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There’s a pretty cool glitchy trick in GTA V that makes planes on the ground take off and chase you around the map. The only thing you need is one of the super cars and a little preparation. It is explained in detail how to pull this off below in this short tutorial, made by…

Motion-Controlled Gaming Is Flailing

I played the Wii for the first time at a trade show in Leipzig, Germany. The consoles were set up in tents, shielded from outside view. Standing in the queue, you’d watch people lift the folds of material in front of the entrance, walk in, then walk out with huge smiles on their faces after…

​Super Time Force: The Kotaku Review

You know how the last 60 seconds on the clock of a NBA game can take 18 actual minutes to play through because of time-outs or commercials? Super Time Force is kinda like that, only awesome instead of annoying. Super Time Force is a throwback in more ways than one. Its characters, plot and settings…

The Internet Reacts To Kinect-Free Xbox One

Starting in June, the Xbox One will be available without the Kinect, enabling Microsoft to sell the console at a cheaper price-point. It’s a controversial move that many were hoping Microsoft would eventually make—which also means it’s a move that plenty of people have opinions on. Overall, reactions mostly fall in a few camps: snark,…

A Ten Minute Crash Course In Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs finally arrives later this month. To get us all even more excited for the ambitious-sounding open-world title, Ubisoft’s has released this lengthy trailer that sums up almost everything you can do in the game’s gorgeous rendition of a near-future Chicago. Unsurprisingly, a lot of those things involve shooting and driving cars really fast—only…

Xbox Live’s Free Game Program Is Changing In Some Big Ways

Xbox Live is going the way of PlayStation Plus—starting in June, when the ‘Games with Gold’ program launches on Xbox One, free games downloaded with the program will not stay on your account if you deactivate Xbox Live Gold. So if you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, you’ll be able to get free Xbox One…

Xbox One Without Kinect, Available For Pre-Order Now

Microsoft has just announced a $399Xbox One sans Kinect. Pre-order now and check out Kotaku’s coverage here. Shipping June 9. [Xbox One, $399] This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group of deal hunters and product enthusiasts. We operate independently of Editorial to bring you the best bargains every day,…

Titanfall‘s newest patch lets PC players jack up the framerate to an “extreme” 144 fps. It also adds a lot of custom options for the new Private Match game type and a new round of game balance changes.

World’s First Alaskan Native Video Game Looks Like a Lovely Fairy Tale

Alaska is far. And cold. But, there are beautiful stories there. Like many remote places, it’s home to a rich culture that many people might never learn about. How best to tell the world the tales that come from such a place? Make a video game. The first trailer for Never Alone appeared overnight and…

What’s Up With Blizzard’s Project Titan?

PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS AND RUMORS: Microsoft big wig leaves for Blizzard | Quantic Dreams’ next two projects | A very different kind of Need for Speed that we never got On their resume, a Blizzard staffer states that they “are working a top-secret project to be unveiled sometime in 2014.” The most likely candidates…

Microsoft Pokes Halo Fans With Xbox One “Trailer”

Today, Microsoft released a trailer that, at first glance, may seem like it’s simply a video that showcases the slick design of the Xbox One hardware and interface. And really, that’s mostly what it is. But if you pay attention at the :51 second mark, you catch a quick nod to Halo 5: It’s just text.…

More Signs That Big Xbox One Leak Was Real

Some rumors are very, very fake. Others turn out to be true—and today’s Sunset Overdrive news adds yet more credence to a major Xbox leak from January that predicted a number of still-unannounced titles, including a remake of Halo 2 and a sequel to Forza Horizon In January, a user named “ntkrnl” on the message…

Sunset Overdrive Looks Fantastic In Action

I rarely get all that hyped while reading game previews, but Phil Owen’s recent preview of Insomniac’s open-world Xbox One action game Sunset Overdrive was an exception. Now we can watch it in action, and it does indeed look like a hell of a lot of fun. Basically, some sorta mixture of Dead Rising, Infamous…

Everyone in Watch Dogs Is Edgy

Meet the cast of Watch Dogs in this all-new trailer. There are a lot of guns in the clip above, no? The open-world hacking action game comes out this month.

Originally planned for a 2014 release, free-running zombie apocalypse game Dying Light is now being aimed at a February release next year. A post on the game’s official site says that developer Techland is taking more time to make Dying Light live up to their expectations.

What Excites Japanese Gamers About the Xbox One

From a rocky start to now, with over 5 million units sold, the Xbox One seems to have found its footing. Next stop, Japan. But how will Microsoft’s black monolithic hope fare in a market where its predecessors haven’t exactly enjoyed the lion’s share? Following the September 4th Japanese release date announcement, Japanese gaming mag…

For The First Time Since 1996, There’s No Need For Speed This Year

Think back. Can you remember a year when there wasn’t a Need for Speed game? The long-running racing series has punched in at least once every twelve months. It’s a bit of a surprise, then, that calendar year 2014 will come and go without a Need for Speed entry. Annual releases for the Need for…

A Behind The Scenes Look at Mortal Kombat Motion Capture

Make-up artist Tanea Brooks has released a set of pictures that show actors and actresses dressed up as Mortal Kombat characters, doing motion capture for the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection With the collection, Midway’s initial plan was to release HD remakes of the original games with new actors, and even though that’s not what happened…

You’re going to die so much when Super Time Force comes out. After giving us sublime trailers and a look at how you can play as a piece of poop, indie dev studio Capybara Games has announced that their time-rewinding action game will be out on May 14 for Xbox One and Xbox 360 .

In Defense Of Zombie Games

Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts of the console market, both offered up fresh and appropriately gory details about their respective (and exclusive) open-world games about killing the living dead—H1Z1 and State of Decay. Personally, I’m excited for both games. And…