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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 -
Kotaku East
China Does Not Require Region Locked Consoles
Back when the Xbox One was announced for China, one thought came to mind: would it be region locked? When the console was released earlier this year, it was region locked and completely neutered. Now, it turns out, the region locking put into effect by Microsoft might have been self-imposed. Sina games reports that over…
By Eric Jou Published December 29, 2014 -
PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage [Update]
Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3. Update: Sony points to disruptive traffic as the cause of its network issue. While a tweet posted early this morning gave PlayStation Network users…
By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2014 -
Christmas Will Last Longer In GTA Online, Due To Xbox Live, PSN Outages
Rockstar Games has changed its plans and decided to continue to give out Christmas gifts in Grand Theft Auto Online at least a day after Christmas, since so many players were unable to grab them on the 25th. The studio just announced this on Twitter following a day full of questions (including from us) about…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 26, 2014 -
Day After Christmas Outage, Xbox Live Back, PSN Down For Maintenance
Xbox Live is working across the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms this morning, a day after the service was down for many. But the PlayStation Network was down for “maintenance” on the PlayStation 4, according to a system message. Xbox Live appeared to come back to something close to normal functionality late Christmas night,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 26, 2014 -
Xbox Live And PlayStation Network Knocked Offline For Much Of Christmas [Update 3]
We hope you weren’t planning to play many games online on Christmas. Xbox users in North America and Europe are having difficulties logging into Xbox Live today, and PlayStation owners are suffering similar problems. Some Internet troublemakers are claiming they knocked both offline. Bah humbug to this. While most of our team are away from…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 25, 2014 -
Sony’s The Interview Now On Xbox Store, Coming To PlayStation Network [UPDATE]
Sony Pictures’ controversial comedy The Interview, pulled from theatrical release last week in the fallout of a massive hack of the studio, is now officially viewable in a variety of places, among them, on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. Above is a screencap of Microsoft’s Xbox Video service on the Xbox One, where you can watch the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 24, 2014 -
Destiny Glitch Tells An Unexpected Story
It’s not too often that a glitch plays out as more than just a funny moment or even an exploitable trick. But this Destiny glitch is…exceptional. Player leftyfl1p shares the video above that tells the story of Billy, the adventurous Thrall that wanted to lead his fireteam to a chest filled with potential armor and…
By Tina Amini Published December 24, 2014 -
Assassin’s Creed Initiates, the semi-reliable web-based service used to track players’ progress in Assassin’s Creed games, will be down for extended maintenance over the holidays according to Ubisoft, which is making—good news—all those Initiates-tied gold treasure chests accessible to all players with online connections. (The chests usually require players to be at certain Initiates ranks…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 24, 2014
