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The launch trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall gives us a little bit of zealotry and a bucket of bad blood. With their homeworld destroyed, the Helghast have come to settle with the Vektans, in a big city divided by a huge wall. Unsurprisingly, no one likes their new neighbors.

The fantastic Rayman Legends comes to non-Nintendo next-gen in February. During Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2013-2014 conference call, CEO and chairman Yves Guillemot revealed that the second game in the limbless wonder’s console rebirth will hit next-generation consoles in February 2014. Can it possibly get any prettier?

Okay, Maybe Call Of Duty: Ghost‘s Spawning Could Use Some Work

Now I’m no first-person shooter expert, but I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be able to kill the same opponent four times in ten seconds. Not only does YouTube’s Gold Glove kill one guy four times in that time span during this Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer match, he kills another two enemy players while he’s…

Overheating Consoles Were the Worst Problem of Last Generation

With this past generation, the most terrifying thing console owners could see was a small red or yellow light that meant their several hundred dollar console was dead. Without a doubt, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are amazingly complex pieces of hardware—each a powerful computer shoved into a tiny box. Unfortunately, as it turned…

Can’t Go to the Real Akihabara? Try This Game!

Akiba’s Trip 2 is about two things: stripping vampires (and thus exposing them to lethal amounts of sunlight) and the mecca for otaku worldwide: Akihabara. And as the game sports over 130 stores from the real world Akihabara, I went out and took a few pictures to see just how well the game captured real…

Kingdom Under Fire II Coming to PS4. It’ll Be Out…One Day.

Kingdom Under Fire II has been in development for a long time. A very long time. Originally announced in early 2008 as a PC and home console game, Kingdom Under Fire II was supposed to hit the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Delays followed, there were rumors of development problems, and the console game…

And The Lost Twin Brother Of Big Boss Is None Other Than…

So it looks like it’s not just Ellie from The Last of Us with a twin sister. Joel has one too: Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Not to mention the artwork looks pretty much the same, too. Plus “Stealth of Us” is an anagram of The Last of Us Joelid Snake –…

How Trophies Work On PS4

Trophies on the PlayStation 4 are coming back with a twist. Sony’s new console won’t just store your achievements—it’ll tell you the rarity of each Trophy you earn. We saw the new feature in action today during a demo of the PS4’s system interface at a big press event tied to the console’s Friday launch.…

Nine Cool Facts About The PS4’s Interface

We watched the PlayStation 4’s interface in action this morning at Sony’s big review event, and we got to see some of the cool little hardware quirks that make this system really feel next-gen. Seriously. For a while I’ve been skeptical about these new machines, but once you see the PS4’s interface in action, that…

Sony Turns Hotel Into Giant Concrete PS4

Sony’s holding a PS4 “review” event in New York this week, and it’s going down at The Standard High Line, a weird-looking old hotel that’s not exactly in the middle of Times Square. I was wondering why Sony would choose such an odd building for such an important event, but this light show explains it.…

See Battlefield 4 Running On PS4 Remote Play

One of the PlayStation 4’s coolest advertised features is Remote Play, which will allow gamers to play PS4 games on their Vita handheld. We’ve already seen a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV running with Remote Play, and now you can get a taste of Battlefield 4 IGN‘s Greg Miller has shared this Vine video which,…

The PS4 is out in four days, and Kotaku’s review will go live at 9am Eastern on Wednesday, November 13. Look forward to that and tons more coverage as this week continues.

​Apparently Hideo Kojima Loves The PS4 Pillow, Too

Sure, the PlayStation 4 is the main attraction at Sony’sbig New York press event today. But a surprising upstart has stolen a bit of the spotlight: The PS4 Pillow. Behold, in all its glory: Ever since people at the event started sharing pictures of the pillow on social media, it’s become quite the thing. Metal…

How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4

Call it installation or call it caching, but the bottom line is that you will have to save large chunks of PlayStation 4 games to the system’s hard drive. It’s not an option. It’s mandatory on Sony’s next-gen system. Today, at a stylish waterfront hotel in New York City that’s been taken over by Sony…

XCOM: Enemy Within: The Kotaku Review

Few things fill me with dread like the first terror response mission in XCOM. Kidney stones, for sure. The DMV. But that terror mission—which costs you a nation on the spot if you flunk it—comes when your force is young and underpowered. I know I’m gonna lose someone. I’m probably gonna lose two someones. Not…

Sony’s Big PS4 Review Event

It’s just a few days before Sony launches their next-gen console. So they’ve rented out a few floors of New York City’s The Standard hotel to showcase some of the PS4’s upcoming games. Three of us from Kotaku are currently wandering the hotel, preparing to play some games and ask some questions. In the meantime,…

Witness The Glory Of A 64-Man Battlefield 4 Base Jump

It takes up a lot of time and dedication, organizing an event where a full server of 64 people jump off a skyscaper in Battlefield 4, but it’s totally worth the effort. This is so much better than any of those precise and fast killshots that normally dominate Battlefield montages. If you attempt to do…

I shouldn’t like to be in Batman’s shoes when he has to face enemies like this in Batman: Arkham Origins That is just truly horrifying. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’vegot them. To contact…

BioShock Infinite‘s New Expansion Bites Off More Than It Can Chew

What to make of Burial at Sea? Planned as a two-part episodic expansion for BioShock Infinite, it takes us back to where the series began: The majestic underwater city of Rapture. One part BioShock nostalgia trip and one part extraneous BioShock Infinite epilogue, Burial at Sea‘s first episode falls unfortunately short of both its predecessors.…

Let’s Play Dress-Up with the New Lightning Returns Trailer

Good thing mizz Lightning has the time to stay fashionable in between going on missions to save the world. Otherwise, we couldn’t spend all this time looking at her fabulous outfits The latest and shiniest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII interactive trailer from Squeenix has you help Lightning pick out a dress for her next…