Manifold Garden, An Incredibly Pretty Puzzle Game

Hello, my name is Nathan Grayson, and I have a broken brain. Manifold Garden broke my brain. Manifold Garden is a PS4 first-person puzzle game based on M.C. Escher’s famed piece, Relativity (it was even called Relativity before a recent re-reveal). What this means at first blush: it looks damn cool. What this means for…

In The Future, We’ll Do Bad Jobs For Fun

What’s left for humanity once robots take all our jobs? Well, in this game we simulate jobs, do them them real bad and call it “fun”. This is Job Simulator, announced over the weekend at the PlayStation Experience. Built for PlayStation VR (and the way it can use to PlayStation Move controllers to simulate “hands”),…

Hands On With Woobots, Wooden Robots In Disguise

Last week I wrote about Woobots, the wooden robotsthat transform into wooden vehicles, currently the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign. This week I play with them. I won’t waste too much time going over the basics—Woobots are a series of transforming robot toys crafted out of wood. The joints, as in most of today’s…

Cosplayers lead dramatic lives. Ratchet (of Ratchet and Clank fame) cosplayer and TAY contributor division-ten told me how she encountered the official PSX Ratchet cosplayer, and they had an intense staredown. “They waited for me to put on my mask,” she said. Evidently, though, the encounter ended peacefully.

The Week In Games: EDF! EDF!

Who has time to worry about playing video games when the city is being invaded by giant insects? I was fully-prepared to declare this one of those ho-hum December weeks packed with digital goodness but not much else, when I remembered humanity’s battle against the bugs. One of my most favorite stupid video game series…

The First Thing I Did In The World Of Warcraft Legion Alpha

Demon Hunters? Whatever. Legendary weapons that evolve with players until the next expansion? Sure. Gnome Hunters? You have my attention, World of Warcraft: Legion. I’ve never really seriously played World of Warcraft’s Hunter class. It’s odd, really. I am a solo player most of the time, and Hunters are a great solo class, but two…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: Winners! 

Last week I tasked our lovely communitywith dressing up their favorite video game images for the holidays. There are many wonderful entries besides Christmas Tree Pyramid Head, but come on—it’s Christmas Tree Pyramid Head. I celebrate Gorillanator’s winning Silent Hill entry with a song. Dashing through the hills / trying to find my missing adopted…

A Game Where You’re A Cat. Then A Shark. Then A Tentacle Monster

What Remains Of Edith Finch is an upcoming PlayStation 4 story game that seems equal parts mysterious and twisted. It made me sick to my stomach. It’s about a girl who returns to her childhood home: the ancestral house of the Finch family, many of whom die conspicuously young. Upon death, the family bolts the…

PSX’s signature wall is quite a sight. These things are becoming a convention staple, but it’s still cool to see what people put on them. Remarkable lack of dicks here. Way to show restraint, PlayStation fans!

There Are Fourteen More Games For Sale On PSN Today

In celebration of the PlayStation Experience event, today 14 more games were added to the PlayStation Network, with the promised PS2 (and one remastered PS1) classics, PC titles making their PlayStation debut and a couple all new titles. Let’s see what we’ve got. First off is the the first batch of PlayStation 2 games. I’ve…

We’re Live At The PlayStation Experience With The Last Guardian‘s Man-Eating Eagle 

Now that the PlayStation Experience keynoteis over it’s time for our man-on-the-floor Nathan Grayson to play some games, but not before a quick visit with The Last Guardian’s Trico. Trico is making an appearance at the show as part of an interactive installation where the big wet-eyed beast reacts to visitors’ hands positively, while colorful…

New PS4, PC Space Shooter Has Mode Where Your Team Invades Other People’s Matches

As announced today at the PlayStation Experience event in San Francisco, Armature Studio’s 10v10 space shooter Dead Star will actually support an experimental, Battlestar Galactica-inspired 5v10v10 mode. And the plan is that you will be able to try it today if you pre-order the game, since pre-ordering immediately gets you into the game’s PS4 beta.…

The Grand Finale For The PlayStation Experience 2015 Keynote? A MOBA. 

PS Experience didn’t end with a new God of War, didn’t end with some brand-new PS4 exclusive. Nah. It’s 2015 and so it ended with the hottest genre going: MOBAs. Specifically, a new one called Paragon coming from Epic Games in 2016 for PS and PS4. You know, Paragon, the game that formerly could have…

Ni no Kuni II Announced For PS4

Today at the PlayStation Experience, developer Level-5 announced Ni no Kuni II, a sequel to the lovely cartoon role-playing game they developed in coordination with the talented animators at Studio Ghibli. This one’s coming to PlayStation 4, and it looks phenomenal, although there’s no release date yet. The first Ni no Kuni was released in…

Destiny Is Finally Getting Sparrow Racing

Sparrow racing is coming to Destiny, a video game that still exists! The folks behind Destiny just announced the Sparrow Racing League, which will be out this Tuesday, December 8. It’ll be free for all Taken King owners and last until December 29, according to an Activision press release. This isn’t a huge surprise—sparrow racing…