Finally, an RPG with the balls to DELETE YOUR SAVE FILES. This is one of the first screens you see when you load up Pillars of Eternity, an isometric role-playing game by Obsidian that will be out later this year for PC. While this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this sort of “hardcore” mode—Diablo…
The Xbox One’s August update will start rolling out today, Microsoft says. Improvements include a better friends list, new activity feed updates, and a low-battery notification for the controller.
Will you be in Seattle on August 31? Want to hang out with four Kotaku staffers as we regale you with tales from the battlefield? Come to our PAX Prime panel—Story Time With Kotaku–-on Sunday, August 31 at 2:30pm in the Sphinx Theater. Tina, Kirk, Evan and I will take questions, tell stories, and generally…
Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here I feel like we don’t spend enough time talking about fonts. Seriously. Fonts. For a long time I’ve believed that a good font can change the entire tone of a…
Here at Kotaku, we try to avoid writing stories based on vague statements from developers about things they’ve got planned in the future, but this is too interesting not to share: turns out Blizzard is constantly thinking about the idea of World of Warcraft II Strange thought, right? A sequel to an ever-evolving online game…
EA pulled out the big guns for their Madden 15 commercial, bringing in Kevin Hart, Dave Franco, Colin Kaepernick, and a pool full of dolphins for what might be the weirdest and/or best advertisement in video game history. Just watch it.
Tales of Xillia 2 comes out on Tuesday, and if you’re like me and never quite got around to beating the first game, here’s a solid refresher video to catch you up on the story. Namco Bandai’s Nick O’Leary promisesthat you don’t really need to play Xillia in order to enjoy Xillia 2—and by many…
Did Sony get hacked? Did someone working for their Twitch channel get a little frustrated with the camerawork at the PlayStation conference in Gamescom earlier this week? Are they mad about the whole Tomb Raider thing? Whatever it is, it’s very inappropriate. Still live on PlayStation’s Twitch channelas of right now, too. (h/t Ben Hanson)
This week in Germany, video game fans from all across the world have congregated at the altar of Gamescom, Europe’s biggest trade show. And it looks like… hell. I mean, check out this photo, snapped by IGN’s Brian Albert: That just seems so unpleasant. North America’s big gaming shows—E3 and PAX—are always crowded, but they’re…
The wonderful fifth entry in the Ace Attorney series is now out on iOS. You can download the first episode of Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies for free and buy the whole thing for $15 (or, individually, at $5 per episode).
Played the 2010 game Dante’s Inferno? Craving more of Dante’s adventures through hell? Check out this badass short film by Naughty Dog animator Tal Peleg. Peleg, who created that silly Last of Us Banderas gif among many other things, has been working on Dante’s Redemption for quite some time now. This is the final product.
Nintendo announced this baby for Europeon October 3, when the new Smash Bros. launches on 3DS. I hope it comes to the U.S. too. Very sleek. Cluttered, but sleek. (Hard to beat my black/goldZelda XLthough.)
Shown off today during a Gamescom livestream, here’s the newest demo for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which will be out for consoles and PC… eventually. It’s silly. Very silly. There’s horse poop and goat murder and boxes with bikini models. Enjoy. (video via Shirrako)
Are you ready to learn more about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain? Maybe, say, a release date? Well, we’re not getting our hopes up too much, but today’s big Gamescom preview event should at least give us some more insight about what to expect from the next entry in Hideo Kojima’s batshit insane…
Who needs next-gen consoles? The Metal Gear Solid series is hitting PC once again with entry #5—both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain will come to Steam, publisher Konami accidentally leaked today just before a big MGS livestream. Looks like someone on Konami’s web team jumped the gun. This is the first time in a very…
“We will clearly spend money on marketing the game, there’s no doubt about that. And we do [that] on games where we have very little to do with development, and with games that we fully develop. And we will definitely be spending money on developing the game – I want to make sure that it’s…
Over half a million dollars could be MIA as the organizers of a failed Minecraft convention refuse to explain what they did with all the ticket money—or why they’ve deleted their website and Twitter account. Mineorama, which was marketed as an unofficial gathering for Minecraft fans in New York City last month, never actually happened.…
Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the first bomb of Gamescom 2014: that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be an Xbox exclusive. Except, wait. It’s not. Turns out this was yet another a case of shady corporate double-speak, and this is actually a timed exclusive. “Yes, the deal has a duration,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Eurogamer.…
It’s hard to discern much about how The Witcher 3 plays, or whether it will feel as grand as it looks, or whether the combat is any good. But there’s one thing we can tell from this new gameplay footage: The Witcher 3—out in February for PS4/Xbox One/PC—sure is pretty. I mean, look at that…
You’d be forgiven for thinking, if you watched today’s Sony Gamescom conference, that Sony has already given up on the PlayStation Vita. Sony’s 80-minute presser was all PS4, without much mention of their underappreciated handheld. In fact, the Vita even lost an exclusive—Tearaway—giving gamers one less reason to buy an expensive new portable system. It’s…
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