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Free PlayStation games for you! Need for Speed on Vita, Mirror’s Edge on PS3, and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare on PS4 will be free from 12pm PT today until 6pm tomorrow, EA just announced

Sony just announced Kill Strain, an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer game for PS4. Details were scarce—it’s a top-down game with a 5 vs. 2 vs. 5 team structure, and will be playable on the floor at the PlayStation Experience this weekend.

LittleBigPlanet 3: The Kotaku Review

Do you want to build? LittleBigPlanet has always been a tricky sell for non-creative players, and number three, more than ever, needs an imaginative and persistent mind to shape the fun from its occasionally gritty clay. If all you want to do is play, then turn around. There’s little for you here. However, if you…

What Jurassic Park Did for the Original PlayStation

Over 20 years ago (1 day counts as “over,” right?) Sony released the original PlayStation console and changed the face of gaming. Thanks in part to Jurassic Park This week’s Weekly Famitsu, was dedicated in large part to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sony’s console. In a recollection of the console’s development, Ken Kutaragi, the…

The PlayStation 20th Anniversary Theme Brings Back A Familiar Sound

Currently available as a free download on the European PlayStation Store, the PlayStation 20th Anniversary theme for the PS4, PS3 and Vita adds a little PSone to the sound mix. The PlayStation is 20 years old today, and while startup and menu music has come along way in two decades, there’s just something about that…

The PlayStation Is Twenty Years Old Today

Has it been that long? Yes, it has. Today, the PlayStation turns twenty years old in Japan. The PlayStation went on sale in Japan on December 3, 1994. It wasn’t released in North America and Europe until September 1995. That really seems like a million years ago. In video game time, it is. On the…

WWE 2K15: The Kotaku Review

Well, here we are. Another year, another WWE game. Another awkward cooling off period as the runaway hype train of YouTube videos, updates, Q&A sessions, tweets, blogs, interviews, panels with Steve Austin wearing spectacles and random mid carders telling us “THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER, THERE ARE SO MANY MODES AND UH… FEATURES” finally…

Poll: Japan’s Most Wanted Remake Will Surprise No One

If there’s one thing a whole bunch of gamers in Japan can agree on, it’s this: They really want a Final Fantasy VII remake. Some of the other choices in this PlayStation poll, though, might surprise you. Over ten thousand male and female gamers in Japan, ranging in ages from their teens to their 60s,…

Here’s the new trailer for Resident Evil Revelations 2, which confirms the return of Barry Burton as a playable character. Makes sense, considering his daughter is also a playable character. RERe2’s four episodes will release weekly, starting on February 17/18 and ending on March 10/11, at a price of $6 per episode.

A Fan Art Celebration Of Original PlayStation Games

It’s been nearly two decades since the original PlayStation console debuted in Japan, and that calls for a celebration.Game Art HQ marked the milestone by having its community of artist create fan art for 40 different PSone classics. Being a huge Final Fantasy IX fanboy, my favorite piece of the set is the gorgeous cutout…

Controllers Thrown and Busted by Angry People

You mad? Don’t be! Be happy. And for goodness’ sake, do not throw your controller, no matter how much a game pisses you off. “I threw my controller” is a meme of sorts among Japanese gamers. For example, a player might say a certain game makes them throw their controller to express how frustrating it…

The first game in Telltale’s Game of Thrones series will be out next week. The dates, confirmed by a pair of tweets, are: December 2 for PC and PS4, December 3 for Xbox One and 360, and December 4 for iOS. The PS3 will get Iron From Ice on December 9, and the Android version…

Artist Recreates Memorable Moments of Final Fantasy VII

These speed paintings are the work of concept artist Lap Pun Cheung and they pretty much sum up the first few hours of Final Fantasy VII. The bombing mission, Rufus, meeting with Aeris, Tifa and the promise, all here. And they’ll get you in the mood. There’s more, click here to see all the finished…

Thank the Dreamcast’s Death for the Yakuza Games

The death of the Dreamcast was a sad event and the end of an era. But every cloud has a silver lining. The console’s demise led to the eventual birth of a game series that would probably never have been released on it: the Yakuza games. “I, along with many others assumed, ‘[Sony]’s new to…

Sony’s Original Vita Ads Were Misleading, Says U.S. Government

Sony has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over claims that the company falsely advertised its PlayStation Vita console when it was first released in 2012. The company is now required to issue refunds to Vita customers affected by the advertising. As spelled in a blog post, the “main point” of the…

The Xbox One and PS4 Aren’t Really Rivals in China

It’s official folks: in China, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will be operated by the same conglomerate, Shanghai Media Group. How’s that for friendly rivals? Chinese media sites such as Sina Games and People’s Dailyare reporting that the proposed merger is going along as planned. Bloomberg Business reported today that shares of BesTV and…

Dragon Age: Keep Has 300 Different Choices

If you include all of the race and gender choices for your protagonists as well as all the decisions you can have them make, then there are 300 different options. Most of them are pretty minor, but it leads to more than 1,427,247,692,705,959,881,058,285,969,449,495,136,382,746,624 different possible world states for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Damn. If you’re interested…

One Year Later, Should You Get An Xbox One Or A PS4?

People ask us all the time whether they should buy a new-gen console? Should they get an Xbox One? A PS4? For a year, we’ve told people to not bother with either. Now, we think you should make the leap, especially if you’re a console-only gamer. But which one to get? We’re not going to…

This is Not Your Typical Open World JRPG

I consider myself a fan of the open world video game genre. Give me a playground and I shall play. Then along comes D3 Publisher announcing a new open world game and I immediately became a mixture of intrigued, bemused, and perturbed all at the same time. From the game publisher that brought you games…

​PS4 Review Update: One Year Later

Stop waiting. If you can afford it, it’s time to get a new-gen console, and the PS4 is a worthwhile one to get. A year removed from the system’s launch, Sony’s fourth home console finally has enough must-play games to make any gamer’s leap to the new console generation damn near mandatory. It’s time. You…