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Fans Seem to be Waiting for Big-Name Sports to Launch on New Consoles

The third of three sports titles releasing on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at launch arrived on shelves today—NBA 2K14—but if reviews and sales figures for its peers are any indication, fans appear to be waiting for the next console generation before they buy the sports titles closing out this one. If at all.…

You Can Never Have Too Much Sniper Elite

The only thing more satisfying than nailing a difficult sniper shot in a video game is an entire video game based around difficult sniper shots. Rebellion and 505 Games are bringing Sniper Elite 3 to consoles and PC in 2014. An enhanced X-Ray Kill-Cam, fresh environments, an all-new story and more of an open-world sandbox…

Maybe you want some different box art for Destiny Art that doesn’t make the back of one character’s head look like Master Chief’s visor. It’s a good thing that reader Lexxie shared this, then.

Rain: The Kotaku Review

Rain is one of those games that comes so close to getting everything right that it seems unfair not to praise it just for the proximity. Rain is basically a stealth game, with some elements that might remind you of puzzles and platformers. Generally, you’ll spend your time devising the best way to avoid the…

Want to pick up Destiny when Bungie’s ambitious shooter comes out next year? Here’s what the PlayStation all console versions of the game’s box art will look like. Updated with Xbox versions of Destiny‘s box art.

Will Infinity Ward Continue to Support Competitive Call Of Duty?

With Activision publicly announcing their support of eSports at the recent Call Of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer reveal it’s become evident that this growing community has a chance to become a long-term fixture of the scene, but a lot of that is dependent on the efforts of Activision, its studios and Major League Gaming. Most recently,…

We Tried To Have Fun Playing Girl Fight. We Really Did.

With a name like Girl Fight, you’d expect a bottom-of-the-barrel exploitation game, with heavy focus on boob jiggle and awkward moaning. Instead, it’s a dull Dead Or Alive clone with okay fighting. I went into Girl Fight expecting some really over the top sexualization, but it ends up just being a generic fighter with no…

The Power of the GTA V Selfie Compels You

Taking selfies in GTA V can be a lot of fun, but sometimes it’s so fun your hand bends backwards awkwardly and shoves into your face and then your phone disappears and you’re like listen it’s supposed to look like that. Glitch video by Axerty via GameFails

Fresh Single-Player The Last Of Us Content Aimed At Year’s End

There’s an Abandoned Territories multiplayer map pack dropping for Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece on October 15, but that’s not important right now. What is important, is new story-driven, single-player content coming to The Last of Us in December or January. I’m sure multiplayer fans will be pleased with the four new maps in the Abandoned…

Killzone On The PS4 Might Actually Be More Comfortable To Play

If you’re purchasing the PlayStation 4 this holiday season and are into first-person shooters, chances are you’ll be eyeing Guerrilla Games‘ latest installment in the Killzone franchise: Shadow Fall. But while those shiny new graphics will catch most people’s eyes, I’m more concerned with how the game plays. The Killzone series has always had a…

Persona 4 Arena Gets Three New Characters And A Killer Name Extension

Persona 4 Arena is a wonderful fighting game. Persona 4 Arena with an extended story, two new character from Persona 3 and one fresh face is Persona 4 Arena The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold. Hell yeah. Coming to Japanese arcades this winter, this update picks up the incredibly lengthy story where Persona 4 Arena left…

Japan’s Great Developers Discuss the PS4

I got a chance to handle the PS4 at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. The graphics definitely look prettier than I’ve seen on the PS3, but otherwise, it handles pretty much like it should. But I’m looking at it from the player’s side. That’s the output. What about the input? That’s where you have to…

Ace Combat Infinity‘s Story Mode is Free. As for Multiplayer…

Ace Combat Infinity is Namco Bandai’s upcoming free to play aerial combat game for the PlayStation 3. Project leader Kazutoki Kono says that for this game, they’re going back to the roots and standards of the Ace Combat series. The content of the game is looking fairly robust. There will be a campaign mode and…

Soul Sacrifice Delta is Looking “Grimm”

Soul Sacrifice, the macabre save-or-sacrifice game from Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, is getting an updated incarnation next year with Soul Sacrifice Delta. The game is getting new creatures, new magic, and interestingly enough, a “Grimm” new alignment in the good/evil spectrum. No longer are you forced to choose between saving and sacrificing enemies and…

You Can Upgrade Some Big Fall Games To Next-Gen, But There’s A Catch

If you buy a major fall release such as Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Battlefield 4 or Call of Duty Ghosts for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 with the intention of upgrading to a next-gen version, buyer beware: you won’t be able to take some of your in-game progress with you. While Sony, Microsoft,…

An Illuminating New Use For The PS4 Controller

My greatest hope for the coming next-gen consoles is that they will surprise us. I hope that we haven’t guessed all the ways the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U will use their new hardware to make us play games slightly differently. And what do you know, just today, the people making Thief described a…

Adam West Never Looked This Tough In His Batman Costume

We’ve known since June that PlayStation 3 owners will get the “exclusive” opportunity to play the next Dark Knight game, Batman: Arkham Origins, with a Batman wearing either his Knightfall-era costume or the old 1960s TV costume. Today, you can see those costumes in the game, in motion. Imagine if Adam West lifted weights! You…

Here’s a Taste of PS4 Multiplayer Action with Killzone: Shadow Fall

The glimpses shown so far of Killzone: Shadow Fall have been portions of the single-player, along with very in-depth, shiny tech demos. But, if you want to know what it’s going to look like when folks start going online and blasting at each other, then this here is what you really want to see. Along…

Despite Last Year’s Disaster, Sony Teams Up With Taco Bell Again

Remember last year, when a debacle of a partnership between Taco Bell and Sony left some PlayStation fans feeling cheated and misled? The two companies are partnering again—and the collaboration sure sounds familiar. This time around it’s a contest to win free PlayStation 4s: The “Play the Future First” promotion runs in the U.S. from…

Let’s Watch The Opening Of Lightning Returns And Make Oooo Noises

Square Enix has lost a substantial amount of mojo over the years, their ability to create spectacular cinematic game openings remains intact. Watch them open the hell out of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It’s not in English, but you don’t really need to know Japanese to get what’s going on here. Lightning has returned,…