Coming next year to the PS4 from Sony in-house studio PixelOpus, Concrete Genie is a game about a bullied teen named Ash who uses magical paint to bring his abandoned home town back to life. It’s quite lovely.

The People Behind Infamous Are Making A Samurai Game

Sucker Punch, the studio behind Infamous and Sly Cooper, has announced a new game. Ghost Of Tsushima, coming to the Playstation 4 focuses on feudal samurai. It has been three years since Sucker Punch’s previous game, the Playstation 4 title Infamous Second Son. A self dubbed “action, stealth adventure game,” Ghost Of Tsushima will feature…

Spelunky 2 Announced

Hope you’re ready for some more adventuring, because Mossmouth just announced Spelunky 2 for the PS4. The first Spelunky, as many of you know, was a beloved indie platformer with randomly generated levels and many, many secrets. This time around, one of the available characters will actually be the kid of the protagonist from the…

Watch The Big PlayStation Press Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Today at 11am ET, Sony is holding a press conference from Paris Games Week that the folks behind PlayStation say will include “seven all-new game announcements for PS4 and PS VR.” Sony will also be showing new stuff from the company’s slate of games for 2018 and beyond. UPDATE (12:45pm): And it’s over. From Sucker…

The Week In Games: Back To The Trenches 

Call of Duty gets the week (nearly) all to itself. Like clockwork the month of duty calls again, this time ditching space for the safe, familiar confines of the last Great War. As much as I liked John Snow, it’ll be a relief to see the competitive Call of Duty circuit finally get to swap…

Last Year’s Nintendo Halloween Costume Gets A Logical Follow Up

In 2016, the dad from YouTube channel RuiRei Channel created a Famicom console costume to wear with his twin sons. This year, they’re back with the totally logical follow up: a Super Famicom costume. Like last year, the family designed and built the costume, which was dubbed “Super Fami Oyako” (スーファミ親子) or “Super Fami Parent…

Attack On Titan Season 3 Airing In Summer 2018

Over the weekend, the Attack on Titan anime’s third season was announced. It begins broadcasting in Japan starting July 2018. Studio Wit will once again be handling the animation duties. Hopefully season three won’t be delayed like season two was! The English language (subbed or dubbed) isn’t yet confirmed, but it should be broadcasted simultaneously…

Total Nintendo Switch Sales Might Surpass The Wii U’s By Next April [Update]

As of September 30, Nintendo has sold 13.56 million Wii U consoles worldwide since it was released in 2012. By next April, the Kyoto-based game company is forecasting that it will have sold 14 million Switches. The Nintendo Switch launched on March 3 of this year, so by April 2018, the hardware will have been…

Hayao Miyazaki Announced The Title Of His Last Film 

This weekend, Hayao Miyazaki revealed that the title of his last film will be Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka (“How do you live?”). The title is from a book by the same name written by Genzaburo Yoshino (1899-1981), who started writing children’s books during the 1930s because he realized the Imperial government was not heavily…

The Women Of The Wild West

Lulu Zhang is a concept artist a Creative Assembly, the developers behind games like Total War: Warhammer and Alien Isolation You can see more of Lulu’s work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the…

GameStop Offering Unlimited 6-Month Access To Preowned Games

GameStop is introducing a new thing called PowerPass, which is a program that lets you pay $60 then, for six months, play as many pre-owned games as you want. PowerPass lets you choose a game from GameStop’s preowned library, take it home then swap it for something else when you’re done. There’s no limit on…

Gay Players Are Coming Out In A Major Sports Video Game

This year’s edition of Football Manager, one of the biggest sports game series on the planet, is going to allow its virtual players to come out. If you’re unfamiliar with the series, it’s a management/spreadsheet game that puts the player in control of a football club, letting them run everything from game tactics to merchandise…

Russian Dota Team Finally Gets The Major They’ve Been Working Towards

The 2017 season was a heartbreaking one for Virtus.Pro. They took home solid tournament wins, but when it came to the majors, VP always came up just short of the mark. After this weekend in Hamburg, the CIS team can feel a little vindicated by opening their 2018 campaign with a statement: Things won’t be…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Trick Or Treat

Some Halloween costumes are better disguises than others. In the spirit of the holiday and of not forgoing another ‘Shop Contest, this week’s prompt will be to take your favorite video game characters, past or present, and dress them up like different ones. Maybe that’s Cloud Strife bobbing for apples as a Witcher, or Zelda…