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Valkyria Chronicles Holds Up Pretty Well

Today, Valkyria Chronicles comes to PS4, and if you’re looking for a new strategy-RPG, you could do far, far worse. Although the folks at Sega haven’t added anything to this new remastered version of the 2008 PS3 game, they didn’t really need to. Thanks to some fantastic art direction and a really cool battle system,…

Let’s Talk About That One Scene In Uncharted 4

If you’ve started playing Uncharted 4, by now you’ve probably gotten up to that scene. The secret one. You know, the one in chapter four. SPOILER WARNING: DON’T GO FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED PAST CHAPTER FOUR OF UNCHARTED 4 In the fourth chapter of Uncharted 4, after a hearty dinner of noodles that don’t…

When An Entrance In Overwatch Goes Wrong

Poor Zenyatta. He had a whole match ahead of him, but Roadhog said no. Never meditate right in front of the entrance. via standardissue

A Technical Look At What Makes Uncharted 4 So Pretty

Uncharted 4 is, without a doubt, the best-looking video game I’ve ever played. Here’s an in-depth analysis of how the folks at Naughty Dog pulled it off. The good people at Digital Foundry put together this semi-spoilery video—don’t watch it unless you want to see some of the locations and set-pieces in Uncharted 4—that digs…

Custom Dark Souls 3 PS4 Was Crafted Using Wood and Metal

A Dark Souls 3-themed Playstation 4 can’t just be a generic plastic box. it has to be faithful to the game, either made of wood or metal. Or both. Belgian console wizard Vadu Amka used polished rosewood and brushed aluminium to give this lucky PS4 a dark, medieval Dark Souls look with coppery reflections. Looks…

Uncharted 4: The Kotaku Review

For a worrisome amount of time, Uncharted 4 feels like little more than a familiar, obligatory sequel, existing the way Mario Karts and Halos do to continue bolstering one faction in the ongoing console wars. Excellent, fresh ideas for these kinds of automatic sequels are not a prerequisite. Thankfully, after nine chapters, Uncharted 4 dramatically…

Google’s Self-Driving Car Goes Wild In GTA V

An autonomous, self-driving car in Los Santos? What could go wrong? YouTuber pizzaforbreakfast made a clip imagining how this new technology would work in the precisely designed environment of GTA AI drivers. It’d be a disaster. Although, on second thought, it’s not much different from GTA Online To contact the author of this post, write…

Watch Us Play Push Me Pull You

We played some Push Me Pull You on our Facebook page today. It’s a PS4 game that basically asks what would happen if CatDog joined the high school wrestling team. If you missed the stream, you can catch up on it here.

The Creators of Burnout Are Making A Game That’s Even More Chaotic

“We just call it a mess simulator,” the ever-quotable game developer Alex Ward was saying as his colleague Chris Roberts (the other Chris Roberts) was playing their upcoming game in Kotaku’s New York City office during a visit last week. That chaotic game, Dangerous Golf, is indeed about making messes… by using a golf ball…

Fallout 4‘s World Map As A Globe

Suddenly, Fallout 4‘s Commonwealth, which feels pretty big in first-person view, shrinks when we can see most of it from above. An awesome idea from kidaXV, who used a panorama photo stitcher on 45 carefully selected screenshots to make this unique projection. Slightly bigger pic above, and there’s an even larger one (it’s 50 MB…

The Ratchet & Clank Movie Is A 90 Minute Cutscene Looking For A Game

What works as a series of video game cutscenes doesn’t necessarily work as a feature film. The Ratchet & Clank movie is living proof. “The movie is going to be amazing,” I thought to myself as I played through theexcellent film-based Ratchet & Clank game earlier this month. Snippets from the movie sprinkled between the…

It’s Cool When A Multiplayer Game Breaks A Language Barrier 

One of the great things about multiplayer games is how effectively you can communicate with people, even when you don’t speak each other’s language. You can race over sand dunes together in Journey. You can clear bounties in Destiny. Or take the moment the clip above. In that short video, you’ve got me, an American,…

Dead Star’s Escape Mode Let Us Relive The Best Episode Of Battlestar Galactica

You can invade people’s games in the Souls games, Dying Light, and Watch Dogs, but, until last week, Mike Fahey and I had never done an invasion quite like the Battlestar Galactica-inspired one we did in Dead Star With the help of the game’s developers at Armature, we dove into the Escape Run mode in…

GTA V Player Pulls Off Absurd Stunts With A Vespa Bike

The Enduro bike isn’t the only suitable vehicle in GTA V for wild custom stunt maps. The Vespa bike might be sluggish, but when handled correctly it’s a good choice for parkour maps as well. This is Dark Stunter, showing his skills and sliding through a pretty technical scooter trial, in record time. To contact…

Dark Souls As A 1996 PlayStation Game

The graphics would be simpler, but the aesthetics, boss tactics and the overall experience would be similarly painful. Or at least that’s what Veselekov and his friends imagined, if Dark Souls III was released back in 1996, after the first PlayStation’s launch. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Supergiant’s Audacious New Game Pyre Is Sort Of A Mystical Sports RPG

After making two terrific action RPGs, the people behind Bastion and Transistor are throwing a curveball with their new game Pyre. Now they’re making a party-based RPG in which the battles play out like three-on-three sports competitions. You’ll see how that works in the video above, as Supergiant developer Greg Kasavin walks us through a…

I Am Setsuna, Square-Enix’s new, remarkably Chrono Trigger-like RPG, will be out on PS4 and PC (through Steam) on July 19. Richard spent a lot of time playing the game’s Japanese version; head over here for his impressions

Judging by this tweet, and confirmed by an official statement to Polygon, it looks like Sony’s starting to roll out two-factor verification for PSN accounts.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The Kotaku Review

Good morning, everyone! Welcome to Kotaku’s review of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Since the two of us—Jason and Kirk—have already spent a ton of time talking about Danganronpa, we figured we’d team up to review the sequel together. [This review originally ran on 9/02/2014. We’ve bumped it up in light of the 2016 PC port…

Dark Souls 3 Party Steamrolls Everything With Armor Of Thorns

That’s a lot of players getting rolled to death. The “Armor of Thorns” is a special set in Dark Souls III, covered in thorns, that does damage when rolling into enemies. The damage is minimal, but not when a whole group of players are wearing it in 4v1 pvp. Iron Pineapple and his friends teamed…