This Week’s Android Charts: So Excited for a New Game I Don’t Care That It’s Wipeout

I’ve been rather hard on Activision’s mobile Wipeout game in the past, largely because it’s based on a silly television obstacle course show and not my beloved series of PlayStation hovercar racing games. Today I’m just so happy to see a new game in the Android paid charts that I don’t care. C’mere Wipeout, you…

Killzone On The PS4 Is Absolutely Stunning. Let’s Stare At It.

Guerilla Games revealed Killzone: Shadow Fall yesterday during the PlayStation Live Meeting, showing us our dramatic escape through the skyscrapers of Vekta City in the middle of a full-scale Helghan attack, as our animated GIFs show below.

Benchmarking Fun with the GTX Titan, Nvidia’s Most Advanced Video Card

Earlier this week I told you about Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan, the $1,000 graphics card with supercomputer power, tons of tweakability and an astounding acoustic footprint which keeps it whisper-quiet under the heaviest of loads. What I couldn’t tell you about were the benchmarks—those all-important numbers. Nvidia claimed this was the card to kick Crysis…

A Man Who Has Used the PS4’s New Controller Tells Us Why It’s Better

You have (probably) not held a PS4 controller yet. Neither have I. But Shuhei Yoshida has. He’s the head of Sony’s worldwide studios, so he better have! Yesterday, I had to rely on him to tell me what the controller feels like. Sony, you see, wasn’t letting reporters touch the new PS4 controller—the DualShock 4.…

PS4? What PS4? It’s the Nintendo Download.

Hey, did something happen in video games last night? You couldn’t tell from looking at Nintendo’s corner of the world. It’s business as usual over there, with wacky Nintendo Direct hi-jinks and a new crop of downloadable goodies for consoles and portables. Worth noting is the debut of Wii U and 3DS demo versions of…

Here’s How Diablo III Will Look on the PS3 and PS4

Diablo III coming to PlayStation was one of the big reveals from last night’s PlayStation Meeting. The fact that a PC-only release would be coming to consoles made some people angry. But, for all the rage, we didn’t get an example of what Blizzard’s action RPG will look like in its reconfigured form. The screens…

PS4 Will Not Require An Always-Online Connection [UPDATE]

Stemming fears of the always-online requirement still rumored strongly for the next Xbox, a Sony PR rep confirmed to Kotaku that: “PS4 games will be playable without an Internet connection.” I’m still hearing from at least one very good source who hasn’t failed me yet that the next Xbox, codenamed Durango, will require an online…

BioShock Infinite Has At Least Three DLC Packs

BioShock developer Irrational Games has just announced the Season Pass accompanying their newest entry into the franchise, BioShock Infinite. The pack will contain three pieces of post-release downloadable content—DLC which, so far, Irrational hasn’t talked about. Their press release follows: The BioShock Infinite Season Pass will be available on March 26, 2013 when the game…

Valve has just made DayZ (the mod, not the standalone version) officially available on Steam. But why now? Why so late?

This New App Turns Your Wii U Into A Network Router For Your 3DS (For Monster Hunter 3G)

A new Wii U downloadable app now allows 3DS Monster Hunter 3G players to enjoy co-op play over the internet. The Nintendo 3DS Monster Hunter 3G Packet Relay Tool is a free application available on the Japanese Nintendo eShop that basically turns a Wii U into a network router. By pairing a 3DS with the…

Game Designer Kenji Eno Has Died at Age 42

Kenji Eno, musician and game designer, passed away yesterday at the age of 42. He died of heart failure, induced by high blood pressure, reports The Asahi Shimbun Eno was perhaps best known for the survival horror game D, released in 1995 for the Sega Saturn, and its sequel. He was also famous for his…

The Witcher 3 Is Coming to the PS4. It’ll Be Out Next Year.

Open world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is headed to the PS4, the game’s developers revealed today. And boy do they seem excited! “We were thrilled when asked, several months ago, to be one of the developers who were granted early access to the PlayStation 4,” said Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt…

This Is Why Sony is Dropping The Price of The PS Vita In Japan

“We want more people to play with the PS Vita” said Hiroshi Kawano, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. In an interview with Weekly Famitsu, Kawano talked about the reasons behind as well as the timing of the recent decision to not only drop the price of the PS Vita, but to make both the…

For 3DS title Super Robot Taisen UX, Nintendo is releasing a special Super Robot Taisen 3DS XL.

Gameboy Advance Color Zelda games (Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons) are virtual console bound in Japan on Feb 27th.

This Joker Figure Made Me Question Why I Was Being So Serious

So another Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece figure finally came out, and, as is my nature, I simply had to get it. This time, Hong Kong collectible figure maker Hot Toys came out with a version 2.0 to their highly popular Dark Knight Joker figure. Interestingly enough, the first Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece item I ever…

Fancy PS4 Tech Can Peek Into Your Very Essence

The future is here! It’s tech that beckons you with a piercing gaze. Look. Go on. Do it. Game developer Quantic Dream created this old man head, which really looks like David Carradine, to show off its PS4 capabilities. I’m sold! Very impressive. Just don’t creep me out anymore like this. Cool?

So… No Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Huh

There was speculation that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would appear at Sony’s PS4 reveal. Shinji Hashimoto, Versus‘ producer, arrived on stage. Surely, this was the moment. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t at all. Hashimoto, who is also the Final Fantasy brand manager, announced that Square Enix was making a new Final Fantasy. Square Enix, which…

Listen to Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Speak Japanese

No, I’m not talking about when Hollywood stars try to speak Japanese and end up saying “something something potato.” This YouTube video is a collection of the voice actors who dub for particular stars. Usually, the same voice actor often voices a particular actor in the dubbed versions. The video is 18 minutes long, and…

So, I Guess We’re Supposed to Just Imagine the PS4?

Yesterday, I posted a story called “Goodbye Fantasy PlayStation 4s! It’s Been Fun”, thinking that Sony would unveil the PlayStation 4 today. Silly me! Sony did unveil the PS4, but didn’t show off its new console. Because that’s what you do at console reveals these days. You don’t show the console. That’s not true, actually.…