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Supergiant’s Audacious New Game Pyre Is Sort Of A Mystical Sports RPG

After making two terrific action RPGs, the people behind Bastion and Transistor are throwing a curveball with their new game Pyre. Now they’re making a party-based RPG in which the battles play out like three-on-three sports competitions. You’ll see how that works in the video above, as Supergiant developer Greg Kasavin walks us through a…

I Am Setsuna, Square-Enix’s new, remarkably Chrono Trigger-like RPG, will be out on PS4 and PC (through Steam) on July 19. Richard spent a lot of time playing the game’s Japanese version; head over here for his impressions

Judging by this tweet, and confirmed by an official statement to Polygon, it looks like Sony’s starting to roll out two-factor verification for PSN accounts.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The Kotaku Review

Good morning, everyone! Welcome to Kotaku’s review of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Since the two of us—Jason and Kirk—have already spent a ton of time talking about Danganronpa, we figured we’d team up to review the sequel together. [This review originally ran on 9/02/2014. We’ve bumped it up in light of the 2016 PC port…

Dark Souls 3 Party Steamrolls Everything With Armor Of Thorns

That’s a lot of players getting rolled to death. The “Armor of Thorns” is a special set in Dark Souls III, covered in thorns, that does damage when rolling into enemies. The damage is minimal, but not when a whole group of players are wearing it in 4v1 pvp. Iron Pineapple and his friends teamed…

Per 2K Games’s announcement on Twitter, Mafia III comes to PC, PS4 and Xbox One on October 7. There’s a new story trailer which you can watch above, and you can read about Kotaku UK’s early impressions of the game at last year’s Gamescom here.

More Details Emerge On PS4.5, Which Reportedly Won’t Get Its Own Games

Last month, we told you that Sony was working on a new, improved model of the PS4, what was basically a PS4.5. Now Giant Bomb is reporting some further details on this new console, and it all sounds…a bit weird. Their reportsays Sony is referring to the upgraded hardware as NEO (something we’ve also heard),…

Insomniac also has some non-VR games this year. Song of the Deep, the studio’s GameStop-published underwater Metroidvania about a girl piloting a submarine to rescue her dad, now has a release date: July 12 for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

God of War 4, and Why It’s Time To Kill Off Kratos

You must have heard by now. Word on the grapevine is that God of War is swapping out a loin cloth for hide trousers, sandals for boots, and the Blades of Chaos for axes, and heading north to desecrate the world of Norse mythology. It sounds like a great idea, and potentially the perfect way…

Street Fighter V Mod Hits The Light Switch On All Stages

Street Fighter V might not have weather effects or time of day changes during battles, but this is something modders can fix quickly. Moddah played around with lighting and gave all the daytime stages a darker, nighttime look. Great stuff, it gives a whole new atmosphere to the locations, especially Union Station, Hillside Plaza and…

That’s One Way To Play Overwatch

Blizzard’s shooter isn’t even out, yet some folks already found ways to play the game absolutely unintended ways. Instead of chasing each other on the map, these players have set up a silly orb deflecting mini-game. It’s a reminder of Team Fortress 2 days and Pyro Airblasts. Symmetra is firing her orb to the ninja…

Battleborn Beta Impressions: It’s Alright

A name similar to Battlefront, Battlecry and even Bloodborne hasn’t helped next month’s Battleborn stand out. Descriptions of the game place it in an overflowing stew of team shooters and MOBA-influenced games. This week, at last, there’s an open beta which allows us to at least judge the game on its pre-release merits. And the…

The Truth Behind The Division’s Bioterrorist Apocalypse

There’s something uniquely horrid about the prospect of biological warfare. There’s the obvious: diseases like ebola are strong candidates for the very worst way a person can die. Then there’s the careless, wanton nature of the destruction: unlike other weapons, you can’t ‘aim’ a plague. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, on June 3,…

Codemasters Acquires Recently Shut Down Driveclub Studio

Codemasters, the British publisher and developer behind the F1 and Dirt racing series, among a long list of other games, is joining forces with DriveClub’s recently shut down developer, Evolution Studios. In addition to Codemasters taking on “most” of the studios’ staff, former Evolution Group Director Mike Hocking will also become the company’s new VP…

The Gamble To Make A Video Game About Infiltrating A 1970s Cult

“You’re sort of buying a lottery ticket,” the game developer Richard Rouse recently told me while explaining the mindset of trying to make an indie game after spending many years doing big budget stuff for Microsoft, Ubisoft and others. “It might be really successful,” he said. “I certainly hope it is. But you shouldn’t go…

There’s No Such Thing As An Unreachable Spot In Just Cause 3

Platforming through lamp posts with a pogo stick or using vehicles as slingshots to reach some unreachable top of a building in Just Cause 3? No problem for the folks at EvolveStunting Their latest montage is full of crazy highlights: To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

The Evolution of Final Fantasy‘s Iron Giant From 1988 To 2016

Besides the Tonberry, or the Behemoth, the Iron Giant is another iconic returning enemy in the Final Fantasy games. As we’ve seen, it’ll appear in Final Fantasy XV too, and RinoaMoogle collected all its appearances starting from 1988 with Final Fantasy II Its physical appearance remained roughly the same, being a colossal, 2D metal beast…

Why People Love Persona

How many games do you know that manage to combine Jungian psychology, Japanese school-life and urban legends? Just like me, the Persona series isn’t as popular in the West as Final Fantasy, but it’s been around just as long (since 1987), and is arguably much more interesting. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK on…

PlayStation Employee Builds Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy

College student Peter Byrne has cerebral palsy, and as a result has been having problems with his new DualShock 4 controller. Or, was having problems, until a PlayStation employee got him sorted out. Byrne wrote to Sony to explain an issue he was having, where his left hand was constantly brushing against the DS4’s touchpad,…

It’s 2016 And Warframe Is Still An Excellent Free-To-Play Game

In the distant future of Warframe, you are a space ninja who has woken from a long slumber to find the solar system in disarray. Armed with a variety of exciting powers, you must fight an army of decaying clones, tech-minded science jerks, mutant freaks and other awesome enemies. The entire game is free to…