Sony Says They Won’t Charge Customers For PS4 Patches [UPDATE]

Sony says they won’t ask users to pay for patches on the PlayStation 4 Pro, despite some vague comments made by an executive this morning. “We will not charge consumers for patches,” a Sony representative said in an e-mail to Kotaku today. UPDATE – 12:22pm: We’ve changed the headline and opening of this story following…

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Redout Could Be The New King Of Anti-Gravity Racing

Anti-gravity racing is a genre that doesn’t get love nearly as often as Wipeout and F-Zero fans would like. Developer 34BigThings smothers the genre with affection with Redout. Redout is a low-poly anti-gravity racer that recently launched on Steam to rave user reviews. It’s a tribute to the anti-gravity classics, combining elements of those games…

Battlefield 1 Player Misses Shot, Then Doesn’t

Today on Highlight Reel we have tons of Battlefield clips, lethal non-leathal take downs, flaming zombies, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Rainbow…

Crunchyroll And Funimation Join Forces To Bring More Anime To Everyone

Today, anime streaming services Crunchyroll and Funimation announced their new title-sharing partnership. Crunchyroll, whose service focuses on subtitled anime, will now offer titles from Funimation’s summer simulcast. D. Dray-man Hallow, First Love Monster and Puzzle & Dragons X will be available to Crunchyroll viewers. Amazingly, Cowboy Bebop, PSYCHO-PASS and Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash will…

NHL 17 Now Playable On EA Access, Feels A Lot Like NHL 16

Sometimes the annual installment of a sports game feels like a brand new experience, sometimes it feels like same thing, different year. NHL 17, available for play now on EA Access ahead of next week’s release, is definitely the latter. My kids really took to NHL 16 last year, so while I am not a…

Bizarre PS4 Game The Tomorrow Children Makes Hard Labor Fun

The Tomorrow Children is an odd exploration and social game that’s out now on the Playstation 4. Taking the role of a citizen laboring in the dangerous Void, it’s cute but brutal. Luckily, I’m here to deal with all the toil and monsters. The biggest thing about The Tomorrow Children is that it is a…

Esports Team Caught In Controversy Over Undelivered Game [UPDATE]

Celebrity esports team FaZe Clan is taking heat for co-producing a video game that, over a year after its targeted launch date, remains unreleased. Backers donated nearly $20,000 to first-person shooter Starnet Eclipse, which critics are now calling a scam, an allegation FaZe Clan denies. In January of 2015, FaZe Clan announced they were co-producing…

Podcast: Our Gut Reactions To The PS4 Pro

Did Kirk and I think the PS4 Pro was impressive or underwhelming? Find out on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen. Or right here. Underwhelming. The answer is underwhelming. On this week’s show we talk about our gut reactions to Sony’s low-energy reveal event. We also talk about yesterday’s biggest news drop: Nintendo making a Mario game for…

The One Star Trek Game Every Star Trek Fan Should Play

On September 8, Star Trek turned 45 years old. Happy Birthday, Star Trek! Even though I hate you and your cheap-ass sets and lame vision of the future and hammy plots and silly aliens and… Originally published 9/9/2011. Ahem. Anyway. THAT SAID, even I can find room to love a Star Trek game. Not like…

I Am Very Excited To Play Torment: Tides of Numenera

Torment: Tides of Numenera, the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment that’s being developed by a crazy-talented roster of designers (Colin McComb, Chris Avellone, George Ziets, etc.), is looking wonderful so far. New trailer above. The sci-fi-ish RPG, which will be out early next year for PC and consoles, is ramping up the weirdness in an…

Garden Warfare 2 Has So Much Fun With Its Free Updates

The steady stream of free content for Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 continues today with the release of Trials of Gnomus. It’s got a heavy Gnome theme, a Cats Vs. Dinos game mode and a mysterious, well-dressed vendor named Rux the Deal Breaker. Fun! It continues to amaze me how much work Popcap puts…

The PS4 Pro Will Help Launch A New, More Complicated Era Of Console Gaming

Sony’s new, more powerful $399 console, the PS4 Pro, has been designed to improve the graphics of new and old PS4 games. But conversations with developers at the PS4 Pro’s reveal event in New York City on Wednesday made it clear that it will also make console gaming more complex, introducing greater variation in a…