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Because Animal Crossing Wasn’t Monstrous Enough, It Seems

Animal Crossing may be a town of horrors, but they are veiled horrors, visible only to those who already know the pain of things like a mortgage. 24 Killers, on the other hand, wears its horrors on its chest. The work of developer Todd Luke, he describes it as “a weird monster life sim with…

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How To Make Old Games Feel New Again

As a young lad my gaming library was pretty limited, so I needed to find ways to make those games last. You can only play a game so many times before you’ve explored every nook and cranny of it, and once that happened it was time to get creative. (Top photo courtesy of Retro Game…

Online Attacks Cripple Sony’s PSN, League Of Legends, Blizzard Games

Three of the biggest gaming services on the planet have been down for parts of the weekend, with DDoS attacks hitting the servers of the PlayStation Network, Riot’s League of Legends and Blizzard’s Battle.net (affecting titles such as World of Warcraft and Hearthstone). A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is when bots are used to flood…

Sunday Comics: Ice Ice Baby

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. Mike Fahey might be away this weekend, but I couldn’t leave you hanging. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published…

Sony Online President’s Flight Diverted After Hacker Bomb Threat

American Airlines has diverted a flight carrying the president of Sony Online Entertainment following what may have been a bomb threat by a group of alleged hackers—the same group that has claimed responsibility for a series of outages across the PlayStation Network and other gaming services this weekend. The FBI is currently investigating the incident,…

Dr. Who As A Japanese Dating Sim Is As Silly As It Sounds

Or, to give it its full title: Romantic Time Traveller Boyfriend XD Plus. Move over Hatoful Boyfriend, you’ve got some competition in the ‘what the hell did I just see’ dating sim market. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK. Thanks to Youtuber #mashed for the video. Shame it’s not a real game. I’d actually…

Sega announced this morning in Japan that Yakuza Zero is the next title the Yakuza series, and it’s in development for PlayStation 3 and 4. There’s not much more info outside of a teaser website, but Sony promises to reveal more details at the Tokyo Game Show in September.

How To Make Your PS4 Load Times Just 10 Seconds Faster

If you’re upgrading your PlayStation 4 with a new hard drive, you’re likely deciding between a larger regular drive and a faster but smaller SSD. Digital Foundry has a side-by-side comparison of the load time performances between several different hard drive models, and the speed difference is substantial. The 240GB SSD regularly handled loading times…