Two down, two to go. Next up is Ubisoft, where there are sure to be surprises mixed in with the (Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rabbids.
From Microsoft’s green to EA’s blue, we’re live from Electronic Arts’ E3 2014 press conference. Join us for new games, old favorites and an almost guaranteed appearance from some sports personality.
The first major press conference of E3 2014 is upon us, and we’re awash in an incredible amount of green lighting as we wait to see what Microsoft is bringing to the party. Join us and find out!
The Los Angeles Convention Center is covered in video game posters. It’s E3 time, everyone. Well, almost… I just shot a few pics and one video that you might like. Have a look! These are a couple of blocks away from the LACC: This is across the street from it. (Is she taking a Titan…
Here at Kotaku we’re predicting that there will be a gaming expo in Los Angeles next week. Sources say there will be news from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. What else will happen? E3 prediction time! I’ll go first. Mind you, I’m guessing… We’ll hear about an Xbox One/PS4 version of Grand Theft Auto V. (Justification:…
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, a longtime fixture of the gaming giant’s E3 presence, will not be at this year’s show, Cindy Gordon, Nintendo of America’s vice president of corporate affairs has told Kotaku. She downplayed any cause for alarm. “You won’t be seeing Mr. Iwata in person at E3 next week,” she wrote in an…
Metal Gear Solid mastermind says the map for next MGS will be big… 200 times bigger than the map from the Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. The Ground Zeroes map is the red blotch on the bottom right of his chart. The square it’s on is MGS V Kojima showed this chart during a Metal…
The June 2014 update for the Xbox One lets you rearrange the square “pin” icons that decorate the left pane of the system’s dashboard and serve as the console’s game/app shortcuts. That’s handy! So how do you do it? And why might you need a mirror? We can explain and make it easy for you.…
Lego Marvel Super Heroes contains all sorts of great cameos. It also includes a Mario Kart joke, made by the Human Torch, right before you go to Thor’s home realm of Asgard where they’ve got a rainbow bridge. I heard this while playing the PS4 version of the game over the weekend, and I captured…
“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…
There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…
It looks like Watch Dogs might be getting past one of its launch woes. A note sent to me on my PS4 in the “important notifications from PlayStation” part of my inbox indicates that problems with the game’s season pass have been fixed. Ubisoft also Tweeted this afternoon that “authentication” issues have been resolved, presumably…
The upcoming video game Football Heroes: Pro Edition will sport a license from the NFL Players Association, making it one of the only non-Madden game in a decade to include pro football players’ names, according to the game’s creators and the players’ group. This is a plot twist in the ongoing saga of EA’s Madden…
Well, this should be interesting. Jack Tretton, the former boss for all of PlayStation’s business in America and the man who led numerous E3 PlayStation press conferences—including last year’s thunderous one—will be spending E3 2014 press conference day talking about Sony’s, EA’s, Ubisoft’s and even Microsoft’s grand stage shows. That news comes from Geoff Keighley,…
A half-year past launch, the PlayStation 4 still feels like an overachiever. The system runs better and is improving faster than its predecessor. Everything is relative, though. The PS4 is still a year-one console and has familiar year-one issues. It’s not yet a must-have. Early impressions were correct, thank goodness. I reviewed the PS4 in…
It’s Memorial Day in the U.S., which means you may now wear one of your seasonal wardrobe staples. Just like these folks. You can run over rooftops in white pants. (see above) Or you can run up walls…. You can beat up dudes while wearing white pants. Dressed in white pants, you may slay vampires.…
Just revealed late last year, the free-to-play Star Wars: Attack Squadrons browser game has already been cancelled. The game’s beta was shut down today: On the game’s Facebook page, the response has been mixed. Some were pro shutdown: Had potential. But it was a let down from the get go. It’s space combat, we should’ve…
There’s Donkey Kong in this video. Zaxxon. Kuribo’s shoe. And is that a Castlevania reference? Check out bay area rapper Vocab Slick’s new video, “Somethin’ Slick'” and see how many nods to classic video games you can recognize. This is the explicit version of the song, mind you, so put on headphones in case anyone…
The next release of what appear to be monthly firmware updates for Microsoft’s Xbox One console will add a handful of useful options, including real name and external drive support, according to a summary of the changes that Microsoft shared with Kotaku in advance of an official announcement The real name and external storage options…
The conventional wisdom is that Nintendo has screwed up. They’ve lost the plot. Dropped the ball. Somehow sunk their own battleship. But they’re actually doing a bunch of things right, too. Let’s not focus on the very real storm clouds, for once, and focus on four bright spots that might change how you think about…
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