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Big PS4 Announcements Coming Tonight

Get ready for E3 in November: tonight on Spike TV (and streaming here on Kotaku), Sony plans to announce a whole lot of PS4 news in honor of the console’s launch tomorrow. The show, “PS4 All Access: Greatness Awaits,” starts at 11pm Eastern, and we’ll have a stream for you up on Kotaku around then.…

South Park Takes On Xbox One vs. PS4

Last night’s South Park was all about the next-gen console war, and if you’ve ever wanted to watch a bunch of kids fight and betray one another, Game of Thrones-style, over the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, this one’s for you. The premise: Black Friday is coming, and the kids have to figure out how…

Ice-T Is Really Good At Slamming PS4 Robots On The Screen

Ice-T probably didn’t like that last night’s PS4 showcase in Late Night wasn’t about Killzone: Shadow Fall and explosions, but rather the ever-so-charming Playroom demo software. He did his part nevertheless: Here’s the full clip: The Sony PS4 Makes Its Debut [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Nice shot! Who says there’s nothing to do in Battlefield 4 while you wait for friends? Apart from the bulletproof basketball, the Frostbite 3 engine seems to be working as intended. Better try this shot with C4 next time! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots…

Our Favorite Video Game Characters of the Last Generation

Video games immerse us in worlds beyond our own, letting us encounter sights and sounds beyond our imaginations. But no matter the scenery, what would these worlds be without the characters we have fought alongside and grown emotionally attached to over the past eight years? With the impending release of the PlayStation 4, today is…

See Just How Small the Vita TV is

Yesterday you saw how Sony’s newest console stacks up to the competition but what about its little brother, the Vita TV? According to my tape measure, this little guy is only 10.5 cm x 6.5 cm (around 4 in x 2 1/2 in). Having problems imagining that? Well let’s compare it to some other video…

A Look at the PS Vita TV’s Innards

The PS Vita went on sale in Japan today. Know what that means? Somebody’s already taken the microconsole apart for your viewing pleasure. That somebody is Japanese site 4Gamer. Below you can see the console busted wide open, totally voiding the warranty. Living on the edge there, 4Gamer! PS Vita TV発売。取り急ぎ分解してみた [4Gamer] To contact the…

Here’s How To Install a Hard Drive in a PS4

The PlayStation 4 comes with a 500GB hard drive, and let’s be real—that’s not gonna be enough space for some of you. The good news is that you can upgrade it. Check out this video by gamespot, which walks you through what you need to do to swap in a new hard drive into your…

Resogun: The Kotaku Review

A twin-stick shooter with a mess of action on screen is the perfect launch title for the PS4. For the uninitiated: twin-stick shooters are pretty easy to control. One joystick moves you around, the other joystick shoots in the direction you push it. The challenge is in using these controls in the best possible way.…

Sony Promises There Won’t Be A PS4 Game Drought

Will the PlayStation 4 keep getting new games, or will it suffer through the dreaded software drought that inflicts most video game consoles during their first few months on the market? Sony is hoping—and promising—the former. Sony’s got big plans for their next PlayStation, which comes out on Friday. They want to keep pumping it…

Flower On PS3 Versus PS4

Flower is often cited as an example of how beautiful games can be. Part something about flower petals instead of guns, but it’s also to do with how beautifully the environment moved and responded to you. So, as a PS4 launch title, it’s a good example of how visuals have improved since Sony’s last generation…

Three PS4 Games, Reviewed

Whether you’re getting the PS4 at launch, in a few months’ time or never, there’s certainly one factor that’ll make your decision for you: the games. So today we’ve got three reviews for games you can pick up for the PS4 on day one. Contrast A gorgeous, granted buggy platforming game where you scale both…

Contrast: The Kotaku Review

Contrast starts off like all games of its mysterious, charming nature should: by not telling you much. You meet a little girl when the game loads up. A scene plays out and from it you understand you live in some parallel world where you can turn into a silhouette on demand. Only the little girl…

The PS4 Looks Great Compared To All Our Modern Consoles

Oh, hello, good looking. The PS4 is one sexy console, especially when stacked up next to the blocky consoles some of us may currently have sitting around our TVs. Video editor Chris and I decided to line them all up side-by-side to give you an idea of what I mean. Oh, and stick around until…

The PlayStation 4: The Kotaku Review

How good is the PlayStation 4? Ask me in five years. Ask me after Naughty Dog’s next couple of games, after I figure out whether God of War is headed in the right direction, after I learn whether it has become unfathomable to play a console game without livestreaming it. You know what? Ask me…

Knack: The Kotaku Review

Next gen visuals. Old-fashioned gameplay. The PlayStation 4 action-adventure Knack looks better than most video games you’ve played, but there’s a good chance you’ve played a game like Knack before. It’s not that I want to knock Knack. It’s a launch game. Launch games seldom offer more than what Knack offers. You get a game…

​Killzone Shadow Fall: The Kotaku Review

One thought ran through my head while playing Killzone Shadow Fall: How beautiful can a cliché look? It’s no surprise that Shadow Fall is beautiful. The Killzone games that showed up on the PS2 and PS3 offered up some of the best graphics ever seen on those consoles. So, yes, the opening hours of this…

Otherwise harmless little things, like the bunny mask from Team Fortress 2, can have a huge impact. For example, it can get someone in the Steam Community to pay homage to Hotline Miami with the game’s characters (complete with 80s sunglasses) in a really stunning way. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning,…

Need a PS4? Buy One at Sony’s NYC Launch Party

New York City Kotakuites, take note. The Standard, High Line hotel in Manhattan, previously home to the big PS4 review event, will be the site of Sony’s official PS4 launch party in NYC. There will be shenanigans. And actual PS4s—444 of them, in fact. Sony’s just announced that starting at midnight on Friday, people with…

Sony boss Kaz Hirai recently said in Shanghai that Sony is working to release its home console in China. However, Sony explained it needed to first create a retail network that can support the PS4. As TechInAsia explains, specifics like a timeline, weren’t given.