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You’re a Disembodied Head in Double Fine’s Next Game

See that head with the jetflame coming out of it? Yep, that’s you. Aptly enough, the game is called Headlander In Headlander, you, as a head, land on various bodies, taking them over—thus netting you all kinds of new abilities, be that new weapons, new methods of locomotion, or dance moves. The game itself is…

Fallout 3’s Point Lookout Set The Standard for Great DLC

Point Lookout is one of those add-ons that sticks with you. In a world where downloadable content is often forgettable, Bethesda crafted an interesting new addition to Fallout 3 and populated it with some of the best quests they’ve ever produced. Expansions are hard to pull off well. All too often, developers release something that’s…

Fallout 3 Isn’t Really An RPG

Fallout 3 doesn’t follow the same basic formula for open-world sandbox games that has produced some truly great games, from Grand Theft Auto V to The Witcher 3. But what if Bethesda wasn’t making an open-world sandbox RPG at all? When Grand Theft Auto III released in 2001, it was a revelation. Sure, open-world games…

Dead or Alive Xtreme Volleyball Returns for More Volleyball

Because, of course it will. Though, don’t hold your breath just yet for a Western release. Announced at the Dead or Alive Festival held earlier this month, Koei Tecmo is revisiting their jiggly beach volleyball game, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball for current gen systems as Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune for the…

Velocity 2X: The Kotaku Review

Level 26 of Velocity 2X has taken over my day. I wish I could just let go and move on with my life, but I am literally ONE SECOND away from a gold Perfect medal. A SECOND. I have been chasing that second for about an hour, now. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK…

Volume: The Kotaku Review

Thomas Was Alone, Mike Bithell’s charming 2010 platformer about the inner lives of hopping geometric shapes, was an experiment in the power of storytelling to triumph over abstraction. Volume, Bithell’s new game, is also a successful experiment in abstraction, although the narrative is realistic, or realistic science fiction. This time, it’s the interactions that are…

Tickets are on sale now for Sony’s PlayStation Experience fan gathering. This year’s show will be happening in San Francisco on December 5 and 6. The Capcom Cup will also be happening during the Experience event.

Realistic/historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance discusses its first-person melee combat in its most recent video, also talking about the “thousands of hours” of research that went into developing it. Looks fun! The swordfighting, that is, not the research. Video’s embedded below, so make sure to give it a watch. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Koei Tecmo’s Attack on Titan Won’t be Another Dynasty Warriors Game

Announced last week, Koei Tecmo is making an Attack on Titan game. It’s being developed by Omega-Force, the developers of all the Dynasty Warriors games. But it won’t be a Warriors game. And they want you to know that. In an interview with Dengeki Online, producer Hisashi Koinuma talked about the conception of the game.…

Homefront: The Revolution’s Demo Didn’t Deliver, Fingers Still Crossed for the Game

Last year, before E3, and back when Dambuster Studios was still called Crytek Nottingham and hadn’t been sold to Deep Silver, I saw a presentation of Homefront: The Revolution in action. I thought it looked fantastic, like an open-world version of Half-Life 2’s City 17. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK At this year’s…

“We probably should have announced the run button before launch…” So say the developers of the new (and pretty good!) story-and-exploration game Everybody’s Gone to The Rapture. A last-minute change to the game’s controls left the run option unintentionally hidden from gamers. Just hold R2 for a bit!

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture: The Kotaku Review

The insult of “walking simulator,” lobbed at video games whose strongest elements are exploration, discovery, and story, misses its intended target. It conjures something more like Bennett Foddy’s QWOP. Then again, we all know what the term means by now: something like Gone Home that removes the elements of puzzling and physical challenge from an…

One Man’s Defense of The Order: 1886

Tom Bissell is the author of my favorite book on video games, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, which I called “the finest account yet of what it feels like to be a video game player” when I reviewed it in The New York Times. These days, he is a writer for video games like…

I Already Like Dark Souls 3 More Than Dark Souls 2

Look, I didn’t like Dark Souls 2 all that much, alright? There was something missing. Something that Dark Souls 3 appears to have. That thing is majesty. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I don’t want to go off on Dark Souls 2. It is still a great game – even a mildly disappointing…

Scooby-Doo Remade In GTA V

Chop, no! What have they done to you! Some other classic shows and their openings already have GTA V versions, made with the Rockstar Editor and Director Mode, and thanks to YouTuber btz now Scooby-Doo has one too. The whole gang’s in there but it’s Franklin’s friendly Rottweiler dog Chop’s time to shine: Here’s a…

An Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Preview, In Three GIFs

They’re showing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate over at Gamescom in Germany this week. They’re letting people play as Evie, the other twin in the pair of brother-sister assassins who are playable in this game. First observation from where I sit: the hat-knocking-off tech in this game is pretty good. According to previewers at GameSpot and GamesRadar,…

Here’s a new look at the upcoming console version of Divinity: Original Sin The (terrific) original felt right at home on the PC, but this console version looks like it’ll work well.

Skylanders Is Getting Online Multiplayer

Activision revealed today that they’re adding online multiplayer to Skylanders: Superchargers. The game’s getting online land, sea and air races for up to four players, along with an online co-op story mode. Skylanders never had any sort of online multiplayer and fans have been really clamoring for it for a while now. So it’s good…

Mafia III Announced, Coming Next Year

Following the game’s official announcement last week, 2K Games is now ready to show us more—in the form of a reveal trailer. Mafia III takes place in 1968 and stars Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam veteran. We can see him take out a gentleman for his new family in the trailer. Plus there’s “House of the…

Searching the Streets at Night Has Never Been So Eerie (Yet So Cute)

I thought I’d gotten past what it was like to be a child alone in the dark. Yomawari is an upcoming game from Japanese publisher Nippon Ichi Software that captures the innocence and fear of being a child wandering the dark unknown. Check out the trailer below. The trailer begins with the monologue text: My…