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Up Close With The White PS4
Sony really knocked it out of the park design-wise with the PlayStation 4. The console might not be perfect, but you have to admit that it’s a real beauty—especially when compared to the monstrosity of the Xbox One and the…weirdness of the Wii U. And it looks better than ever with a new coat of…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 22, 2014 -
Sony Doesn’t Understand Just Who The Heck Is Buying All Those PS4s
Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4s. They don’t know why. It just kinda happened. Sales appearing from the ether—that sort of thing. Here’s Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida speaking in an extensive Eurogamer interview (emphasis mine): The 10m sell through in the first nine months is well beyond what we had hoped for. As you know,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 19, 2014 -
Kotaku East
Today, Sony revealed that a 500GB Charcoal Black PlayStation 3 is going on sale in Japan from August 28 for 25,980 yen ($253). The current 250 GB models (here and here) are priced at 23,790 yen ($232) each and will ceased being shipped by late August in Japan. No word about how this impact PS3s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2014 -
Nobody Actually Knows How They Solved The Silent Hill Teaser
People beat the cryptic P.T. PlayStation 4 horror demo. They discovered that it was a teaser for Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills. End of story, right? Not even close. How does P.T. actually work? What makes its individual parts churn together? Are there Silent-Hill-related secrets throughout, and if so how do you…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 15, 2014 -
Kotaku East
Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Is a Throwback to Classic JRPGs
Tied together by a beautiful Japanese watercolor art style, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines mixes RPG dungeon crawling and multi-generational breeding to create a gaming experience that will have classic JRPG fans giddy with joy. Good – A Story You Make Yourself In Oreshika, you play as a family whose members are cursed to live their entire…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published August 15, 2014 -
Kotaku East
Why Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Is a Game Made of Memories
Let me tell you a story. There once was a girl name Hiko. She was the first child born under her family’s curse. Her father was, well, me. Her mother was a low level fire goddess. In her first few months of life, I trained her to use my own weapon: a naginata. A few…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published August 15, 2014 -
PlayStation’s Twitch Channel Is A Little… Inappropriate
Did Sony get hacked? Did someone working for their Twitch channel get a little frustrated with the camerawork at the PlayStation conference in Gamescom earlier this week? Are they mad about the whole Tomb Raider thing? Whatever it is, it’s very inappropriate. Still live on PlayStation’s Twitch channelas of right now, too. (h/t Ben Hanson)
By Jason Schreier Published August 14, 2014 -
Until Dawn Is a Horror Game Where Everyone Can Die
It may have been a room full of overworked, stressed and irritable journalists, but Until Dawn did something special when I went to see it at Gamescom: it made people jump, it made one woman scream and it made everyone laugh nervously and chatter about what they’d just seen happen. This post originally appeared on…
Ian Dransfield Published August 14, 2014 -
Not many games have customization deep enough to help cosplay as Full Metal Alchemist characters, but Agentloonypants in Final Fantasy XIV pretty much nailed it with Edward and Alphonse. FMA by Agentlooneypants [imgur, via r/ffxiv] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…
By Gergo Vas Published August 14, 2014 -
Some PS4 Owners Can’t Play This Week’s Great New Indie Game
Hohokum came out for the various PlayStation platforms yesterday. The beautiful, weird exploration game isn’t quite like anything else on the video game landscape lately. So it’s really messed up that some folks who bought the game for the PS4 are saying that they can’t play it. Over on Sony’s message boards and Twitter, many…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 13, 2014 -
The Witcher 3 Sure Is Pretty
It’s hard to discern much about how The Witcher 3 plays, or whether it will feel as grand as it looks, or whether the combat is any good. But there’s one thing we can tell from this new gameplay footage: The Witcher 3—out in February for PS4/Xbox One/PC—sure is pretty. I mean, look at that…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2014 -
No, You Can’t Bite People in FIFA 15
Sebastien Enrique is the lead producer on the PS4 and Xbox One versions of FIFA 15. He’s been at EA Sports since FIFA 06 – in other words, when the series was still awful – and he’s been there to see its rise to greatness. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I think he’s…
Ian Dransfield Published August 13, 2014 -
People Want To Know Why Sony Forgot About The Vita
You’d be forgiven for thinking, if you watched today’s Sony Gamescom conference, that Sony has already given up on the PlayStation Vita. Sony’s 80-minute presser was all PS4, without much mention of their underappreciated handheld. In fact, the Vita even lost an exclusive—Tearaway—giving gamers one less reason to buy an expensive new portable system. It’s…
By Jason Schreier Published August 12, 2014 -
New Game from Creator of Rayman Lets You Be an Animal. All of Them.
Humans are so last-gen. The next game from the creator of Beyond Good & Evil will let you have adventures as any animal you see. It’s called Wild Best known for Beyond Good & Evil and the Rayman series, French designer Michel Ancel took to Sony’s Gamescom stage to introduce the new PS4 exclusive. It’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014 -
New PS4 Update Will Let Your Friends Play Your Games Without Owning Them
Sony’s coming closer to delivering on one of their PS4 promises and, soon, you’ll be able to virtually hand off the games in your PS4 library to your friends. The upcoming 2.0 system update for the PS4 will introduce the SharePlay feature, which will let users share the same game experience over the web: The…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014 -
Next Up From the Folks Who Made Heavenly Sword, Hellblade
Is that Kai?! Is this what we’ve hoped for? A sequel for Heavenly Sword? At the very least, it looks like the new game from Ninja Theory shares lot of DNA with Heavenly Sword. We’ll have to wait and see if this is an actual continuation of the PS3 launch game’s mythos. Update: More details…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014 -
In The Tomorrow Children, Humanity’s Screwed if We Don’t Work Together
Just unveiled at Gamescom, the next game from the makers of the Pixeljunk series is focused on co-operation. Better work on your manners. The Tomorrow Children looks like it’s got elements of crafting, class-based strategy and structure-building, wrapped inside a claymation cartoon aesthetic. Doesn’t seem like anything Q-Games has ever done.
By Evan Narcisse Published August 12, 2014