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A Game About Becoming A Better Person. And Claymation Birds

Not so long ago, Robin Hunicke played an instrumental role in making soothing, soulful PlayStation 3 hit Journey. Now she’s heading up a new team and picking up where she left off: Luna is a game with no killing or amassing power, just human connection and learning from mistakes. Hunicke and her new company, Funomena—composed…

Oddworld-Themed PS1 Is A Really Pretty One

Making an Oddworld-themed custom PS1 might feel unexpected at first, but both Abe’s Odyssey and Abe’s Exodus were big on the first Playstation, so Vadu Amka‘s amazing custom work is absolutely fitting. It has brand new bronze paint job, a huge “Rupture Farms” logo and some extra cogwheels to make it look like an actual…

Sony just published a list of additions it’s bringing to the PS4 with the upcoming 2.0 system update. A few neat things stand out, such as the ability to add a PS Plus game “to a PS4 owner’s library without downloading it.” Or shout, “Find face!” at your console and have it respond. Read the…

10 Minutes Of Co-Op In Far Cry 4

One thing I’m looking forward to about Far Cry 4 is the game’s interesting-sounding co-op multiplayer. Sony, which is trying to sweeten the deal by letting PS4 players invite friends who don’t own the game into the action, just released a new gameplay video showing how the game’s collaborative modes will play out. The part…

Here’s a Custom-Made $1,400 Portable PS4

It might be a pain in the ass to carry your big-screen television and PlayStation 4 around with you. So why not lug this portable PS4, instead? Dubbed the PlayBook 4, this is the work of self-taught engineer Ed Zarick, who previously did a portable Xbox One. As Kotaku UK and Eurogamer point out, the…

PlayStation’s First TV Show Is Promising Really F****d-Up Superheroes

Ok, Sony, you’ve got my attention. If you’ve read Powers—the psychologically tense police proecedural set in a special unit that deals with superhero-related crimes—then you know that it’s a series where sex, drugs and ultraviolence get tangled up in some really perverted ways. It’s only a teaser but the new trailer for the TV adaptation…

Newbie Lessons Learned After A Few More Hours Playing Diablo III

Following a four-hour Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition online co-op session with Kirk Hamilton last night (I’m a Demon Hunter, expert difficulty, was at level 50 and at the end of Act III) and still being a novice to the whole thing… Expert difficulty level is too easy for level-50 characters. (We switched to Master…

Sony just announced something called PlayStation Experience, a two-day community event that will be held for the first time in Las Vegas this December. “Attendees will sit in on in-depth panels, meet the industry’s best developers, score hands-on gameplay with tons of upcoming PlayStation games… [and] get an exclusive first look at what’s coming next…

What Sleeping Dogs Gets So Right About Being An Asian American

There’s a scene in The Godfather that really resonates with me — not because I relate to it, but because I do not. It’s when Michael has dinner with Don Sollozzo, and they begin speaking to one another in Sicilian. There are no subtitles, and the first time I watched it, I was irritated. “What…

Evolve’s “Big Alpha” Test Begins at the End of the Month

Turtle Rock Studios’ 4v1 multiplayer shooter, Evolve, will be having its closed “Big Alpha” test at the end of October. The specific dates are October 30 to November 2 for Xbox One, and October 31 to November 2 for PC and PS4. To apply, you need to fill out the form here (or here, if…

Why Pix the Cat is My New Favourite High-Score Game

You may not have realised that you need a hybrid of mobile stalwart Snake and Pac-Man: Championship Edition in your life, but gosh, you really do. Pix The Cat is a PS4/Vita game from Rayman: Jungle Run devs Pastagames, out now, and it’s wonderful. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You play as the…

Is Flame Over the Vita’s Next Indie Hit?

Flame Over is what Spelunky would be if you played as a firefighter. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK It’s damned hard, but oddly compelling; every failure strengthened my conviction that I could do better next time, even if I rarely did. It stars a little cartoony firefighter – sadly not the shirtless, charity-calendar…

How Much Money Have You Spent On Your PS4?

You’re already out 400 bucks for Sony’s newest gaming console, but you’ve likely purchased a few other accessories and games to go along with it. So in the roughly one year since it’s launched, what’s that number add up to for you? Following our format for how much money you pumped into your Xbox One,…

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The trailer for the upcoming backer-exclusive alpha version of historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance paints an idyllic picture of a medieval village. Presumably, it shows what the place was like before that corpse-packed-battlefield dealio. The game is still on track for a late 2015 release on PC, Xbox One and PS4.

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:…