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The Week in Games: There’s Money in the Banana Stand

Rayman Legends makes its way to Xbox One and PS4 this week, followed by Strider’s long-awaited return to the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC. But the week’s big gorilla arrives on Friday, with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U. Tuesday, Feb. 18: Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3, 360) NASCAR 14 (…

The dulcet, Brokaw-esque baritone of Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) introduces you to Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, due to arrive sometime this year. In science fiction—whether video game or film—nothing says “mailed-in sequel” like a title with a colon followed by “Rise of the Something–Something.” [IGN] The game will launch on everything: PS4 and…

Here’s a start-to-finish look at the first mission in Thief, 10 days away from its Feb. 25 launch. Garrett’s trying to make his way back to his hideout during “Lockdown,” when, well, opportunities arise, as they usually do.

The Last of Us: Left Behind: The Kotaku Review

I’ve never played anything quite like The Last of Us: Left Behind Oh, something like it might exist, out there in the hidden corners of videogame-land. I’ve just never seen it. Let’s cut to the chase. My recommendation: Go play it. We can talk spoilers next week. But okay, okay. If you really want a…

Good News, Danganronpa Fans: NIS America just announced that Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is coming to Vitas in North America and Europe this fall. Unlike the (very cool) first game, the sequel takes place on a sun-drenched island. Word is it’s good, too. Read/download the full announcement here

​Decent-Looking Game. Terrible Narrator.

Bound by Flame is a new PlayStation exclusive action/RPG hitting multiple platforms later this year. Without any kind of sense as to how it plays, it looks pretty middle-of-the-road for a game coming out in 2014. But that voiceover—sounding enthralled, huckster-ish and befuddled—will take you back straight to the 1990s, in good and bad ways.…

Trevor’s Voice Actor From GTA V Sure Looks Scary On TV

Miss GTA V‘s Trevor yet? Well, the character’s voice actor, Steven Ogg, had a guest appearance last night in a new show called Broad City. He played a psycho locksmith, and while it’s not as mental as Trevor’s usual antics (he’d have set the door on fire), it’s hard not to see the similarities. It’s…

MLB The Show Launches April 1 on PS3, Arrives in May for PS4

MLB 14 The Show will release April 1 on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita and will arrive in May on PS4, Sony said today, ending an anxious stretch for baseball fans wondering if they would be playing a new version of the game on Opening Day. Technically, they aren’t—Monday, March 31 is baseball’s traditional Opening…

Apart from those annoying sharks, exploring the underwater areas of Assassin’s Creed IV was quite fun. Here’s artist sandara‘s underwater piece, with a chilling atmosphere, some eels and sharks, and with a shocked Edward. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

The Next Infamous Wants To See Just How Evil You’ll Get

inFamous: Second Son on the Playstation 4 is not quite the same animal as what we’re used to on the PS3. Cole’s glower has been swapped out for Delsin’s laid-back wisecracks. Second Son‘s Seattle is more high-definition-er than was possible on the PS3, and appealing neon lights fly around the screen instead of the more…

Final Fantasy XIV PS4 Beta Begins February 22. See How Pretty It Is.

Last month Square Enix announced an April 14 release date for the PlayStation 4 version of Final Fantasy XIV, but that’s not the date players were waiting for. It’s almost beta time, kids, and the game is looking fantastic on PS4. The PlayStation 3 version of the best MMO of 2013 is lovely and all,…

Strider’s 25-Year History In Just Five Minutes

In 1989, marking the start of the blue-clad ninja’s two-and-a-half decade career, the first Strider game was released in arcades throughout Japan and North America. From then on, it was a road filled with cameos, curious localization decisions, and slashed-up baddies. To celebrate the upcoming reboot of the platformer series, Capcom lovingly crafted a short…

​Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: The Kotaku Review

Sometimes the best way to recommend a game is to break it down to its component parts. Take Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, out today for the PlayStation Vita. I started playing late last week with no real plans to review it, and wound up sinking 20 hours into it, finishing up yesterday afternoon. That doesn’t…

NBA Live 14‘s Latest Patch is Talkin’ About Practice

As promised, NBA Live 14 pumped out a very large patch today to address the many shortcomings, omissions or problems the title showed at launch. Straight away it includes something that should make the game a lot more understandable: A simple practice mode. “Shootaround” is the first thing you’ll see when you download the patch,…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: The Kotaku Review

I’ve never been less emotionally invested in a character than I am in Final Fantasy XIII‘s pink-haired powerhouse, so when Square Enix tells me Lightning Returns, my response is “That’s great. What else you got?” She’s gorgeous. She’s powerful. She’s relentless. She’s fiercely dedicated to whichever path she finds herself on. Lightning embodies all the…

Here’s the latest trailer for Dying Light, Techland’s upcoming free-running-slash-zombie-apocalypse simulator. As the accompanying blog post from the game’s producer explains, this one lets us take a closer look at the setting and story behind all the zombie-bashing. Dig in!

No Army Can Stop The Battlefield 4 Train

Trains are just unstoppable these days. Just think about Grand Theft Auto V, or in this case, Golmud Railway in Battlefield 4. You can line up anything in front of them, they won’t do anything but break the laws of physics. I love how some of the players are just parachuting onto the moving train,…

Four Players Are Co-Op Heroes. The Fifth Is Their Giant Enemy. Fight!

In a lot of mainstream multiplayer video games, we dress up as a soldier and take on opposing teams of other, similar soldiers. What if there were a game about a team of soldiers taking on one GIANT opponent? Maybe a massive beast that breathes fire? That’d be cool. That’d also be an actual thing:…

$200 Borderlands Vita Bundle Comes To The U.S. This Spring

The new, slimmer version of the PlayStation Vita is coming to North America as part of a $200 Borderlands 2 bundle, Sony just announced. It’ll be out this spring. The bundle will come with the new model of Sony’s handheld, the upcoming port of Borderlands 2 (“and add-on content”), and an 8GB memory card. The…

Adam Orth Is Turning His Personal Disaster Into A Beautiful Game

Adam Orth, one of last year’s most notorious people on the Internet, was nervous last week as he was showing me his new creation: a beautiful, unusual game that he says was borne from his 2013 travails. “This is how I chose to, in the words of a famous philosopher, ‘deal with it,’” he self-consciously…