This blue thang is the newest PS3 model, to be available only at GameStop for $250 starting on October 8. To quote the press release: The new Azurite Blue PlayStation®3 system includes an Azurite Blue DualShock®3 wireless controller, a 250GB hard drive, a built in Blu-Ray™ player, and can hold over 1800 games, 140 movies,…
Images of an employee-only white Xbox One have been circulating today, and the design sure looks neat. Cooler than the black one, even. Too bad it’s just for Microsoft staff. At least for now. As for the image’s veracity… one source familiar with goings-on at Microsoft tells Kotaku it’s real, and IGN is reporting that…
Last week, an eight-year-old boy picked up a loaded gun and shot his grandmother in the head a few minutes after playing Grand Theft Auto IV. You’ll never guess which part of that sentence has become a talking point for pundits and media analysts over the past couple of days. On Thursday, just after 5pm,…
This game, designed by my friend Holden Link for the Ludum Dare jam this past weekend, is a more effective tool for caution than any PSA or lecture. Send it to every teenage driver you know. Please don’t download it on your phone and try to play while driving. Download right here
Is that a slick gold design I see on this Wii U? Possibly part of a Zelda: Wind Waker Wii U bundle? Earlier this week, Destructoid floated rumors that we might be seeing a Zelda-packed Wii U bundle at some point in the near future, and this image, taken from a since-pulled Nintendo trailer spotted…
Happy Friday! Here’s a new hype video produced by Namco Bandai to pump us all up for Dark Souls II, the sequel to the most masochistic game on the planet. Hopefully this will tide you over while waiting for the beta
Jeez. I’m not normally the type to get super-hyped about games that involve shooting and driving, but GTAV—to be out on September 17 for PS3 and Xbox 360—is a rare exception. Check out these new screenshots, posted by Rockstar today. Try to keep your mouth closed.
Ben Affleck will star as Batman in Man of Steel 2. Ben Affleck. This is not a joke. Both The Wrap and Varietyare reporting the news. Daredevil is playing Batman. Last month’s Comic Con revelation that the Caped Crusader will appear in the sequel to Zack Snyder’s Superman flick was huge news—particularly the part where…
The Wii U remake of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker has a bunch of new tweaks and features, if previews out of Germany are to believed. Reporters and attendees at GamesCom this week got to play the first-ever HD Zelda, which comes out for Wii U in October. They say it’s different. Much different.…
It’s time to rule out those hopes of a cheap, Kinect-free Xbox One bundle, at least for now: Microsoft says it’s not happening. Following news that you don’t actually need the Kinect plugged in for your next-gen Xbox to work, many gamers started wondering if maybe Microsoft would strip out the Kinect and sell a…
Shuhei Yoshida is a busy man. Between running Sony’s Worldwide Studios and sharing his hilarious, lovable thoughts on Twitter, the guy’s got a lot on his plate. So it’s okay for him to be tired every once in a while. And it’s okay that he dozed off a bit during this panel with Heavy Rain…
In recent months, there’s been an epidemic of anger in the world of gaming. The nasty comments are getting nastier. The death threats are escalating. Harassment has become ubiquitous. It’s tough, being a video game developer. The hours are long, the work is grueling, your studio can shut down at a moment’s notice, and many…
Straight outta Germany, here’s nine minutes of adorable new footage from Pokémon X, the latest entry in Nintendo’s longrunning animal abuse simulator series. Shot by the folks at NTower, this footage shows how we’ll prod and poke and battle creatures in Pokémon X, which comes out for 3DS in October alongside Pokémon Y. And for…
Here’s a new trailer for Murdered: Soul Suspect, which looks like the unlikely-yet-kind-of-amazing combination of Ghost Trick and L.A. Noire. Published by Square Enix and developed by Airtight Games (Quantum Conundrum), Murdered will be out in early 2014 for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Looking good so far!
For almost two years now, I’ve been following South Park: Stick of Truth with feverish anticipation. As I’ve written before, it’s the type of game that feels like it was made just for me. The stellar writing of South Park‘s creators combined with JRPG-like combat and springy, vivid animation that feels like it was ripped…
If you’re desperate for punishment this fall, you’re in luck: the folks at Namco Bandai have just announced that a closed beta for Dark Souls II will launch in October for the PlayStation 3. To access the beta, which begins October 5, you’ll have to check the Dark Souls Facebook page over the next month…
One of the most popular online games on the planet has been attacked by hackers. Riot Games, the company behind the huge multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends, announced today that “a portion” of North American accounts have been compromised Hackers were able to access usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and some names,…
The PlayStation 4 will be out on Friday, November 15 in North America, Sony announced at the end of their GamesCom press conference today in Germany. November 29 for Europe. It’ll retail for $399, 399 euros, and 349 British pounds. This is pretty much the last missing piece to the puzzle—we now know just about…
Here’s a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV running on both PlayStation 4 and Vita, thanks to Sony’s Remote Play feature that they say will allow us to play “almost all” PS4 games on the Vita, through WiFi. Sounds familiar, no? Almost word-for-word how Nintendo has marketed the Wii U.
Oh wow, Sony just announced that Minecraft is a launch game for PlayStation 4. The blocky crafting game has been printing ridiculous amounts money on PC and Xbox 360, so this is a natural next move. It’s also coming to Xbox One at some point. UPDATE: And PS3, and Vita, Minecraft creator Markus Persson says…
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