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Flying Wild Hog’s Hard Reset, a rather good, PC-exclusive cyberpunk FPS from 2011, is coming to Xbox One and PS4 “soon.” Titled Hard Reset Redux, this new release, which’ll also be on PC, will come with “an upgraded visual engine and rebalanced gameplay, along with new enemies and weaponry.” Trailer’s above.

Sony Tried To Trademark ‘Let’s Play,’ Got Smacked Down

Last year, Sony quietly tried to trademark the term “Let’s Play”, which they want to use for marketing, but which everyone else associates with videos of people playing games on the internet. Thankfully, the USPTO is having none of it. A law firm involved in disputing Sony’s application filed a letter of protest a couple…

Tips For Playing The Witness

I’d rather not spoil anything. I’d rather you figure out everything in The Witness yourself. But if you need some general advice, here goes. Keep A Notebook Nearby You’re going to start this game drawing lines through easy puzzles and you’ll wonder why in the world people said this game was difficult. Then you’ll get…

Colorblind And Hearing-Impaired Players Won’t Be Able To Do All The Puzzles In The Witness

A small number of puzzles in The Witness will be difficult or impossible for some color-blind and hearing-impaired players to solve, though those puzzles are optional and the game can be completed without them. The puzzles in question comprise just a fraction of the many challenges in The Witness, which came out yesterday for PS4…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan Leaks Officially

Activision has finally, officially, announced PlatinumGames’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, after weeks’ worth of leaked bits of information They describe the game as a third-person, team-based brawler, with each Turtle having his own playstyle and abilites. The campaign will be playable either in single-player or co-op. The setting, of course, will be…

Instead of competitive multiplayer, Homefront: The Revolution is getting a four-player online co-op mode in May. Quite an interesting path for a fairly low-interest game like Homefront to have co-op multiplayer. But it certainly could be refreshing. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Say Goodbye to Sony Computer Entertainment and Hello to Sony Interactive Entertainment

Today, Sony announced that it is bringing together Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment in a new entity. It’s called Sony Interactive Entertainment. The new consolidated entity will be headquartered in San Mateo, California and will be in charge of research, development and sales for the PlayStation as well as hardware, software, network services…

Capcom has released a second trailer (above) for their Resident Evil-themed competitive shooter, Umbrella Corps., along with some additional info: The game will cost $30, will be on PC and PS4, and is coming out in May. Brian’s played the game in September—if you wanna hear his impressions, head over here

The Witness: The Kotaku Review

While playing The Witness for this review, I wrote an email to its lead creator, Jonathan Blow. It was a moment of weakness. I feared that Blow’s magnificent new puzzle game had deadended my ability to reach a solution. I sent it on a Saturday afternoon. “I’ve been playing for much of the day and…

Mighty No. 9 Delayed Yet Again

Although Mighty No. 9, the Megaman-like, crowdfunded platformer, was originally expected in April 2015, its release date was first moved to September 15, then to February 9 of this year. This latest delay shifts the date to spring 2016. At the earliest. The delay was revealed ina project update sent out today to backers of…

The PS4’s Tomorrow Children Looks Beautifully Bizarre

With minutes to spare, I jumped into the Tomorrow Children closed beta this morning. I didn’t have enough time to get my head around Q Games’ Communist-kitsch, co-op, resource-mining/town-building game, but I did have time to grab some screens. The closed beta will resume in the coming days. I’ll definitely be playing. To contact the…

Players Are Already Doing Crazy Things In Diablo III‘s Season 5

Only a few days have passed since Season 5 started (as part of patch 2.4) in Diablo III’s PC version, and some players are already grinding on difficulty levels that most of us will never reach. Season 5 will last three months and it’s enough time for an average player to level up a character…

Japan’s Getting Four Different Street Fighter V Limited Edition PS4s

Commemorating the game’s release in Japan, Sony’s announced a quartet of Street Fighter V-branded, limited edition PS4 consoles. Priced at 37,480 yen ($320) plus tax, each PS4 comes with an engraved HDD bay cover. The first of the two Glacier White ones is a simple logo design—the PS4 Street Fighter V Edition: Next is the…

Prison Architect, the very good prison building and management sim, will be out on Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4 in spring. Priced at 30$, the console versions will add a Prison Warden mode where you manage pre-built prisons, and the World of Wardens network, used for sharing custom maps.

If you are curious about (some of) the PS4 games Japan is getting this year, this PlayStation clip is a good primer. It features some cool music courtesy of Tofubeats.

Diablo III Has Hooked Me Again

I thought I was done playing Diablo III, a game I happily zipped through as a demon hunter when it came out on PS4. I played with friends, cleared the story, hit level 70, barely understood what Adventure Mode and Paragon Points were and put it down. That was more than a year ago. Here…

Tips For Getting Back Into Diablo III

Diablo III changed a lot over the years. The expansion and the later patches added a lot more content to the game, and these changes might confuse players who stopped playing around Reaper of Souls or before, but want to come back to see what’s new. People running around in crazy gear, gaining hundreds of…

Dark Cloud 2 Coming To PS4 Next Week

When Sony announced last month that the PS2 game Dark Cloud would be coming to PlayStation 4, the immediate reaction from most readers was to ask when Dark Cloud 2 is coming. Now we have an answer: January 19. Speaking on Sony’s PlayStation Blog podcast yesterday, the folks on Sony’s communication team announced that the…

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.…