PlayStation

Last Year’s Portable Batman Hits Consoles and PC in April

Two Batman games came out last year. The big console version, Batman: Arkham Origins, came from a new development studio. That game’s overshadowed, on-the-go semi-sequel Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate came from Armature, a collective of creators who helped make the great Metroid Prime games. Previously released only for 3DS and Vita, Blackgate now gets its…

Japanese Fans Line Up For a Chance To Be First To Buy a PS4

Do you think they’ll do the Antonio Banderas move? The official release date of the PS4 in Japan is February 22nd. However, at the Sony building in Ginza, Tokyo, Sony is offering to sell 100 PS4s a day early on the 21st. Of the 100, 30 will get to participate in the special PlayStation 4…

All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

New Dark Souls II Trailer Tries Not to Be Depressing

Everyone who’s rabidly awaiting the arrival of Dark Souls II knows that it’s going to a nihilistic affair where they will die a lot. Nobody’s fooling themselves. But, hey, this new trailer wants you to know all that painful trial-and-error builds character. It’s even got some sunshine in it! The dialogue in the promo clip…

Sacred 3 brings its colorful co-op Diablo-esque gameplay to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this summer. With four-player drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer co-op and two-player splitscreen, Deep Silver’s latest foray into the world of Ancaria should be a blast to play with friends and strangers alike. Check out fresh screens below.

Strike Suit Zero Transforms Into A PS4 And Xbox One Game

With fast paced action and mecha that transform into spaceships, there wasn’t a lot not to like about Born Ready Games’ Strike Suit Zero, and what little there was is being addressed in next month’s Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Born Ready has polished up the textures, restructured…

Helldivers Is Proof That Friendly Fire Can Be A Wonderful Thing

The creators of Magicka have never made a console game before, but their first—Helldivers—is one hell of a doozy. The chaotic co-op charm of Magicka never quite felt right on a gamepad, but with Helldivers, Arrowhead Game Studios hits that mark hard. Magicka, for those who don’t know, is a PC-exclusive top-down co-op adventure about…

If Trevor From GTA V Were Using Facebook (Thank God He’s Not)

The fine YouTubers at GTA Series Videos created a highlight video on Trevor Philips’ life in the style of Facebook’s 10th anniversary “Look Back” compilation. They used Trevor’s Lifeinvader profile, and I have to say the result is pretty hilarious. He’s had it rough! GTA 5 – A Look Back at Trevor’s Life (Facebook Parody)…

The Order: 1886 Is 30 Frames Per Second And Darn Proud Of It

The Order: 1886 does what it wants. Zeppelins, elevated trains and automatic rifles? It might not fit the history it’s based on, but hey, why not? Toss them in. Developers Ready at Dawn are telling a story about men and women fighting half-bred monster people that never existed in their own vision of 19th century…

You Can’t Play Titanfall On PS4–But You Can Watch It

Well, that’s one way to put Titanfall on the PS4, I guess. The channel Epic Reset Gaming (YouTube, Twitch) got the idea to share Titanfall with PlayStation 4 gamers through, once again, the magic of The Playroom, ostensibly an augmented reality game using your living room as the play space. Most folks who stream their…

It’s the middle of the month; that means new games on PlayStation Plus. Tomorrow, Remember Me is free to subscribers on PS3; for PS Vita, it’s Street Fighter X Tekken. That means today is your last day to download Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on Vita and Poker Night at the Inventory 2 on PS3…

The Next Transformers Game Crosses Continuity Lines. I’m Scared.

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is not just a sequel to Activision’s lovely War for/Fall of Cybertron games or a Michael Bay-flavored movie tie-in. It’s both, and that scares the spark out of me. Making a good Transformers video game is hard, at least I assume this is the case, because the majority of…

Booker with his skyhook from Bioshock Infinite, redrawn by Jenny thorne on DeviantART Looks really cool, just like a cell from a 90s cartoon. Here’s a bonus from the same artist. Fun looking Payday 2 jennyisdrawing [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…

Which Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Is Best? Here Are Comparisons

Upcoming stealth action game Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released on old and new platforms. How different will they look? Konami released a handful of comparison images from the different versions of the game, explaining how the PS3 and PS4 versions stack up as well as the Xbox 360 and Xbox One…

The Week in Games: There’s Money in the Banana Stand

Rayman Legends makes its way to Xbox One and PS4 this week, followed by Strider’s long-awaited return to the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC. But the week’s big gorilla arrives on Friday, with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U. Tuesday, Feb. 18: Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3, 360) NASCAR 14 (…

The dulcet, Brokaw-esque baritone of Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) introduces you to Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, due to arrive sometime this year. In science fiction—whether video game or film—nothing says “mailed-in sequel” like a title with a colon followed by “Rise of the Something–Something.” [IGN] The game will launch on everything: PS4 and…

Here’s a start-to-finish look at the first mission in Thief, 10 days away from its Feb. 25 launch. Garrett’s trying to make his way back to his hideout during “Lockdown,” when, well, opportunities arise, as they usually do.

The Last of Us: Left Behind: The Kotaku Review

I’ve never played anything quite like The Last of Us: Left Behind Oh, something like it might exist, out there in the hidden corners of videogame-land. I’ve just never seen it. Let’s cut to the chase. My recommendation: Go play it. We can talk spoilers next week. But okay, okay. If you really want a…

Good News, Danganronpa Fans: NIS America just announced that Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is coming to Vitas in North America and Europe this fall. Unlike the (very cool) first game, the sequel takes place on a sun-drenched island. Word is it’s good, too. Read/download the full announcement here

​Decent-Looking Game. Terrible Narrator.

Bound by Flame is a new PlayStation exclusive action/RPG hitting multiple platforms later this year. Without any kind of sense as to how it plays, it looks pretty middle-of-the-road for a game coming out in 2014. But that voiceover—sounding enthralled, huckster-ish and befuddled—will take you back straight to the 1990s, in good and bad ways.…