PlayStation

The PS4’s Cloud Save System Is Inadequate

In the comparison between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Sony is about as behind in how they handle cloud saves as they are in getting their console to run Halo. It’s time for them to close this gap. The difference is dramatic. While both systems allow users to save game progress to a set of…

New King’s Quest Is Love Child of Dragon’s Lair and The Princess Bride

I took our 5-year-old daughter to see Pixar’s Inside Out a week ago. I wish we had been able to play the new King’s Quest together instead. Like Inside Out, the new King’s Quest is close to a perfect piece of family entertainment. Unlike Inside Out, it would be far less likely to turn a…

Dragon Quest XI Announced for PS4, 3DS and Nintendo NX [Update]

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Dragon Quest X is headed to the PlayStation 4, the 3DS, and Nintendo’s upcoming console, the NX. Update: August 4 – 4:00am Square Enix issued a comment to Kotaku regarding the NX release, noting a discrepancy between the event announcement and the press release—head over here to see their statement…

30 More Hours With Fallout 3, Which Is Still Damn Good

Seeing the reveal of Fallout 4 at E3, I found myself compelled to return to Bethesda’s first entry in the series, Fallout 3. There’s just something about it, a special kind of magic that few games have. Initially, I didn’t plan to spend much time with Fallout 3, but it sucked me in. Within two…

Pre-order incentives are pretty dumb, and the Terminator being a pre-order character for WWE 2K16 might be the dumbest, but Arnold Schwarzenegger re-doing his naked-Terminator scene with WWE’s Daniel Bryan, Finn Balor, Paige and Dean Ambrose? Funny.

Dedicated Diablo III Player Reaches Level 2,000

Some enthusiasts are still on Diablo III and they’re not just messing around casually, but achieving crazy things—for example Vajet, who has already reached a combined level of Paragon Level 2000. Vajet is currently Paragon Level 1789 in Season 3 and his non-seasonal characters are at Paragon Level 1339. The experience he gained during Season…

Go Play Journey Again

I thought I was finished with Journey. I was wrong. Originally released in 2012, ThatGameCompany’s beloved PS3 sand-surfing simulator has been re-released this week on the PlayStation 4. Ireviewed it back when it came out, which feels like it was a lifetime ago. Since then, I’ve seen critical acclaim, backlash, and back-backlash. I’ve seen its…

Tips For Playing Rocket League

Rocket League. Oh, Rocket League. Football, with cars. It’s a game people can’t stop playing, but it’s also a game a lot of people suck at. So here are some beginner’s tips which might help you suck a little less. They key to getting better at Rocket League (at least until you get real good,…

Naughty Dog Thought The Last of Us Was “Going to Tank”

The Last of Us has been a huge success for its developer, Naughty Dog. It’s been flooded with awards, glowing reviews, and fan love. It’s spawned a fantastic expansion and work has already begun on a sequel. No one’s more surprised by the success than the game’s developers. They thought it was going to fail.…

The Witcher 3 Fan Animation Sums Up The Game Pretty Well

An animated parody of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, made by Matthew Shezmen, proves that being Geralt is not easy when there’s so much drama going. Dealing with monsters is the last thing to worry about: To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Crash Bandicoot Could Have Had These Sweet Animated Cutscenes

Back before Sony gots its grubby little mitts on Crash Bandicoot, Universal Interactive Studio toyed with the idea of opening and closing the game with hand-drawn animation. This hand-drawn animation, to be precise. Uploaded by original game producer David Siller (via NeoGAF), this pair of scenes from Universal Animation would have served as the opening…

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection: The Basics

What it is: Why, it’s a PS3 game ported to PS4! Make that three of them, three excellent PS3 action-adventure games, Uncharted 1-3 (just the singleplayer), ported by development studio Bluepoint, coming out in lieu of the delayed-out-of-2015 Uncharted 4 on October 9. What’s been changed: I saw it at a PlayStation demo event yesterday,…

Pluto Probe Is Powered By The Same CPU As A PlayStation

This week, the world has looked on with aweas the New Horizons probe sent back the first ever detailed pictures of Pluto. Those images weren’t taken using the latest technology, though; New Horizons launched in January 2006, and was obviously designed and built even earlier. So the gear inside is a little more primitive than…

The first-person mystery game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is out now for PS4. We reviewed the PC version last year andliked it quite a bit. The PS4 version has overhauled graphics and gameplay tweaks.

God of War III Reveals Kratos For What He Is

Midway through God of War III, the buff and surly protagonist Kratos is scaling along the outside face of a building when he happens upon a man. He’s perched precariously next to a window, crying out for help. Saying nothing more than a grunt, Kratos bashes his head against the wall and pitches him off…

Developers, Please Copy These Player-Friendly Ideas From Arkham Knight

You might celebrate a video game for its gameplay, graphics, or its story, but let’s briefly celebrate the excellent little things Batman: Arkham Knight does to respect the time of its players. Oh, if only more modern games did these things. These ideas aren’t all brand-new, but they’ve been implemented in Arkham Knight with a…

World of Warcraft-Themed PS4 Is All About The Spikes

Even though you can’t play World of Warcraft on consoles, this custom PS4 with Horde chains and spikes is pretty damn cool. The result is a model that looks like a Horde treasure chest, shield or some sort of banner. I’m not sure about heat issues, but fire would just make it even more Horde-like.…

What PlayStation Mobile Meant To Me

On June 17, 2015, we released the last PlayStation Mobile game. It’s called Oh, Deer! Alpha and it’s an aggressively odd driving game about hitting as many or as few deer with your station wagon as possible on your way to grandma’s house. On Wednesday, PlayStation Mobile is going away forever. You read that correctly.…

A new trailer for Platinum’s upcoming Transformers: Devastation game will give gamers of a certain age flashbacks to their childhood. It’s still hard to tell if this game is much more than an arena brawler, though there do seem to at least be some transformation-based moves. For PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4.

PS4 Owners Campaign For A Better PSN

The PlayStation Network, a premium subscription service that occasionally lets you play video games online, has a lot of problems. PS4 fans want to change that. For all of Sony’s successes this generation, they’ve had a really tough time maintaining a stable, competent network for online services. In addition to random spurts of downtime, the…