Games Are Harder When Your Self From Two Seconds Ago Is Chasing You

N++, like the other N games before it (Ncestors? Ntecedents?) is hard. In fact, this time, there are “evil ninjas” chasing you in some levels. These ninjas are, in fact, you from two seconds ago and you from four seconds ago, etc. They’re not in all of the upcoming PS4 game’s 1,000 levels, but there…

The Swedish Military’s Recruiting Game Is Really Fun

Games as recruiting tools aren’t anything new, but this little free browser game was more entertaining to me than America’s Army ever was. The point of the game is to emphasize how important teamwork is (and how you can learn it in the military), so it matches you up with 3 other players and gives…

What Does Battlefield Hardline Have That Battlefield 4 Doesn’t?

Battlefield Hardline is still a long way off, but we can get a look at what’s different from Battlefield 4 in this video from Levelcapgaming. Ziplines! Grappling hooks! Tasers! Some of the highlights I liked: Instead of a default knife, you’ll have a nightstick or a baseball bat, which you can use to choke out…

One Of The Show-Stoppers At E3 Was An Awesome Kinect Game. Not Kidding.

We’ve covered Fru before, and we’ll cover Fru again, because Fru isn’t just the best game I’ve ever seen on Kinect (sorry, Dance Central, though you’re pretty good, too)…it’s a game I really want to play. I shot a short video of it in action at E3 with developer Mattia Traverso at my side. Fru…

The New Zelda Might Not Have The Puzzles You Expect

Are you hoping for something different from the new Zelda, which blew everyone away when it was announced earlier this week during Nintendo’s E3 show? Series producer Eiji Aonuma has promised that this one will shake things up, with an open-world focus that calls back to the days of Zelda on the NES. He’s also…

New Star Fox Game Will Support Co-Op. You Pilot. I Shoot.

An optional co-op mode in the upcoming Wii U Star Fox game is going to let two players command one Arwing with one flying the ship and the other shooting from it. Nintendo’s lead game designer Shigeru Miyamoto described the mode to me this week in L.A., as he elaborated on the value of designing…

Deals: $350 PS4, PS4 Storage Upgrades, Movie Anthologies, 4K Monitor

A while back we gave you our storage upgrade recommendations for your Playstation 4, and incidentally, they remain the same. Today they’re on sale. Our choice for most people is the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive, which combines a lot of the speed of SSD with a lot of the affordability of not SSD.…

How You’ll Play Far Cry 4 With Friends Who Don’t Own It

One of the big surprises at this week’s Sony E3 press conference was the announcement that PlayStation console owners would be able to share Far Cry 4 for multiplayer co-op with friends who don’t own the game. How’s it’s going to work? Well, for starters, it sounds like you’re going to need a lot of…

A Video Game About Being A Mountain

Before this week, David O’Reilly was best known in the gaming scene for making the pretty-looking futuristic video games in the recent science fiction film Her. Sadly, none of them were actually playable for anyone other than Joaquin Phoenix’s character in that movie. But now O’Reilly has returned with a playable video game that’s just…

​Yes, Far Cry 4 Lets You Ride Elephants

Like its predecessors, Far Cry 4 will let you get your kill on in a quiet and stealthy fashion. But who wants to do that when you can ride an elephant, smash through gates and bust shotgun shells at fools? The video above from PlayStation Access showcases two very different approaches to playing through a…

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A Match On The New Version Of League of Legends’ Most Popular Map

With Dota 2 and all these upcoming MOBAs knocking on the door, and because League of Legends‘ popular map, Summoner Rift, is getting old and dated, Riot is working on an update and a graphical facelift. So here’s the dev team showing us their progress with the update. It looks pretty cool so far and…

Nintendo’s E3 2014: You’re Buying a Wii U Now, Right?

Last year Nintendo dressed its developers up in cat ears and paraded them in front of a huddled group of attendees at its booth rather than have a press conference at E3. This year, it didn’t even do that much. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I thought that might mean it had nothing…

DayZ Jeopardy! Is Brutal And Has Only One Topic

And that one topic is: DayZ! Still, questions about the game cause headaches for a lot of newspawns in the recent video of Friendly in Cherno. The lucky ones can continue their journey with some extra gear, but everyone else has no other choice but to roll a new character. DayZ Jeopardy With Irregular Dave…