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How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4

Call it installation or call it caching, but the bottom line is that you will have to save large chunks of PlayStation 4 games to the system’s hard drive. It’s not an option. It’s mandatory on Sony’s next-gen system. Today, at a stylish waterfront hotel in New York City that’s been taken over by Sony…

XCOM: Enemy Within: The Kotaku Review

Few things fill me with dread like the first terror response mission in XCOM. Kidney stones, for sure. The DMV. But that terror mission—which costs you a nation on the spot if you flunk it—comes when your force is young and underpowered. I know I’m gonna lose someone. I’m probably gonna lose two someones. Not…

Sony’s Big PS4 Review Event

It’s just a few days before Sony launches their next-gen console. So they’ve rented out a few floors of New York City’s The Standard hotel to showcase some of the PS4’s upcoming games. Three of us from Kotaku are currently wandering the hotel, preparing to play some games and ask some questions. In the meantime,…

Witness The Glory Of A 64-Man Battlefield 4 Base Jump

It takes up a lot of time and dedication, organizing an event where a full server of 64 people jump off a skyscaper in Battlefield 4, but it’s totally worth the effort. This is so much better than any of those precise and fast killshots that normally dominate Battlefield montages. If you attempt to do…

I shouldn’t like to be in Batman’s shoes when he has to face enemies like this in Batman: Arkham Origins That is just truly horrifying. 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’vegot them. To contact…

BioShock Infinite‘s New Expansion Bites Off More Than It Can Chew

What to make of Burial at Sea? Planned as a two-part episodic expansion for BioShock Infinite, it takes us back to where the series began: The majestic underwater city of Rapture. One part BioShock nostalgia trip and one part extraneous BioShock Infinite epilogue, Burial at Sea‘s first episode falls unfortunately short of both its predecessors.…

Let’s Play Dress-Up with the New Lightning Returns Trailer

Good thing mizz Lightning has the time to stay fashionable in between going on missions to save the world. Otherwise, we couldn’t spend all this time looking at her fabulous outfits The latest and shiniest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII interactive trailer from Squeenix has you help Lightning pick out a dress for her next…

Sony’s Official PS4 Unboxing Video Is Hilariously OTT

Pulsing music. A trashy sci-fi set. Giant gloves. It’s like a Daft Punk video. Only it’s got PlayStation studios boss Shuhei Yoshida in it. Of course, if you’d like to see something a little more real, there’s always Francis’ boyish enthusiasm

A Video Showing How The PS4 Dashboard Actually Works

Last week, Microsoft gave everyone a very handy tourof the Xbox One’s dashboard. Sony has yet to do the same, but in this video from a PS4 event in Hong Kong, we get the gist. You’re going to want to skip to 4:45 in the video above, and while the demonstration is in both Japanese…

Watch A Guy Unbox A Real PS4

Hey, it’s Francis! Someone went and sent Francis a regular, retail PS4, which he opens in this video like a kid at Christmas. If you’re here for his customary RAGE videos, sorry. This one’s literally about taking the same kind of PS4 you’ll be able to buy later this month, opening it up and plugging…

The Week in Games: Playtime for PlayStation

The PlayStation 4 arrives this week, bringing with it a raft of games, some of which already have released on existing consoles. Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall are notable PS4-only titles. For those sitting out the PS4’s launch, XCOM‘s splendid Enemy Within expansion hits Tuesday, along with Capcom’s DuckTales Remastered Tuesday, Nov. 12 XCOM: Enemy…

Wild Offer of Free Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed Floods Canada Stores

So, let’s get this straight. In Canada this weekend, take any Xbox 360 or PS3 game—good, bad or ugly; GOTY or shovelware—trade it in, and get a free copy of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts or Battlefield 4. Is that right? Is someone smoking crack up there? Not you, mayor ……

​WWE 2K14‘s Glitches Make Pro Wrestling Look Disturbing as Hell

Whatcha gonna do when Glitchemania runs wild all ove… oh, God, no! NO! What’s happened to Yokozuna’s spine?! These videos come courtesy of Gamefront, who clearly love mutilating the superstars of the past and present into shambling, unholy shells of themselves. If you want to find out how to do the same, there’s a how-to…

Battlefield 4 Multiplayer Glitches Make Great Animated GIFs

We did it for the beta, so there’s no reason to skip the funniest and glitchiest moments of Battlefield 4 proper. Especially when players have been capturing some awesome moments like these. Let’s take a look. With outdated or beta drivers, the maps can easily be turned into a giant rave. Battlefield meets Antichamber… Or…

How The Last Generation Changed JRPGs For The Better

One of this generation’s most controversial JRPG trends might also turn out to be its best. When Team Kotaku first started planning out our Last-Gen Heroesfeature, I started thinking about how JRPGs have evolved over the past generation—a generation that some would argue has been disastrous for the genre. Between a polarizing thirteenth Final Fantasy,…

Sony Viral Teases Something Street Fighter For The PlayStation 4

Packed with references to Capcom’s famous fighting game franchise and tagged with the #4ThePlayers hashtag, this viral video from Sony seems to indicate something Street Fighter is happening on the PlayStation 4, but what? VG24/7 looks to have been the first to post the “Hadouken Cabs” viral this morning, sent to them in an email…

An Army Of PS4 Consoles, Massed At The Gates

This is the floor of an Amazon warehouse earlier today. Amazon[Twitter]

The Vita Gets A Brand New JRPG On November 26

Oh hey there, Mr. Vita. It’s been a while. I was worried about you. Good to see you’re getting some JRPGs of your own. The action-role-playing game Ys: Memories of Celceta comes out November 26, publisher XSEED announced today—just in time for Thanksgiving. Because nothing says America like turkey, stuffing, and a good old-fashioned JRPG.

​PS3 System Updates, You Were The Worst

You made me angry with my PlayStation 3, if only for a few minutes at a time. Why’d you have to do that? One of you managed to actually render PS3s inoperable. Most of you were just nuisances. All of you should’ve been downloaded automatically without wasting our time. PS3 system updates, you were the…

Our First, Teasing Glimpses Of The Next Mass Effect

In celebration of N7 Day 2013 (November 7, get it?), Mass Effect producer Michael Gamble tweeted a teasing glimpse at the future of the franchise. Then other BioWare folks got in on the act. “The next chapter of Mass Effect is upon us!!” proclaimed Gamble’s tweet. Then came BioWare Montreal studio director, Yanick Roy: “…with…