I’m Lovin’ It!

Kenn Yap is a freelance artist from Singapore who specialises in environment design. You can see more of Kenn’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the…

What It’s Like To Play Rez In A Full-Body VR Suit

You don’t have to play the newly announced Rez Infinite in VR. If you do, though, it’s certainly… something. The Rez Infinite synesthesia body suit is something of an experiment. Debuted during the PSX keynote, it’s a series of vibrators that rumble in reaction to what’s happening in the latest iteration of Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s beloved…

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…