You don’t need no fancy goggles to watch today’s Oculus Rift press conference, where the Facebook-owned helmet peddlers will share some new details about their much-hyped VR device. Maybe they’ll tell us about the price, or the release date, or how they’ll turn what appears to be niche hardware into a mass-market device that’s viable…
Nintendo’s digital event at E3 was one of the best “press conferences” in history, not because it was full of particularly great announcements but because it was short, sweet, and bullshit-free, setting an example for what an E3 event should be. Since it was a pre-recorded 45-minute show with lots of gameplay trailers and very…
Hearthstone is getting a new mode this month: Tavern Brawl, which will spice up regular 1v1 battles by adding a rotating weekly challenge. Says Blizzard: “One week might feature preset decks, while another week could have you crafting a brand new Tavern Brawl deck following specific guidelines, while others might offer buffs to specific minion…
The action game Hyrule Warriors is coming to 3DS—complete with Tetra and the King of Red Lions from Wind Waker. No word on a US release yet.
The Final Fantasy XV demo got a bunch of new features today, including a massive new boss monster that I’m sure someone will figure out how to beat by the end of the day. Meet the Catoblepas, who in previous versions of the FFXV demo was just part of the scenery but is now, thanks…
This morning, Square Enix released a 3.4 GB patch for Episode Duscae, the demo for Final Fantasy XV. Yes, you read that right. A 3.4 GB patch. For a demo. In addition to a new boss-ish monster, the patch will add more character interactions, more warp points, and a dodge roll for Noctis. Apparently there…
Superstar RPG writer and Kotaku Asks guest Chris Avellone has left Obsidian, the company he co-founded. “Off to pursue new projects, but can’t say much else right now,” he tells Kotaku
The next Destiny expansion is called The Taken King, according to marketing materials leaked to Kotaku. It’ll be out on September 15 and will open up a new subclass for each of Destiny’s three classes, according to the leak. On Monday night, a tipster sent over a large marketing sheet for The Taken King, which…
You know how Konami tried to pull Hideo Kojima’s name off the box art on their website? With Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Kojima more than gets his due. Every mission in the newest Metal Gear game—which will almost certainly be Kojima’s last—both begins and ends with a brief credit sequence that runs…
Just in time to compete with Mighty No. 9 (which is out in September), Capcom is releasing a compilation pack called Mega Man Legacy Collection, to be released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC this summer (with a 3DS release coming in the winter). The collection will only come with the first six Mega Man…
We’re just a week away from E3, and even if the big press conferences fail to deliver the JRPG goods we’re all craving, at least the smaller publishers have us covered. Take XSEED, the boutique publisher behind 2011’s The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, one of the best role-playing games in recent memory.…
Here’s some good news for anyone concerned that last generation’s consoles are holding back today’s game developers: Fallout 4 is current-gen-only, Bethesda says. No quiet last-gen releases coming down the road. Some might have assumed as much when the publisher announced Fallout 4 last week for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, but there were certainly…
Game designer Chris Hecker, best known for his long-in-development game SpyParty and for his consistently insightful comments on the video game industry, is here to answer your questions. Hecker has worked for various game companies over the years, including Maxis, where he developed a great deal of the animation tech for the simulation game Spore.…
Looks like Amazon just spoiled one of Microsoft’s E3 announcements: there’s a new Xbox One model with a 1TB hard-drive launching onJune 15. It’ll include that new controller with a headphone jack.
Yesterday, Blizzard finally announced plans to add a new hero to Hearthstone: the dwarf king Magni Bronzebeard. Except, well, Magni isn’t actually a new hero. He’s a new portrait Yep, for the hefty price of $10, players of Blizzard’s stellar digital card game can replace the current warrior portrait (Garrosh Hellscream) with Magni, in all…
Fallout 4 is finally official, but the fake rumors won’t stop popping up. As Ron Perlman might say: Bullshit. Bullshit never changes. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been inundated with rumors about the next Fallout game, most of them blatantly fake, including a massive ARG back in 2013 that fooled a whole lot…
On Tuesday, June 9, Square Enix will release a patch for the demo of Final Fantasy XV. A patch. For a demo. Video games! This might be unprecedented—I can’t think of a single other demo that has been majorly patched—but nothing about Final Fantasy XV has been orthodox in any way. You can see the…
Fallout is back, and, as expected, it’s headed to post-apocalyptic Boston. You can watch the first (great) trailer right here. As we already know thanks to an accidental early website leak, Fallout 4 is official, and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It’s been seven years since Fallout 3, the first and only…
Inadvertently leaked on the official website an hour ahead of its scheduled announcement, here’s Fallout 4, coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. UPDATE (10am): And here’s the official trailer: Here’s the box art: It’s been seven years since Fallout 3, the first and only Fallout game released by Bethesda Game Studios so far. The…
Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space talking about how good Destiny is now, got a new patch today, and it’s got a few changes people will really care about. Treasure Keys for everyone! Treasure Keys, consumable items that players can use to unlock the main reward chest at the end of…
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