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Call of Duty: Ghosts: The Kotaku Review

Three men huddle around a campfire, eager to hear the story of an elite force of highly-feared soldiers. Ghosts, they’re called. Two of the men listening—the sons, Logan and Hesh Walker—are skeptical. Surely the tale-spinning father doesn’t expect them to believe such an outlandish story? They’re skeptical, but we know the story is true, because…

PS4 Launch Game Looks Phenomenal In Slow Motion

This is the PlayStation 4, folks, flexing its muscles. The game you’re seeing is called Resogun. It’s an arcade shooter coming out on launch day (November 15) for the PS4. It’s not just meant to be a game. It’s meant to be a showpiece. The game comes from the Finnish studio Housemarque which previously made…

PC Point and Click Fans, Get Ready For A Christmas Treat

The Kickstarter campaign which intended to revive Charles Cecil’s Broken Sword adventure game series ended successfully a bit over a year ago, so it’s about time we know more about when the follow-up will actually be here. Released as two episodes, the first part of The Serpent’s Curse will arrive to PC on the fourth…

Velocity Ultra, the teleporting vertical shoot-em-up for the Vita which we rather liked, is making its way to PC. The port is being handled by Curve Studios of Stealth Bastard fame, and will include customizable controls and graphics enhancements. Expect it to pop up on Steam around late December.

The PocketStation Returns! For The…Vita.

Come on. When Sony started teasing the return of a quirky PS1 peripheral – the PocketStation – you didn’t really think they’d re-release the actual hardware, did you? No, instead it’s returning in the form of a PlayStation Vita application (literally called PocketStation for PlayStation Vita), which is being made available free to PlayStation Plus…

MLB 14 The Show on PS4 is the Only Next-Gen Baseball Game

Forget about baseball on Xbox One next year, if this image touting MLB 14 The Show is any indication. Sony announced the next edition of MLB The Show for PS4, PS Vita and PS3 tonight at the MLB Players Choice Awards on the MLB Network. But that’s not the real news because it, like baseball,…

Get your Vita ready for PS4: In preparation for the PS4 launch, Sony will soon be releasing a 3.00 software update for their Vita handheld. The new software will allow you to access the PS4’s remote play functionality and take panoramic photos, among other things. This video from Sony outlines the new features, and gives…

‘Offline Play Enabled’ Is Now a Back-of-the-Box Feature

Has this been a thing and we just missed it? Or is this a sign of our increasingly-online gaming future where even the back of a copy of the PS4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts has to provide a reassurance that, hey, don’t worry, you can still play this game without an Internet connection?…

​New PS4 Game Footage Too Mighty for Puny YouTube Streaming

A new preview of Killzone: Shadow Fall is out in the wild today. Don’t go looking for it on YouTube or any other service, though. Developer Guerilla Games says that streaming just isn’t good enough for their shiny next-gen baby. It needs special treatment to be appreciated in all its glory. You can find multiplayer…

You Can Be Revived While Falling In Battlefield 4 (And Other Myths)

Can you imagine the ridiculous Battlefield moments arising from the fact that you can revive a falling player? Oh, nevermind that. What about the epic, heroic moments you’ll have when throwing yourself over an explosive to save your friends? This stuff and more is tested out in the latest Battlefield 4-themed mythbusting episode by DefendTheHouse—I’m…

PS4 Chief Mark Cerny Answers Fan Questions

“As a gamer, I have a weakness for JRPGs.” Oh, Mark. How you’ve warmed my cold, cynical heart. That confession is the highlight of this short Q&A with Mr. Cerny, also known as the PlayStation 4’s lead architect, but the whole thing’s interesting if you’d like to get inside the head of the guy behind…

Madden Lawsuit Settlement Mails Out the Checks in Time for Next-Gen

Just in time for the next-gen release of Madden NFL 25, lo and behold, here’s my check from the settlement of the ridiculous Madden ‘monopoly’ lawsuit—for $64.14, which is four cents less than what the game would cost, with tax, at any of the GameStops I frequent. That means, if you filed your claim by…

Call of Duty Makers Explain Why Resolution Is Lower On Xbox One

When word came out last month that upcoming dog simulator Call of Duty: Ghosts runs at a higher resolution on PS4 than it does on Xbox One, the reactions were loud and angry. Was this a launch-day anomaly, or will all multi-platform games perform better on Sony’s console? Today, the people who make Call of…

One of the World’s Best Tekken Players Is a 13 Year-Old Kid

At the recent Tekkeg Tag Tournament Global Championship in South Korea, 13 year-old Alexander “AK” Laverez sure has remarkable skills when it comes to fighting games. The young Filipino was able to beat Japan’s favorite Nobi as well as one of the top Korean player Help-Me!! Although he finished third (that means $1000 and a…

Check Out the Rejected Lightning Returns Logos

This is the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy logo. You might have also seen this logo with an all-black background. But have you ever seen the rejected ones? At a recent event in Tokyo for Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Square Enix showed off the Lightning Returns logos it didn’t end up using. Below,…

This Persona 5 “Leaked Image” Looks Really Fake

Over the weekend, a “leaked” Persona 5 image appeared on Reddit. It looks super duper fake. So, so, so fake. Did I mention that it looks fake? A Redditor said the recently uploaded Atlus teaser site looked like this for “a good minute.” If that’s the case, it was created by Japanese people who have…

The Week in Games: A Duty to Perform

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a longstanding first-Tuesday-in-November tradition, scaring off nearly every other big release that has a bunch of marketing behind it. But there are a few others of note, including a Castlevania collection and State of Decay on PC. Here’s the week in video games. Tuesday, Nov. 5 Call of Duty: Ghosts…

Next-Gen Games Will Fill Our New Consoles’ Hard Drives In No Time

The PlayStation 4’s internal hard drive is 500GB, and if you buy and start playing just two of its launch day first-person shooters this month, you may already be using more than a 10th of the drive. Welcome to a somewhat different era of console gaming. Above you’ll the see part of the back of…

Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer

You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…

Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode

Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…