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Kotaku East
The Limited Edition Bloodborne PS4 is a tad Uninspired
After a recent delay, Darksoulslike Bloodborne will be coming out on March 26 in Japan—along with this pair of PS4 models which, uh, basically have a slight variation of the box art on them. But hey, they at least include the game. The Limited Bloodborne PS4 comes in two flavors—Jet Black: And Glacier White: It’s…
By András Neltz Published January 22, 2015 -
It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode
The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…
By Tina Amini Published January 21, 2015 -
A Tribute to Syphon Filter’s Taser
I say ‘tribute’. It’s more ‘a minute and a half of people being set on fire’, which, if you ever played the original, was one of gaming’s greatest guilty pleasures. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I think I played the original Syphon Filter demo more than some complete games on PS1. The taser…
Leon Hurley Published January 21, 2015 -
Kotaku EastSony Makes a College Class You Wouldn’t Skip
I dunno. Maybe you would skip it. But if you like video games, chances are this PlayStation university course is something you’d attend. Last fall, Kotaku reported that Sony was teaming up with Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea to offer a PlayStation college course. The class featured guest speakers and students, who sat at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2015 -
Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Dead Kings DLC Is Disappointing And Glitchy
I may not have liked Assassin’s Creed Unity very much, but I was still excited about its free expansion Dead Kings, which then went and failed on me twice in its first two missions. Damn. I had been really excited to download this thing… If something that is more than 7GB can be called a…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 14, 2015 -
Kotaku East
The PS4’s China Launch Might Have Been Delayed due to Region Locking
Like the Xbox One months before it, Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita have been delayed in China until further notice. The reasoning behind the delay? Sony needs to resubmit its business plans to the Chinese government. Sony announced last week that the PS4 and PS Vita would not make its scheduled Chinese launch date…
By Eric Jou Published January 14, 2015 -
Man Stuffs PS4 and Xbox One into a Single Laptop
Modder Eddie Zarick took one PlayStation 4 and one Xbox One and put them into one laptop. Because, why not, really. Previously, Kotaku has featured Zarick’s work, such as the custom-made PS4 laptops he created. This latest project, however, was specifically requested by one of Zarick’s customers. It took about a month to complete. According…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2015 -
Kotaku East
In Japan, The Vita Has More Upcoming Games Than Any Other Console
Overseas, the PS Vita continues to struggle, but in Japan, things are looking better for Sony’s handheld. Things have not been easy for the little portable console ever since its launch over 3 years ago. One of the biggest complaints early on after the Vita’s release was the lackluster library of games. However, since then,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published January 8, 2015 -
Delayed Assassin’s Creed Unity DLC Out Mid-January
Dead Kings, the formerly for-pay expansion to Assassin’s Creed Unity, will be released for free for all ACU players on January 13, according to a new trailer from publisher Ubisoft. But… the YouTube description initially mentioned a December 16. Hmm. Was December 16 the original release date? Ubisoft did seem to put the brakes on…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2015 -
Someone Remade MGS V: Ground Zeroes‘ Military Base In Far Cry 4
The rocky starting area, the guards patrolling around the fence, the towers and the tents, so basically almost the entire map of Ground Zeroes now has a Far Cry 4 version, thanks to modder Robert Cram And that means everything is now in first person view, and in this version, if the alarm is raised,…
By Gergo Vas Published January 6, 2015 -
New Theory About Destiny‘s Universe: Time Is A Circle
Just playing Destiny as the shooting-grind it can often amount to won’t tip you off to some of its cooler details. You might never guess the connections to the Dark Souls series or the impacts of some of its other lore. But TerraMantis is back with more things about Bungie’s latest game that you might…
By Tina Amini Published January 5, 2015 -
PlayStation Now Is Finally Getting Subscriptions
PlayStation Now, the exorbitantly expensive service that allows people to rent and play PS3 games on their PlayStation 4s, is finally taking steps to be… well, actually usable. Today Sony announced a new subscription plan for PlayStation Now that will cost far, far less than renting PS3 games piecemeal. The plan will launch on January…
By Jason Schreier Published January 5, 2015 -
Kid Calls 911 Over PlayStation Network Outage
Sony’s PSN service had some problemsover Christmas. For most this was an inconvenience, but for one kid from Florida, it was more of an emergency WPTV reportsthat a teen decided to call 911 and ask “Do you know about the whole thing that’s going on with the PlayStation Network?” The operator, unsure exactly what’s going…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 30, 2014 -
How DDoS Attacks Work, And Why They’re So Hard To Stop
Last week, eager Christmas celebrators across the world hooked up their brand new Xboxes and PlayStations only to find that both online networks were down, leaving countless new games totally unplayable. It was a particularly large piece of coal in gamers’ stockings, and while Microsoft’s service recovered after 24 hours, the PlayStation Network suffered a…
By Jason Schreier Published December 30, 2014 -
Couple Uses Abandoned Church For Perfect Final Fantasy Cosplay
This could have been superb even with just the clothes and the makeup, but cosplayers Malindachan and Ex-Shadow didn’t stop there once they learned there’s an abandoned church near their home. It became the famous Sector 5 church of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII, the perfect location for their cosplay shoot. They’re dressed as Aeris…
By Gergo Vas Published December 30, 2014 -
PSN Is Still Having Problems
Four days after an apparent denial of service attack knocked out the PlayStation Network for all of Christmas, and in the wake of a weekend during which things appeared to be working OK for most people, Sony’s online service is still unstable. About half an hour ago, we started seeing a spike of people reporting…
By Jason Schreier Published December 29, 2014
