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Yep, Infamous: Second Son looks really nice. Last week when Sucker Punch released that super cool Photo Mode for their game, I had a feeling videos like this one would start turning up. And lo and behold, here we are. This video comes to us from Epic Rabbit via Pixelated Cody. When I talked about…

​The PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset: Not Bad For A Hundred Bucks

The PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset is not actually made of gold, nor does it feature any gold branding or gold paint. There’s no gold anywhere, in fact. The headset, which Sony is selling for $99, is mostly black, with a stylin’ blue streak around the inside of the headband. It works with both the PS3…

Uncharted PS4 Won’t Sound Like It Did Last November

Uncharted 4 won’t sound like it did during the brief glimpse we got last year—the actor who voiced the teaser trailer for the next Uncharted game says he’s no longer involved in the project. Todd Stashwick, who voices the above trailer (released last November during a PS4 launch event), told IGN today he’s no longer…

Surprise! Octodad: Dadliest Catch will arrive on PS4 this coming Tuesday, April 22. The PS4 version will be more or less the same goofy trip as the PC version, though some of the back half has been re-tuned to be less annoying. (The PC version’s been patched, too.) I’ve been playing a bit on PS4…

Watch Hatsune Miku Sing Frozen‘s “Let it Go”

Ever wanted to see virtual idol Hatsune Miku sing the iconic, Academy Award-winning song from Frozen? Two years back, I tried out the song editor in Project Diva Extend for the PSP by making a custom level with Hatsune Miku singing “Call Me Maybe.” But while Miku in my video did sing and dance, its…

Well, that didn’t take long. Action-RPG Heart Forth, Alicia got Kickstarter-funded in less than two days, and it also managed to get Greenlit on Steam like, almost immediately. It is currently steadily heading towards the $110,000 stretch goal, which will net the game a PS4 port. Bright future indeed.

​Infamous: Second Son‘s New Photo Mode Is A Blast

We’ve already pretty well established that Infamous: Second Son is a really nice-looking game. Wouldn’t it be cool if we had an easy way to freeze the game in action and really drink in all those shiny graphics? Thanks to today’s free update for the game, we have an opportunity to do just that. It’s…

The second season of the The Walking Dead, Telltale Games’ renowned episodic adventure game, is coming to the PlayStation Vita next Tuesday, April 22, Sony announced this morning. In other words: if you have a Vita and you haven’t already started playing this phenomenal game, plan to set aside a few hours next week. We’re…

Dust off your copy of Terraria, console gamers, ’cause the massive 1.2 update for the game’s Vita, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions lands today. The change notes for the free patch are here; it’s quite the read. This brings the console versions in line with Terraria’s PC version, which got the same update last October

Upcoming PS4 Update Introduces Beefy Video Editor, Pre-Loaded Games

Quality of life improvements for the avid video sharers and dedicated game pre-orderers of the PS4 community are on the way For video sharing, the upcoming 1.70 update will introduce SHAREfactory. The app lets you edit, combine, annotate or commentate recorded footage, giving you a clip which you can then share via the Share Screen…

How To Unlock The Secret Challenges In Trials Fusion

Trials Fusion is out now, and it apparently has a collection of hidden minigames, including a first-person maze, and Trials versions of Marble Madness, Angry Birds, and… Tennis. Here’s how to find 5 of them. Reverse into a wormhole on the Stormtrooper level, and you’ll be on a 3D version of Angry Birds On Park…

The final piece of DLC for Borderlands 2 is now out—the base game was released over one and a half years ago, on September 18, 2012. Even ignoring the extra costumes, BL2 managed to amass quite the hefty amount of DLC packs during that time. I’m interested to see if the new game will get…

New Call of Duty DLC Has Snoop Dogg Announce Your Kills

Wait, what? A few things. Why does this exist and why didn’t this already exist? Regardless of the answers to these pressing questions, Call of Duty: Ghosts now officially has the best announcer in all of first-person shooters. The lines weren’t written by Snoop Dogg, but they may as well have been considering how naturally…

Kaos Hijacks Teaser For The Next Big Skylanders Game

Activision is planning to unveil the next big installment in its wildly popular (and lucrative) toy-video game combo Skylanders next week at an event in New York City. In preparation, the series publisher sent out some invitations that show chief antagonist and evil portal master Kaos being his lovable dastardly self. The invitation I got…

Why Fanboys Act Like Jerks

Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of affection for these people. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There’s a…

New JRPGs For Vita Make Me Unreasonably Happy

Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers. In addition to Freedom Wars, which we talked about earlier, Sony has just announced plans to localize the Soul Sacrifice remake…

The Vita Gets A Sweet-Looking New Action Game

Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies Looks…

Here’s a trailer to remind you that Final Fantasy XIV officially makes the jump to PS4 today. Note that if you’ve already got the PS3 version of FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, you can get a free upgrade to the PS4 version. Here’s how

The Saturday Morning Stream: LEGO: The Hobbit (Stream Over)

Warning: Today’s Saturday stream may contain material that spoil the events of a fantasy book published in 1937. After last week’s Titanfall fiasco, I had a hankering for some lighter fare, a game where I can leisurely explore, even in mid-combat, without too much of a penalty. A game that allows me to talk to…

I Feel the Need to Lead This Little Girl to Safety [Updated]

Guide that sweet little horned girl. Protect her. Introducing Hotaru no Nikki (ホタルノニッキ Firefly Diary), a new puzzle adventure game from Nippon Ichi software. In the game, you take the role of a magical firefly with the objective to lead a little horned girl, Mion, out of a dark ruin filled with traps and shadow…