A PlayStation Plus subscription may be required for online multiplayer on the PS4, but it won’t required when the console gets DC Universe Online and Planetside 2, both of which are free to play. DCUO’s PS4 version will also be cross compatible with the PC title.

Moneysaver One-Shot: A 4K TV For $966

Rising pixel counts, falling prices. A lot of people have written off 4K is being something for the far-flung future, both because of its price and how long it will take for content to be widely available. To counter that argument, here’s a 4K TV for $966. Dealzmodo covered it yesterday at $1080, and Gizmodo…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roll Out the Barrel

Mr. Iwata, Reggie (in particular) and Miyamoto have been great friends to the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest over its three year history, so we’re going back to them again with this pic from E3, which I’d like to think Nintendo shot just for your amusement. This one one was a mortal lock for the contest from…

Here’s a Look at One of the iPhone’s New Game Controllers

With Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren’t elegant enough for his device, it appears we’ll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech. Can’t tell you who gave it to us or where it was seen, but we can…

Sunday Comics: Smash Brothers

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published June 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published June…

Good news! Game Center CX, the great Japanese video game program, is being turned into a feature film. It’ll be out in spring 2014 in Japan.

Protesting Piracy in China with…Blow-Up Dolls

Late last week at Peking University in Beijing, China, men wearing skimpy underwear and carrying inflatable friends streaked the university’s north campus and tried to jump into Weiming Lake. Then, university security showed up. That’s when all hell broke loose. Note: This post contains content some readers might find objectionable. Campus security seized the men,…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Power of Wub: The Winners

For the first time in history, we had a three-time finalist in the latest edition of the Kotaku’ Shop Contest, which sought to make Saints Row IV‘s “Dubsteb Gun” even more ridiculous than it already is. But he wasn’t the overall winner. Who was? Menome! (above) Duck season! Wabbit season! Wub season! Fire! First, the…

Inside EA Sports, Why Madden Must Be Called ‘American Football’

Once upon a time there wasn’t much of a dispute over the word “football.” Over here, it meant cheerleaders, instant replay, and concussions. Over there, it meant relegation, riots, and flopping. Then came the Internet, and commenters stomping around in one another’s mud puddles. Football. Soccer. Handegg. Communist Kickball. Whatever you call your version or…

LEGO Figures Not as Happy as They Were 25 Years Ago, Says Research

Years ago, all LEGO minifigures had a placid, happy expression and a pointedly non-ethnic skintone that fit their role in the larger LEGO universe: They were props, the same as a tree or a fire hydrant. But as LEGO has made more movie tie-ins—and video games—its minifigs have become more brooding. Darker. Angrier. Christopher Bartneck,…

Are These Real Answers, or Fake Questions, in This Xbox One Document?

This past week a 100-question internal FAQ on the Xbox One, purportedly official communications guidance from Microsoft, landed on Pastebin. It’s not the usual laundry list of wishful thinking you get in most video game fakes. That said, there’s no way to know if this is true or total B.S. Oh, we’ve asked Microsoft. Their…

Microsoft: We Won’t Render Your Xbox One Games Unplayable Long-Term

The very first question in this r/games interview with Xbox Live director of programming Major Nelson elicits an encouraging answer, one that Microsoft should be trumpeting, not whispering. The question: After the Xbox One servers are shut down at the end of the new generation, will Xbox One games still be playable? The question is…

World of Tanks is coming free-to-play to Xbox 360 later this summer. If you want to get in on the beta preceding it, developer Wargaming.net is taking applications right now.

NBA Live‘s E3 Demo Doesn’t Sound Much Better than NBA Elite‘s

In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that’s what we saw…

Forty-Five Mods Were Needed to Bring Man of Steel to Skyrim

Melding story elements of the first four Superman films—except the one where Richard Pryor recreates Kryptonite out of cigarettes—here is Skyrim at the Movies: Man of Steel, featuring Supes, Throthgar Luthor, Terence Stamp Zod, and Nuclear Man. It’s got Eve Teschmacher, too, just not as hot as Valerie Perrine. “Oh shit, it’s Zod.” Why it…

What Will It Take to Get EA on the Wii U Again? ‘Sell More Boxes.’

The most glaring indictment of the Wii U’s poor performance to date is the fact that FIFA—one of the biggest-selling franchises worldwide, in any genre—is publishing for everything but Wii U. FIFA 14 will come out on the PSP. It will publish on the original Wii. There’ll be a version on the PS Vita, for…

This Week in the Business: ‘One of Microsoft’s Best E3 Conferences’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “One of Microsoft’s best E3 press conferences to date.”—Analyst Jesse Divnich, talking about Microsoft’s press event at E3, which has been widely panned QUOTE | “[Xbox One has] the computational power of more than 10 Xbox 360 consoles.”—Xbox One engineering manager…

Moneysaver Day One: The Last Of Us For $45 [GONE]

Don’t call it “that Ellen Page game.” Thanks to our intrepid commenters, we’ve got today’s new release, game of the year contender, and all around awesome title The Last of Us for $45, a full $15 bucks off its MSRP. You’ll be getting it through eBay, but the seller is actually Newegg, so buy with…

If The Chocobo Song Had Lyrics, They’d Be Sung In A Fake Irish Accent?

Prolific as he’s been over the past few years, video game lyricist Brentalfloss has never topped his rendition of “Crazy Duck In Space.” Now he’s finally given the Chocobo song from Final Fantasy the lyrics treatment, and he still hasn’t topped his DuckTales jam. I think it might be, quite possibly, the really odd Irish…

This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3

I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf In the video above, SoundSelf’s designer Robin Arnott shows you the ins-and-outs of his LSD-trip inspired VR game, which he was showing off at the IndieCade booth at E3. SoundSelf is…