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There are Guns, But From Software’s Bloodborne Won’t Be a Shooter

The trailer for the upcomingBloodborne was shown at E3 this week and fans of Dark Souls/Demon’s Souls promptly lost their shit. But aside from what’s in the trailer, what do we know about the new game from From Software? Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Demon’s Souls, the original Dark Souls and the upcoming Bloodborne sat down…

Sony: GTA V Will Have Some Sort Of Special Perk For PS4 Owners

This is going to be vague, but it’s too intriguing not to share. During my interview with PlayStation’s North American marketing v.p., John Koller, we were talking about exclusive perks for PlayStation 4 owners for multi-platform games and we got to the topic of GTA V We’d just discussed how Activision and Bungie’s Destiny game,…

​The Loneliest Game At Sony’s E3 Booth

Sony’s spot on the E3 show floor is mostly bustling with activity—people playing games, posing for photos with dressed-up mascots, and waiting in line to try out Project Morpheus VR. I say mostly bustling because, well, there’s also Minecraft for PS3. Poor Minecraft for PS3. You’re a known quantity. No one wants to play you.…

Video Games Can Be This Beautiful

Earlier today I mentioned that the the sky in Destiny is gorgeous. It’s even prettier in motion, as you can see in this new video from Digital Foundry, lifted from footage of the Destiny alpha running on PS4. Man. Those clouds.

Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Paris Is Huge. Really Huge.

The city of Paris in Assassin’s Creed Unity will be the largest city in the series’ history, the game’s developers told me yesterday as we played the game and I grilled them with tons of questions. Unity’s Paris will be bigger than the combined island landmasses of Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s rendition of the famous…

​We Finally Got To Play A Big Chunk Of Destiny

Over the past weekend, a couple of us at Kotaku had a chance to sink a good half-dozen hours each into an alpha version of Bungie’s sprawling (but still somewhat mysterious) online shooter Destiny. The chunk we played was pretty enjoyable, and gave me a much better sense of what Destiny is all about. Destiny…

​Maybe I Don’t Need The Last Guardian Anymore

Sony’s press conference came and went last night, filled with pregnant pauses. None of those silences gave birth to any news about The Last Guardian, making it five years of barely suppressed longing. High time, then, for me to think about where I’m going to put this game in my heart, whenever it comes out.…

A Handy List Of Yesterday’s Big E3 Moments

Now wasn’t yesterday quite something? Phantom Dust, GTA V for current-gen, dragons from the new Dragon Age and elephants from the new Far Cry… It’s hard to keep track of everything that happened. So let’s take a look at yesterday’s events, as told by our headlines, in (a mostly) chronological order. Microsoft Microsoft did the…

Mortal Kombat Looking Good and Gory, Like It’s Supposed to

There was never any question what the developers of Mortal Kombat were going to use the new consoles’ increased processing power for, was there? Ok, it’s not just blood. In the clip above, you can see Scorpion, Sub-Zero and a slew of other Kombatants dueling to the death with environmental interactions a la Injustice. The…

PlayStation TV Is Coming West This Fall For $99

The wait is finally over, microconsole fans! Sony just announced that it’s bringing its super teeny tiny PlayStation TV to the U.S., Canada, and Europe this fall. Sony originally released the gadget last year as the PS Vita TV. Even then, the thing sounded like a great bargain: a small and decently-priced machine that could…

PlayStation Now Game Streaming Starts on July 31st

Starting next month, PlayStation owners will be able to play Sony’s first-party back catalog via the PlayStation Now service. PlayStation Now’s open beta starts on July 31 for PS4 owners in the U.S. and Canada. It moves to PS3, Vita and Sony brand TVs sometime after that. 100 PS3 games will be available as part…

Hey, It’s ‘Torture Porn: The Video Game’

Good or bad, nobody makes games like Suda51. Could this be one of the good ones? The next game from the creative lead on Killer7 and No More Heroes will be a PlayStation exclusive. Let It Die looks like it’s a brawler with the same sleaze-shlock cinema DNA as Suda’s other work.

Your PS4 Friends Don’t Need Far Cry 4 to Play Far Cry 4

Sony VP Adam Boyes just announced that PS4 players will be able to invite friends into a game of Far Cry 4, even if they don’t own it. Game sharing like this has been seen on handhelds before but making it available for a beefy, open-world game like Far Cry 4 is an impressive feat.

PS4 Owners Can Play Destiny This Weekend

It’s just been announced that Destiny’s beta will be available first on PlayStation consoles. It’ll go live in July 17. Though if you can’t wait a month, you’ve got another option. This weekend, anyone who owns a PS4 console will get the chance to play the game’s early alpha. To get in on that action,…

We’re Liveblogging Sony’s E3 2014 Press Conference (Games Over)

It’s the final pre-E3 press conference of the day, Sony’s chance to wow us with the PlayStation 4 and its little portable buddy. Are we about to be wowed? Join us and find out.

Ubisoft’s MMO racer, The Crew, is out on November 11. A closed beta for the game’s PC version is starting on July 23, for which registrations are already open. Up top is the new Coast To Coast trailer, which shows off a two-hour driving mission from Miami to Los Angeles.

FIFA 15’s new E3 trailer really shows off the dramatic side of soccer. The game, complete with an all-new and prettied-up engine, improved physics, and smarter player AI, will come to Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC on September 23.

What Fighting A Dragon Looks Like In Dragon Age: Inquisition

Today at E3, EA showcased some combat-filled gameplay from Bioware’s upcoming RPG, Dragon Age: Inquisition During the fight, we get to see both a more in-your-face third-person view and a tactical top-down view as the group faced off against the Dragon Age world’s apex predator, the high dragon. Dragon Age: Inquisition arrives to PC, Xbox…

Dragon Age: Inquisition is even better with cello accompaniment. This new, gorgeous trailer for Bioware’s upcoming RPG was revealed during EA’s E3 briefing today.

The punishing fighting-desperately-for-survival simulator Don’t Starve is coming to the PlayStation Vita, Developer Klei entertainment announced today. The Vita version will come with the original game and the Reign of the Giants expansion. Kotaku wishes one of our favorite PS4 games well in its new mobile-friendly home.