E3 Comic #5: There’s No Escaping Reality

Even at a show like E3 which is an escape from much of the rest of the world, a person’s anxieties about real world tragedy can seep in. Elizabeth Simins is an artist & illustrator living in New York. She makes comics primarily about games, but also sometimes about other things. Follow her @elizsimins for…

Eight Hours’ Worth Of F-Bombs On Reddit, Visualized

Shocking as this might be to hear: people swear a lot on the internet. I mean, a lot. I don’t even know how many “fucks” I’ve typed into the ether over the past few days with all this E3 craziness happening. And I’m not even a Redditor! Speaking of that massive teeming cesspool of all…

Bloodborne is So Much Like a Souls Game, It’s Spooky

You should have seen me during the Bloodborne announcement at Sony’s presser. I lost all of my British decorum and let out an involuntary whoop. But the trailer left me wondering what the game actually was – it had all the gloom and gore of a Souls trailer, but we saw no gameplay. Turns out…

Ubisoft Responds to Assassin’s Creed Female Character Controversy

News that Ubisoft scuttled plans for including female playable characters in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity was met by scorn and derision by many video game commentators last night. Now, Kotaku has an official statement from Ubisoft on the controversy. The reasoning behind the decision—that it would’ve been too expensive to animate female character models—felt…

​Want to Print Money, Nintendo? Make a Super Smash Bros. Anime.

The most exciting part of yesterday’s Nintendo E3 presentations? Not the Reggie vs. Iwata live-action fight, nor the Palutena or Pac-Man reveals. It was the super-cool anime-styled cartoon near the end of the broadcast. Everyone watching it probably thought the same thing at the same time: “Why doesn’t this thing actually exist?” The cartoon clip…

Sony: GTA V Will Have Some Sort Of Special Perk For PS4 Owners

This is going to be vague, but it’s too intriguing not to share. During my interview with PlayStation’s North American marketing v.p., John Koller, we were talking about exclusive perks for PlayStation 4 owners for multi-platform games and we got to the topic of GTA V We’d just discussed how Activision and Bungie’s Destiny game,…

Deals: PSN Best of E3 Sale, Persona Q, Layton vs. Wright, Mario Kart 8

Seriously, if you want the Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: The Wild Cards Premium Edition, get it now. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s gone before the end of the day. Amazon doesn’t charge you until it ships, so just get your copy locked in. [Persona Q] Want the rest of those cards? Here’s the…

Sony Unveils The Assembly, A Mysterious Virtual Reality Adventure

Sony just revealed a new game for the PS4 and its nifty virtual headset Project Morpheus. It’s called The Assembly, and it looks pretty scary. Writing in a post on the PlayStation blog, The Assembly developer Patrick O’Luanaigh described it as “a mysterious VR adventure game that we have designed for VR from day one.”…

Your Mother 3 Non-Update Of E3 2014 (Sorry!)

Kotaku to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime on Tuesday: You guys did make a joke about Star Fox in the [Nintendo digital event] and then Miyamoto showed up with a Star Fox game… Fils-Aime: Don’t go there! Kotaku: So… Fils-Aime: Don’t go there! Kotaku: You did make a joke about it. [laughs] Fils-Aime: Where…

Pleasant E3 Surprise: A Game Called White Night

You might think you know what you’ll see in a big E3 booth like Microsoft’s: some Forza, some Fable, some shooters, some indies, but there still always some surprises. Case in point: White Night. Black-and-white, Hitchcock-esque, and very cool. Where did this thing come from??? We don’t have a lot of detail on the game…

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