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The Evil Within: The Kotaku Review

Before The Evil Within came out, I knew that I had to steel myself to be scared by it. But I’d also been nagged by the idea that I should be scared for it, too. As in, fearful on its behalf. It’s one of those games that’s so heavily freighted by genre and pedigree that…

​Grisly Evil Within Glitch Lets You Play After Getting Beheaded

You can die in a lot of gory ways in The Evil Within. But, as this crazy glitch shows, some of them don’t even work. Captured by YouTube channel Gamebill Studio, the clip above shows the game’s main character Sebastien Castellanos getting his head lopped off by a giant blade. That’s usually a game-over moment.…

​The New Borderlands Looks Pretty Good as a Third-Person Game

Usually, when code tinkerers shift camera angles on first-person games, the tweaks make things look really weird. Remember how weird Mirror’s Edge looked from the third-person view? Surprisingly, that doesn’t happen with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel The switch in viewpoints comes from YouTube channel TFXLive, who let the world know about a similar tool for Borderlands…

Project Cars—a.k.a. the racing game that you need to squint at to make sure it’s not real life—won’t be coming out next month. It’s being pushed back to March 17, 2015, which is when Slightly Mad Studios’ creation will hit PC, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One,.

Nine Minutes of GTA V Stunts That Say ‘Screw You’ to Physics

At this point, there really should be some sort of X-Games inside GTA Online. Because these people deserve medals. In this montage of remarkable vehicle stunts, you’re going to see jet skis, boats, planes and many, many motorcycles go places you’d think they couldn’t. The clips comes YouTuber RedKeyMon and features players from several GTA…

The Next Justice League Movies Will Come Out In 2017

If you’ve been wondering about the exact timeline for when Warner Bros would be expanding their cinematic universe based off DC Comics, then wonder no longer. Movies based off of Suicide Squad, Justice League and Wonder Woman are coming in the next five years. At a Warner Bros. investor event today, where Wall Street Journal…

This Evil Within Scene Will Look Familiar to Resident Evil Fans

In case you forgot that the creative lead on The Evil Within is the also the guy who helped birth 1996 PS1 classic Resident Evil, Shinji Mikami’s new game has a not-so-subtle reminder. Two chapters into The Evil Within, players will encounter their first flesh-eating monstrosity. As you can see, the scene is almost an…

​The Coolest Cosplay from Geek Girl Con

You’re looking pretty awesome there, Deathlord. This past weekend saw the third fourth annual Geek Girl Con setting up shop in Seattle. It’s a smaller show than, say, PAX Prime but cosplayers showed up ready to strut in their finest costumes and make-up. You’ll see a bunch of shots from Geek Girl Con taken by…

​This Is What Star Citizen‘s Planets Will Look Like

Lots of people who are eagerly anticipating Star Citizen are already messing about inside the currently playable slices of the hotly anticipated next game from the creator of Wing Commander. But other people are not. If you’re one of the latter, then take a look at the game in action. Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts…

PlayStation’s First TV Show Is Promising Really F****d-Up Superheroes

Ok, Sony, you’ve got my attention. If you’ve read Powers—the psychologically tense police proecedural set in a special unit that deals with superhero-related crimes—then you know that it’s a series where sex, drugs and ultraviolence get tangled up in some really perverted ways. It’s only a teaser but the new trailer for the TV adaptation…

​Your PC Must Be This Magical to Play Dragon Age Inquisition

Ready to go back to Ferelden and cast all sorts of butt-kicking enchantments on your enemies? First, you’ll need to check if your silicone cauldron has the goods to run BioWare’s next fantasy adventure. An official post on EA’s Origin site details a runthrough of the PC version of Dragon Age Inquisition, including info that…

Hacker Claims To Find Hint Of An 8-Player Mode For The New Smash Bros.

By necessity, Super Smash Bros. on the 3DS is a very different game from its predecessors. It’s built for a smaller and differently structured system and doesn’t have some of the stuff that previous Smash games had, like a tournament mode. But, what one person claims are newly discovered audio files hidden inside the game…

Take a Look at the First New Star Wars Arcade Game in Years

The best part of the Star Wars arcade games of yore was how they transported you into the movies, letting you be the one destroying the Death Star and defeating the Empire. A new bunch of Star Wars machines are going to do the same thing for today’s audiences, starting next January. Star Wars Battle…

A Game That Reminds You How Messed Up Bullying Is

Chiwatin isn’t your typical video game hero. He pees himself when he gets scared and the snow in the northern Canadian landscape turns yellow under his feet. I wanted to laugh at this the third time it happened, when I realized it wasn’t some weird rendering bug and an actual design decision. But then the…

Watch the Start Screens for Damn Near Every Game Boy Title

Don’t worry. They’re in alphabetical order. Like he’s done for the NES and the SNES before, YouTuber NicksplosionFX has assembled the introductory moments of almost every game released for Nintendo’s gray brick-like handheld. It’s probably not the entirety of the Game Boy catalog but don’t let any gaps stop you from basking in the inventiveness…

One Guy Is Trying to Sell More Video Games Than You’ve Ever Seen

Remember that one NES game that you played every night for weeks then never got back from a friend you lent it to? This guy probably has it. And thousands of other games from the 1980s and 1990s, too. He’s selling his entire collection for a whole lot of money. A seller going by the…

NBA 2K15‘s Face Technology Fails Miserably, Creates Monsters

NBA 2K15‘s face-scanning tech sure looked fancy when shown off last month. But now that it’s out, it’s making creatures that shouldn’t exist in this world. Or any other. The latest entry in 2K Sports’ hoops series came out today and people are having a go with the technology that uses connected cameras to scan…

Microsoft Technology Will Finally Let You Give Video Games the Finger

Now, here’s some Kinect functionality that I wouldn’t mind in a video game. I could’ve used this when I reviewed that awful Steel Battalion game a while back. This video from Microsoft Research surfaced a few days ago, showing off the continuing evolution of the company’s Kinect motion tracking initiative. The system on display here…

Saturday Night Live Sketch Skewers the Gap Between Gameplay and Story

You’ve probably noticed it called out in some Grand Theft Auto, Uncharted and BioShock games: those moments where the emotions being presented to you in cutscenes or dialogue don’t match up with what the player’s being told to do. And while that issue has been a point of contention for many years, I wasn’t ever…

The man who wrote and directed Call of Duty: Black Ops argues that the U.S. government should put soldiers in schools to protect them. David Anthony—who is now a fellow at political think tank The Atlantic Council—made his remarks during a talk titled “The Future of Unknown Conflict,” where he also described marketing as a…