Sony’s announced the big features coming to PlayStation 4’s upcoming 3.00 firmware update, and there’s lots to get…

A little more than 10 years ago, not long after I quit my job to become a freelance writer, a colleague warned me…

Square Enix has given a launch date of February 23 for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in a recent press release.

Sometimes I think a golden age of DLC was kicked off by The Ballad of Gay Tony for Grand Theft Auto IV. Minerva’s Den…
Until Dawn is fantastic, and the horror premise is readymade for streaming and Let’s Plays. Who lives? Who dies?…
Some PlayStation 4 owners are having trouble playing their digitally pre-ordered copies of Until Dawn, and Sony says it’s looking into it. “Our store team is currently investigating the issue,” the company wrote on its support forums. Bummer. Read more
There are some great games coming your way next week.
My wife and I fell for one another while drinking crappy beer and watching horror movies of questionable quality.…
The next major firmware update for PlayStation 4 owners is coming in the near future, but Sony’s looking for beta testers. If you’d like to sign up and have a sneak preview of what’s coming, sign up over here. Everything kicks off in early September. Read more

ZombiU was a fantastic game when it launched alongside the Wii U. Years later, it’s arrived on other platforms with…

Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an…

Last year, before E3, and back when Dambuster Studios was still called Crytek Nottingham and hadn’t been sold to…

Starting on Thursday, PlayStation owners can help decide one of the free games offered alongside PlayStation Plus…

The insult of “walking simulator,” lobbed at video games whose strongest elements are exploration, discovery, and…
Tom Bissell is the author of my favorite book on video games, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, which I called “th…
Capcom’s announced that Mega Man Legacy Collection will arrive on August 25 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC for $14.99. The 3DS version, unfortunately, won’t hit until early 2016. The company is promising physical editions of the collection, too, but there aren’t any details yet. Read more

I want to close out my time as your Kotaku ancient sentient robot weekend overlord with a final, Zen-like moment,…

Batman: Arkham Knight sets up from the beginning to be one of the best Batman stories out there—and then it falls…
It’s called Vote to Play, and I’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty cool. There are some catches, of course.

There have been rumors of Ubisoft porting the excellent Wii U launch title ZombiU to other platforms for a while,…