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Kotaku EastAce 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…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 26, 2013 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 26, 2013 -
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 25, 2013 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2013 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2013 -
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 24, 2013 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published September 24, 2013 -
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,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2013 -
Got Twenty Minutes? Here, Kick Some Zombie Ass on YouTube
Hellraid, the game which attempts to mix the combat of Dead Island with the setting of Dark Messiah (or Heretic, or Hexen), has a prequel that you can play right now. The catch? It’s an interactive movie. Don’t worry though, it’s lotsa fun. Techland released the choose-your-own-adventure series on YouTube as a lead-up to the…
By András Neltz Published September 24, 2013 -
Alien Rage: Boring Name, Boring Game
The game has one redeeming quality, and that’s a completely out of place narrator that says things like “Double kill!” and “Ten headshots!” to remind you that you’re doing a good job. Thanks guy! I started the game with high hopes, but in the hour or so that I played, the game just got more…
By Steve Marinconz Published September 23, 2013 -
One Of Gaming’s Most Iconic Swords Got A Massive Steampunk Replica
No wonder there’s no one in these pictures wielding the massive 6.5 feet tall Buster Sword, Cloud’s iconic weapon from Final Fantasy VII. It probably weighs a ton! More specifically it’s a slightly modified steampunk version of the weapon, made by the folks at Brick Replicas There’s a cog-wheel and an indicator attached, so we…
By Gergo Vas Published September 23, 2013 -
Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Three: Play Us Out, PlayStation 3
Welcome to the third and final MMO Log before we slap a review on Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and call it the better part of a month. This week I’m taking a look at the PlayStation 3 version of the game, which is just like the PC version after three or four beers.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2013 -
Kotaku East
The Metal Gear Solid Side Mission Demo Ended With A Badass Car Jump
If nothing else, Hideo Kojima knows how to work a crowd. So it’s only natural that he’d have something extra planned for the public day live performance of Tokyo Game Show 2013. In addition to the12-minute Ground Zeroes demo, Kojima also treated spectators to a brief side mission demo. Made specifically for the limited time…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 23, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Westerners Want PS Vita TV More than Sony Thought
That PS Vita TV sure is a neat little device, huh? The device is hitting Japan this November and will be released elsewhere in Asia next January. But what about the West? In a recent roundtable Kotaku attended at Sony’s Tokyo headquarters, Masayasu Ito said, “Western gamers want [the PS Vita TV] more than we…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2013 -
NBA Live Dribbles Out a First Look at Actual Gameplay
NBA Live 14 announced its launch date earlier this week—Nov. 19, which is curious, as that is four days after the PlayStation 4 launches and still there’s a PS4/NBA Live 14 launch bundle (currently sold out) due to drop on Nov. 15. OK, well, while we get that sorted out, here’s the first look at…
By Owen Good Published September 21, 2013 -
Capcom’s PS4-Exclusive Deep Down Will Be Free-to-Play
Deep Down, Capcom’s strange, beautiful, displaced-time online RPG, is going to be free-to-play, and its beta will appear “near the launch of the PlayStation 4 in Japan,” Sony’s president of worldwide studios said via Twitter after the news was announced at Tokyo Game Show earlier today. As was revealed earlier this week, PlayStation 4 will…
By Owen Good Published September 21, 2013 -
Why the PS4 is Waiting Until February to Launch in Japan
A dearth of Japan-focused titles is why Sony is slowing the roll of the PlayStation 4 there until Feb. 22. In fact, western appetite for a next-generation console well outpaces that in Sony’s home country, said company executives to Eurogamer “Perhaps you could say that a few western developers have been more aggresive in readying…
By Owen Good Published September 21, 2013 -
Kotaku EastOne of Metal Gear Solid‘s Most Iconic Tropes Was Almost Axed
Looking at its gameplay, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and its prologue, Ground Zeroes capture the spirit of the Metal Gear series despite worries arising from director Hideo Kojima’s announcement that the game would be open world. However, a staple of the series—the exclamation point—was almost not included in Metal Gear Solid 5…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 21, 2013 -
Kotaku EastThe New Strider Game is a Classic Reborn
In recent years, there have been many classic game-inspired re-imaginings—from Bionic Commando to DuckTales. At TGS 2013 today, I was able to get my hands on the newest one: Strider As it’s been nearly 15 years since the release of the last Strider game, many of you may only know about the character from his…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 20, 2013 -
Why Rockstar Released GTA V For Current-Gen Consoles
Can’t do this with a next gen-only game in 2013 (probably not in 2014, either), because there just won’t be enough next-gen consoles out there for quite some time… Grand Theft Auto V® Worldwide Sales Surpass $1 Billion In First Three Days Fastest entertainment property in history to reach significant milestone* NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sep. 20,…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2013