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MMO-racer The Crew will be a few weeks late, arriving on December 2 instead of November 11, Ubisoft announced in a blog post. Good news is that this means there will be another closed beta test, which Ubisoft says they’re planning to carry out in November, this time on the PS4 and the Xbox One.

A Video Game Trying Its Damnedest to Be the Most Otaku Thing Ever

Two hours. At most, three. That’s all the time you’ll need to blaze through a trippy video game hallucination that zips players through everything from old-school NES games through Akira and Sailor Moon. It’s probably the most otaku thing you’ll do all year. Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day is the video game component of Short Peace,…

Sony is “Working Diligently” on The Last Guardian

Sony bossman Shuhei Yoshida sounds enthusiastic and confident on the future of Sony’s flagship game console, and then tiptoes around an obvious question. Last month’s Tokyo Game Show was an upbeat affair for Sony – what with this being the first TGS after the Japanese release of the PlayStation 4 – and Pres Yoshida was…

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood: The Kotaku Review

I was very, very close to advising you not to bother with Watch Dogs‘ big downloadable episode Bad Blood I was in a weird predicament, because, up until a couple of weeks ago, I’d barely played any of Watch Dogs, even though it came out last spring. I’d heard about (and read) some pretty negative…

The Combat In Shadow Of Mordor Sure Feels Familiar (In A Good Way)

The enjoyable fighting system in the superb Warner Bros.-published Lord of the Rings game Shadow of Mordor is clearly inspired by the enjoyable fighting system in the superb Warner Bros.-published Batman Arkham games. Let’s compare, shall we? I captured a battle in Shadow of Mordor off of my PS4 earlier this week. Take a look:…

Good news and bad news, Skullgirls fans: the 2D fighting game’s third DLC character, the Egyptian-inspired sorta-blood-mage Eliza, is out now on PC and PS3, free for the next three months. The game’s Vita and PS4 versions, however, have been postponed to early 2015. Look above for a taste of Eliza’s fighting style.

How The Dead Space Saga Lost Its Way

The Dead Space series was riding high after the release of Dead Space 2 in 2011, having become one of the most highly-rated horror series of all time. Even today, people still praise Dead Space 2 as an incredible horror game. Unfortunately, Dead Space 3 was poorly received. What happened? How did Dead Space go…

Shadow of Mordor isn’t just a surprisingly good game. It also has the most romantic stealth-game tutorial of all time. We couldn’t help but share this image from the beginning of the game. (Disregard the bottom line of text—that’s just a subtitle.)

​One Small Tweak Makes Vita Remote Play So Much Better

I haven’t been the biggest fan of the PlayStation Vita’s remote play function. It sounds great in theory—use your Vita to stream games from your PS4, play games in bed or on the go! But it never works quite like I want it to. One of the issues for me has been lag, but lately,…

PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down

Goodnight, sweet prince. You were… you, um… well at least you tried. PlayStation Home, Sony’s long-running (though never exactly beloved) attempt at creating a PlayStation 3 social hub one part Xbox Live and one part Second Life, is finally being put out to pasture. There, on March 31st, 2015, it will presumably be shot, with…

​Phew, Ex-WipEout Devs’ New Racing Game Looks Just Like WipEout

WipEout games have been synonymous with PlayStation platforms ever since the PS1. When Sony closed the studio responsible for the futuristic racing series in 2012, it looked like the PS4 wouldn’t be getting a WipEout game. But it—and the Xbox One—might be. Sort of. Formula Fusion—a newly announced game from R8, a new collective made…

A good, new five-minute Assassin’s Creed: Unity video shows how the November sequel’s new role-playing-game-like character customization system works. It also helpfully shows how the game’s 2/3/4-player co-op works. Lots of gameplay footage!

​Your PC Must Be This Nefarious To Run The Evil Within

Old-school survival horror fans have been waiting for the next game from the creator of Resident Evil for a little while. It’s almost here so let’s take a look at how much of an abomination your PC will need to be to run The Evil Within well. The PC version of The Evil Within isn’t…

Here’s a deep dive into Dragon Age: Inquisition, via a panel at this week’s Eurogamer Expo. The 30-minute presentation—which starts at 10:43 in the video below—offers up some insights as to the artistic goals of the game and how you’ll be able to switch things up in combat.

Frikkin’ sick! OlliOlli2, a sequel to awesome sidescrolling skate game OlliOlli, will be coming to PlayStation platforms next year. The follow-up will have a new art style and a new local multiplayer mode too. You can find out more here.

Tetsuya Nomura Talks Kingdom Hearts III, But Is Quiet on FFXV

Square Enix recently revealed that Tetsuya Nomura is no longer helming Final Fantasy XV. Now he can work on getting Kingdom Hearts III out quickly. “We’re regularly meeting schedule deadlines.” Nomura said in an interview with Weekly Famitsu. “Unfortunately, due to the engine, there are areas on the visual side where we’re struggling.” Talking about…

Six Wild Metal Gear Solid V Fan Theories

With TGS and a handful of new Metal Gear Solid V footage behind, Outside Xbox’s clip weaves further the web of never ending fan theories about the game’s plot and the characters’ backgrounds. All of them sound a bit crazy and compelling, but my favorite is the one that says the mute sniper Quiet is…

Final Fantasy XV’s Road Trip, As Imagined By The Internet

The dudes of Final Fantasy XV have a sweet ride in the TGS trailer and they’re clearly gonna use it. And while the internet reacted to it, there’s always room for photoshops of them gawking at various things. Oh the places they will go! In this hashtag, Twitter has taken upon itself to ‘shop the…

PlayStation TV Is Out In October

PlayStation TV, the set-top box that will play some Vita games, PS3 games, and PS4 games via Remote Play, comes to North America on October 14, Sony confirmed today. It’ll be $100 for the box, or $140 for a bundle with an 8GB memory card, the LEGO Movie video game, and a DualShock 3. The…

What Do Pac Man‘s Ghosts Taste Like?

Pac Man has been spending decades chowing down on stuff. Eating seems to come so naturally to him I never stopped to consider if he enjoys the taste of everything he eats. Apparently, neither have his owners. During the Q&A session at a presentation of the upcoming Pac Man game, Pac Man and the Ghostly…