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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds And Street Fighter V Are September’s PlayStation Plus Games

Whether you want to fight with fists or painfully realistic guns, September’s PlayStation Plus games have you covered. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. September’s PS Plus games are: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Street Fighter V Both games are available September 1 to October 5.

2000’s JRPG ‘Summer Of Adventure’ Saw Square At The Height Of Its Powers

Twenty years ago this month Square released Chrono Cross, a big, beautiful mess of a game bursting at the seams with style, atmosphere, and Japanese RPG minutia. But it wasn’t the only major game Square released that summer. The publisher also delivered Threads of Fate and Legend of Mana, two other games that riffed on…

VR Boxing Is More Fun When Punching Rocky In The Nuts

When doing the training session in PlayStation VR game Creed: Rise To Glory, take a few potshots at Rocky Balboa in the face and in the nards. The sound effects are excellent as is Rocky’s look of disappointment.

PlayStation 4’s Firewatch Theme Is My Window To A Better World

The world is cold and unfeeling, so it’s a small comfort to know I’ll always have the Firewatch theme on my PlayStation 4. I’m a pretty basic dude. I like my user interfaces clean and as free of clutter as possible. But when Campo Santo’s first-person adventure Firewatch arrived on PlayStation 4 a few years…

Everything PlayStation Announced During Today’s State Of Play

Here’s everything noteworthy that was announced, revealed, or otherwise discussed during today’s State of Play broadcast. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is a direct sequel to Crash Bandicoot: Warped It’s the first new game in the series in over a decade, and will give you the ability to play through the entire adventure as…

All Three Hitman Games Will Be Playable In VR

Revealed today during Sony’s State of Play, IO Interactive is bringing Hitman to VR. The upcoming game, as well as the previous two games in the current trilogy, will be completely playable in VR via PSVR on PS4 when it comes out January 2021.

August’s PlayStation Plus Games Are Fall Guys And Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered

You can scratch both your multiplayer and single-player itch with August’s PlayStation Plus games. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. August’s PlayStation Plus games are: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered Fall Guys will be available August 4-31, while you…

PlayStation’s New Kids Sneakers Are Gross

Sony has a long and storied record when it comes to sneaker collabs, from the classic PlayStation Air Force 1 to the more recent Paul George releases. This latest pair, though, is not going to reach those heights. Rather than releasing with long-term partners Nike (despite looking like bootleg Air Max 270 Reacts), these shoes…

Fan Builds His Own SNES x PS1 Hybrid

We’ve recently taken a very detailed look at the “Nintendo PlayStation”, perhaps the most notorious of all unreleased consoles, but something from the same era that’s even rarer is Nintendo’s repeated efforts to create a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, which ultimately came to nothing. As Chris said at the conclusion of his feature, “the…

Iron Man VR: The Kotaku Review

Iron Man feels like a perfect fit for virtual reality. In the movies, Tony Stark’s advanced armor operates like VR, with a virtual screen projected inside his helmet. So when I put on my PSVR headset and started playing Iron Man VR I felt like that famous, armor-wearing superhero. Unfortunately, I didn’t have to just…

Media Molecule’s miraculous creation tool becomes even more miraculous on June 22, when Dreams adds support for PlayStation VR. Not only will dreamers be able to create virtual reality content, but new tools will also allow them to create and sculpt objects in VR, adding a degree of immersion to playing and creating.

NBA 2K20 And Rise Of The Tomb Raider Are July’s PS Plus Games

Today’s PlayStation blog says PS Plus has been around for 10 years, which sure is a lot of years! July’s games are available July 7 to August 3, and they’re only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. July’s PS Plus games are: NBA 2K20 Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration…

Let’s Celebrate Vince Carter, The Last Active NBA Player To Appear On The Nintendo 64

The NBA’s decision to resume inside a “bubble” in Orlandomeans that the season is now officially over for some of the league’s worst teams, who weren’t invited to take part. That includes the Atlanta Hawks, bringing a bizarre end to the career of veteran star Vince Carter, who was the last active player to have…

Sony Paying Up To $50,000 To Anyone Who Reports PS4 Security Flaws

Sony rolled out a new bug bounty program yesterday that will pay up to $50,000 to any hackers who help expose a major vulnerability in the PS4. Announced over on the PlayStation Blog yesterday, the program is being run in partnership with HackerOne, which works with amateur hackers and security researchers to help make companies…

Former Sony Exec Calls For Shorter Games That Are Cheaper To Make

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Most video games are too long. This common sentiment gets batted around every few months when a new blockbuster launches with dozens of hours of “content.” Shawn Layden, former chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, seems to agree. “I would welcome the return of the 12-15…

The PlayStation PocketStation Makes For An Excellent Backpack

Remember the PocketStation? Released in Japan for the original PlayStation, it was a Memory Card peripheral outfitted with LCD screen and the ability to run software. Turns out the PocketStation’s shape works very well in backpack-form. Twitter user Yoshito created this PocketStation backpack. It’s not working or playable, of course, but does feature the white…

The Internet Reacts To The PS5 Console With Inevitable Memes

Yesterday, Sony revealed what the PlayStation 5 console looks like. Some might like it; others do not. The hardware has spawned the inevitable comparisons and memes. The PlayStation 5 does look similar to other non-gaming hardware, which Kotaku previously noted. Or that it looks like famous characters. Or architecture. Real or not. A Japanese train. Plus…

The Hits And Misses Of The PS5 Reveal Event

What were Sony’s big hits and misses in today’s PlayStation 5 reveal event? Ethan Gach and I pick the biggest reveals and point out what we’re still waiting to hear about in this video discussion. Check out the rest of Kotaku’s PlayStation 5 coverage to see what else happened in today’s big reveal.

What We Still Don’t Know About PlayStation 5 And Xbox Series X

Today saw Sony officially unveil the PlayStation 5. Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X last December. And while we already have quite enough to argue about between design choices and technical specs, there are still a few important things we don’t know about this upcoming pair of game consoles. The biggest mystery surrounding the PlayStation…

Everything Sony Announced In Today’s PS5 Event

The sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn, the eighth Resident Evil, a new Spider-Man starring Miles Morales, and a bold design for the PlayStation 5 were all on tap for Sony’s big not-E3 reveal event Thursday afternoon. Here are all the announcements. PlayStation 5 will be available in disc-based and all-digital editions when it launches this…