars will be present in the sequel, according to the developers—the setting is Southern Europe,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Grisaia no Kajitsu: The TAY Review • 5 Easy Steps To Making Your Own Hit Anime • Some Thoughts On Transistor • Shiryu Music: Rainbow Road Adventures Rocket Starts! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Few Could Resist The Charms Of Deadpool At FanimeCon 2014

Good thing that Shiklah wasn’t with him this time Anime fans and cosplayers came together last weekend to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the FanimeCon anime convention in San Jose, California. Of course D Piddy, who shot his very first Deadpool video at FanimeCon 2012, couldn’t stay away. I just feel sorry for the Jenga…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY: Nisekoi Review • Celebrate 10 Years Of AVGN With Episode 119 • First Play: Mario Kart 8 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Intricate Sword And Board Combat Meets Castlevania-esque Dungeons

That’s Shadowcrypt in a nutshell. On the surface, there’s not much to this indie side-scroller. You’ve got your undead-filled catacombs, your evil Necromancer, your traps and mazes, and you’ve got random treasure. It’s all very familiar, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad. See here: It looks tight. The developer describes the game as “elegantly…

Tangiers is described as a “dark and uneasy” stealth game. Well, its new trailer is exactly that. The Thief-inspired, somewhat recently Kickstarted PC stealth-em-up is nearing its beta development phase, and is expected to get a release date within a couple weeks.

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Meet Pushmo World It is the upcoming sequel to Intelligent Systems’ 3DS puzzle games, Pushmo and Crashmo, and it’s coming to the Japanese Wii U (yes, Wii U) eShop on June 19. UPDATE: Nintendo has confirmed that Pushmo World will also launch on the US (and EU) Wii U eShop on June 19.

If Valve Made A Smash Bros. Game

This fan-trailer-slash-intro-remake convinced me that it’s an excellent idea. Even if half of it would be hats. Upon pondering what a Smash Bros. game with an all-Valve cast would look like, YouTuber crazyhalo took matters into their own hands to create Super Smash Bros. Source, a shot-by-shot remake of the intro to Super Smash Bros.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: House of Five Leaves: The TAY Manga Review • Cheat to win! Impossible Spell Card TAY Review • Returning to Pokémon: Better to Faint With Honour TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Horror Shooter Offers A Haunted Spaceship Filled With Killer Robots

And either that’s a haunted laptop, or help.exe was coded by an extremely passive-aggressive programmer. Not very helpful when you’ve got killer robots after you. Spirits of Xanadu takes place in an alternate eighties where humanity is already pretty far along in their quest to explore space. You’re investigating the research vessel Xanadu, which, as…

A Platformer Where You’re A Goddess, And The Levels Are Your Mind

Oh yeah, and you’ve got split personalities. Also it’s a really pretty-looking game. It’s called Red Goddess. An open-world side-scrolling action-adventure (or metroidvania, if you prefer) where you play a young goddess named Divine, taking her on a journey across a planet controlled by her subconscious. This translates to a dangerous but gorgeous alien landscape.…

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Sony is preparing to sell PlayStation consoles in China. As reported by Reuters, the company has set up joint ventures with Chinese company Shanghai Oriental Pearl to help set up shop in Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone

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Project Temporality, AKA Portal-With-Time-Travel, will be out on Steam on May 20. There’s a new trailer above with some hot, single player co-op action to get you in the mood.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Which Video Game Creatures Deserve A Second Chance? • The Evil Within Should Take Notes From Resident Evil 4 • A (Somewhat) Short Defense for Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life Decision TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.