Welcome to The Best of Kotaku, where Tina usually rounds up our best reporting, funniest stories, and otherwise favorite Kotaku content of the week. But Tina’s on vacation! Never fear. I’m the one collecting these gems. I dare say it was a good week. A wild one, to boot. (The art up top is from…
Project Awakened is supposed to be a big open-world action game that lets you play as any super-hero you could dream up. But it’s $300,000 short of its Kickstarter goal with just five days to go. That’s probably why we now get to see a glimpse of what the next-gen Unreal Engine 4 could do…
It’s not unusual for a newly-revealed video game to disappear for eight months. It’s not weird to be amazed by a game and then neither see nor hear anything about it for a while. The silence around Star Wars 1313, LucasArts’ seemingly next-gen game that wowed onlookers at last June’s E3 show, is nevertheless unusual.…
The worst-kept secret in gaming is no longer “secret,” as Ubisoft has revealed the cover art for the next Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The game stars a new pirate assassin and turns its focus to the Caribbean, mixing open-ended ship-based exploration and combat with land-based adventures on a number of Caribbean islands.…
The new trailer for next month’s new Tomb Raider takes an interesting turn: we’ve got men and women of various ages and ethnicities all saying that they’re Lara Croft. We at Kotaku knock game companies when they push a game in a less than classy way. Might as well praise them when they do something…
EA will shut down its free-to-play online Warhammer game Wrath of Heroes in March. Sad. They’re giving out virtual pies
Sit back and watch two decades of video game graphics flash before your eyes. YouTube user drloser333 has uploaded a video from French site NoFrag that unfurls the graphics of more than a dozen first-person shooters, from 1992’s Wolfenstein 3 to 2011’s Battlefield 3 Did the FPS get better-looking? They have at least become way…
Those of us who got Wii U systems last November were supposed to reach an oasis today in our crawl through the machine’s oh-so-typical year-one software desert. We were supposed to be playing the sidescroller Rayman: Legends right now. We’re not. The game was recently, painfully delayed to the fall. If it reduces the sting…
I appeared on this week’s episode of Game Trailers TV with host Geoff Keighley and former Kotaku Editor-in-Chief and current Polygon news boss Brian Crecente. You’re not going to see any of us attacking violent video games, but I think you might enjoy seeing and hearing some level-headed discussion about the topic. Take a look…
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot likes the PlayStation 4. Otherwise he wouldn’t have showed up at Sony’s big PlayStation 4 event last week, right? He likes the PS4 in part because it’s, well, a little less like a console and a little more like some of those other machines you might play games on: the computer…
Vince Zampella, one of the studio heads of Respawn Entertainment, says his team will “be” at E3 this year, presumably showing off whatever kind of game you make next after you make Call of Duty the biggest thing going. We scoff at most announcements of announcements, but this is a special one. After all, one…
Zynga is shutting down its Baltimore (Frontierville) studio and “consolidating” Texas and New York studios. [Zynga blog]
The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn’t sound Australian. I couldn’t detect an accent. SuperDaE told me back then, during our first long-distance call from New York to wherever he was Down Under, that he got that a lot. He swore to…
One of the biggest surprises of Sony’s Wednesday evening press conference was the appearance of Braid lead designer Jonathan Blow. The outspoken indie game creator revealed this his team’s next game, The Witness, would make its console debut on the PS4. That’s led to some confusion that the enchanting puzzle game might only come out…
I went to Sony’s over-hyped 2006 press conference and they showed the world a version of the PlayStation 3 that we never quite got. And so last night, I went to Sony’s 2013 PlayStation 4 press conference wondering what new ways they’d planned to trick me. You go to one of these big showcase events…
New early-March $15 single-player DLC for Mass Effect 3 brings back characters from the first two games, BioWare blogs
You have (probably) not held a PS4 controller yet. Neither have I. But Shuhei Yoshida has. He’s the head of Sony’s worldwide studios, so he better have! Yesterday, I had to rely on him to tell me what the controller feels like. Sony, you see, wasn’t letting reporters touch the new PS4 controller—the DualShock 4.…
Stemming fears of the always-online requirement still rumored strongly for the next Xbox, a Sony PR rep confirmed to Kotaku that: “PS4 games will be playable without an Internet connection.” I’m still hearing from at least one very good source who hasn’t failed me yet that the next Xbox, codenamed Durango, will require an online…
The PBS NewsHour doesn’t chop news into soundbites and doesn’t mistake banter or squabbling for good television journalism. They actually do TV reporting the way you might hope it would be done. When the NewsHour invited me to head down to their Washington, D.C.-area studios a few Fridays ago to talk to them about violent…
We were on CNN this morning, talking PS4 and which threats Sony needs to fend off. Watch and enjoy
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