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Two Words No Gamer Wants To See During An Intro Sequence

Before or after? Sure, what the hey. During? Nooooo. The intro sequence to a video game sets both the stage and the tone of what’s to come, and Sen no Kiseki does it in a bad way. Walking around at TGS this year, I’d noticed a lot of people carrying bags bearing the logo of…

Sony’s PS4 Demo Consoles Look Great

The image you’re seeing here was posted this morning by PlayStation Germany’s Facebook page. It’s a PS4 demo unit, complete with big TV, games, two controllers and a camera. Smart move not just including two controllers (for stuff like FIFA), but also those big guides to PlayStation Plus and the Vita. Actually including a Vita…

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is dated for Japan. Out December 26, it will also include “The Eternal Calm” and “Last Mission.” No word about a Western release.

Report: College Students Forced To Make the PlayStation 4 [Update]

While the PlayStation 3 was originally produced in Japan, Sony now outsources its hardware assembling to the Asian electronics mega-manufacturer Foxconn. So, the PlayStation 4 is being made in China. And according to reports, thousands of college students were forced to manufacture it. Shanghai’s Dongfang Daily (via China.com) reports that “thousands” of students from Xi’an…

Illegal PS4 Preorder Scheme Sounds Nasty

SimplyGames, a retailer in the UK, has been in the news this week after it emerged it was trying to strongarm customers preordering a PS4 into spending more money. Here’s what’s happened: customers who originally preordered just a PS4 from SimplyGames were told last week that in order to remain in the “line” for their…

Beyond: Two Souls Is Better With A Friend

Hopefully you could tell from my decidedly mixed review of Beyond: Two Souls whether or not the game is for you. And if it is for you, a piece of advice: Consider bringing a friend. Beyond can be played from start to finish in 2-player local co-op. I found that I had a much better…

Multiplayer Isn’t So Massive Anymore

Bungie seems to have coined the term “shared world shooter” for their newest IP, Destiny, but the general concept might sound familiar. While not everyone may be a fan of huge MMOs, lots of people seem to be into multiplayer gaming and downsized, explorable worlds where you can play with a relative handful of other…

Intense Portal Short Film Will Give You Chills, For Science

Considering the fact that it’s a fan-made short put together for under $500, Portal: Survive has some truly incredible moments. Creators Colin and Connor McGuire shot the short film at the Los Angeles Youtube Space, a specialized production facility created for exactly this sort of thing. Based on both the game and its tie-in comic,…

Square Enix just released new screenshots for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII You can catch a glimpse of Vanille, the battle screen and some insane costumes. Lightning’s shoes and dimension gate-looking shield, for example, are just mad stylish. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

XCOM Has Changed. See For Yourself.

Strategy games have a tendency to straddle an area between slow, decisive moves and the chaos of action happening seemingly out of your hands and all around you. Some strategy games are slower-paced than others. As tense as things can get in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, it’s more or less leaned towards the ease of turn-based…

Glitch Turns GTA V Into An Accidental Bloodbath

In this dramatic Grand Theft Auto V cutscene, Michael and his friend Trevor have a heated conversation. A stupid-AI bug makes it even more so. Warning: This clip might contain spoilers, blood. The bug has police officers firing on both characters as they talk at Michael’s house. If only the cops could’ve given a fuck…

Shadow of the Colossus is free to PlayStation Plus subscribers tomorrow Just in case there’s someone out there who hasn’t bought it already.

Wrecked GTA Car Still Runs Pretty Well

I’m not entirely sure how this pile of junk is still functioning, but I’m also not sure I want to know. Because it’s magical and magical things deserve to be preserved in their mystery. YouTuber MetalDevils hows us how to get a fancy sports car in GTA Online all banged up while still working. Basically…

Saints Row Does Relationships Better Than Most Video Games

If you find yourself discussing the merits of relationships represented in video games, you’ll probably find a lot of people bringing up BioWare games as examples to follow. The Saints Row series doesn’t seem like a serious suggestion considering, well, how unserious those games are. And yet if you look beyond the dick jokes and…

Beyond: Two Souls: The Kotaku Review

In Beyond: Two Souls, you‘ll do some things you rarely get to do in video games. You’ll control a young, frightened girl as she hugs a stuffed animal and tries to fend off nightmares. You’ll decide whether to accept beer at an awkward high-school party, and you’ll try to pick music that’ll impress a group…

Ninja Gaiden‘s cyborg vs. zombies spin-off is coming to PC. Tecmo Koei announced this morning that the Steam version of Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be launching day-and-date with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions in early 2014. Thank goodness. Ninja Gaiden and PCs go together like … you know.

5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall

We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…

The PlayStation 5 Probably Won’t Be a Console, Says Tekken Producer

This fall, the PlayStation 4 will finally be released. Enjoy that physical media playing game console thingy! As one game producer says, it could be the last of its kind for PlayStation. In a recent interview in Famitsu, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada of Namco Bandai talked a bit about the future of the PlayStation, its…

What Is Disgaea? A Beginner’s Guide To Tactical Role-Playing Bliss

Years after everyone has caught all the latest Pokemon and the credits roll on Ellen Page, people will still be playing tone of this week’s more low-profile release — Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness. What is Disgaea, you ask? Let me explain. If you’re unfamiliar with Nippon Ichi Software’s ten-year-old PlayStation-centric series, don’t feel too…

Lost Planet 3 Needed More Crazy “Capcom-Style” Moments, Says Developer

Lost Planet 3 wasn’t perfect. But, despite being an overly familiar shooter, the story it told and the main character that players controlled manage to feel more meaningful than most other action-centric games out there. It felt like the cast’s relationships to each other and their own feelings were at stake. It also felt like…