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Borderlands 2 Is Getting a GOTY Edition This October
2K Games announced an all-encompassing Game of the Year package deal for their first-person shooter-RPG, Borderlands 2 Priced at $60, the pack will include, in addition to the main game, every piece of content tied to the Borderlands 2 Season Pass and the Premiere Club. Here’s the full list, courtesy of 2K Games’ press release:…
By András Neltz Published August 28, 2013 -
Lost Planet 3 Tells A Surprisingly Good Story. Here’s How.
After reading his review, I sat down with Evan to play through a mission in Lost Planet 3. It’s a surprisingly fun and well-made game, and now you can see it for yourself! Lost Planet 3 is out today on Xbox 360, PS3 and personal computers.
By Steve Marinconz Published August 27, 2013 -
Sony Is On A Roll With These WTF PlayStation Ads
Last time we checked into Latin American ads, we saw Sony try to sell people on PlayStation products using a most unusual premise. Oh, but it seems that it’s not the only ad in the campaign! So. The ad above? It translates to, “You won’t care if your boyfriend doesn’t call while playing.” Hmm, is…
By Patricia Hernandez Published August 27, 2013 -
Rockstar: Sony’s PS4 GTA V Tweet Was Just A Typo [UPDATE]
Today, Sony stirred up some speculation by tweeting about GTA V coming to PlayStation 4. But Rockstar Games tells us that was just a typo. Anyone who’s seen the impressive videos and screenshots of September’s Grand Theft Auto V has probably wondered if the game will come to next-gen consoles. Rockstar, however, has talked only…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 27, 2013 -
Japan’s Virtual Singing Superstar Finally Made It To America
Time to put your money where your mouth is, Hatsune Miku fans! Sega asked if we wanted to bring the virtual diva’s PlayStation 3 game to the West, and now here we are — Project Diva F launches today on the PlayStation 3 and PSN. Packed with Japanese songs sung by computer generated voices and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 27, 2013 -
Killer Is Dead Makes Absolutely No Sense
Suda51’s new game, Killer Is Dead, is another entry into his long history of games filled with murder and scantily clad women. The gameplay can get very frustrating, but not so much that I didn’t want to keep going to find out what the next insane mission would be about. Killer Is Dead is out…
By Steve Marinconz Published August 27, 2013 -
Producer Moved To Tears Over Launch Of Reborn Final Fantasy XIV
During the Tokyo launch event for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, game producer Naoki Yoshida fought (and lost) a constant battle against tears as he thanked fans for their patience, apologized for server issues and looked back on three years of re-developing a failed game. At least that’s what the folks at Dualshockersare saying…
By Mike Fahey Published August 27, 2013 -
In Case You Forgot, The Last of Us Is A Damn Good Game
You could probably show me a 30 second clip of any part of The Last of Us and I’d be able to remember all the good (or horrific?) times I had with it. The talented Luke Ritson, who composes alternative trailers for video games, strung together these select clips for a summary of Naughty Dog’s…
By Tina Amini Published August 27, 2013 -
$150 Version of GTA V Lets You Play Online as Niko Bellic’s Son
The surprisingly-grand Grand Theft Auto Online, which launches on October 1, will let you pick your parents as you sculpt the character you play. Would you like to be playing as the son of GTA IV‘s protagonist? You can. According to Rockstar, one of the perks of purchasing the $150 Collector’s Edition of the game…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 27, 2013 -
This Could Easily Be The Launch Trailer For A Solo Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn launches today, and this trailer punctuates one of the biggest improvements to come from several years of vigorous retooling: it feels more like a numbered FF game. It’s not that the original Final Fantasy XIV didn’t have a real story — it’s just there was so much extraneous crap…
By Mike Fahey Published August 27, 2013 -
A cloth map, a guide book, a compass and three CDs — yum. Celebrating more than 25 years of mispronunciation, XSEED is bringing a special collector’s edition of Ys: Memories of Celceta to the PlayStation Vita this holiday season. It’ll be $59.99, and I bet it will smell amazing.
By Mike Fahey Published August 26, 2013 -
Giant-Robot Call of Duty Still Looking Like The Coolest Call of Duty
Today’s new trailer for the upcoming and final Call of Duty: Black Ops II expansion, Apocalypse, once again shows why the world would benefit from an old World War I trench warfare planes-and-blimps-and-giant-robot Call of Duty. Just look at this GIF we pulled from it! It’s from the map pack’s latest co-op zombies mission, entitled…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2013 -
‘If fighting games didn’t exist, I’d have probably gotten into Karate’
Our weekly Quick Q&A series is only ever four questions long, which should make it the perfect format for a man who came up with a minimalist fighting game that requires only two buttons. Today, that man, Adam Heart answers our four questions and poses one to you. 1. Your new fighting game, Divekick, has…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2013 -
Hideo Kojima Keeps It Short And Sweet For His 50th Birthday
All-star game designer Hideo Kojima turned 50 on Saturday, so consider this a belated happy birthday to the Metal Gear mastermind and your opportunity to wish him a happy 50th. What did the man himself have to say about 50? Not a ton. He tweeted this early Monday morning in what was either a delayed…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2013 -
Grand Theft Auto V: Do We Really Want to Know?
This is an article about spoilers, though there won’t be any spoilers in it. This is a piece about Grand Theft Auto V but really about what we—what you—want to know or not know. This is a piece about knowledge, about information. It’s about that seeming law of physics that guarantees that secrets can and…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 26, 2013 -
Sony Acknowledges Grand Theft Auto V Leak, Says It’s Sorry
Sony has acknowledged—and apologized for—a leak of Grand Theft Auto V files yesterday that revealed the game’s main theme and its soundtrack, among other details., potentially. “We sincerely apologize to Rockstar and GTA fans across the world who were exposed to the spoiler content,” Sony said on the official PlayStation blog. Yesterday, a digital file…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2013 -
PlayStation Exec Explains Why They Keep Taking Shots at Xbox One
Andrew House, the Sony top executive who took another swipe at Microsoft and the Xbox One from the stage at Gamescom, has explained why Sony has made such arch references to the competition at its showcase events. Basically, Microsoft made them do it. “We constructed our E3 presentation because there was somehow a suspicion that…
By Owen Good Published August 24, 2013 -
Reviews
Disney Infinity: The Kotaku Review
Disney Infinity is a wonderful way for children of all ages to indulge their desire to create and explore, but are all of these colorful pieces ofexpensive plasticreally necessary? Setting aside the game’s creativity-exercising segment for the moment, let’s consider the origin of Disney Infinity. The game’s roots lie in 2010’s Toy Story 3: The…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2013 -
A Longer Look At Multiplayer Shooting On PS4
I’ve always enjoyed Killzone multiplayer, in particular the general sense of heaviness as everyone lumbers around the battlefield. In this new video from Gamescom, Game Informer chats with Shadow Fall game director Steven ter Heide about how multiplayer will work in the PS4 launch game. Crucial takeaways: 24 players, lots of game customization options, no…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 23, 2013