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Nobody Actually Knows How They Solved The Silent Hill Teaser

People beat the cryptic P.T. PlayStation 4 horror demo. They discovered that it was a teaser for Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills. End of story, right? Not even close. How does P.T. actually work? What makes its individual parts churn together? Are there Silent-Hill-related secrets throughout, and if so how do you…

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Is a Throwback to Classic JRPGs

Tied together by a beautiful Japanese watercolor art style, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines mixes RPG dungeon crawling and multi-generational breeding to create a gaming experience that will have classic JRPG fans giddy with joy. Good – A Story You Make Yourself In Oreshika, you play as a family whose members are cursed to live their entire…

Why Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Is a Game Made of Memories

Let me tell you a story. There once was a girl name Hiko. She was the first child born under her family’s curse. Her father was, well, me. Her mother was a low level fire goddess. In her first few months of life, I trained her to use my own weapon: a naginata. A few…

PlayStation’s Twitch Channel Is A Little… Inappropriate

Did Sony get hacked? Did someone working for their Twitch channel get a little frustrated with the camerawork at the PlayStation conference in Gamescom earlier this week? Are they mad about the whole Tomb Raider thing? Whatever it is, it’s very inappropriate. Still live on PlayStation’s Twitch channelas of right now, too. (h/t Ben Hanson)

Until Dawn Is a Horror Game Where Everyone Can Die

It may have been a room full of overworked, stressed and irritable journalists, but Until Dawn did something special when I went to see it at Gamescom: it made people jump, it made one woman scream and it made everyone laugh nervously and chatter about what they’d just seen happen. This post originally appeared on…

Not many games have customization deep enough to help cosplay as Full Metal Alchemist characters, but Agentloonypants in Final Fantasy XIV pretty much nailed it with Edward and Alphonse. FMA by Agentlooneypants [imgur, via r/ffxiv] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

​Some PS4 Owners Can’t Play This Week’s Great New Indie Game

Hohokum came out for the various PlayStation platforms yesterday. The beautiful, weird exploration game isn’t quite like anything else on the video game landscape lately. So it’s really messed up that some folks who bought the game for the PS4 are saying that they can’t play it. Over on Sony’s message boards and Twitter, many…

The Witcher 3 Sure Is Pretty

It’s hard to discern much about how The Witcher 3 plays, or whether it will feel as grand as it looks, or whether the combat is any good. But there’s one thing we can tell from this new gameplay footage: The Witcher 3—out in February for PS4/Xbox One/PC—sure is pretty. I mean, look at that…

No, You Can’t Bite People in FIFA 15

Sebastien Enrique is the lead producer on the PS4 and Xbox One versions of FIFA 15. He’s been at EA Sports since FIFA 06 – in other words, when the series was still awful – and he’s been there to see its rise to greatness. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I think he’s…

People Want To Know Why Sony Forgot About The Vita

You’d be forgiven for thinking, if you watched today’s Sony Gamescom conference, that Sony has already given up on the PlayStation Vita. Sony’s 80-minute presser was all PS4, without much mention of their underappreciated handheld. In fact, the Vita even lost an exclusive—Tearaway—giving gamers one less reason to buy an expensive new portable system. It’s…

New Game from Creator of Rayman Lets You Be an Animal. All of Them.

Humans are so last-gen. The next game from the creator of Beyond Good & Evil will let you have adventures as any animal you see. It’s called Wild Best known for Beyond Good & Evil and the Rayman series, French designer Michel Ancel took to Sony’s Gamescom stage to introduce the new PS4 exclusive. It’s…

New PS4 Update Will Let Your Friends Play Your Games Without Owning Them

Sony’s coming closer to delivering on one of their PS4 promises and, soon, you’ll be able to virtually hand off the games in your PS4 library to your friends. The upcoming 2.0 system update for the PS4 will introduce the SharePlay feature, which will let users share the same game experience over the web: The…

Next Up From the Folks Who Made Heavenly Sword, Hellblade

Is that Kai?! Is this what we’ve hoped for? A sequel for Heavenly Sword? At the very least, it looks like the new game from Ninja Theory shares lot of DNA with Heavenly Sword. We’ll have to wait and see if this is an actual continuation of the PS3 launch game’s mythos. Update: More details…

In The Tomorrow Children, Humanity’s Screwed if We Don’t Work Together

Just unveiled at Gamescom, the next game from the makers of the Pixeljunk series is focused on co-operation. Better work on your manners. The Tomorrow Children looks like it’s got elements of crafting, class-based strategy and structure-building, wrapped inside a claymation cartoon aesthetic. Doesn’t seem like anything Q-Games has ever done.

Sony Has Sold 10 Million PlayStation 4s

Announced today at Gamescom: Sony has sold—sold, not shipped—10 million PlayStation 4s to gamers around the world. Nice round number. Looks nice on the page. 10 million.

Looks Like Everything’s Going to Burn in Bloodborne

The new trailer for From Software’s next dark action game just dropped and it’s looking just as grim as fans have hoped. Some of this footage was shown behind closed doors at E3 in June, but now everyone can take a look at the gothic carnage coming from the makers of Dark Souls.

Watch The PlayStation Press Conference Live, Right Here

Gamescom continues this afternoon, as Sony takes the stage to talk all things PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Will we see some Uncharted 4? Maybe a big exclusive to compete with this morning’s Tomb Raider bombshell? ONLY TIME WILL TELL. Sony’s conference starts at 1pm Eastern. We’ve got the stream running for you right here,…

Journey‘s coming to the PS4 later this year, along with cult PS3 fave The Unfinished Swan, according to a post on the official PlayStation blog. A line in the YouTube video’s description mentions cross-buy: “Get more for your money with Cross-Buy – purchase this game for PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 and get the other…

Dark Souls veteran Vaati continues to amaze with his and detailed theories about the Souls games and their backstory. His latest one might be spoilerish if you haven’t finished Dark Souls II and its first DLC, but this might be the best source to speculate about the ending and what we’ll see in the two…

​Hohokum: The Kotaku Review

Hohokum is almost definitely the strangest video game I’ve ever played in my life. I swear I can hear the new game giggle at my attempt to describe it or pin it down. I’m going to try, because you should know what you’re getting into. And, yes, Hohokum is very much a thing you should…