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A Look Back at Eighteen Years of PlayStation (to Make You Feel Old)
Sony Europe released this tribute video today, a stylized look at 18 years of gaming with PlayStation consoles on that continent. Wait a minute, this dude has lived in the same room for 18 years? Kidding; this isn’t meant to be taken literally, it’s just an amalgamation of all the things you might remember about…
By Owen Good Published October 21, 2013 -
GTA Online, Log #3: In Search of a Big Score
Getting into the game? Finally, no longer a problem. Hooking up with friends for jobs and random open-world hijinks? Happening on a regular basis. But, now that the yearning for GTA Online to fulfill a basic set of expectations has been met, I find myself craving something else. Something bigger, made up of unpredictable randomness…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2013 -
Need for Speed Rivals Looks Amazing Whether You Play It on PC or PS4
For one moment, the gap between playing a game on PC and on console seemed razor-thin. I played Need for Speed Rivals on both PC and PS4 and the two versions of EA’s upcoming racing game were virtually indistinguishable. What I saw was impressive no matter what machine it was running on. There are caveats,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2013 -
New GTA V Patch Claims to Fix Missing Vehicles, Many Other Problems
The latest title update for Grand Theft Auto V goes up today and it’s supposed to do away with one of the game’s most annoying bugs. Hopefully, players won’t have to worry about cars and other vehicles disappearing from garages. Here’s the list of issues that Rockstar says should be resolved with the new update:…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2013 -
GameStop’s 2013 Black Friday Deals Appear To Have Leaked
It’s October, which means it’s already time to start thinking about how much money you’ll throw around for the annual holiday Buy Things extravaganza. And thanks to an early leak, we already know what GameStop has to offer. GottaDeal.com has the full list, which is 12 pages long and slightly underwhelming. Some of the highlights:…
By Jason Schreier Published October 18, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Of Course, Danganronpa Looks Much Better on the Vita
Back in August, I played Danganronpa on the PSP and loved it. And after playing a bit of it on the Vita TV at TGS, I was more than a little excited to spend some quality time with its updated graphics. But even I was surprised at just how much better the game looks on…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 18, 2013 -
PS4 Launch Game DriveClub Delayed, Sony Confirms
As Kotaku reported on Wednesday, the PS4 launch game DriveClub was delayed to 2014. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed this on the Playstation Blog. “DriveClub will be a truly innovative, socially connected racing game,” writes Yoshida, “but the team requires more time in order to deliver on their vision — and I’m fully confident the…
By Gergo Vas Published October 18, 2013 -
There Might Be A Playable PS4 Near Your House, Right Now
Sony has PS4 demo kiosks rolled out and ready to play across the US. Like, now. Sadly for the moment they’re only in Sony stores, making them a little harder to track down, they’ll soon be in more accessible spots like GameStop, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. If you want to see if there’s one…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2013 -
The PS4 Has Tiny PlayStation Screws Inside
German site Computer Bild have got hold of a devkit PS4 and cracked it open. Their findings aren’t terribly important to the average user – though it looks like swapping HDDs will be a cinch – but they did find one thing of interest. Dat screw. Such needless effort. So adorable. Playstation 4: Exklusiv –…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2013 -
The PS4 Sure Makes Basketball Look Good
Okay, yes, this is a marketing video by the folks who make NBA 2K14, which is already out on current-gen consoles and will be released for Xbox One and PS4 later this year. The real game might not look this good. But still… they’re claiming this footage was captured off a PlayStation 4. It’s pretty…
By Jason Schreier Published October 17, 2013 -
Try To Think Your Way Through The PS4’s First Big Puzzle Game Right Now
We’ve been talking about The Witness, the upcoming puzzle/exploration game from Braid-creator Jonathan Blow, for some time now. But for all the words we’ve spilled and the concept art we’ve shared, it can still be difficult to explain just how the game’s puzzles work Yesterday at a Sony-hosted PS4 preview event, I chatted with Blow…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 17, 2013 -
PlayStation 4 Will Cost $1,850 in Brazil
And we thought Argentina had it bad. In Brazil, the land of high video game import taxes, PlayStation fans will have to shell out 3,999 Brazilian Real for Sony’s next console come November 29. That’s roughly $1,850 USD. Ouch. The $100 price advantage the $399 PlayStation 4 enjoys over the $499 Xbox One here in…
By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2013 -
This Is What Car Battles Look Like In GTA Online… In Mid-Air
I guess this is, like, jousting on helicopters? Chicken with helicopters and cars? Whatever this is, it’s amazing. And it’s all thanks to the crazy minds at Achievement Hunter What you do is, basically: lift your best cars up, meet your friends in mid-air and start ramming each other. This would probably make even less…
By Gergo Vas Published October 17, 2013 -
There’s a Musical Surprise In Skylanders: Swap Force
I was not expecting this at all. Don’t click if you don’t want to spoil it. As if aintricately lovely score by Lorne Balfe — the man behind the music for the first two Skylanders games, Assassin’s Creed III and Beyond: Two Souls — wasn’t enough, Vicarious Visions audio designer Matt Pirog put together this…
By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2013 -
That was probably a bad idea. These silly GTA V mansions. Although there are several solutions for this, lifting it out with a cargo helicopter and not dropping it into the pool would be the funniest. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that…
By Gergo Vas Published October 17, 2013 -
Kotaku East
How To Access Your Vita’s Battery
Thanks to hackers, the words “portable console” and “removable battery” used to spell “nightmare” for Sony. The battery of the PSP famously offered hackers an easy back door into the console that until then required hard-to-find exploits in games. It’s no wonder the PSP Go was a closed system. So what about its younger brother,…
By Toshi Nakamura Published October 17, 2013 -
Kotaku East
How Japanese Gamers Felt After Touching the PS4 and Xbox One
The PS4 and Xbox One won’t be out in Japan until next year, but many attendees to last month’s Tokyo Game Show got to try out the upcoming consoles and voice their opinions. Here’s what they thought. This week, Weekly Famitsu published the results from its TGS 2013 poll. One of the questions were on…
By Toshi Nakamura Published October 17, 2013 -
GTA V‘s Trevor Sure Likes Forklifting Some Weird Things
My new favorite Tumblr find of this week? Why, it’s “Trevor Lifting Stuff.” On it, Trevor lifts all kinds of stuff. Like a stepladder, for instance. The Tumblr is actually titled “Trevor soulève des trucs” in French, but it depicts the international language of lifting. Trevor lifts up a garden table. A cow. A mailbox.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 17, 2013 -
Is PS4 Launch Game DriveClub Delayed To 2014? [UPDATE: Yes.]
Has one of the PlayStation 4’s big launch exclusives has been pushed back to next year? Rumors are swirling that DriveClub has been delayed to 2014, but Sony won’t comment on the matter. UPDATE (10/18): Sony has confirmed the delay A website called The Same Coin sparked the rumor earlier today, claiming they’d heard from…
By Jason Schreier Published October 16, 2013