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Deals: Project Cars, New Xbox Ones, Zero Day Advanced Warfare, Xillia

Project Cars continues to look amazing , and it’s also 20% off today with your preorder. [Project Cars] There are a lot of preorders in today’s deals, which makes given that we’re starting to see the holiday season in the distance. If you’d like to know more about what we think about preorders, read this…

​Finally, A Groot Toy That Can Boogie (Spoilers Ahead)

If you haven’t seen Guardians of the Galaxy and hate spoilers, turn back now. TURN BACK. You’re in spoiler town! Sometimes if you want a toy badly enough, you gotta make it yourself. That’s what Patrick Delahanty did — taking a “Movin’ & Groovin'” flower, hacking it apart and turning it into Groot’s dancing baby…

King’s Quest Is Coming Back

Now that it’s officially come back from the dead, Sierra is bringing some of its classic PC games along with it. Activision said in a press release today that its recently-revived subsidiary is working on a new installment in the renowned adventure game series King’s Quest Fans of the genre have a lot to be…

Journey‘s coming to the PS4 later this year, along with cult PS3 fave The Unfinished Swan, according to a post on the official PlayStation blog. A line in the YouTube video’s description mentions cross-buy: “Get more for your money with Cross-Buy – purchase this game for PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 and get the other…

Turns Out Even Our Brains Have Lag

Did you really press that button in time, or did your brain just think you did? Chances are your brain just thinks so and it’s just too stubborn to believe otherwise. Anthony Carboni, ex-Revision 3/ex-Discovery News host and current friend of Kotaku and yours truly, explains what it is about our brains that makes them…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited: The TAY Review • Dungeoncrawling – Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land • Shiki: Ani-TAY Retroish Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Watch The New Call of Duty Blow Up A Bridge

Most of the Call of Duty news since Advanced Warfare was first announced has focused on the multiplayer. That’s understandable. But it also means that one of the shooter franchise’s other important assets hasn’t had a chance to shine through: its unique ability to make blow up iconic pieces of architecture. Cue giant bridge explosion:…

Goat Simulator, Super Hot and lots of other indie games got a quick spotlight during the Xbox One press event at Gamescom today. Me, I can’t wait for Cuphead. What looks good to you, dear readers?

Microsoft Announces The ‘Halo Channel’

Microsoft just announced that it’s making a special channel for all things Halo related for the Xbox One. It’s known simply as “The Halo Channel,” and looks like it will have lots of stuff to make fans of the shooter happy. Microsoft described it as an “interactive digital network that provides unprecedented, personalized access to…

Come, check out the murderous robots of Sunset Overdrive’s Gamescom gameplay trailer. The game lands on Xbox One on October 28. Until then, enjoy “absent minded scientist” Floyd’s narration of the carnage.

Dark Souls veteran Vaati continues to amaze with his and detailed theories about the Souls games and their backstory. His latest one might be spoilerish if you haven’t finished Dark Souls II and its first DLC, but this might be the best source to speculate about the ending and what we’ll see in the two…

If you’ve been holding out for a white Xbox One, then you’ll be able to get one this fall. Just announced at Gamescom, a Sunset Overdrive bundle will be the first chance the general public gets to own a frosty version of Microsoft’s newest home console.

​Hohokum: The Kotaku Review

Hohokum is almost definitely the strangest video game I’ve ever played in my life. I swear I can hear the new game giggle at my attempt to describe it or pin it down. I’m going to try, because you should know what you’re getting into. And, yes, Hohokum is very much a thing you should…

ScreamRide Announced For Xbox

New Rollercoaster Tycoon? Nope: this is ScreamRide, a newly-announced Rollercoaster Tycoon-like-game for Xbox One and 360, shown off at Microsoft’s Gamescom conference in Germany today. This one will be out in the spring, Microsoft says. “Make all your screams come true” is a pretty solid tagline.