Uncharted 4 enjoyable multiplayer is getting a new map and, more significantly, a 70-level character leveling system: XP, unlocks, etc. Available today via a free patch. More details at the PlayStation blog
If you have The Division for Xbox One or PC, you can access the game’s first paid expansion, Underground, today. But how to find it? First, you need to have own it, of course. It costs $15 (and won’t be out for PS4 for about a month, such are the ways of platform exclusivity deals).…
Another giant JRPG is out for the Wii U today. Is Atlus and Nintendo’s mash-up of Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem any good? We’ve got positive impressions of the Japanese version of the game and video of the first hour of the Western version to help you decide. Called Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE in…
“First of all, it would be great if I didn’t have to put a release date out at all,” Nintendo’s longtime chief game designer Shigeru Miyamoto recently told me when I asked him about the tendency for Zelda games to be late. “But I have to.” We both laughed. Nearly every major Zelda console game…
Between interviews, video shoots and encounters with mascots, I played a bunch of games at and around E3 last week. Let me tell you about them. At EA Play Titanfall 2 (Xbox One, PS4, PC, October 28 2016) – I had no luck getting hands on time with Battlefield 1, but I did manage to…
“We believe Bruce Wayne is just as important as the Batman,” a Telltale rep said at E3 this week as he began playing through a demo of his company’s new Batman game. What followed was proof that Batman The Telltale Series may have more Bruce Wayne in it than any prior interactive Dark Knight adventure.…
We ended this E3 the way we started, bygoing hands-on with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is direct feed footage of some cool moments that happened naturally as we played the game. Hunting, cooking, stealth attacks, wolf link and more. Tip: listen with headphones, because the sound…
The creators of the newest Call of Duty are attempting to turn the tide at E3 in Los Angeles this week. They’re up against a month-long sea surge of negativity the likes of which even this series has never seen. Working in their favor this week: what they’re showing of the new Call of Duty…
There’s a window in one of the corners of Ubisoft’s massive E3 booth, and through it you can see people playing the new Star Trek Bridge Crew virtual reality game. We couldn’t play the game ourselves, but watching others through glass was a sufficient back-up option. The lady in red is overseeing the demo and…
Thank goodness a major game studio is making a multiplayer pirate ship game. Even better news: the very basic version of Sea of Thieves on display at E3 out here in Los Angeles is a lot of fun. On Monday night, we shot video of teams of five players apiece sailing their big pirate ships…
Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma credits fan speculation for the creation of a female Link in the recent Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors 3DS game, but he clarified to Kotaku here at E3 that the Link in the new Wii U Zelda who first showed up in a 2014 trailer was always planned to be…
I’ve played the new Zelda game for about half an hour. It’s terrific. It’s also very unlike the many Zeldas I’ve played before. On Sunday, Nintendo reps gave me and other reporters access to the game’s two E3 demos. One lets players run around as franchise hero Link, exploring a large area that the devs…
EA and their racing game studio Criterion are making a Star Wars virtual reality mission that has you flying an X-Wing in VR. That’ll sure help get people into VR. It was announced for PlayStation VR at Sony’s E3 press conference and seems to be an exclusive. Not much to see in the clip here,…
Just a day after the worst gun massacre in U.S. history, it might be hard to get into the mood to hype anything, video games or otherwise. A few of the people hosting this year’s big E3 spectacles found their own way to acknowledge Orlando before the hype. Yesterday, the hosts and developers at the…
A sequel to the surprise early 2015 climbing game Grow Home is coming out this August for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. They’re calling it Grow Up. It’s now planet-sized.
Ubisoft’s E3 press conference pre-show included a short clip from YouTuber iiJERiiCHOii, who started raving about The Division somewhat unconventionally “Ubisoft, you have fucked up so many games…so many games! And yet you have delivered me… The only thing that I’ve ever wanted which is to be able to just shoot everything and have it…
Bethesda’s chief game creator, Todd Howard, knows what Elder Scrolls VI should be like, but his team needs more time and perhaps better technology to make it. Howard spoke about the ever-anticipated next chapter of Elder Scrolls during a YouTube Live At E3conversation with friend of Kotaku Geoff Keighley in Los Angeles today. Here’s the…
Undead Labs’ surprise 2013 Xbox 360 hit State of Decay is getting a sequel for Xbox One and PC, making it the second big zombie game confirmed today during Microsoft’s press conference after Dead Rising 4. It’s coming out in 2017. The original State of Decay was a challenging third-person action game that allowed players…
Farming and dating hit Stardew Valley is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U later this year, the game’s creator announced today. Mac and Linux versions are also still forthcoming.
BioWare is still mostly in the we’re-not-talking-about-that-yet phase of hyping next years’ Mass Effect Andromeda, but the outlines they’re sketching show a game that’s returning to the strangeness of the 2007 original. “If you go back to the original Mass Effect, there was that sort of awe of going to a new galaxy and meeting…
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