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Co-Op Multiplayer Coming to Dragon Age: Inquisition
Bioware’s upcoming fantasy epic isn’t going to just have a huge single-player campaign. Dragon Age: Inquisition is also going to have co-op multiplayer, too. Get ready to battle for loot. IGN has the first details on Inquisition‘s online component, which sounds like it shares some DNA with the multiplayer seen in Mass Effect 3. Designed…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 26, 2014 -
More Than A Minute of Mayhem from the Heavenly Sword Movie
Here’s a new clip from the upcoming Heavenly Sword movie. There are a lot of ninjas in it. Ninjas who ride giant kites. Let’s watch them die. You’ll hear Anna Torv reprise her performance of main character Nariko in this 90-second preview from the movie adaptation of the PS3 game, which is due out next…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 25, 2014 -
PSN Back Online, Maintenance Rescheduled After Major Online Attack
Rejoice! Sony says the PlayStation Network is back online following a DDOS attack that had left online PlayStation services—amongother game networks—crippled for the past two days. Given the incident, Sony is rescheduling the PSN maintenance that was originally scheduled for today: UPDATE: The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network are back online and people can…
By Jason Schreier Published August 25, 2014 -
How To Make Your PS4 Load Times Just 10 Seconds Faster
If you’re upgrading your PlayStation 4 with a new hard drive, you’re likely deciding between a larger regular drive and a faster but smaller SSD. Digital Foundry has a side-by-side comparison of the load time performances between several different hard drive models, and the speed difference is substantial. The 240GB SSD regularly handled loading times…
By Cameron Gidari Published August 24, 2014 -
Diablo III On Xbox One vs PS4 vs PC
Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition dropped for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this week, and it’s good. So good, in fact, that it has Kotaku‘s Yannick LeJacq switching his Diablo allegiance from PC to PS4 Now the folks at Digital Foundry have put together a helpful side-by-side comparison of the game running on all three…
By Cameron Gidari Published August 23, 2014 -
Sony Says They’re Looking Into Crippling PS4 Glitch
Sony tells Kotaku they’ve “made progress” toward solving a PS4 glitch that has prevented some users from buying or playing games on their new PlayStation consoles. The “CE-33945-4” glitch, which was reported by PS4 owners on NeoGAF and the PlayStation forums, prevents users from playing games or accessing any other services on the PlayStation Network,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 22, 2014 -
Up Close With The White PS4
Sony really knocked it out of the park design-wise with the PlayStation 4. The console might not be perfect, but you have to admit that it’s a real beauty—especially when compared to the monstrosity of the Xbox One and the…weirdness of the Wii U. And it looks better than ever with a new coat of…
By Yannick LeJacq Published August 22, 2014 -
Sony Doesn’t Understand Just Who The Heck Is Buying All Those PS4s
Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4s. They don’t know why. It just kinda happened. Sales appearing from the ether—that sort of thing. Here’s Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida speaking in an extensive Eurogamer interview (emphasis mine): The 10m sell through in the first nine months is well beyond what we had hoped for. As you know,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 19, 2014 -
Kotaku East
Today, Sony revealed that a 500GB Charcoal Black PlayStation 3 is going on sale in Japan from August 28 for 25,980 yen ($253). The current 250 GB models (here and here) are priced at 23,790 yen ($232) each and will ceased being shipped by late August in Japan. No word about how this impact PS3s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2014 -
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 15, 2014 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published August 15, 2014 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published August 15, 2014 -
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)
By Jason Schreier Published August 14, 2014 -
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…
Ian Dransfield Published August 14, 2014 -
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…
By Gergo Vas Published August 14, 2014 -
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 13, 2014 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2014