PS4’s New Share Play Feature Actually Works

Having seen PS4’s newShare Play in action, the response from a room of journalists was firstly “it actually works,” closely followed by “how are people going to abuse this?” This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The idea behind Share Play, the most prominent feature of Sony’s soon to arrive and feature-packed Firmware 2.0, is…

Indie RPG Is An Apocalyptic Sausage Fest

Lisa takes place in a bizarre, unpleasant world without women. There are grotesquely elongated spider men, writhing flesh pile people, and giant intestine walls, though. So that’s something. Luke wrote about the game, subtitled “The Painful RPG,” back when it was on Kickstarter a year ago. Since then it’s made quite a bit of progress,…

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Official Civilization LEGO Doesn’t Include Nukes (Or Pottery)

It’s not a smug Gandhi, or a Great Library, but this new project on LEGO’s Ideas platform is nevertheless an official piece of Civilization LEGO. It just needs some votes to help turn it into a real thing you can buy. Unlike most other submissions to Ideas, which come from fans, this actually comes from…

The End Of The World Doesn’t Always Have To Be Brown

Submerged is an exploration adventure from ex-BioShock devs that takes place in the technology-spattered ruins of a place that’s seen better (and less water-logged) days. If you ask me, though, it looks almost… pleasant? Don’t know about you, but I’d hang out there. I love it when a single shot/gif of a game can make…

Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To PC!

The original Valkyria Chronicles, a gorgeousstrategy/RPG for the PS3, is getting a late (but very welcome) port to the PC. Sega just confirmed it via Twitter, with more info to come. If you never played it, know that for all its flaws (it got tough), this was a strategy game with a ton of personality…

New Minecraft LEGO Kinda Misses The Point Of LEGO

While there have always been jokes about Minecraft LEGO – the toys have done much of what the game does for decades without its help, thanks – this new set takes things to a whole new level of “wha huh?”. It’s called a Minecraft Crafting Box. It’s a box full of LEGO pieces. The box…

No More Getting Half-Naked On Stream, Twitch Says

No shirt, no shoes, no service. Uber-popular game streaming service Twitch has made a slight yet impactful change to its rules of conduct. Where once it merely put a big, fluffy blanket over all naughty bits—banning “sexually explicit acts or content,” which included “nudity, stripping, or performing/discussing sexual acts”—it’s now seen fit to prohibit sexually…

​Playing a Fake Arcade Game Will Make a Weird Game Weirder

When first signs of life appeared for The Black Glove, it quickly became clear that the former BioShock devs working on the first-person game wanted it to be a bit bizarre. So, their homage to old-school arcade games won’t just be a fun, nostalgic mini-game. Those creatures are going to break through into the funky…

​A Surreal RPG That’s Too Spooky For Me

With Halloween just days away, now is a great time to get in the mood with some spooky video games. So here’s a free action RPG that harkens back to the spookiest gaming machine — The ZX Spectrum. The Midnight Station is such a strange amalgamation of ideas. In it you play as a sentient…

World’s Biggest LAN Party Kicks Out CEO

DreamHack is where some of PC gaming’s elite professional teams go to compete for millions of dollars in prize money. Now, one of the people who helped turn it into one of the world’s largest video game events has been booted from the company. Up until this weekend, Robert Ohlén was the CEO of DreamHack,…

Which Of Fantasy Life‘s Roles Did You Play First?

Level-5’s lovely little life-simulator/role-playing game, Fantasy Life, begins with players choosing one of 12 different lives to serve as their entry point into this colorful little world. Which was your first? Do you begin with a traditional RPG job, asJason Schreierdid with his Wizard, or do you start off with something more mundane? Patricia Hernandez…

Captain Falcon Is Way Better With Space Jam

Okay, yes—what isn’t better with Space Jam? Regardless, it’s rather entertaining to watch Captain Falcon spike a bunch of fools off Smash Bros. stages to that very tune. It helps, of course, that spiking is one of the most gratifying things to do in Smash Bros. games. Of course it’s a joy to watch BushBoyFalcon…

Nintendo’s Amiibo Commercial Is the Most Awkward Four Minutes Ever

Toy commercials aren’t really known for their quality, but Nintendo’s new Amiibo commercial is straight-up painful. You’re reading Numbers, a blog on Kotaku that examines games and culture through the lens of math and statistics. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @dcstarkey