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​Japan’s Finally Gotten Their PS4s

After watching Sony’s newest video game console make its debut away from home, Japanese video game lovers are finally getting their hands on the PS4. No Banderas from the first guy to get one, though. Come on, dude. The debut of the Japanese PS4 happened a few hours ago—check out the stream here—with legendary game…

Let’s Try and Figure Out This New Deep Down Trailer

It seems like every teaser for Capcom’s big, upcoming PS4 title is designed to confuse viewer with a bunch of random dialogue and rabid monster enemies, while showing off the bleeding-edge tech that makes it run. This one is no different. Still… look at that fire! The voiceover narration in this new clip—meant to celebrate…

The PS4 launches tomorrow in Japan, but the countdown to the console’s launch event begins today at 8:30am EST. Watch it right here.

Here’s Something You Don’t Usually See at Japanese Console Launches

Over the years living in Japan, I don’t ever recall seeing anything like this at a console launch. Nope. I’ve never seen a group of young people in glow-in-the-dark hockey masks, waiting for a console. Not once. Spotted by Japanese site Inside Games, these are actually pop music singers. They’re members of a new idol…

Blacksmithing In The Elder Scrolls Online Is Complicated

In other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, blacksmithing involves find a forge in town and clicking about a bit. In The Elder Scrolls Online, you’ve got to kill some tigers first. Well, you don’t have to kill the tigers. You could probably just bypass them altogether and run for the dungeon entrance, or have someone…

The Lego Movie Videogame: The Kotaku Review

Is the Lego Movie Videogame for you? It probably is if you can bring yourself to enjoy the following politically-controversial, looping video: How about this one? Really, what else needs to be said when assessing a video game other than the line: “You can play as Shakespeare and Batman.”? That says it all. Or at…

What Call Of Duty: Ghosts Needed Was Space Cats. Now It Has Them.

When I played through Call of Duty: Ghosts I got the distinct feeling that something was missing, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. That’s because the glory of Space Cats is forever beyond our human reach. We can but download them as one of many character and personalization packs added to the…

Last Year’s Portable Batman Hits Consoles and PC in April

Two Batman games came out last year. The big console version, Batman: Arkham Origins, came from a new development studio. That game’s overshadowed, on-the-go semi-sequel Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate came from Armature, a collective of creators who helped make the great Metroid Prime games. Previously released only for 3DS and Vita, Blackgate now gets its…

Japanese Fans Line Up For a Chance To Be First To Buy a PS4

Do you think they’ll do the Antonio Banderas move? The official release date of the PS4 in Japan is February 22nd. However, at the Sony building in Ginza, Tokyo, Sony is offering to sell 100 PS4s a day early on the 21st. Of the 100, 30 will get to participate in the special PlayStation 4…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

New Dark Souls II Trailer Tries Not to Be Depressing

Everyone who’s rabidly awaiting the arrival of Dark Souls II knows that it’s going to a nihilistic affair where they will die a lot. Nobody’s fooling themselves. But, hey, this new trailer wants you to know all that painful trial-and-error builds character. It’s even got some sunshine in it! The dialogue in the promo clip…

Sacred 3 brings its colorful co-op Diablo-esque gameplay to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this summer. With four-player drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer co-op and two-player splitscreen, Deep Silver’s latest foray into the world of Ancaria should be a blast to play with friends and strangers alike. Check out fresh screens below.

Strike Suit Zero Transforms Into A PS4 And Xbox One Game

With fast paced action and mecha that transform into spaceships, there wasn’t a lot not to like about Born Ready Games’ Strike Suit Zero, and what little there was is being addressed in next month’s Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Born Ready has polished up the textures, restructured…

Helldivers Is Proof That Friendly Fire Can Be A Wonderful Thing

The creators of Magicka have never made a console game before, but their first—Helldivers—is one hell of a doozy. The chaotic co-op charm of Magicka never quite felt right on a gamepad, but with Helldivers, Arrowhead Game Studios hits that mark hard. Magicka, for those who don’t know, is a PC-exclusive top-down co-op adventure about…

If Trevor From GTA V Were Using Facebook (Thank God He’s Not)

The fine YouTubers at GTA Series Videos created a highlight video on Trevor Philips’ life in the style of Facebook’s 10th anniversary “Look Back” compilation. They used Trevor’s Lifeinvader profile, and I have to say the result is pretty hilarious. He’s had it rough! GTA 5 – A Look Back at Trevor’s Life (Facebook Parody)…

The Order: 1886 Is 30 Frames Per Second And Darn Proud Of It

The Order: 1886 does what it wants. Zeppelins, elevated trains and automatic rifles? It might not fit the history it’s based on, but hey, why not? Toss them in. Developers Ready at Dawn are telling a story about men and women fighting half-bred monster people that never existed in their own vision of 19th century…

You Can’t Play Titanfall On PS4–But You Can Watch It

Well, that’s one way to put Titanfall on the PS4, I guess. The channel Epic Reset Gaming (YouTube, Twitch) got the idea to share Titanfall with PlayStation 4 gamers through, once again, the magic of The Playroom, ostensibly an augmented reality game using your living room as the play space. Most folks who stream their…

It’s the middle of the month; that means new games on PlayStation Plus. Tomorrow, Remember Me is free to subscribers on PS3; for PS Vita, it’s Street Fighter X Tekken. That means today is your last day to download Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on Vita and Poker Night at the Inventory 2 on PS3…

The Next Transformers Game Crosses Continuity Lines. I’m Scared.

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is not just a sequel to Activision’s lovely War for/Fall of Cybertron games or a Michael Bay-flavored movie tie-in. It’s both, and that scares the spark out of me. Making a good Transformers video game is hard, at least I assume this is the case, because the majority of…

Booker with his skyhook from Bioshock Infinite, redrawn by Jenny thorne on DeviantART Looks really cool, just like a cell from a 90s cartoon. Here’s a bonus from the same artist. Fun looking Payday 2 jennyisdrawing [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…