Stephen Totilo

Fantastic, Infuriating: Jalopnik Plays Gran Turismo 6

Our car-loving pals at Jalopnik know their racing games. They also know cars. Who better to tell you what the deal is with Gran Turismo 6, the big new PS3 game out today?

A Game You’d Go To The Ends of the Earth To Play

On December 4, when you were doing whatever you were doing, a gamer who goes by the name of Artio was apparently chartering a plane to fly her to a remote town in Alaska. Why? So she could make a particularly powerful move in the video game Ingress According to an account by another Ingress…

EA Won’t Work On New Battlefield 4 DLC Until Flawed Game Is Fixed

Flagship first-person-shooter Battlefield 4 is so troubled that the game’s development studio won’t proceed on development of any new, planned expansions until the game’s problems are sorted out, BF4 publisher EA told Kotaku in a statement today. That update comes at at an awkward moment. Online connection issues have been frustrating some players of the…

Three Ways To Break Two Hearts In Four Panels In One Intriguing Game

A year ago, I was excited about the upcoming PC and iOS indie game Storyteller. I still am. The video above should explain why. You’ll “get” how the game works in about 30 seconds. Watch the whole thing, and you’ll see the game’s creator, Daniel Benmerguisort out a third solution to one of the game’s…

PS4 Voice Recognition Is Surprisingly Casual

Here’s a game you can play on your PS4 without leaving the main menu. 1) Plug a PlayStation Eye Camera into the console or a headset into the controller. 2) Say “PlayStation” 3) And then start naming games you’ve installed. Important! —> Be playful. Try variations. I did that and happily discovered that PS4 games…

To be fair…

The Xbox One ad here, which features a woman who loves playing Dead Rising 3, has been running since November 11. I just saw it in a pre-roll of a GameTrailers video today. First time I ever actually appreciated seeing a pre-roll ad! If people are going to complain about Xbox One marketing that supposedly…

You Can Remove The Sticker On The Front Of Your Xbox One, You Know

That thing on the front of the Xbox One? That’s a sticker. You can take it off. Some of you right now are wondering why this needs to be said. Others of you, well, you’re not alone. A lot of people haven’t taken this sticker off their Xbox One for some reason. Search for Xbox…

The Amazing Conversations You Had About Video Games This Thanksgiving

My fellow gaming Americans, Thanksgiving is a day when you can eat turkey, be lazy and answer questions from well-meaning but relatively uninformed relatives about that video game thing you’re into. Surely, grandma asked you about that new PlayStation today? Or your brother-in-law mentioned, while passing the cranberry sauce, that he’s buying an Xbox One…

A Year In, The Wii U Is Still Not a Must-Own

Slowly improving but not yet great, the Wii U is still not a must-own console. Consider this the one-year-later update to my review of a console that I thought I’d be telling you was mandatory by now. The good news for people interested in getting a Wii U—or for people who already have one—is that…

What’s Next For the Xbox One

Microsoft considered delaying some Xbox One launch games and even holding Halo 4 for their new console before committing to last week’s unusually diverse and rich day-one Xbox One line-up, the company’s head of game development told Kotaku. And now Microsoft is planning to give early adopters a lot more to play—earlier than they did…

PS4? Xbox One? He’s Getting a Wii U

Our pal Brian Barrett over at Gizmodo has sized up the Xbox One and the PS4. His decision of what new console to get? He’s going for the Wii U. Find out why. (We’ll be providing our own one-year-later take on the Wii U next week.)

Tips For Using The Xbox One

So you’ve got a new Xbox One. Now what? “Xbox, do something!” We’ve got some advice. If you have a 360 and are short a socket, consider juggling power bricks The Xbox One and the Xbox 360 don’t use the same power brick, but the cable that connects the bricks to the wall is the…

Armored Trucks Full of Xbox Ones Rolled Through New York City Today

Nintendo once delivered me a Wii in the trunk of a police car. Today, Microsoft is delivering some of Manhattan’s first Xbox Ones in armored trucks, as seen in this image spotted via Reddit user Space_Honey. See more of those trucks here and here

Ryse: Son of Rome: The Kotaku Review

Ryse: Son of Rome is what I want from a next-gen game. It’s something different. And it’s something impressive. Ryse is also a game I expected to not like very much, so let’s give it one more label: a pleasant surprise on day one for Xbox One. Seven years in the making by a collection…

How To Get Your Cable TV Surround Sound Working On Xbox One

There’s been some confusion about whether the Xbox One can play cable TV in surround sound. It can. There’s a catch—a presumably temporary one. As I wrote in the New York Times last week and as we mentioned in our review of the console, the Xbox One will downgrade any surround sound audio that comes…

Kirk Hamilton is writing his Xbox One review right now. You can read it here at midnight ET. You can read other outlets’ reviews then, too. We won’t be offended. We know you love us best.

PS4 Failure Rate Is Less Than 1%, Sony Says

Sony is expressing sympathy for customers frustrated by broken, brand-new PlayStation 4s but the company believes the problem is affecting relatively few gamers. A company rep told Kotaku this in response to our request for more information about the so-called “blue light of death.” That error refers to a condition that keeps the PS4 from…

PS4 ‘Blue Light of Death’ Has No Clear Fix Yet

A number of PlayStation 4 owners appear to have non-functional units that all suffer the same problem, a so-called blue light—or blue pulse—of death. We can’t tell how many and assume it’s a small but noteworthy minority. The problem is being cited in scathing Amazon reviews, a trickle of Twitter complaintsand a stack of videos…

Heads Up: Our Xbox One Review Will Run On Tuesday Night

It’s PS4 day, but what about the Xbox One? Don’t worry. We’ll be getting to it. We’ll have a review of Microsoft’s console live on Kotaku at 9pm PT on Tuesday, November 19 (that’s midnight on Tuesday for those of us on the east coast). The system launches on Friday, the 22nd. Sony allowed us…

Tips For Using the PS4

Getting a PS4? We have some tips to help you ensure you’re having the best possible time with it. Invest in a stand only if you’ve got a lot of commotion in your house The machine can stand up on its own without the system’s optional $15 stand. Of course, you can also just lay…