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Per the latest announcement on the game’s official Twitter, Ubisoft’s The Division will run its closed beta between January 28-31 on Xbox One and January 29-31 on PC and PS4. If you’re interested, head over here to sign up for the waiting list or to use a beta code, if you’ve got one.

Eight Cool Things In Diablo III‘s New Patch

Diablo III’s long awaited patch 2.4 is now live both in the US and in the EU. It’s quite a big update with new zones, items, game mechanics and small tweaks. The game feels a lot different if you haven’t played in months. The full patch notes are over here, if you wanna see them.…

The PS2 version of Psychonauts will come to PS4 this spring, Double Fine announced today. Big year for Raz and crew.

Just Cause 3 Is Perfect For Playing Jenga

Giant cargo containers, silly physics and a grappling hook. The perfect tools for a Just Cause 3 version of Jenga. The rules are the same in teamcream’s video. You build a tower and take one block from any level of the tower (except the one below an incomplete level) and place it on the topmost…

EA’s throwing a Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 multiplayer beta event starting next Thursday, on January 14. The beta, which ends on January 18, will be freely available on PS4 and Xbox One. Check out the GW2 beta page for more info, and eventual download links, if your interest’s piqued.

Having been down for most of the day, Sony says that it’s PlayStation Network is now back up and running across both the US and Europe. I just logged in here in Australia and could sign in, access the PlayStation Store and play some Destiny, so yeah, looks good. But if you’re having any problems,…

2015’s Best In-Game Map? Assassin’s Creed Syndicate 

Let us praise a thing that matters a lot in video games: the quality of an in-game map. Zooming in, let us heap praise upon 2015’s most magnificent in-game map, the one that appeared in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. The video above is all the proof you need. This map is great. Shall we count the…

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!