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Watch Dogs: The Kotaku Review

My first question for Watch Dogs was, “Well, what if I don’t want to shoot Maurice?” “Sorry,” the game replied. “You are going to shoot Maurice and that’s all there is for it.” It was the very first interactive moment of the game, and I had two things: A gun, and a prompt to shoot…

Murdered: Soul Suspect: The Kotaku Review

I came across something midway through Murdered: Soul Suspect that summed up the majority of my experience playing this game. I was strolling through a police station as Ronan O’Connor, a detective so hard-boiled that his own death could not stop him from hunting down the notorious murderer as The Bell Killer. The game begins…

​I Drove Batman: Arkham Knight‘s Batmobile

And I liked it. The Batmobile is basically an extension of Batman’s repertoire of gadgets. In fact, even though Batman is of course a combat specialist, developer Rocksteady’s excitable Dax Ginn explained that the Batmobile is part of Batman’s primary toolset. The Batmobile operates in two modes. On a chase, pursuit mode is most appropriate.…

Batman: Arkham Knight Delayed To 2015

“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…

Mortal Kombat X Wishlist

There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…

The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia

Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…

Watch Dogs Is Finally About Watching Dogs

Just as Lightning doesn’t return Final Fantasy XIII, there’s no way to watch dogs in Watch Dogs even though the title suggests it. Mashed fix this with their latest animation. It would be… an interesting game. Watch Dogs | Mr Weebl | MASHED [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Here’s How PlayStation Plus Is Changing

Now that we’re good and (sort of) settled into the PlayStation 4 generation, Sony is adjusting PlayStation Plus, its premium online gaming service, for all three of its major gaming devices. Sony marketing VP John Koller spelled out the changes in a post on the PlayStation Blog today. By his description, it sounds like the…

Ex-PlayStation Chief Jack Tretton To Analyze All Of E3 2014’s Big Shows

Well, this should be interesting. Jack Tretton, the former boss for all of PlayStation’s business in America and the man who led numerous E3 PlayStation press conferences—including last year’s thunderous one—will be spending E3 2014 press conference day talking about Sony’s, EA’s, Ubisoft’s and even Microsoft’s grand stage shows. That news comes from Geoff Keighley,…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Is Coming To PlayStation

Good news, PlayStation loyalists! The excellent Plants Vs. Zombies shooter is coming to Sony’s PS3 and PS4 consoles on August 19th, developer PopCap announced today. PopCap’s Brian Lindley said in a post on the PlayStation blog that the new version of the game will run at “a native 1080p resolution and blazing fast 60 frames…

Meet The Shadow of Mordor Enemy I Couldn’t Kill

No two players’ experience will be the same in the upcoming Lord of the Rings game, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. In a recent preview, I explained how that is and how the Nemesis system fits into that. If you missed it, you can use the Nemesis system to target various warchiefs and have their bodyguards…

Hey buddy, forgot your cup. Grabbed from YouTuber Robbaz‘s compilation, this is one of those Watch Dogs glitches with a happy ending. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. To contact the…

Dropping Your Phone Really Messes Things Up In Real Life Watch Dogs

The folks at Machinima, in their latest video, show us what really happens when your biggest in-game weapon is a mobile device. Aiden would be in a lot of trouble in real life. Watch Dogs vs iPhone (Parody) [Machinima, YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

There’s A Great Game Beneath Monster Monpiece‘s Awkward Anime Stroking

Update 5/28/2014: Monster Monpiece is finally out in North America (Europe gets it next week), and the sentiment in this Japanese preview still holds: It’s a great game, but damn that embarrassing girl-stroking mechanic. In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until…

PS4 Review Update: Six Months Later

A half-year past launch, the PlayStation 4 still feels like an overachiever. The system runs better and is improving faster than its predecessor. Everything is relative, though. The PS4 is still a year-one console and has familiar year-one issues. It’s not yet a must-have. Early impressions were correct, thank goodness. I reviewed the PS4 in…

PS4 Developer On What It Means To Be Next-Gen

Back when new-gen was known as next-gen, gamers and critics alike pondered and daydreamed about the kinds of experiences we’d get with new hardware and promises of impressive power. And a lot of that anticipation has been squarely on the topic of shiny visuals. But there’s more to the look of a game than just…

Report: Next Battlefield Game Is Cops Versus Robbers

The next entry in EA’s premiere shooter franchise—coming for last- and current-gen platforms—will reportedly be called Battlefield: Hardline. The 2014 release will put players in the middle of armed conflict where it will be cops and criminals fighting each other. Eurogamer rounds up various bits of information about Hardline, which have popped up on EA…

The Evil Within Made Me Want To Throw Up

At some point, something happened and I stopped liking roller coasters. This was news to me. I used to love them as a kid. I was the first one running back down and around to the back of the line to ride them again. Now my stomach lurches and my neck feels uncomfortable and I’m…

Lego Batman 3 Is Here, And He’s Going Into Space

Here’s your first look at Traveller’s Tales’ third brick-based Batman. The latest in the series builds on the suits of the last installment but takes the action into space, including some very Resogun-like shooting sections – ironically with a less blocky appearance than the original source. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The sections…