Hyper Light Drifter Is the Latest Stylish Indie Heading to PS4 and Vita

It’s getting so that you can’t keep track of them all. Fez, Galak-Z, Pavilion… those are just a few of the buzzed-about games (or proven successes in the case of Fez) that are announced as coming to PlayStation platforms over the few months. Now, Hyper Light Drifter—the sharp-looking action RPG being made by Heart Machine—joins…

Sony 7.1 Headset, PC Pre-Orders, PSN Update For Real This Time [Deals]

The Sony 7.1 Wireless Headset was a surprise top 5 contender in our Best Gaming Headset vote, and today you can grab a refurb. model for just $50- an easy impulse price point. And yes, it does work with the Playstation 4. [Groupon] Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition [PS3] | Back in stock Dark Knight…

Bravely Default‘s Success Is Good News For JRPG Fans

Nintendo announced last night that Bravely Default, the excellent role-playing game released last month for 3DS, sold over 200,000 copies in three weeks in the United States. Sales numbers can sometimes be misleading or difficult to properly contextualize, and while that’d be peanuts for an AAA console game, it’s a great number for a handheld…

In a look back on Elder Scrolls Online’s beta, Zenimax Online Studios writes about how player feedback helped them address issues related to combat and early progression, and properly prepare for the game’s April 4 launch by setting up overflow servers. Have a look at the blog post to see all the changes.

You Can Change This Free Game If You’re The First To Beat It

Aran Koning has participated in several game jams, and apparently he enjoys them so much that he came up with an idea that amounts to a new game jam every day, at the whim of the internet. The initial version of the game was just a red dot that you had to move to the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Theories and Speculation On A Nintendo/Apple Collaboration • Games Are More Than Entertainment • Out There: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Leaked Images Show What Could Be Amazon’s Video Game Controller

The rumors about Amazon’s entry into the game console/set-top box gained a ton of credibility this morning, as shots of a gamepad bearing the online giant’s logo hit the web. Seen on The Verge, the images come from Anatel, a regulatory division of the Brazilian government analogous to the FCC in the U.S. With a…

Final Fantasy XIV’s 2.2 update is upon us. The changes are outlined in this eight-minute video, but the gist is this: new dungeons, new quests, a raid that’s supposed to be hard (the hardest the game has ever seen), and a way to swap armor stats that looks similar to Guild Wars 2’s transmutation system.…

​New Crazy Taxi Game Doesn’t Seem Nearly Crazy Enough

Sega’s just announced a new Crazy Taxi game. For mobile. Now what do you think that’s going to look like? If you guessed something that looks a whole lot like an infinite runner, then congratulations. This ride’s on us. Crazy Taxi: City Rush will be hitting the App Store and Google Play later this year…

Awkward: Nintendo Video Family Forgets Wii U Games

Sometimes using real people in your advertisements makes things more real. Sometimes, it makes things more awkward. The following is a video from Nintendo on how a regular family makes use of their Wii U. Say hello to the Kato family from Chiba. For them, the Wii U is about more than just playing video…

What Avatar Should Have Looked Like

We’ve come a long way since the realistic dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Here’s YouTuber (and talented 3D artist) Really3D, with a slightly modified, cost-efficient version of the computer graphics from Avatar Avatar, Performance Capture Reinvented [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]