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Infamous: Second Son: The Kotaku Review

I was worried about Second Son The first two Infamous games—both personal favorites of mine—stand as high points in Sony’s first-party publishing portfolio: wonderfully crafted superhero playgrounds infused with a great sense of flow and urgency. Both of Cole McGrath‘s adventures held inspirations and commentary drawn from the real world but those elements lay nestled…

Sony’s Working Hard To Make PS4 VR That’s Cool And Won’t Make You Sick

A couple of days ago, I felt like I was standing in a shark tank. Some time before that, Sony’s head of PlayStation game development, Shuhei Yoshida, fed a dinosaur and the company’s top PlayStation researcher, Richard Marks, stood next to the Mars rover—all in virtual reality, of course. With any luck, you will eventually…

​Tips for Playing Infamous: Second Son

Today’s the day when the latest installment in Sucker Punch’s open-world action/adventure series launches up, up and away into PS4s all over the planet. While it resembles its predecessors a fair bit, Infamous: Second Son does do a few things differently than them. Check out the advice below for ways that you can be a…

Watch Us Play the Cowboy Bebop PS2 Game

Cowboy Bebop, the immensely popular classic anime, has had a series, a movie, and two manga—all of which have come to the West. However, there is one Cowboy Bebop story that you may not be aware of as it has never left Japan: the PlayStation 2 title Cowboy Bebop: The Serenade of Reminiscence. To see…

Sony Tech Lets You Play Games Using Your Eyes

Sony’s had some VR tech on show at this year’s GDC, but it’s also showing off some eye-tracking gear that’s just as impressive. In this clip, The Verge get some hands-on time with a special test build of the new Infamous game, and…throws some fireballs using their eyes. You’re not controlling the entire game using…

​Watch Us Play Infamous: Second Son Live, Right Here [Stream Over]

Maybe you’re going to pick up Infamous: Second Son tonight at midnight. Maybe you’re going to start downloading it as soon as you can. Or it might just be that you’re still not convinced that the new PS4 game is worth your time. Now you can take a look for yourself. Kotaku video editor Steve…

Watch Dogs is getting different stuff for PlayStation platforms. The exclusive content includes a different outfit for hero Aiden Pearce, extra missions and a hacking boost.

​Latest Wolfenstein Trailer Shows a Pretty Messed-Up Nazi Card Game

Nazi coffee. Nazi robots. Nazi cigarettes. Nazi old ladies. Nazi psych tests. This new teaser for the upcoming alternate reality take on the Wolfenstein franchise doesn’t offer up any gunplay but it does give a glimpse into the messed-up psychology of a world where the Third Reich won out. Knowing what we now know about…

​We Tried Sony’s PS4 Virtual Reality Headset. We Like It.

Yesterday, Sony entered the virtual reality fray by announcing Project Morpheus, a new virtual reality initiative aimed at making a VR headset for the PS4. Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Stephen Totilo and I swung by Sony’s booth to check it out. In a private meeting with Sony’s Anton Mikhailov and…

Here’s Dark Souls II with the chosen ones gathering around the bonfire, reimagined in glorious 16-bit by pixel-wizard Bandygrass. Pretty neat animation, and it reminds me of the superb character selection screen in Diablo II Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks… pretty much like you’d expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here’s four minutes’ worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox’s loot-happy shooter, straight from this year’s Game Developers Conference. Vid’s above, enjoy.

​Let the Next-Gen Engine for The Division Blow Your Mind Even More

Quick, think of the burliest video game engines that you’ve seen lately. Frostbite 3. Unreal Engine 4. That Luminous Studio demo Square Enix showed off at E3 2012. Project Cars. Pretty soon, you’re going to have to add Snowdrop to that list. Ubisoft first showed the tech behind its upcoming Tom Clancy game at E3…

9 Things To Know About The PS4’s Virtual Reality Headset

Sony only just officially announced the existence of a virtual reality headset they’re working on, named Project Morpheus, so you can imagine details will still be trickling in as we learn more about this Oculus Rift competitor. Enter PlayStation Access, who have a few more details about this headset. They cover a little bit about…

Leaked Images Reveal One Of This Fall’s Two Assassin’s Creed Games

One of this fall’s big Assassin’s Creed games, called or code-named Unity, is set at least partly in 18th-century Paris, according to early leaked screenshots obtained by Kotaku These screenshots, sent to me by a source who requested anonymity, show Unity‘s new assassin roaming around what appears to be Paris. You can see Notre Dame,…

PS4 Video Sharing Is Getting Some Big Improvements

The mega-success of Twitch. The popularity of top Let’s Play video creators. Sharing your video game experiences has become an increasingly important part of how folks talk about the stuff they love and hate. So, it was a bit of downer when Sony launched the PS4 with recording and sharing options that presented owners with…

You Can Save Someone Special In Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes

Note: This article contains spoilers! One of the side ops missions in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is a little bit different. It’s a short rescue mission, where we have to infiltrate a military base and find someone… special. Well let’s see who that special person is: It’s Hideo Kojima! Those Twitter photos from 2013…

PS4 Gets A Virtual Reality Headset

Sony has just announced that virtual reality is coming to the PS4. It’s called Project Morpheus. First rumoured last year, the Sony headset puts the PlayStation 4 in a strange place in the gaming landscape, setting it apart from the Xbox One while offering a similar experience to the PC’s Oculus Rift. Part of the…

Luftrausers: The Kotaku Review

Luftrausers makes you feel like you’re constantly in the danger zone. Yes, that’s a video review up there, and you should watch it. Because seeing the game in action will give you a much better idea of how the game feels than I could ever do with written words. That’s important because this game is…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: The Kotaku Review

“How can I best describe Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes?” I asked myself. “Ah, yes. I’ll describe it as a small plate at an expensive restaurant.” So, okay, let’s do that: You’re at one of those restaurants where they serve gourmet food in very small portions. You’ve been given your entree—a intricate thing that…

The Famous “Wall Of Death” Stunt Looks Just As Crazy In GTA V

Sometimes people question if GTA has broken physics that allow some of the crazy stunts we see, but this stunt has actually been done in real life. If you aren’t familiar, the “Wall of Death” is a real circus stunt done with actual cars and motorcycles. There’s no custom-built pit in Los Santos, so you…