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The new Guilty Gear is coming to PS3 and PS4 in Japan next year. Arc System Works, in a short and sweet one-minute trailer, announced that their next Guilty Gear game will be hitting Sony’s home consoles sometimes in 2014. Take a look above

In Japan, the Vita is Getting a Brand New 64GB Memory Card

Today, Sony announced a new 64GB model for their line of PlayStation Vita SD cards. The 64GB model will retail at a price of 10,479 yen—roughly $105. It will be available in Japan starting October 10. The company also revealed that starting tomorrow, they’d be selling their existing Vita memory card models at a reduced…

Fan-Made TimeSplitters ‘Greatest Hits’ Remake is Coming to PS4

Crytek, custodian of the TimeSplitters franchise since the dissolution of its original studio, will support a fan-made “greatest-hits” style remake of the series that was announced earlier this week. Crytek’s blessing means the game will release on PlayStation 4 in addition to PC. TimeSplitters Rewind will be made absolutely free to everyone, as a condition…

PlayStation Intern, Ordered to Test Games for Free, Sues and Wins

Chris Jarvis, 25, thought he would be shadowing a staff developer as an unpaid intern last year at Sony Computer Entertainment’s Cambridge studio in the U.K. When he showed up, he says he was ordered to test games instead. Forgive me for finding that kind of servitude, well, Dickensian. Jarvis didn’t think it was funny,…

Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log One: There Is No Hate Here

I got a lot of flack last weekend when I wrote about Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn‘s launch being a disaster. I get the feeling people thought I was dissing the game. That’s just not true. I was dissing the fact that so many people who wanted to play it could not do so,…

Fairy Tales Aren’t All Sugar And Sunshine In The Wolf Among Us

What if fairy tales were real? What if wolves and demons and talking mice walked right up to the counter at the grocery store and swiped their milk across the scanners just like you do? What if your jerk neighbor who screams like a boar every time he fights with his wife actually was a…

The Truth Is Last Year’s Games Had Problems. This Year’s Are…Better?

Usually, if someone wants to convince you that the video game they’re making is going to be great, they tell you what they’re putting in it. But what if they made nearly the same game a year ago? They have to take a different approach. This is the plight of the people who make big-time…

Watch Us Play The New Jojo Fighting Game… Badly

We’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle—from face-humping dogs to terrifying loading icons. Now it’s time to play it. Join me and fellow Kotaku East contributor Toshi Nakamura as we play around with the game’s online versus mode. Be warned though, we are pretty darned terrible at fighting games.…

At the top of the “Places We Weren’t Expecting To See BioShock Infinite Referenced” list, Disney Infinity. I guess they both have the whole “Infinity” thing going, but a kid-friendly imagination game seems an odd place for a recreation of the floating town filled with racists and murderers. Have fun, kids!

I’d Forgotten This All-Girl Fighting Game Was A Thing

Man, what was that game again? The one where the women are all kidnapped and forced to fight, with the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the fishnet top and cut-offs with electrical tape over her chest? Man, good thing Kung Fu Factory decided to get rid of… oh wait, they’re still making Girl Fight? And…

Here’s What Some Developers Think Of the PlayStation 4

Those who have had a chance to play around with Sony’s latest console, the PS4, have been sharing their experiences and what they think about Sony’s latest big black box with those of us who have not. But what about the developers? Those who are involved in making the software for us to enjoy —…

Farming Simulator graces European and Japanese consoles today. If you’re in either of these two regions, you can now officially head out and grab the game for Xbox 360 or PS3 Those in North America will have to wait a bit longer for their copies, which will be here “shortly.” Until then, here’s the launch…

Beating People To Music Is One Way To Appreciate It

Zen Studios’ KickBeat hit the PlayStation Network for Vita and PS3 this week, giving me a chance to kick Celldweller’s ass, at least in spirit. The core game features more Celldweller, that one POD song that whores itself out to every rhythm game, Marilyn Manson, because it was just sitting there looking lonely, a bit…

Dying Light‘s Nighttime Zombie Chase Almost Gave Me A Heart Attack

There are precisely one billionty video games out there that ask you to imagine what it would be like to survive the zombie apocalypse. But it’s rare to find one that makes the setting feel like anything more than just morbid fun or creepy explorations. It’s hard to inspire genuine, adrenaline-rushing fear. The kind of…

Let’s Play Diablo III On Console, Live

Diablo III is here for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and I’d much rather play it than work, so I’m going to play it as work, and let you watch. For the next hour I will be talking and kicking things and maybe even trying to get into a multiplayer match, but I make…

Women Will Fight in EA Sports UFC

EA Sports confirmed that women fighters will be on the roster of the upcoming UFC title it will release next spring on next-generation consoles. Rivals Ronda Rousey (pictured above) and Miesha Tate will join the game, with more to follow from the UFC’s Women’s Bantamweight division. Dean Richards, the general manager for EA Sports UFC,…

14 Minutes of Watch Dogs Looking Like One of 2013’s Best New Games

One of my colleagues has been swooning over this new video of Watch Dogs. You should check it, too! The nearly 15-minute video shows a version of what I saw of the game last May—a section of Ubisoft’s open-world adventure that helps explain why this is one of the big fall video games we’re most…

This Might Be The PS4’s Prettiest Game So Far

Forget Killzone and Watch Dogs—the best-looking game I’ve seen on PlayStation 4 so far is this contemplative adventure by a Spanish development studio named Tequila Works. Called Rime, the game looks like a cross between Journey, Ico, and Zelda: Wind Waker, and presumably it’s Sony’s way to distract us from the questionable fate of The…

Stan Lee Has All The Power In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

Stan “The Man” Lee might just be a walk-on in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes but, boy, he gets to rock on with unimaginable power. It’s like Molecule Man and the Beyonder had a baby, and that baby was Mimic but looked like Stan Lee. I could have explained that better. When you’ve got more than…

See XCOM‘s New Super Soldiers in Action

It figures that right after I write my hands-on preview of XCOM: Enemy Within, Firaxis would then release the video of its PAX closed-doors demonstration. (Video during my playthrough was forbidden.) Well, it’s worth the double-dip, because you can see some things I forgot to mention. The first is that a MEC trooper—the hulking mechasoldier…