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Watch Me Take Down Two Bosses In Destiny
It’s hard to get much done in Destiny as a lowly level eight, but that’s what friends are for. Bungie’s soon-to-be-released next shooter is, after all, all about interacting in a shared world. I spent somewhere under 10 hours playing through Destiny‘s alpha build, exploring Russia, playing a few steps through the main storyline, listening…
By Tina Amini Published June 17, 2014 -
Given that they’re bundling it with The Lego Movie Video Game, it’s no big surprise that Sony expects the new PlayStation TV for the young ones. “We think it primarily will appeal to 6-12-year old kids—with families who like to play together in a local co-op way,” Sony VP John Koller told us at E3.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2014 -
GTA V Looks Better On PS4—Or At Least The Trailer Does
Now that the inevitable has happened and versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PS4, PC and Xbox One have been announced, it’s time to discuss what’s on everybody’s minds: how’s the 2014 version going to look? Pretty good if the trailers are any indication. Digital Foundry spliced together footage from last year’s GTA V…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 16, 2014 -
Peter Dinklage’s Destiny Performance Is…Not Great
We were all pretty excited when Bungie announced that their much-hyped multiplayer shooter Destiny would feature beloved actor Peter Dinklage, best known for his show-stealing portrayal of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, in a large voiceover role. For the past week or so, Bungie has been running an early-look alpha of Destiny, which gave…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 16, 2014 -
How The Alien In Alien: Isolation Works
The best kind of horror game doesn’t need any guns. It doesn’t need to scare you with difficult enemy encounters and shock value. Sometimes, silence is scarier than all of that. That’s a lot of what Alien: Isolation is about. Creeping through dark hallways of a mostly-abandoned space station called Sevostopol, you have to try…
By Tina Amini Published June 16, 2014 -
Destiny Alpha Gets ‘Dangerous’ Extension
The alpha test phase of Bungie’s ambitious new sci-fi shooter was supposed to end last night, somewhere around 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. It didn’t. That means that, yes, you can still play Destiny right now. That’s a reason to dance, right? In a tweet early Monday morning, the studio that created Halo announced that it…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 16, 2014 -
How You’ll Play Far Cry 4 With Friends Who Don’t Own It
One of the big surprises at this week’s Sony E3 press conference was the announcement that PlayStation console owners would be able to share Far Cry 4 for multiplayer co-op with friends who don’t own the game. How’s it’s going to work? Well, for starters, it sounds like you’re going to need a lot of…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 13, 2014 -
The Moment That Defined E3 For Me
There’s a PlayStation mural outside of E3. It features PS mainstays in boats, a parody of this George Washington painting. I was picking out who was who with a friend. “It’s Infamous guy! It’s Claire from Resident Evil! It’s… a basketball player!” Then a security guard walked up. “I only recognize one of those characters,”…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 12, 2014 -
Payday 2 Coming to Xbox One, PS4
The super-popular criminal heist game is making its way to Microsoft and Sony’s newest video game consoles. During a livestream session on Twitch showing off the upcoming Big Bank expansion, members of the Overkill developer studio confirmed an earlier tweet that said that the team-based co-op shooter would be going next-gen. No time frame was…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 12, 2014 -
Five Things BioWare Wants You To Know About The Next Dragon Age
If I had to explain what BioWare’s RPG, Dragon Age, is all about, I’d easily cram it all into one word: relationships. But that’s my personal experience, and I’m not developing Dragon Age: Inquisition, so I couldn’t tell you what the next Dragon Age will be all about. BioWare’s executive producer, Mark Darrah, however, can.…
By Tina Amini Published June 12, 2014 -
Sony: Nearly A Third of PS4 Owners Only Had a Wii or Xbox 360 Last Gen
Some 31% of people who have bought a PlayStation 4 had an Xbox 360 or Wii but not a PS3 in the last hardware generation, PlayStation’s American VP of marketing John Koller told me in an interview here at L.A. this week. That’s a decent amount of people making a switch to Team PlayStation and/or…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2014 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Toshi Nakamura Published June 12, 2014 -
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2014 -
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.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2014 -
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.
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 11, 2014 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2014 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 10, 2014 -
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.…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 10, 2014 -
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…
By András Neltz Published June 10, 2014