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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One 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…

The 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…

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,…

How To Upgrade PS3 Games To PS4 Games

Want to turn your PS3 games into PS4 games? It’s not hard. You just have to follow these steps. Today PlayStation Access released a cute video about the upgrade process, which might not be available for every cross-gen game, but has been confirmed for some, like Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed IV, both announced for…

Gran Turismo Creator Crashed His First Car At 24, Now Dreams of Peace

The man who makes the most popular racing game series of the past 15 years fell in love with cars at age three. At 24, he crashed the first car he ever had. He was driving perhaps a bit too fast that day. These days, he’s wrapping up development of December’s Gran Turismo 6 and…

As we wait for Trails in the Sky’s new chapter to drop, Japan is getting ready for a new Legend of Heroes RPG of its own. Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Flash chronologically takes place before Trails in the Sky, during the oft-referenced Great War. It is set to hit the PS3 and Vita…

What’s New In Skylanders: Swap Force? So Many Things.

Every Skylander character released so far has been remastered in HD. We’re visiting a region of the Skylands we’ve never seen before. We meet Kaos’ evil mom. So many new features are coming in Skylanders: Swap Force, some almost exciting as the ability to jump. I’m a little fixated on Swap Force‘s jumping mechanic. That’s…

You Can Use Video Capture Devices On The PS4, Too [UPDATE]

If the PlayStation 4’s (limited) built-in capture functionality isn’t enough for you, fear not. Sony announced at their TGS conference that you’ll be able to use third-party devices to capture gameplay through the HDMI output, too. Though be warned, it looks like it won’t be available at launch as per tweets from Shuhei Yoshida earlier…

Definitely The Weirdest Game On PS4

If there’s a stranger PS4 game than Hohokum, we haven’t seen it yet. Check out this new poop-filled trailer, released on the PlayStation Blog today, for the upcoming platformer… music game… video game. Looks bizarre and fascinating. Hohokum is out next year for PS4, Vita, and PS3.

Xbox One And PS4 Make Toys’R’Us’ Hot Toy List. Only One Is Fabulous.

Toy retail giant Toys’R’Us has released its annual list of the hottest products for the holiday season, and while both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 made the cut this year, only Microsoft’s console made it into the “Fabulous 15.” Why? There are 36 products in total on the annual Toys’R’Us Hot Holiday Toys list,…

OLED or Not, the New PS Vita Seems Fine!

You might have seen the comparison pics—or even the video. The new PS Vita slim features a LCD display instead of an OLED display. But you know what, it’s no biggie. I’ve been able to play with the new Vita this week in Tokyo. It’s not a bad redesign at all. In fact, it’s pretty…