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As things slow down a bit moving toward the holidays, enjoy a nice slow pan through the upcoming puzzle game The Witness, coming to PS4 and PC on January 26. The game is nearly finished

Black Ops III‘s First Map Pack Skipping PS3, Xbox 360

Awakening, the first $15 map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, will be out for PS4 on February 2 and will come out for Xbox One at a later date. It won’t be coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 at all. It’s got four maps (one in a water park!) and the first…

The Good, New Assassin’s Creed Expansion’s Unexpectedly Bold Depiction Of Prostitution

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s new Jack The Ripper expansion is a compelling if rough-edged remix of the base game that cleverly works in one of history’s most famous killers. It pulls off another trick, too, going to extraordinary lengths to engender empathy for a group of people who don’t get much of it in video games:…

Tales of Berseria—the sixteenth main entry in the Tales role-playing series—and its lone protagonist, is coming to North America (PS4 & PC), Bandai Namco announced today. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

New Trailer Shows A Little More Kingdom Hearts III

Square Enix has just put a new Kingdom Hearts trailer that showcases the series’ upcoming 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue release and ends with a couple of minutes’ worth of Kingdom Hearts III gameplay. Nothing ground-breaking, and III still seems to be a long ways off, but this is better than nothing, right? Jump to 3:38…

Track: Xenogears – Light from the Netherworld | Artist: Yasunori Mitsuda | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Good Morning. Here’s The PS4’s Dynamic Bacon Theme.

Yours for just $3, the new dynamic bacon theme for the PS4. I paid for this just so I could listen to this sizzling absurdity. The good people at Leviathan Games also just re-released the classic PS3 theme “Corn Love” for PS4. And they’re teasing a sequel! Oh, the wonderful world of PlayStation themes. The…

The Jack The Ripper expansion for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate will be out for PS4 and Xbox One on December 15, a week later on PC, according to publisher Ubisoft. It stars Evie Frye and is set 20 years after November’s very good new AC. Now, what happened to her brother, Jacob? Hmmm.

Beloved PlayStation exec Shiro Kawauchi is leaving his post in South Korea and getting a promotion back home in Japan. A group of fans have banded together to buy presents and make a thank-you-plaque for the man. The design is based on the PS4. How touching! Over the years, Korean fans have developed a super…

The State Of The PlayStation 4 In 2015

The PlayStation 4 is an unexciting video game console, all things considered. It’s a box that you put under your TV, and it plays video games. Slowly but surely, it’s getting better at doing that. The games it plays are also getting better and more numerous. Slowly, but surely. This is part of our 2015…

In The Future, We’ll Do Bad Jobs For Fun

What’s left for humanity once robots take all our jobs? Well, in this game we simulate jobs, do them them real bad and call it “fun”. This is Job Simulator, announced over the weekend at the PlayStation Experience. Built for PlayStation VR (and the way it can use to PlayStation Move controllers to simulate “hands”),…

How’s $99 For A Year Of PlayStation Now Sound? 

Overshadowed yesterday by things like the gameplay reveal of the Final Fantasy VII remake and the announcement of Ni No Kuni II, Sony also announced a limited-time 12 month subscription to… man, that Ni No Kuni II looks amazing. What were we talking about? Oh yeah, PlayStation Now, Sony’s streaming game service, gets a $99…

PSX’s signature wall is quite a sight. These things are becoming a convention staple, but it’s still cool to see what people put on them. Remarkable lack of dicks here. Way to show restraint, PlayStation fans!

There Are Fourteen More Games For Sale On PSN Today

In celebration of the PlayStation Experience event, today 14 more games were added to the PlayStation Network, with the promised PS2 (and one remastered PS1) classics, PC titles making their PlayStation debut and a couple all new titles. Let’s see what we’ve got. First off is the the first batch of PlayStation 2 games. I’ve…

New PS4, PC Space Shooter Has Mode Where Your Team Invades Other People’s Matches

As announced today at the PlayStation Experience event in San Francisco, Armature Studio’s 10v10 space shooter Dead Star will actually support an experimental, Battlestar Galactica-inspired 5v10v10 mode. And the plan is that you will be able to try it today if you pre-order the game, since pre-ordering immediately gets you into the game’s PS4 beta.…

Destiny Is Finally Getting Sparrow Racing

Sparrow racing is coming to Destiny, a video game that still exists! The folks behind Destiny just announced the Sparrow Racing League, which will be out this Tuesday, December 8. It’ll be free for all Taken King owners and last until December 29, according to an Activision press release. This isn’t a huge surprise—sparrow racing…

The next Ratchet & Clank game, the quasi-remake of the PS2 original—the one that’s based on the April 28, 2016 movie—will be out on April 12 on PS4, according to Ted Price, head of the series’ studio Insomniac Games.

Watch The 2015 PlayStation Experience Keynote Live Here [UPDATE: Over]

Today in San Francisco is the second annual PlayStation Experience, an event dedicated to all things PS4. Maybe, if we’re lucky, they’ll even mention the Vita. Kicking off at 1pm ET is the keynote, which you can watch live RIGHT HERE. We’re expecting some new trailers and maybe even some cool new game announcements from…

Eight PS2 Games Are Coming To PS4 Tomorrow–And They’re Pricey

Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to download and play PS2 games like Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, and Grand Theft Auto III on PlayStation 4. If you’re willing to pay. Continuing the grand tradition they started with PlayStation Now, Sony’s decided to charge a whole lot of money for these PS2 classics, which they say are…

A Quick Look at the Uncharted 4 Multiplayer Beta

The first look at the online competitive component for Uncharted 4 just went live today. Let’s take a look at how the new versions of Nathan Drake, Sully and Elena fare when running around and trying to kill each other. Uncharted 4’s multiplayer beta is only open to folks who own Uncharted: The Nathan Drake…