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I Love This Unrealistic Assassin’s Creed Origins Boat
I play a lot of video games, but I don’t see many great glitches. Say what you will about modern gaming’s abundance of patches, but major glitches are still fairly rare. I fall through the floor of a third-person action game maybe once every two years. I played all of Red Dead Redemption and never…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 17, 2017 -
Skyrim VR Actually Made Me Throw Up, Yet I Want To Play More
Skyrim released today on Playstation VR. The VR version manages to capture the game’s scale and beauty in astounding new ways, but you might need to equip a barf bag alongside your ancient nordic axe. Leaping into Skyrim with a VR headset on feels a bit like placing an LSD sweetart under your tongue before…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 17, 2017 -
The L.A. Noire Remaster’s New Dialogue System Isn’t Specific Enough
L.A. Noire’s remaster brings the cult detective story back for another round of sleuthing. A change to the dialog system meant to fix the original game’s flaws makes interrogations more difficult than before. In L.A. Noire, Detective Cole Phelps investigates various crimes before getting swept up in a city-wide conspiracy. A major component of the…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 16, 2017 -
That Time Square Enix Made A Shooter Sequel To Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII is one of the most influential roleplaying games of all time. Nine years after its release in 1997, Square Enix released a sequel that isn’t really talked about: the third person shooter Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII By the end of the 90s, Sony had firmly established themselves as producers of…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 16, 2017 -
A Guide To The Real-Life Figures In Nioh
Nioh takes a lot of liberty with its historical setting but still maintains a large cast of famous warlords, samurai, explorers, and ninja. Every one of them has a story. Here’s a quick primer on what history tells us about these individuals. This post initially appeared 2/16/17. Works of historical fiction have always fascinated me…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 9, 2017 -
Man Livestreams His Roach-Infested PlayStation 4
In late September, a guy on South Korea’s Ruliweb posted that his PS4 had roaches coming out of it. He decided to take it apart and stream the experience on Twitch. Apparently, at peak, his stream had over 30,000 viewers! The guy, whose Twitch and YouTube channels are now called “Roach Man” in Korean, bought…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 9, 2017 -
ReviewsPS4
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds: The Kotaku Review
Horizon Zero Dawn was a terrific game. Guess what? Its new expansion, The Frozen Wilds, is also good. For more on the many things that made Horizon Zero Dawn a good game, go read my colleague Patricia Hernandez’s review from February. Developed by Killzone studio Guerrilla Games, it was an open-world action game about a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 6, 2017 -
PlayStation Trophies Can Now Earn You A Very Small Amount Of Money
There’s finally a reason to pay attention to the Sony Rewards program: you can now start trading in new PSN trophies for money on your PSN account. A new section of the Rewards Passes page over at the Sony Rewards website that appeared late week lists silver, gold and platinum trophies as milestones you can…
By Ethan Gach Published November 5, 2017 -
Overwatch Gets A New Hero: Moira, A Support Healer
Overwatch is getting a new hero and she looks rad as hell. Moira is a powerful support healer that mixes DPS and healing. A geneticist working for the nefarious organization Talon with additional ties to the Overwatch’s spec ops group Blackwatch, Moira (full name Moira O’Deorain) mixes high mobility with support skills. In a trailer shown…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 3, 2017 -
Here’s November’s PlayStation Plus Lineup
I managed to miss Bound when it came out last year, so I’m excited to see it make its way to November’s PlayStation Plus lineup. As always, the following games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. November’s PS Plus lineup is: PlayStation 4 Worms Battlegrounds Bound PlayStation 3 R-Type Dimensions…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 1, 2017 -
Beautiful New PS4 Game Isn’t Very Fun To Play
Yesterday, at Sony’s glitzy Paris Games Show presentation, a pastel, nonviolent game about being a human-dragon hybrid surprised viewers with its same-day announcement and release. Presenters’ comparisons to the respected titles Abzu and Journey added to its branding as a chill, atmospheric game with lots of style (and a little mystery). I am an optimistic…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 31, 2017 -
Why Remakes, Like Shadow of the Colossus, Are Awesome
After spending a little bit of time with the PlayStation 4 version of Shadow of the Colossus, I have to say that I’m really into the idea of game remakes. Yesterday, following its Paris Game Week announcements, Sony held a small event in San Francisco for those of us not lucky enough to be visiting…
By Chris Kohler Published October 31, 2017 -
ReviewsMultiplatform
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: The Kotaku Review
The warm sun beats down on a main street in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, just in time for the Victory Day parade. Uniformed SS march down swastika-filled streets to thunderous applause. By the old diner, two members of the Ku Klux Klan practice their German. Everyone is white and happy. And it is so…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 30, 2017 -
Here Are A Bunch Of Cool PS4 Trailers Sony Showed Today
Just like they did at E3, the folks at Sony showed off some new footage today from some of their PlayStation 4 games planned for 2018 and beyond, including God of War, Spider-Man, and Detroit. Here are some of the more interesting trailers Sony showed during its conference at Paris Games Week today. First up…
By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2017 -
The People Behind Infamous Are Making A Samurai Game
Sucker Punch, the studio behind Infamous and Sly Cooper, has announced a new game. Ghost Of Tsushima, coming to the Playstation 4 focuses on feudal samurai. It has been three years since Sucker Punch’s previous game, the Playstation 4 title Infamous Second Son. A self dubbed “action, stealth adventure game,” Ghost Of Tsushima will feature…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 30, 2017 -
Spelunky 2 Announced
Hope you’re ready for some more adventuring, because Mossmouth just announced Spelunky 2 for the PS4. The first Spelunky, as many of you know, was a beloved indie platformer with randomly generated levels and many, many secrets. This time around, one of the available characters will actually be the kid of the protagonist from the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 30, 2017 -
Watch The Big PlayStation Press Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over]
Today at 11am ET, Sony is holding a press conference from Paris Games Week that the folks behind PlayStation say will include “seven all-new game announcements for PS4 and PS VR.” Sony will also be showing new stuff from the company’s slate of games for 2018 and beyond. UPDATE (12:45pm): And it’s over. From Sucker…
By Jason Schreier Published October 30, 2017 -
Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Microtransactions (Mostly) Just Get You Things You Can Earn While Playing, Ubisoft Says
There are microtransactions in Assassin’s Creed Origins, as there have been in the last two big installments of the series. The game’s publisher, Ubisoft, says that most of what you can spend them on can be obtained just by playing the game, though it’s a little more complicated than that. Origins’ in-game store, which is…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2017 -
ReviewsMultiplatformAssassin’s Creed Origins: The Kotaku Review
For all its extraordinary visual splendor, Assassin’s Creed Origins is ultimately an ordinary video game. That’s not such a bad thing, particularly if you like looking at pretty vistas and watching numbers go up. Origins is the 10th main entry in Ubisoft’s series of historical murder games. It is also the latest in the current…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 26, 2017 -
ReviewsMultiplatform
The Evil Within 2: The Kotaku Review
When we meet Sebastian Castellanos at the beginning of The Evil Within 2, he’s a broken man. The mind-bending events of the previous installment fractured his psyche. He blames himself for not being able to save his daughter Lily from a house fire, and his wife left him. He’s been booted from the police force…
By Stacie Ponder Published October 20, 2017