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PS Vita Price Cut to $199; Memory Cards Reduced, Too [Update]

The price PlayStation Vita’s price has dropped to $199 in North America and 199EU. It takes effect immediately. Sony also is trimming the price of the Vita’s proprietary memory cards in both regions. The 32GB and 16 GB memory cards both will get $20 reductions—dropping to $79.99 for the 32GB and $39.99 for the 16GB.…

Gran Turismo 6 will launch on Dec. 6 for PlayStation 3. The game will feature concept vehicles exclusive to Gran Turismo 6 made by several automotive and non-automotive brands alike, and in some cases these concept cars will be manufactured in the real world.

Our First Look At The PlayStation 4’s Menus In Action

Today at Gamescom, Sony demonstrated the PlayStation 4’s menus and interface for the first time. Also, they unveiled a lovely leather chair! Sony president Shuhei Yoshida kicked off Sony’s Gamescom conference sitting in a high-backed leather chair and navigating the PS4’s user interface, hopping between a number of different functions and firing up a game…

Watch Sony’s Big PS4 Press Conference Live, Right Here [Update: It’s Over]

Sony is in Germany talking all things PS4—games, release date, etc.—and we’ve got a stream for you right here. UPDATE: Conference is over. Original post follows: Maybe we’ll even hear some Vita news. Price cut? New games? Robot-transforming mode? Check out the embed below for a live look at Sony’s big GamesCom press conference, which…

Battlefield 4 Is Doing Its Best To Impre–Watch Out For That Ship!

This is what competition gets you. It gets you a development studio, DICE, trying to convince you that they are making the best military first-person shooter of the year. Today, they’ve made their latest pitch while uttering the word someone in their studio or in the EA marketing team cooks up the word—”Levolution”—in order to…

The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.

Minions! Moral Decisions! Dragon Age Inquisition Is Sounding Good.

Is the third time going to be the charm for BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise? If this dev diary is accurate to how the game is turning out, it just might! You’re an inquisitor. You run the place. You send minions on quests. You make moral decisions. And the game you’re in looks damn good. Inquisition…

These Courtroom Battles Put Ace Attorney to Shame

I spent a lot of last week watching anime in an attempt to find the five anime you should be watching this summer. One of these is based on the popular Japanese PSP title, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. And as it felt like the anime was just spoiling the game, I decided I had to…

This Is Why We Love Spelunky

Spelunky is finally out on the PC, and it’ll be out on PS3 and Vita on August 27th. Chris Person and I sit down to play through the game and explain why we like this game enough that I bought wired controllers to hook up to my PC instead of just playing it on the…

A Possibly-Drunk Ric Flair Made This WWE 2K14 Panel Extra-Entertaining

The best thing 2K Sports has done for pro wrestling games so far is assemble this incredible panel consisting of Jim Ross, Dolph Ziggler, Daniel Bryan (he was robbed last night!), Rey Mysterio, Steve Austin, Paul Heyman, Mick Foley and a seemingly intoxicated Ric Flair. Jump about 40 minutes in for the good stuff. 2K,…

Saints Row IV In 20 Minutes

Only one more day until you can get your hands on Saints Row IV! So you can kill 20 of the minutes between now and then by watching us run around and show off some highlights of the game. In the video we jump through various parts of the game, so if you want to…

Quick Q&A: ‘We have to stop underestimating gamers.’

Since she stepped away from producing Assassin’s Creed games at Ubisoft Montreal, Jade Raymond has had a lower profile in the gaming scene. This week, Raymond is back, having overseen development of the new Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the first major game from her new Ubisoft Toronto studio. She’s got four answers for us today…and one…

I propose a new rule: no releasing “launch” trailers until the game has actually launched. Now I have to watch this over and over again until The Bureau: XCOM Declassified actually launches, which is tomorrow. Hmph.

About That Disney Infinity Review…

In a perfect world, this image would have a little yellow circle in the top left corner, and this article would be titled: Disney Infinity: The Kotaku Review. Unfortunately, this is not the case. First off, shipping issues kept the proper version of Disney’s ambitious toys meets video games project from arriving until Friday morning.…

PS3 Version of Disney Infinity Locking Up, Short-Term Fix Available [UPDATE]

The ambitious new game Disney Infinity is freezing and becoming unplayable for multiple PlayStation 3 users, including two Kotaku editors today. The game’s producer has recommended that PS3 users delete the game’s day-one 1.01 patch. That solution is helping, though online play won’t be available without the patch. We’ve seen some threads on the official…

12GB PS3: Best Buy, in the U.S., is now listing a 12GB configuration for the PlayStation 3. This model appeared about a year ago in PAL territories in lieu of a 250GB version under the console’s latest design. It’s going for $199.99. [Update: It has an official page.]

How Much Is Disney Infinity Going To Cost You?

Disney’s collectible toy video game platform launches tomorrow, which means parents and fans will be raiding video game aisles across the country to score the initial wave of toys and playsets. How much money should they bring? All of it. First thing you’re going to need, whether you’re a curious gamer or a haggard parent,…

Tales of Xillia The Kotaku Review

Tales of Xillia is pretty awesome. You should totally play it. That’s exactly the sort of review I would have written back in 1995 had I played the very first game in Namco’s long-running role-playing series, Tales of Phantasia, on the Super Famicom. I would have tweaked the wording slightly for each subsequent game, maybe…

Infinity Ward: PC Call of Duty Will Look Better Than Next-Gen One

The PC version of November’s Call of Duty Ghosts will be getting a little extra development love, according to the game’s executive producer, Mark Rubin. As a result, it is probably going to be the best-looking version of the game, which has not been a given with this series. “PC is taking a different tack…

Release Date Announcement: We just got word from Square Enix that Thief will release on February 25 of next year. You can watch the new Gamescom trailer released in tandem with the news right here.