We didn’t see the PS4 last night because it’s not finalized yet, Sony’s Jack Tretton tells AllThingsD
Last night, during the big PS4 conference, Sony brought Gaikai’s David Perry on stage to deliver some lofty promises for the new gaming console. Perry, whose cloud-gaming company was purchased by Sony last year, said some very futuristic-sounding things about the next PlayStation. Things that sound interesting. Things that sound wild. But video game press…
Xbox spokesman Major Nelson weighs in on the PS4 conference. Shots fired!
Destiny will be out for PlayStation 4, developer Bungie announced today. Both the PS3 and PS4 versions will launch simultaneously, the developers said. You can see new, brief clips of in-game footage in the video above. For more on the new first-person shooter/MMO created by the people who made Halo, check out our coverage from…
Diablo 3 is coming to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, Blizzard just announced. The console version will include new controls and a four-player single-screen co-op mode. Blizzard has promised to show off more at this year’s PAX East, which comes at the end of March. Blizzard promised a “strategic partnership” with Sony and plans for…
No real news yet, but Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto took the stage at today’s PS4 event to say they’re working on a Final Fantasy game, and that we should “please be excited for E3 this year.” That’s it. Square also showed off a video of the same “Luminous Engine” tech demo we saw last year.…
Sony showed off this list of developer logos at their PS4 press conference today, and it’s got some exciting ones, from big to small, Activision to Spike Chunsoft. Let the speculation begin!
Braid creator Jonathan Blow will debut his next game on the PlayStation 4. The Witness, a Myst-inspired game in which you explore an island and solve its mysteries, has been in development for three and a half years now. We’ve been following the interesting indie game for a while now, and it’s been impressive during…
Gaikai’s Dave Perry took the stage to announce a bunch of new “social” features for the PS4 today: including Ustream/Facebook support, streaming capabilities, and and “remote play,” which allows you to play PS4 games on your Vita. “Our vision is to create the first gaming social network with meaning,” he said. Perry said the long-term…
After months and years of rumors, the PlayStation 4 has finally been revealed. It’ll be out this holiday season. Sony announced the new machine at a two-hour presentation in New York City, during which the Japanese hardware maker showed off a whole bunch of gorgeous games and sizzling demos for the next PlayStation—their first home…
Ready for a new console? Tonight at 6pm Eastern, Sony will announce their next Dubstep Machine PlayStation, and we’ll be here all night reporting the news as it happens. You can follow along with the livestream right here. We’re also liveblogging over here, as Stephen, Chris, and Evan cover the festivities live from New York.…
Did you know that there’s a video game where George Washington is evil? And that it’s made by the French? Yesterday, when Ubisoft released the first part in their trilogy of downloadable content for Assassin’s Creed III, Fox News wasn’t pleased. The French? Evil George Washington? Surely somebody should be offended by this! So they…
Wondering where to catch the PS4 announcement tonight? We’ll have both a livestream and a liveblog right here on Kotaku
Assuming Sony hasn’t just been screwing with us for the past few weeks, this is it: tonight, we’ll get our first look at the next PlayStation. At 6pm Eastern, Sony will hold a big event in New York City to announce the highly-anticipated PlayStation 4. Kotaku will be in attendance, and we’ll be reporting everything…
Some people say that the only real purpose of Kickstarter is to rejuvenate old genres. I have no problem with this. Especially if it leads to cool projects like Mage’s Initiation Mage’s Initiation, a new Kickstarter project designed in the vein of old Sierra point-and-click adventures like Quest for Glory and King’s Quest, looks really…
A reliable Kotaku source has informed us that the PlayStation 4, codenamed Orbis, will be out this November in the United States. Our source—the same reliable source who back in early 2012 told us the codename for Sony’s next console and the codename for Microsoft’s next console—tells us that there are two models planned for…
On Friday, Sony registered domains for URLs based on something called “PlayStation Cloud,” as discovered by Kotaku sleuth Superannuation today. The domains include playstation-cloud.com and playstation-org, among others. The domains were registered by someone from Gaikai, the cloud gaming service that Sony bought last year. Gaikai allows people to play games via cloud-based Internet streaming.…
While Hideo Kojima didn’t direct Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, he did direct this trailer, and it shows. For one, it’s seven minutes long. Seven minutes long! It’s also batshit crazy and somewhat spoilery (stay away if you don’t want to see anything that happens in the first few chapters of the game). Revengeance came out…
The New York Times has an interesting write-up on the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Do you want one?
Activision reminded us this morning that Bungie’s Destiny is not launching this year, despite retail listings.
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