Driveclub Is Your First PS4 Racing Game [Now With Video]

Evolution Studios are working on a racing game for the PS4 called Driveclub. With a big emphasis on team-based gameplay, and featuring real car licenses. Races can be set up on a mobile phone, invitations sent out for a major event, and events can accommodate small groups of friends or thousands of competitors from all…

Killzone: Shadow Fall Announced For PS4 [Now With HD Video]

It shouldn’t be too big a surprise, seeing as a Killzone game helped sell the last PlayStation console launch, but in case you didn’t see it coming, Guerilla Games revealed a new Killzone game today for the PlayStation 4. It’s called Killzone: Shadow Fall. There’s a gameplay demonstration above, while the game’s official trailer is…

You Can Play PS4 Games On Your Vita With ‘Remote Play’

Gaikai’s Dave Perry took the stage to announce a bunch of new “social” features for the PS4 today: including Ustream/Facebook support, streaming capabilities, and and “remote play,” which allows you to play PS4 games on your Vita. “Our vision is to create the first gaming social network with meaning,” he said. Perry said the long-term…

Here’s Unreal Engine 4 Running On The PlayStation 4

At the PS4 event in New York, Sony showed off the Unreal Engine 4 running on the PS4, as well as the new Havok physics engine. Real time, millions of particles, and state of the art hardware. Have a look.

The PlayStation 4 Can Share Video, Includes Facebook Integration (Plus, Here’s The New Dashboard)

It had been speculated for a little while, but Sony just made it official: a big part of the PlayStation 4 will be a “share” button, that plays a big part not just on the dash and in your games, but in the way your friends lists are managed as well. Your friends list can…

Knack Is The First Announced PlayStation 4 Game. Here’s Some Footage.

Today, in an event held in New York City, Sony revealed that the next PlayStation—the PlayStation 4—has a new franchise. It’s called Knack. Check out what it looks like above. The game features a little robot dude. Watch footage above. You will be able to access remote play on Knack via the PlayStation Vita, similarly…

Here’s Sony’s New PS4 Controller, The DualShock 4

Here’s your first look at Sony’s new controller for the PlayStation 4. It’s got a touchpad, motion control and a “light bar” for identification. There’s also a “share” button, and the light bar, as well as being used to identify players with colour coding, is also the means via which a new PlayStation camera can…

Sony Announces The PlayStation 4, Coming This Holiday Season

After months and years of rumors, the PlayStation 4 has finally been revealed. It’ll be out this holiday season. Sony announced the new machine at a two-hour presentation in New York City, during which the Japanese hardware maker showed off a whole bunch of gorgeous games and sizzling demos for the next PlayStation—their first home…

Sony’s Revealing Its Big Plans Tonight. How Do You Feel?

Sony’s news conference this evening in New York is widely believed to be the unveiling of its next PlayStation console. Two weeks of anticipation preceding tonight’s event have given it the air of an election night. In that spirit, I’d like to take the temperature of video gaming’s electorate. How are you feeling now, as…

Watch Sony Announce The Next PlayStation Right Here

Ready for a new console? Tonight at 6pm Eastern, Sony will announce their next Dubstep Machine PlayStation, and we’ll be here all night reporting the news as it happens. You can follow along with the livestream right here. We’re also liveblogging over here, as Stephen, Chris, and Evan cover the festivities live from New York.…

Realistic Pokémon Starters Are Way Cooler Than The Ones In The Games

I’ve accepted that we’ll probably never see something particularly realistic when it comes to Pokémon designs. Nintendo is all about the cartoony looks that aren’t graphically intensive. But sometimes, when I look at artistic renditions of Pokémon— like these ones by Sam Yang over at CGHub—I can’t help but think of what-could-have-been. The one above…

Mojang is now streaming their three-day “Mojam” game jam. The games will be available through the Humble Indie Bundle

Fox News Wants You To Be Mad About Assassin’s Creed III‘s Evil George Washington DLC

Did you know that there’s a video game where George Washington is evil? And that it’s made by the French? Yesterday, when Ubisoft released the first part in their trilogy of downloadable content for Assassin’s Creed III, Fox News wasn’t pleased. The French? Evil George Washington? Surely somebody should be offended by this! So they…

Midweek Moneysaver: Good Luck, Commander

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Downloadables Green Man Gaming • XCOM Enemy Unknown is $16 until Thursday at noon EST (next best is $25 at Gamefly, elsewhere $50) • Yesterday’s release…

The Superhero Dad from One of 2013’s Most Anticipated Comics Dies In His Very First Issue

Paul Pope hasn’t been hiding. You can find the writer/artist behind such acclaimed works as Heavy Liquid, Batman Year 100 and THB on pretty easily on Twitter, for example. And he just had The One-Trick Rip-Off/Deep Cuts—a collection of older work—land on the New York Times best-seller list for graphic novels. But sussing out the…

Unreal Engine 3 Makes These Hot Wheels Look Downright Menacing

Racing to the app store later this month, Speed Kills uses Unreal Engine 3 to make these wheeled (and not-so-wheeled) warriors look like the most dangerous toy cars ever. This is definitely my sort of racing game. Developed by Holy Warp and Black Wing Foundation—two developers with incredibly cool names—Speed Kills boasts more than 100…

The PBS NewsHour Discusses Violent Video Games And Manages Not To Jump To Wild Conclusions

The PBS NewsHour doesn’t chop news into soundbites and doesn’t mistake banter or squabbling for good television journalism. They actually do TV reporting the way you might hope it would be done. When the NewsHour invited me to head down to their Washington, D.C.-area studios a few Fridays ago to talk to them about violent…

Crysis 3 Has A Bow With Explosive Arrows. So Does This Guy.

The bow and arrow in Crysis 3 might throw off the game’s balance, but it’s still a pretty cool piece of gear. And it seems every time there’s a bow and arrow in a video game, it winds up having explosives attached to it. In this video from RatedRR, host Richard Ryan loads his compound…

It’s Daft Punk Breakout, And You Play It On Buildings By Moving Your Body

Many of us have played some version of Breakout before—but probably not on this scale, and probably not to Daft Punk. The neat thing is, this game uses a Kinect so that you control the paddle by moving your body—and, more interestingly, snippets of the song are played depending on what you can hit with…

PlayStation Memories Are Tearing Up Twitter [Update]

Later tonight, Sony is slated to unveil its successor to the PlayStation 3. Right now, the hashtag #PlayStationMemories is trending on Twitter. What a kwinky dink! A large number of the memories center around PlayStation 2 and original PlayStation games like Grand Theft Auto 3 and Crash Bandicoot. These are distant memories! Others are writing…