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…

How The PlayStation 4 Comes Apart

Now that theiFixItfolks are finished with their live launch-day teardown of the PS4, they’ve posted a lovely video showing us how easy it is to get to the new console’s delicious innards, and the bits that might cut you. While the PlayStation 4 gets a pretty high score for repairability, there are a couple of…

The Closest Thing To A New D&D Game Is This Civilization V Mod

You might be surprised by how ambitious and detailed framedarchitecture’s Civilization V mod is. While other mods only change a few things, his attempts to fully convert the entire game to one of the largest and most famous campaign settings Dungeons & Dragons has to offer: the Forgotten Realms. You can choose from 25 civilizations,…

Here’s what’s going on in Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: We had you covered on the news that came out of Spike TV’s PS4 coverage last night, but truthtellah has a nice rundown of the entire event, 4DALULZIGUESSYOUKNOWWHATEVER has a conversation about next-gen worries, the hype machine as well as the Steam machine, and…

Why Metal Gear Solid V‘s Prologue Is Sold Separately

The first part of Metal Gear Solid V wasn’t always going to be on next-gen consoles—in fact, series creator Hideo Kojima says it could have been a PSP game. Then we might have been waiting even longer between the game’s two parts. Speaking to Kotaku through a translator at the PS4 launch event earlier this…

Five Important Things to Know About the Vita TV

Dying to own a Vita TV so you can play Vita games on your giant flat screen TV? Well, before you shell out the big bucks to import one, there are some things about the Vita TV you should probably know. 1) You Can’t Use Your Western PSN account As I booted up the Vita…