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There’s no better way to show how much graphics have changed in the last 22 years than B. J. Blazkowicz, the main character of the Wolfenstein games, dressed as a baby. He’s wearing the same silly costume in Wolfenstein 3D from 1992 and in Wolfenstein: The New Order. It just got 100% more realistic and…
By Gergo Vas Published May 21, 2014 -
Culture
Share Your PS4 Stories
Six months ago, the PlayStation 4 was released unto the world. For a half a year since then, Sony’s angular new chunk of plastic has sat in our living rooms, letting us play games and watch movies. How’s all that going? While most of us on staff at Kotaku have our own PS4s and plenty…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 20, 2014 -
Listen To All Of Transistor’s Incredible Soundtrack Right Here
Transistor came out today, and it’s pretty great. But you know what’s even better? An original soundtrack posted in full on YouTube, you say? My thoughts exactly! Thankfully, it seems like the good people over at Transistor developer Supergiant Games had the same idea, because that’s just what they did. You can listen to the…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 20, 2014 -
ReviewsTransistor: The Kotaku Review
“Jesus, how much longer is this?” I texted my friend, putting down the PlayStation 4 controller to pause Transistor “I think I’m just bad at video games,” I added. “About 5 hours maybe,” he wrote back, laughing in the way that one makes clear through a text message. He had finished the whole thing in…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 20, 2014 -
Snake has a lot of abilities we haven’t seen yet. He is a designated driver after all. The main story in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes might be short, but as you can see there’s fun to do Gif via r/analogygifs by reddidd Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…
By Gergo Vas Published May 20, 2014 -
Porting a game from PS3 to PS4 is no simple task. Sure, one might imagine that you just bump up the resolution and put it on a new disc, but…no. As The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann puts it in this new EDGE feature, “We expected it to be Hell, and it was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 16, 2014 -
PS4 Killzone Is Getting Four-Player Online Co-Op
Launch PS4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall will get a four-player online co-op mode called Killzone Intercept later this year, launching for free for the game’s season pass holders in June and as a standalone release later in 2014. The new mode puts players in the role of VSA assault, marksmen, medics and tacticians against computer-controlled…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 16, 2014 -
Bioshock Doesn’t Need To Be An FPS
Isometric RPGs will have an exciting year ahead. Just think about Pillars of Eternity or Torment: Tides of Numenera. Maybe this inspired Chris Bischoff—who’s also about to create his own isometric game—to do a mockup of the underwater world of the first Bioshock and his project, Stasis. I’d probably play an RPG like this with…
By Gergo Vas Published May 16, 2014 -
Kotaku EastYou Can Now Remote Play PS4 Games with the Vita TV
One of the coolest things about owning a PlayStation Vita is the ability to link it to your PS4 and play your PS4 games remotely. And now, with the latest firmware patch in Japan, the Vita isn’t the only system you can remote play PS4 games on; you can stream to the Vita TV as…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published May 16, 2014 -
Minecraft Next-Gen vs. Minecraft Last-Gen
How will Minecraft look on PS4 and Xbox One? Basically, it’ll still be Minecraft, but you’ll be able to see farther. These images were tweeted today by Minecraft console developer 4J Studios, and give a sense of how much farther you’ll be able to see on Xbox One and PS4 compared with their last-gen counterparts.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 15, 2014 -
These Are The 10 Studios Making Assassin’s Creed Unity
Some people roll their eyes (or grunt or sigh) when they’re reminded of how many studios Ubisoft uses to make their massive Assassin’s Creed games, but as someone who likes each year’s installment, I just find it interesting. Ubisoft Montreal normally leads development, though they clearly juggle teams, giving each major AC Montreal team at…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 15, 2014 -
There’s a pretty cool glitchy trick in GTA V that makes planes on the ground take off and chase you around the map. The only thing you need is one of the super cars and a little preparation. It is explained in detail how to pull this off below in this short tutorial, made by…
By Gergo Vas Published May 15, 2014 -
‘Bong Animation Did Not Sync Properly’ And Other GTA V Patch Notes
Software patch notes usually make for dry reading. Other times, as with The Sims, they’re pure poetry. The patch notes for Grand Theft Auto, like many things in Rockstar’s popular series of open-world mayhem simulators, are pure insanity. I stumbled upon the latest set this morning when looking into Rockstar’s new updates forGTA Online, and…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2014 -
A Ten Minute Crash Course In Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs finally arrives later this month. To get us all even more excited for the ambitious-sounding open-world title, Ubisoft’s has released this lengthy trailer that sums up almost everything you can do in the game’s gorgeous rendition of a near-future Chicago. Unsurprisingly, a lot of those things involve shooting and driving cars really fast—only…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2014 -
Rockstar Is Making It Easier To Find GTA’s Craziest Players
“Encouraging civility in online behavior” might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a blockbuster video game franchise that’s best known to the general for introducing multiple generations of children to soliciting and then brutally murdering prostitutes. But leave it up to the Grand Theft Auto masterminds at Rockstar…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 13, 2014 -
PS4 Livestreams Are The Best Kind of Weird
The things people will do in front of a camera never cease to amaze, and people who own PS4s are no exception. People aren’t just broadcasting themselves playing games or having sex on the PS4. Christian McCrea, a man who created a blog that documents stuff he comes across on PS4 livestreams, is finding that…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 12, 2014 -
The more I learn about Mousecraft, the more excited I get. Sony recently wrote a new blog postabout the cute-looking mashup of Lemmings and Tetris that gives some details about the game’s protagonist and token cat scientist named Schrödinger. Get it? The game comes out July 8th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC,…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 12, 2014 -
PS4 Shooters Are Getting Pretty Weird
Sony has long had a gaping, Killzone-sized hole in its roster of PlayStation exclusive titles. This has left it shuffling behind arch-rival Microsoft, a company that’s always seemed to have a finger of the dudebro’s pulse when it comes to figuring out what people want from their shooters: Halo, Gears of War, Titanfall. If a…
By Yannick LeJacq Published May 9, 2014