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​The Next Disney Infinity Lets You Make Your Own Marvel Video Game

Used to be that fans who loved superheroes made their own hand-drawn comic books at home, starring the Hulk, Spider-Man or Batman in stories that never passed through an editor’s office. In 2014, those fans might just be making their own miniature Marvel Comics video games. Making Toy Box levels is going to be different…

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Hideo Kojima Says Metal Gear Solid V Is This Big

Metal Gear Solid mastermind says the map for next MGS will be big… 200 times bigger than the map from the Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. The Ground Zeroes map is the red blotch on the bottom right of his chart. The square it’s on is MGS V Kojima showed this chart during a Metal…

The Hero Of Shadow Of Mordor Is Quite The Badass

Here he is, slaughtering orcs left and right in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor’s CG trailer. It looks like Talion will become quite infamous among the Uruk ranks for his deeds during (or before) the game’s events, turning into a legend of sorts. And, well, he’s certainly got the presence for that: Middle Earth: Shadow…

Terminator 2’s Truck Chase Scene, Remade in GTA V

It’s a bit strange no one’s thought to do so it, because the canal labyrinths of Los Santos are perfect for some Terminator 2 action. But here it is. YouTuber John Chapman and his friends made a pretty neat shot-for-shot remake of the movie’s famous truck chase scene. GTA 5: Terminator 2: Judgement Day Remake…

A Fresh Look At The Next Borderlands Game, Which Arrives This Fall

2K Games has released an all-new gameplay trailer for their upcoming FPS-RPG, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel The trailer has it all: new vehicles, new monsters, low gravity, and even a big moon dance number ’cause hey, why not. It’s fun! The game arrives to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 14, 2014 in North America,…

PlayStation Boss Wows with His Phoney Soccer Skills

If only Sony Computer Entertainment Hiroshi Kawano was this good at soccer! The Sony exec recently admitted that he needed some postproduction help for this online clip. Just in time for the World Cup, huh? Hell, if only I were this good at soccer—or computer trickery! ワールドカップに向けてスペシャルメッセージ！～SCEJAプレジデント 河野 弘より[PlayStation] To contact the author of this…

Amazon France Is Selling A PS4/Vita Bundle

Why is Amazon France taking pre-orders for a PS4/Vita bundle? Why does that mock-up image look so convincing? Did a retailer just accidentally leak one of Sony’s E3 announcements? We’ve reached out to Sony to ask what’s up with this listing, but they probably won’t comment one way or the other. Expect an answer during…

I’m Scared To Actually Start Playing Watch Dogs

When you write about video games for a living, you’re occasionally faced with the launch of a game so big that even random people you haven’t heard from since high school will reach out to ask for your opinion. For a long time, that game was Grand Theft Auto V. Then for a hot second,…

Uncharted 3 Is Free For All North American PS3 Owners Right Now [UPDATE: Down]

UPDATE (11:49am): Looks like Sony took down the listing. Bummer. Original post follows: The PlayStation Store is listing Uncharted 3 for free right now. This isn’t just for PS Plus members; anyone with a PlayStation Network account can download the third game in Nathan Drake’s adventures without paying a cent. Looks like this is only…

​How To Record Videos On A PS4

There’s nothing quite like seeing a once-in-a-lifetime moment in a video game and realizing it’s too late to go back and get a video of it. It’s over and gone, lost forever. Womp, womp. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One promised to help gamers avoid that scenario by including hardware that’s constantly recording a…

One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?

Back in June 2013, it seemed like Sony pretty much stole the show from Microsoft with their E3 briefing. But do their promises still hold up now, almost a year later? Following yesterday’s look at Microsoft’s big press conference from last year, it’s time to examine Sony’s. Sony went for a mostly balanced look at…

I Just Heard A Mario Kart Joke In My PS4 Game

Lego Marvel Super Heroes contains all sorts of great cameos. It also includes a Mario Kart joke, made by the Human Torch, right before you go to Thor’s home realm of Asgard where they’ve got a rainbow bridge. I heard this while playing the PS4 version of the game over the weekend, and I captured…

Watch Dogs: The Kotaku Review

My first question for Watch Dogs was, “Well, what if I don’t want to shoot Maurice?” “Sorry,” the game replied. “You are going to shoot Maurice and that’s all there is for it.” It was the very first interactive moment of the game, and I had two things: A gun, and a prompt to shoot…

Murdered: Soul Suspect: The Kotaku Review

I came across something midway through Murdered: Soul Suspect that summed up the majority of my experience playing this game. I was strolling through a police station as Ronan O’Connor, a detective so hard-boiled that his own death could not stop him from hunting down the notorious murderer as The Bell Killer. The game begins…

​I Drove Batman: Arkham Knight‘s Batmobile

And I liked it. The Batmobile is basically an extension of Batman’s repertoire of gadgets. In fact, even though Batman is of course a combat specialist, developer Rocksteady’s excitable Dax Ginn explained that the Batmobile is part of Batman’s primary toolset. The Batmobile operates in two modes. On a chase, pursuit mode is most appropriate.…

Batman: Arkham Knight Delayed To 2015

“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…

Mortal Kombat X Wishlist

There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…

The Next Homefront Game Is Set In A Future Philadelphia

Crytek has finally revealed what it’s doing with Homefront, THQ’s last stab at a big-budget shooter: it’s turning it into a free-roaming guerilla warfare FPS. On first impressions, it’s like Homefront meets Far Cry, set in a future Philadelphia dotted with encampments of Korean occupying forces to be photographed with smartphone cameras and disrupted with…

LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles

By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…