Rockstar today released a new trailer for the upcoming PC version of GTA V, which comes out in two weeks. In the video, you can see what their gargantuan open-world game looks like while running at a buttery 60 frames-per-second. Unsurprisingly, it’s stunning. Watch right here while I go look up how much it would…
Mario Maker has been delayed to this fall, Nintendo just announced. The Mario level-creator will be out for Wii U in September.
It’s Nintendo Direct time—you can watch tonight’s big Nintendo presser on their websitestarting at 6pm Eastern, or just keep refreshing Kotaku for all the news as it happens. Please understand.
If there’s one Final Fantasy mini-game that would be just about perfect for smartphones, it’s Triple Triad, the delightfully addictive card game that debuted in Final Fantasy VIII and recently reappeared in the online game FFXIV Today, Square’s finally brought the long-requested game to mobile devices… in Japan. Only in Japan. Based on the trailer,…
Last night’s episode of Better Call Saul—the best show on television right now—guest-starred Steven Ogg, the man you may recognize as the voice of everyone’s favorite hillbilly psychopath Trevor Philips. Ogg, who played a slightly less unkempt criminal this time around, had the rare honor of getting beaten up by Mike Ehrmantraut, who then went…
April Fool’s Day is imminent, which means that we’re about to see A) lots of unfunny people making awful attempts to prank everyone; and B) some people—often including big tech companies like Google and Blizzard—creating some brilliant things. Here’s one example of the latter. Go to Google Maps, find yourself an area with lots of…
Want a sense of how tough it is to make AAA video games? Check out this Twine story/game by Matthew Burns, a veteran developer (and friend of Kotaku) who has spent a lot of time in the trenches. It’s both brilliant and horrifying.
Dragon Age‘s “Jaws of Hakkon” DLC will come to PS4, 360, and PS3 in May, BioWarejust announced. Good reminder that timed DLC exclusivity is bullshit. For more on Dragon Age: Inquisition, check out our reader Q&A with the developers from last week.
The next Halo game will be out this October, Microsoft announced tonight in a trailer that aired during The Walking Dead You can watch the trailer, which is live-action and unfortunately has no actual gameplay, above. Halo 5: Guardians will be released on October 27 for Xbox One. Hopefully matchmaking works then too. If you’re…
Bad news, Zelda fans. The next game won’t be out this year, Nintendo just announced—they’re “no longer making a 2015 release [their] number one priority” for the upcoming Zelda Wii U Series producer Eiji Aonuma announced the bad news in a video message on Facebook, where he talked about how the team has “discovered several…
Three top people from BioWare, one of the world’s most acclaimed RPG studios, are here to answer your questions this afternoon. Welcome to Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come answer burning questions from Kotaku readers. (If you think you’d be a good guest or have…
It’s been three weeks since I first played through the demo for Final Fantasy XV, a video game about what will happen to One Direction now that Zayn’s gone. So I’ve had plenty of time to digest. I first completed FFXV: Episode Duscae during a two-hour session at Square Enix’s PAX East media booth in…
BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn, Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah, and Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw will be here to take your questions this afternoon at 4pm ET in today’s installment of Kotaku Asks. So start thinking of good questions now. (Don’t post them here — wait for the Q&A article to go live…
Today, Square Enix released a free-to-play Final Fantasy game for mobile devices, and perhaps for the first time ever, that’s not a bad thing. Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, out today for iOS and Android, is a surprisingly fun little time-waster that tasks you with creating a party, collecting equipment, traveling through various old Final Fantasy…
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Sony released a new firmware patch for the PS4 today, and with it, the suspend/resume feature promised way back in February of 2013 is finally here. To use the feature once you’ve downloaded the 2.50 patch, first go into Settings -> Power Save Settings -> Set Functions Available In Rest Mode, then make sure you…
Back in September of 2012, when I first heard that Obsidian was launching a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate, I got a little… uh… too excited. I was ecstatic. I called it my dream RPG. In retrospect that was a bit premature, especially as the years went by and we saw a…
The second act of Double Fine’s Broken Age comes out April 28, as does a complete version for Vita and PS4, the developers just announced. Time to get your point-and-click on.
There’s some new Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC out today, as you may have heard. It’s called “Jaws of Hakkon” and you can get it for Xbox One, PC, and… well, that’s it. Did you play Dragon Age on PlayStation 4? Sorry. No DLC for you this week. See, publishers EA and Microsoft have come to…
If you wanted one of those hot Majora’s Mask New 3DS XLs but could never quite get your hands on one, we’ve got some good news: they’re coming back. The limited-edition New 3DS, which drove the world insane back in January thanks to Nintendo’s sloppy distribution and lack of communication, will be in (limited) stock…
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