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The launch trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall gives us a little bit of zealotry and a bucket of bad blood. With their homeworld destroyed, the Helghast have come to settle with the Vektans, in a big city divided by a huge wall. Unsurprisingly, no one likes their new neighbors.

A Spoiler-Free Look at BioShock Infinite‘s Next Chapter

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea‘s first chapter releases today, and as it deals with events after the twists-and-turns thriller of Infinite, there are few options for seeing what it’s all about without confronting a faceful of spoilers. 2K Games’ launch trailer looks like a safe approach, though. It’s Booker and it’s Elizabeth, the two main…

Watch The Entire Minecraft Documentary For Free, Right Here

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang—the 2012 documentary about the game, its creator and its impact on video gaming culture—is now free to watch in its entirety thanks to YouTube. You can watch it all here—but you’ll need an hour and 45 minutes to do so. The documentary is by 2 Player Productions and explores the…

10-Year-Old Faces Felony After Cops Say He Spent $800—on Minecraft?!

I have no idea how the hell this is even possible but a 10-year-old kid in Nebraska is facing felony-with-an-F charges for using his grandmother’s credit card to spend $800 on a video game online. Authorities and local media say the game is Minecraft. The hell? If there is even $800 worth of skin packs…

XCOM: Enemy Within: The Kotaku Review

Few things fill me with dread like the first terror response mission in XCOM. Kidney stones, for sure. The DMV. But that terror mission—which costs you a nation on the spot if you flunk it—comes when your force is young and underpowered. I know I’m gonna lose someone. I’m probably gonna lose two someones. Not…

Metal Gear‘s Creator Wanted Sexy Cosplay and, Well, He Got It

“Quiet,” the sniper character of Metal Gear Solid V, is rather unsensibly (un)dressed for combat. Creator Hideo Kojima had a number of justifications for this, saying that he wanted an “erotic” character because that look would encourage cosplay. Yep. It did. Via Destructoid, this is Kelly Jean, a cosplayer from the U.K.. She sought to…

The Week in Games: Playtime for PlayStation

The PlayStation 4 arrives this week, bringing with it a raft of games, some of which already have released on existing consoles. Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall are notable PS4-only titles. For those sitting out the PS4’s launch, XCOM‘s splendid Enemy Within expansion hits Tuesday, along with Capcom’s DuckTales Remastered Tuesday, Nov. 12 XCOM: Enemy…

Watch an Early Xbox One Owner Set Up His Console

Even if it’s a “small number”—we’ve heard 150—you can see why Target sending out Xbox Ones early is such a screwup. Here are a series of videos showing the console as it is set up by a user, apparently in Texas, who also got an early delivery. Yesterday, Stephen Totilo got a tweet from a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Make ‘Shop, Not Warcraft

‘Shop Contest all-star uscg_pa and I were chewing over ideas on Friday morning—I thought his suggestion might be a little too open-ended; he said he had awesome ideas ready to go. Then at the last minute someone at Blizzcon went and cosplayed the Warcraft-playing troll from South Park, and now we have this week’s exploitable.…

The guy who brings you Brawl in the Family every week in Sunday Comics wants to bring you a video game—on Wii U even, if his Kickstarter meets a stretch goal. Tadpole Treble is a rhythm game that Matthew Taranto and his brother, Michael, have been working on for a couple of years. It’s already…

Let’s Watch The Avengers: Age of Ultron—in Skyrim

When I think of awesome video game voice actors who play multiple characters—sometimes in the same game—I first think of Mark Cripps, whose fatally smug Throthgar in Skyrim at the Movies has entertained generations of fans. What, you thought I was gonna say Nolan North? Cripps and his Tyrannicon gang (Chris Hardwick and Anthony Ingruber,…

Sunday Comics: Rebound Hookup

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Double XP by M.S. Corley and Josh Crandall. Published Nov. 4. Read more of Double XP Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 4. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: One Big-Ass Xbox: the Winners

This week’s challenge: take an enormous stunt Xbox One laying in a Vancouver parking lot and turn it into something profound. A dirty dozen answered the call—they’re all inside, alongside overall No. 1 arniejolt! AboboInSloMo arniejolt docherty (a callback to this contest) Eight-Bit Generation Imp JBrr JDonneR93 r1ggs Ryan89_19 sciteach uscg_pa VaughnWhiskey Velduanga To contact…

Meet The Guy Who Got The Xbox One Early

Before Monday, André Weingarten figured he was out of luck. A devoted Xbox user from day one—he replaced two red-ringed 360s—Weingarten didn’t have a preorder down for the newest console. Then, lo and behold, Target had them in stock online. And then, incredibly, Weingarten had an Xbox One on his doorstep four days later. “I…

No, Call of Duty: Ghosts Did Not Make $1 Billion on Its First Day

Call of Duty: Ghosts didn’t get the usual triumphal announcement from Activision that it was the biggest entertainment launch of the year. Because, one assumes, it was not. Activision did say that $1 billion worth of Call of Duty was on retailers’ shelves. Why is that worth bragging about? Well, this video is why. Here…

If you’re a Comcast subscriber and you can’t connect to Xbox Live no, it’s not just you. A lot of people are reporting the same thing. We’ve pinged Microsoft and a Comcast rep. “Both teams are working together for a resolution,” says Xbox Live support.

If You Get an Xbox One Early, You Can’t Connect it to Xbox Live

Microsoft has acknowledged Target’s screwup, which sent out some preordered Xbox Ones two weeks before the console’s launch, and said that anyone who does get one early will be unable to connect it to Xbox Live. This is the full statement sent to Kotaku by a Microsoft spokesperson: Due to a retail partner’s system issue,…

Wild Offer of Free Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed Floods Canada Stores

So, let’s get this straight. In Canada this weekend, take any Xbox 360 or PS3 game—good, bad or ugly; GOTY or shovelware—trade it in, and get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts or Battlefield 4. Is that right? Is someone smoking crack up there? Not you, mayor ……

If you’re following the brouhaha over the guy who got an Xbox One early and was then banned by Xbox Live, Major Nelson has since reached out via Twitter, and has said “his console will not be permabanned.” See the link for the latest update.

A Jumbo Jet Crashes the City in Dead Rising 3

Dead Rising has always had a kind of joie de mort about it, but Capcom made it clear this summer that comes to an end with the Xbox One-only Dead Rising 3. Unless the pilot and everyone on board is a zombie, there’s not much dark comedy to be found in a 757 disaster. Capcom…