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Aladdin And Princess Jasmine Are Coming To Disney Infinity

Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn’t exactly “a whole new world” at this point. Disney Infinity certainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0. Don’t…

Kratos Is A Loser Even When He Wins

If there was ever a video game character that needed to go into therapy, it’s God of War star Kratos. Even David Jaffe, one of his creators, has said that the guy should calm down But can you really blame him? He lost his entire family before the original God of War even started. And…

Someone’s Suing Sony Because A PS4 Game Isn’t 1080p

Proving the theory that anyone will sue anyone for anything, a legal firm filed a class-action lawsuit for $5 million against Sony yesterday because the multiplayer mode in PS4 game Killzone: Shadowfall doesn’t run at a “native” resolution of 1080p. Yep, this is for real. The suit, which you can read below, alleges that Sony…

This Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…

Existentially troubling puzzle game The Swapper is out today on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. It’s really cool and super worth playing. But hey, you don’t have to take it from me: Check out Mike Fahey’s review of the PC version.

Road Not Taken: The Kotaku Review

Yes, it’s named after the Robert Frost poem. No, it’s not clear why. The lovely new game from development studio Spry Fox is full of mysteries, most of them with gameplay consequences. It’s basically a game about a person who lives in a village, makes friends and then heads out into the wilderness year after…

Metrico: The Kotaku Review

Metrico is a frustrating game. That’s mostly meant as a compliment. This is a puzzle game, after all. You’re supposed to pull your hair and swear once in a while. Every puzzle game walks a fine line between the good kind of frustration and the bad kind, however. And when Metrico wavers into the bad…

Dark Souls II‘s Lore Might Be Deeper Than You Think

Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon, the final boss of Dark Souls II‘s Crown of the Sunken King DLC, is one of the series’ most exciting boss battles. It’s a battle that needs something similarly cool as background. Vaati, a Souls veteran, helps us decode the game’s cryptic backstory with a masterfully crafted lore video. Here’s the…

Leak Shows Off Rogue, This Year’s Last-Gen Assassin’s Creed [UPDATE]

The second forthcoming 2014 Assassin’s Creed game, formerly discussed under the codename Assassin’s Creed Comet, appears to be called Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and feature the return of sailing gameplay and a protagonist with possible Templar loyalties, according to a leaked trailer. UPDATE (11:18am): And Ubisoft has confirmed Rogue this morning through a Game Informer cover…

Resident Evil Is Getting an HD Remaster

And it’s coming to the PlayStation 3, the PS4, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, and PC in glorious high definition. According to Famitsu, this is an HD remastering of the 2002 remake, with the goal of keeping the game’s sheer terror. Capcom assures that it isn’t making any unnecessary changes to the game that…

This JRPG’s Facial Recognition System Could Be Better

Much like the Miis on the Nintendo 3DS, the new JRPG Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines allows you to create a character by taking a picture of yourself with the Vita’s camera. Of course, why limit it to being based on your face when there are so many pictures of famous people out there? Thus, I picked…

The First Big Video Game Made By Native Alaskans

A few years ago, an Alaskan indigenous community found themselves with money to invest. Like any investment, the money would ideally multiply itself many times over. The Cook Inlet Tribal Council thought about funding funeral homes and getting into real estate. Instead, they decided to pour their money into a video game. Money’s not the…

Neptunia Makes for a Surprisingly Good SRPG

So far the Neptunia franchise has been three mediocore RPGs and a passable IDOLM@STER parody—so my hopes weren’t the highest going into its first strategy RPG. But let me tell you, there is a lot to love in Hyper Goddess Faith Noire: Ultra Goddess Black Heart—even with its impressively complicated name. Good – Characters and…

The Neptunia SRPG’s Special Attacks Love Playing with Gaming Nostalgia

The newest game in the Neptunia series stars some of the most well-known game franchises reimagined as anime girls. But the character designs are far from the only shout-out to these series. You should see some of the special attacks. When I think of the Yakuza series, the first thing that comes to mind is…

So uh, remember the two trailers Gen Kim did for Guild Wars 2? He made a third one. For Destiny And, as usual, it’s very good! The song lends the game a very Borderlandsy feel. Even Bungie liked the video—so much so that they shared it on their Twitter and Facebook. (Thanks Carl, Robert and…

PlayStation Now Is Still Way Too Expensive

Right now, on your PlayStation 4, you can enjoy 90 days of the PS3 racing game F1 2013 for the low, low price of $49.99. Too rich for your blood? You could try 90 days of NASCAR 14 for $39.99, or 90 days of Dirt 3 for $26.99. Codemasters’ Grid 2 comes in at the…

Why Vita Fans Are Confused and Angry Over This Game

Online multi-player for Freedom Wars, the PS Vita multi-player action game, is still as of yet unavailable, but vague wording in the promotional material is getting some Japanese gamers angry before it’s even out. In my import preview ofFreedom Wars, I wrote that while the game did need polish in certain areas, it was, as…

The PS4 is still doing well. Sony released their earnings report for April-June, which reveals that the company shipped a combined 3.5 million PS3 and PS4 units, and 0.75 million PSP and Vita units. As a result, Sony’s game segment contributed an operating profit of 4.3 billion yen ($41.7 million) in this quarter.

Sony Won’t Explain What’s Up With PS1/PS2 Games On PlayStation Now

Way back in February 2013, when Sony first announced the PlayStation 4, they talked a bit about their partnership with the streaming company Gaikai. With the power of the cloud, Sony said, we’d all be able to stream PS1, PS2, and PS3 games But things have changed. Today, those vague plans have coalesced into the…

Sony Trashes EA’s New Access Program

Wondering why EA’s new Netflix-like Access program is on Xbox One and not PlayStation 4? Well, for starters, Sony doesn’t think it’s any good for their customers. “We evaluated the EA Access subscription offering and decided that it does not bring the kind of value PlayStation customers have come to expect,” a Sony representative said…