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Producer Moved To Tears Over Launch Of Reborn Final Fantasy XIV

During the Tokyo launch event for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, game producer Naoki Yoshida fought (and lost) a constant battle against tears as he thanked fans for their patience, apologized for server issues and looked back on three years of re-developing a failed game. At least that’s what the folks at Dualshockersare saying…

In Case You Forgot, The Last of Us Is A Damn Good Game

You could probably show me a 30 second clip of any part of The Last of Us and I’d be able to remember all the good (or horrific?) times I had with it. The talented Luke Ritson, who composes alternative trailers for video games, strung together these select clips for a summary of Naughty Dog’s…

$150 Version of GTA V Lets You Play Online as Niko Bellic’s Son

The surprisingly-grand Grand Theft Auto Online, which launches on October 1, will let you pick your parents as you sculpt the character you play. Would you like to be playing as the son of GTA IV‘s protagonist? You can. According to Rockstar, one of the perks of purchasing the $150 Collector’s Edition of the game…

This Could Easily Be The Launch Trailer For A Solo Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn launches today, and this trailer punctuates one of the biggest improvements to come from several years of vigorous retooling: it feels more like a numbered FF game. It’s not that the original Final Fantasy XIV didn’t have a real story — it’s just there was so much extraneous crap…

A cloth map, a guide book, a compass and three CDs — yum. Celebrating more than 25 years of mispronunciation, XSEED is bringing a special collector’s edition of Ys: Memories of Celceta to the PlayStation Vita this holiday season. It’ll be $59.99, and I bet it will smell amazing.

Giant-Robot Call of Duty Still Looking Like The Coolest Call of Duty

Today’s new trailer for the upcoming and final Call of Duty: Black Ops II expansion, Apocalypse, once again shows why the world would benefit from an old World War I trench warfare planes-and-blimps-and-giant-robot Call of Duty. Just look at this GIF we pulled from it! It’s from the map pack’s latest co-op zombies mission, entitled…

‘If fighting games didn’t exist, I’d have probably gotten into Karate’

Our weekly Quick Q&A series is only ever four questions long, which should make it the perfect format for a man who came up with a minimalist fighting game that requires only two buttons. Today, that man, Adam Heart answers our four questions and poses one to you. 1. Your new fighting game, Divekick, has…

Hideo Kojima Keeps It Short And Sweet For His 50th Birthday

All-star game designer Hideo Kojima turned 50 on Saturday, so consider this a belated happy birthday to the Metal Gear mastermind and your opportunity to wish him a happy 50th. What did the man himself have to say about 50? Not a ton. He tweeted this early Monday morning in what was either a delayed…

Grand Theft Auto V: Do We Really Want to Know?

This is an article about spoilers, though there won’t be any spoilers in it. This is a piece about Grand Theft Auto V but really about what we—what you—want to know or not know. This is a piece about knowledge, about information. It’s about that seeming law of physics that guarantees that secrets can and…

Sony Acknowledges Grand Theft Auto V Leak, Says It’s Sorry

Sony has acknowledged—and apologized for—a leak of Grand Theft Auto V files yesterday that revealed the game’s main theme and its soundtrack, among other details., potentially. “We sincerely apologize to Rockstar and GTA fans across the world who were exposed to the spoiler content,” Sony said on the official PlayStation blog. Yesterday, a digital file…

PlayStation Exec Explains Why They Keep Taking Shots at Xbox One

Andrew House, the Sony top executive who took another swipe at Microsoft and the Xbox One from the stage at Gamescom, has explained why Sony has made such arch references to the competition at its showcase events. Basically, Microsoft made them do it. “We constructed our E3 presentation because there was somehow a suspicion that…

‘Same great gameplay.’ People were pissed that FIFA 13 on the PS Vita was essentially a reconditioned FIFA Soccer, the launch title for the device. Well, there’s more where that came from for FIFA 14, reports Eurogamer

Disney Infinity: The Kotaku Review

Disney Infinity is a wonderful way for children of all ages to indulge their desire to create and explore, but are all of these colorful pieces ofexpensive plasticreally necessary? Setting aside the game’s creativity-exercising segment for the moment, let’s consider the origin of Disney Infinity. The game’s roots lie in 2010’s Toy Story 3: The…

A Longer Look At Multiplayer Shooting On PS4

I’ve always enjoyed Killzone multiplayer, in particular the general sense of heaviness as everyone lumbers around the battlefield. In this new video from Gamescom, Game Informer chats with Shadow Fall game director Steven ter Heide about how multiplayer will work in the PS4 launch game. Crucial takeaways: 24 players, lots of game customization options, no…

Splinter Cell And One Of The Most Notorious Places in the World

I was reminded of how powerful big-budget video games can be—yet how frustratingly tame they often remain—while I was playing the new Splinter Cell. This game goes somewhere I didn’t expect. Spoilers ahead. Close the window you’re reading this in now if you don’t want to know. Keep it open if you want to know…

The best shooter dogs are Nazi cyborg dogs. Roll over, Call of Duty; this Gamescom screen for Wolfenstein: The New Order shows how shooter dogs should be done. It also shows a swastika armband, which maybe isn’t the best idea for a screenshot celebrating a German trade show. But man, look at that dog. Catch…

Great name, great concept. The game is called Flame Over. It’s a firefighting roguelike. Coming to PS Vita next year from the studio Laughing Jackal. Details at the PlayStation blog

There’s Something Strange About GTA V‘s Yoga Clinic

I’m no yoga expert — not by a long shot — but I am pretty sure the poses depicted in Grand Theft Auto V‘s newly-updatedLos Santos Travelogue aren’t on the up-and-up. This one’s “Downward Facing Camel.” The others are incredibly NSFW. My wife does yoga, and I would have noticed this. Or maybe not. I…

Hopefully This Won’t Make You Throw Up

Give me nigh-limitless power to express myself, and this is what happens. I had this on my television as I went to sleep. It might be the most fun I’ve had in a video game ever. Well-worth the wait, Disney Infinity.

Assassin’s Creed IV’s “Stealth” trailer sure does involve a lot of murder. And it’s not just stealthy murder, either. Semantics aside, I’m really looking forward to neck-stabbing some bad guys in the jungle. Even if I won’t have the kick-ass music. Did I mention there’s kick-ass music? Have a look above.