They said they weren’t going to do it. People objected. They changed their mind. And now, behold: The Elder Scrolls Online has a first-person-with-hands mode. Ahhh. This game now looks like a Skryrim MMO. Add +100 to me giving a damn. I explain what the deal is in the video, which you really should watch…
For the past week or so, we’ve all been a tad confused about how Microsoft will be handling used games, online requirements and indie developers on its new Xbox One console. So many official Microsoft comments about these things! Not all of them backwards-compatible with each other. Friend-of-the-site Superannuation suggested that someone make a chart…
The BBC surely meant well in profiling Sophia George, first game designer in residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Opening the public’s minds to gaming, yes, yes. Good stuff. But… …am I the only one who was worried she was going to bump into all that nice art while walking and gaming simultaneously amid…
YouTube gaming commentator Total Biscuit does not like used games. He’s no suit defending The Man. He’s a hardcore PC gamer and man of the people. Now, he’s not right about everything (to wit: he thinks we’re “terrible”… yeah, ok). But he makes some great points about used games being no-good. Got half an hour?…
For two years, the developers at Naughty Dog managed to successfully keep one of the biggest secrets in gaming. So how is it that they almost spoiled their own surprise in front of millions of gamers? Ah, that’s a good story. (No spoilers, I promise!) What happened? “We screwed up,” Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann recently…
In the upcoming, ass-kicking video game Wolfenstein: The New Order, the Polish protagonist B. J. Blazkowicz encounters a gray-haired Nazi officer named Engel. Blazkowicz is undercover, posing as a Nazi underling. The officer compliments Blazkowicz on his Aryan features and then puts him to the test. She says she wants to be sure he has…
What do you call the box that plugs into the TV and plays games? “Game console”? Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have been changing the terms they use for their Entertainment Systems, PlayStations, and Xboxes ever so slightly, ever so purposefully, for two decades. Have a look. Let’s start with Nintendo. Kotaku researcher extraordinaire András Neltz…
This fall’s Nintendo-only Sonic game, Sonic Lost World, looks like it’ll feature 2D and 3D gameplay, similar to the other recent pretty-good Sonic games. IGN just ran the game’s first trailer, which you can see above. The trailer hypes Sonic’s new moves. I see a wall run, Prince of Persia-style. What jumps out to you?…
A report last week that the next Xbox console won’t allow independent game developers to self-publish on the Xbox One gave people yet another next-gen Xbox thing to stew about. But Microsoft’s Xbox chief says that Xbox One will have some sort of indie-friendly program. We’re not necessarily in contradiction territory here but rather in—stop…
The state of confusion around the new Xbox One console is such that we’re delighted to bring you the news that Microsoft’s next console has a power button. What’s more: its watchful new Kinect sensor that must be plugged in for the console to run can be turned off. Oh brother, big brother! Maybe this…
Is it stealing if Shinji Mikami steals from Shinji Mikami? Ponder that as you ponder the idea that Mikami, whose last Resident Evil was the last Resident Evil that was widely loved, is making a new game that will ring the bell of anyone who played Resident Evil 4 They’re calling this new one The…
The hacker who leaked information about the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation to Kotaku before either console was officially announced and who was subsequently raided by the police is now vowing to disseminate 2 Terabytes of gaming code and information, should he be arrested. SuperDaE, an Australian citizen named Dylan, first publicized this threat on our…
During a trip to Seattle last week, I spent a Sunday afternoon checking out the inside of a space shuttle cockpit. This was one of the coolest things I’ve done in a while. I took the tour at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, a Boeing-backed museum that’s just extremely cool. I mean, look, they have a…
At the start of a cocktail party that was to end an exciting, bewildering and altogether odd day at Microsoft’s Redmond campus, I approached Microsoft v.i.p. Aaron Greenberg. Hell of a debut day for the Xbox One, I told him. Some impressive stuff, some confusing stuff. Some fierce reaction online. Greenberg nodded and told me…
What Luke Plunkett wants, Luke Plunkett gets. This is what the official box for an Xbox One game looks like. You like? This is via official Xbox One hype man Major Nelson
Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One will bring console gaming to the present this year by allowing users to suspend the games they’re playing. Save points can be a thing of the past on these consoles. Games don’t really have to be turned “off”. We reported as much about the Xbox One a…
Skiing great Jonny Moseley types his Tweets one letter at a time, just like the rest of us. And here he is chiming in on an exchange betweenKotaku gossip Superannuation, Giant Bomb‘s Ryan Davis and me. This, folks, is what Twitter was made for. Just no one tell Jonny that Ryan Davis reviewed Jonny’s PS2…
Here’s the first big-budget big game surprise of the E3 season: Dying Light, a first-person free-running zombie survival game from Techland, the makers of Dead Island, slated for current and next-gen consoles (and PC) for 2014. Think: Mirror’s Edge with the undead. The game was featured last week at a special pre-E3 showcase for select…
Microsoft is taking steps to elevate the reputation of its popular but notorious online service, Xbox Live, for its third console, this fall’s Xbox One. If they pull this off, the more positive gamers of the world might enjoy their online gaming sessions a little more. A chief change involves a new, improved reputation system…
The Xbox One controller looks a lot like the Xbox 360 controller, but the new pad actually sports some subtle but relevant differences. Let’s take a video tour, shall we? The video above shows you the goods and also includes an attempt at a joke by me. Very regrettable, sorry. But…details! For those of you…
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