One California City is the Scene of the First Two PS4 Robberies

The PlayStation 4 officially launched at midnight Thursday, U.S. Eastern time. Three hours later, it was officially robbed for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the dawn of a new era in console crime! Not only that, happy PS4 customers were robbed on launch night twice in the same city: Bakersfield, Calif. the…

How Long Can a PS4 Last in a Microwave Before Bursting Into Flames?

Here we go again. Kenny Irwin is a self-styled “professional microwaver,” who has melted down, let’s see, a Nintendo 2DS, a Wii U, a 3DS, and an Xbox 360. Think he’ll take on the PlayStation 4? Of course he will. For art! He’s very careful to say this is a “non working” PlayStation 4 but…

When do we call the current console generation the last generation, and the next generation the current generation? Day one of the first console? Once all consoles have launched? After all games of their launch window? A year? Let’s talk this over.

This Week in the Business: Wii Aren’t the 99 Percent

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … STAT | 1%—Amount of more than 5,000 gamers surveyed by Intergi Entertainment planning to buy a Wii U soon; this compares to 58% who said they were planning to get a PS4, and 39% who are planning on an Xbox One QUOTE |…

Look, Trion Worlds Is Doing The Whole Voxel Thing Now

Pixels were great, but they were so two dimensional. Polygons were really cool, but now that developers have to license them directly from the gaming website (they do not), everybody’s moving to voxels. Even Rift and Defiance developer Trion Worlds is doing it, with free-to-play online adventure RPG Trove While the rest of Trion was…

Killer Mobile Games Don’t Need No Shiny New Console

Who needs to spend several hundred dollars on a console when we’ve already spent several hundred on the latest tablet or smark phone, right? Hey, at least the games are cheap, and this week sees the release of some damn fine games. Better than the PS4 launch lineup? I’ll leave that up to you folks…

Antonio Banderas Hijacks The PS4 Launch With Glorious GIFs

The hype train pulled into the station one more time last night during Spike TV’s PS4 coverage. And, of course, during these exciting days of next-gen console launches the members of the online forum NeoGAF joined in by posting GIFs. Antonio Banderas GIFs, to be precise. Why exactly him? He had nothing to do with…

DC Universe Online Isn’t Like Other PS4 Launch Titles

DC Universe Online is not a PlayStation 4 original. It’s not a recently-released big budget third-party title. It’s not an indie darling. It’s a nearly three-year-old, free-to-play, massively multiplayer online role-playing game — a different sort launch title, with a different set of issues. First off, let me say how excited I am to finally…

Battle Myths: check out the latest episode of Battlefield 4 mythbusters by DefendTheHouse, where they find that not only can you ride the top of a helicopter without getting hurt, but enemy medkits can in fact heal you. Now someone go out there and make a ridiculous top of the helicopter montage!

A Game Where A Camera, Not A Gun, Is Your Greatest Weapon

You could use a camera to take pictures in the real world. Or, you could use a camera to help you navigate horrible nightmares. Well, okay, you can only do the latter if you happen to be playing Lumen, a cool looking student project from Thousand Cranes Studio. Lumen is a puzzle platformer where you…

EA Says Post Blaming PS4 Update For ‘Stability Issues’ Was An Error

UPDATE (4:01pm) – This afternoon, EA put up a blog post blaming the PS4’s day-one firmware update for “stability issues” affecting games on the new console. Now they’re saying that was a mistake. “The message on EA’s Help site was posted in error,” an EA representative said in an e-mail to Kotaku. “Players with questions…

No Random Encounters today, but feel free to hang out and talk about JRPGs right here. What sort of JRPGs do you want to see on the PlayStation 4?

Heads Up: Our Xbox One Review Will Run On Tuesday Night

It’s PS4 day, but what about the Xbox One? Don’t worry. We’ll be getting to it. We’ll have a review of Microsoft’s console live on Kotaku at 9pm PT on Tuesday, November 19 (that’s midnight on Tuesday for those of us on the east coast). The system launches on Friday, the 22nd. Sony allowed us…

PS4 In Stock, Shadow Fall $45, 4KTV, PS4 Game Deals, Zelda [Deals]

Update: PS4 Bundles (Battlefield 4, Knack, Killzone) in stock on Amazon. Headlining today’s selection of Playstation 4 discounts is Killzone: Shadow Fall marked down to $45 on its release day. Beyond that we’ve got a selection of PS4 games and gear that come bundled with a $10 gift card to Newegg, including the DualShock 4.…

Cheating In Pokémon Is Complicated. It May Also Be On Its Way Out.

Back when news broke that Pokemon X & Y had been hacked,there was an immediate panic about how that would affect players. Would hacked Pokemon start circulating in trades? Would people get sucked into battles with hacked Pokemon that were impossible to beat with normal Pokemon? While being able to generate Pokemon through external means—we’re…