Hotline Miami is coming to the PS4 on August 19th, Sony just announced If playing this excellent hyperviolent indie game on the new console isn’t enough good news, Sony also promised will feel even more violent than ever before thanks to some newfangled DualShock 4 features: Gamers can now use DualShock 4′s touch pad to…

Elgato’s New Video Capture Box Does 1080p At 60 Frames Per Second

Elgato’s Game Capture HD is one of the most widely-used game video capture devices on the market — it’s what many of us here at Kotaku used to grab gameplay footage. Today Elgato introduces it’s next-generation capture device — the Game Capture HD60, capable of recording 1080p at 60 frames per second. Launching August 15…

EA Access Is Now Live On The Xbox One

That didn’t take long! Electronic Arts just said its newly-announced subscription service EA Accessis officially live on the Xbox One. That means all gamers who own Microsoft’s current-gen console can download the app through the app store and start using it today for $4.99 or a full-year subscription for $30. For a more thorough breakdown…

Deals: Charge the DualShocks, Triple the Mass Effect, Visit South Park

We’ve got several stellar PC game deals for you today, from Mass Effect to Civilization. Titanfall ($34) | Amazon Sid Meier’s Civilization V: The Complete Edition ($10) | GreenMan | Use code O7CNAE-Z1Y29P-QZAJ1I South Park: The Stick of Truth ($27) | Gamestop Mass Effect Trilogy ($15) | Origin Max Payne Triple Pack ($7) | Newegg…

One Thing That’ll Be Different In Dead Island 2? Freeze Rays.

You know how they say that there’s more than one way to skin a cat? Well, there’s more than one way to kill a zombie, too. In case you thought you’d run out of new ways to lay the living dead to rest, Dead Island 2 is here with a new gameplay trailer to try…

Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd will arrive in North America on November 18, with the rest of the world joining the party November 21. Preordering from GameStop will score players an Americana Module for Miku, as well as an extra character pack featuring Akita Neru, Yowane Haku, and Kasane Teto. Owners of the first…

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Thirteen-Year-Old MMO Gets Its First Expansion Pack

Since its launch way back in 2001, browser-based massively-multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape has received a steady stream of updates, but never anything as ambitious as its first expansion pack, Lost City of the Elves. So expansive it’s being released in three parts, the Lost City of the Elves expansion begins today with the epic…

Kickstarter Ended 20 Years of Rejection for Wasteland 2

There’s been plenty of gloom cast over Kickstarter recently, so let’s focus on the good things: like how crowdfunding ended Brian Fargo’s 20 year run of Wasteland 2 rejection. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You have to admire a man who spends two decades trying to make a game happen without giving up.…