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Evolve Feels Different Every Time I Play It

I have played roughly six rounds of Evolve and it’s been a different experience every time. By now many of you get the basic premise: Evolve is a cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter. You play either as one of four humans on a team of hunters going up against a fifth player, the monster. Last week…

​PS4 Karaoke Puts The Phone in Microphone

Listen, being able to use your smartphone as a microphone for the just-announced PS4 version of SingStar just-announced PS4 version of SingStar is a brilliant idea. But there’s no escaping the fact that it looks a little silly, too. Previous entries in the PlayStation karaoke series had players warbling pop hits into microphone accessories. This…

Consoles Are A Lot Prettier When They’re Made With Wood

The dream of boutique video game consoles has been alive for a while now. But has wood paneling ever looked this good on a PlayStation 4? This Balolo cover certainly puts last year’s attempt to shame. Check out more of Balolo’s work for the PS4 and Xbox One below. If you like what you see,…

The studio that helped bring many a Littlebigplanet to life is spreading its wings with an original game of its own. It’s called Hunger, and its concept art looks gorgeous in a gloomy sort of way. Learn more about it on the Tarsier Studios website

Clever Gamer Dresses Up As An Enemy In Dark Souls II, Confuses Everyone

Wearing an enemy’s costume in Dark Souls II and scaring the hell out of others when they invade? That’s absolutely doable. YouTuber GuardianHX tried it out and got some incredible results This trickworked as well in the first Dark Souls but is harder to pull it off in the sequel, since characters have unique stances…

Here’s Your First Look at Batman: Arkham Knight Gameplay

Why look, it’s gameplay footage of the next Batman game! Here’s the new-gen-only Batman: Arkham Knight In this impressive new trailer, you’re seeing footage of many of the scenes from the live game demo we got of Arkham Knight this past March. You’ve got Batman swooping through Gotham, calling in the Batmobile, and even using…

There’s no better way to show how much graphics have changed in the last 22 years than B. J. Blazkowicz, the main character of the Wolfenstein games, dressed as a baby. He’s wearing the same silly costume in Wolfenstein 3D from 1992 and in Wolfenstein: The New Order. It just got 100% more realistic and…

Share Your PS4 Stories

Six months ago, the PlayStation 4 was released unto the world. For a half a year since then, Sony’s angular new chunk of plastic has sat in our living rooms, letting us play games and watch movies. How’s all that going? While most of us on staff at Kotaku have our own PS4s and plenty…

Listen To All Of Transistor’s Incredible Soundtrack Right Here

Transistor came out today, and it’s pretty great. But you know what’s even better? An original soundtrack posted in full on YouTube, you say? My thoughts exactly! Thankfully, it seems like the good people over at Transistor developer Supergiant Games had the same idea, because that’s just what they did. You can listen to the…

Child of Light will be coming to PlayStation Vita on July 1. Ubisoft’s very pretty role-playing game will be a digital download for Sony’s handheld game system. You can read Kotaku‘s review of the game right here.

Transistor: The Kotaku Review

“Jesus, how much longer is this?” I texted my friend, putting down the PlayStation 4 controller to pause Transistor “I think I’m just bad at video games,” I added. “About 5 hours maybe,” he wrote back, laughing in the way that one makes clear through a text message. He had finished the whole thing in…

Snake has a lot of abilities we haven’t seen yet. He is a designated driver after all. The main story in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes might be short, but as you can see there’s fun to do Gif via r/analogygifs by reddidd Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of…

Porting a game from PS3 to PS4 is no simple task. Sure, one might imagine that you just bump up the resolution and put it on a new disc, but…no. As The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann puts it in this new EDGE feature, “We expected it to be Hell, and it was…

PS4 Killzone Is Getting Four-Player Online Co-Op

Launch PS4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall will get a four-player online co-op mode called Killzone Intercept later this year, launching for free for the game’s season pass holders in June and as a standalone release later in 2014. The new mode puts players in the role of VSA assault, marksmen, medics and tacticians against computer-controlled…

Bioshock Doesn’t Need To Be An FPS

Isometric RPGs will have an exciting year ahead. Just think about Pillars of Eternity or Torment: Tides of Numenera. Maybe this inspired Chris Bischoff—who’s also about to create his own isometric game—to do a mockup of the underwater world of the first Bioshock and his project, Stasis. I’d probably play an RPG like this with…

You Can Now Remote Play PS4 Games with the Vita TV

One of the coolest things about owning a PlayStation Vita is the ability to link it to your PS4 and play your PS4 games remotely. And now, with the latest firmware patch in Japan, the Vita isn’t the only system you can remote play PS4 games on; you can stream to the Vita TV as…

​Minecraft Next-Gen vs. Minecraft Last-Gen

How will Minecraft look on PS4 and Xbox One? Basically, it’ll still be Minecraft, but you’ll be able to see farther. These images were tweeted today by Minecraft console developer 4J Studios, and give a sense of how much farther you’ll be able to see on Xbox One and PS4 compared with their last-gen counterparts.…

These Are The 10 Studios Making Assassin’s Creed Unity

Some people roll their eyes (or grunt or sigh) when they’re reminded of how many studios Ubisoft uses to make their massive Assassin’s Creed games, but as someone who likes each year’s installment, I just find it interesting. Ubisoft Montreal normally leads development, though they clearly juggle teams, giving each major AC Montreal team at…

Ubisoft has confirmed the rumored delay for the attractive co-op shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division. The game will now come out some time in 2015, Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot told investors in a conference call today.

There’s a pretty cool glitchy trick in GTA V that makes planes on the ground take off and chase you around the map. The only thing you need is one of the super cars and a little preparation. It is explained in detail how to pull this off below in this short tutorial, made by…