One of 2012’s best games is getting a special edition: starting October 8 in North America (and October 11 in Europe) you can get Dishonored and all of its DLC—including two big slices of story—for $40. The package is called Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition. It’s coming to PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. It…
Here’s a cool looking Kickstarter project: Blood Alloy, a dystopian Metroidvania inspired by Dark Souls and Vanquish. They want $50,000.
Better frame rate, new textures, all sorts of shiny new lighting… the HD version of the second-best Zelda game looks pretty damn good. We’ve showed you a few side-by-side videos that compare The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on GameCube with The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD for Wii U, but this is the…
Were you expecting Kingdom Hearts III, announced at this year’s E3, to come at some point in the near future? Maybe even around the same time as Final Fantasy XV, also announced (or, re-announced) at this year’s E3? EXPECT NO MORE. As series producer and Square Enix exec Shinji Hashimoto explained to IGN, director Tetsuya…
You’ll soon be able to borrow digital PC games like you would disks—Valve has just announced a program called Steam Family Sharing that will let up to ten Steam accounts share a single library of games. But there’s a catch. If I authorize your computer to be one of my sharing buddies, you can download…
Weird combo, right? This is Eldritch, a fascinating new game from David and J. Kyle Pittman, two brothers who used to work on AAA games like Borderlands and BioShock 2 The Pittmans describe Eldritch as “a Lovecraftian action roguelike” inspired by “immersive sims” like Deus Ex. Levels are generated procedurally, but instead of just shooting…
In this, the year of… Apple announced a bunch of new iPhones today, but this is the Year of Luigi. We deserve better. We deserve this.
The next-gen console war is getting more and more entertaining every day. As developers and executives publicly argue about the differences between the upcoming PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it’s time to take out the popcorn and enjoy it. Over the weekend, a curious thing happened: one game developer claimed a huge performance disparity between…
Two big JRPGs on tap for today, in addition to this morning’s news that the team behind Far Cry 3 is working on their own Japan-inspired role-playing game First up is Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix (trailer above), an HD remake of the first Kingdom Hearts, out today on PS3. The remix also includes the new…
Some people play Skyrim for the big open world, or the variety of interesting quests. The guy who makes Zelda, though? He plays Skyrim because it starts with the same three letters as Skyward Sword. Speaking with USGamer in an interesting interview published today, Zelda bossman Eiji Aonuma spilled the beans: he played Skyrim because…
Thirteen years after release, Baldur’s Gate II is still one of the best role-playing games of all time. No joke. If you consider yourself an RPG fan, this is a game you have to play. “But wait,” you are most likely thinking, ready to type out a comment about how lame I am. “This game…
G4 may still live: months after laying off a number of staff and canceling both of the struggling channel’s flagship gaming shows, NBC Universal has decided to keep G4 alive, The Hollywood Reporter reports. That’s right: instead of turning G4 into the newly-branded Esquire Channel as part of a licensing deal with the Hearst corporation,…
Nate Fox feels kind of weird about seeing his face everywhere on the Internet. Wouldn’t you? Fox, a longtime employee of Sucker Punch and the director of the upcoming PlayStation 4 game Infamous: Second Son, achieved a certain level of Internet fame in February, during the big PS4 reveal conference, when he made a funny…
I’ve been playing some Grandia on my Vita recently, and when I saw this moment last night, I thought it was too ridiculous not to share. “Wow, they even have coffee here!” Justin remarks, while staring at a gigantic beer keg, in front of what is clearly a bar. Oh, JRPG censorship, how funny you…
When Brad Meyer wants to create fire, he doesn’t just light a match. He rubs two pieces of charcoal together, then burns some charcoal, then pours water on burning charcoal, then rubs more charcoal together, then drops charcoal on a steel chimney, then crushes up charcoal with a mortar and pestle, and then, just for…
No Random Encounters this week—sorry folks! But today’s a big day for JRPG fans nonetheless. Go play Trails in the Sky to celebrate!
It’s finally official: the second chapter of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is coming to Steam and PSP as a digital release next year. The first chapter, already out for PSP, will also be released on Steam at some point this winter. That means English-speakers will be able to play both games in…
Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. After leaving us with one hell of a cliffhanger at the end of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, XSEED may be finally announcing that the sequel is coming to U.S. shores. If you are a regular Kotaku reader, you have probably seen me rave about XSEED’s PSP role-playing game,…
Today in Kickstarter Projects I’d Really Like To See Get Made is Hot Tin Roof, a clever, bizarre-looking, blocky platformer whose creators are seeking $20,000 in crowd-funding. It looks quite brilliant. Check out the trailer, then go check out the Kickstarter if you’re interested.
Konami US has been depressingly quiet about the prospects of making Suikoden more accessible to modern gamers, but at least the company’s UK branch is showing their best franchise some love. Today on the Konami UK blog there’s a big post about Suikoden, written by the folks at the Suikoden Revival Movement. Progress! It’s a…
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