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Custom PlayStation Based on Crash Bandicoot

With its TNT crates and colorful jungle environment, the second level “Jungle Rollers” and even the entire first island is one of the most memorable ones in Naughty Dog’s classic. Belgian modding veteran Vadu Amka recently made a custom PS1 based on all the level’s features, and it looks really neat. Chek out all the…

50GB Console Games, Here We Go!

My new “biggest game on my PS4 hard drive” is still Wolfenstein: New Order, but GTA V comes close. Over on my Xbox One? Here are the biggest:

9 Things You Should Know About LittleBigPlanet 3

Today’s the day LBP 3 reviews go up. However, for a game so reliant on online components, I’m waiting before passing judgement. In the meantime, here are some things you need to know. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I’ve been playing LBP 3 for the last couple of weeks on PS4 and already,…

Never Alone: The Kotaku Review

When was the last time a video game told you about a whole other culture? Took you somewhere remote you’d only heard about in passing, and let the people who’ve lived there speak to you in a generations-old voice? Never Alone does that all-too-rare thing and does it very well. A small, independently-produced video game…

Good Child of Light Joke, Assassin’s Creed Rogue

Last year’s Assassin’s Creed included references to Watch Dogs. This year’s Assassin’s Creed Rogue for PS3 and Xbox 360 has a joke about another Ubisoft game, the lovely Child of Light. Check it out, if you don’t mind a tiny spoiler about where part of Rogue takes place. I ran into these guys by accident…

Short Clip Celebrates PlayStation’s 20th Birthday

The twentieth anniversary of the first PlayStation console’s Japanese release is fast approaching, and Sony’s here to commemorate it with—what else—a montage. The clip is part of a broader 20th anniversary promotion-slash-celebration for the brand, which is chronicled on a web page found on the official Japanese PlayStation site. Items and events “claimed” by the…

Sony Has A Cloud TV Service, Coming To PS3 & PS4

Sony just announced a new on-demand service that doesn’t use traditional satellite or cable services. Instead, it’s cloud-based. Sony is calling it PlayStation Vue. According to Sony, PlayStation Vue is available through the PS3 and the PS4. There are no contracts and no hidden fees. However, expect more details about pricing at a later date.…

​Assassin’s Creed Unity Just Doesn’t Run Very Well On PS4 Or Xbox One

We’ve been seeing complaints all day about Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s performance on consoles. Here’s what we know from our own experience, and from what others are reporting around the internet. I’ve played a fair bit of the game on Xbox One, and have found the frame-rate to be a real bummer. To my eye, it…

Assassin’s Creed Unity Takes Video Game Kissing To A Whole New Level

Assassin’s Creed Unity may be taking some lumps from critics, but—not kidding—we need to all appreciate how good the game’s kissing is. Don’t snicker. Video games have a tough enough time animating individual characters and tougher times animating the interactions between two. Even at that, they can do violent interactions between bodies fairly well, but…

​Assassin’s Creed Unity: The Kotaku Review

Assassin’s Creed Unity is my least favorite major Assassin’s Creed since the 2007 original. It’s also the first Assassin’s Creed that I didn’t feel better about the more I played it. I didn’t expect to be telling you this. Unity is a gorgeous game, which is just about the only high praise I can offer…

New Call Of Duty Doesn’t Work With PS4’s Share Play Feature (UPDATE)

Gamers playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on the PS4 have discovered that the console’s newly-minted “Share Play” featuredoesn’t work with the shooter. This represents something of an inauspicious debut for Sony’s new game-sharing feature, which arrived via an update shortly before Advanced Warfare was released. UPDATE 3:23 pm: I received a statement from Activision…

The legendary Duke Nukem 3D is coming to PS3 and PS Vita Devolver Digital will be bringing over the game’s Megaton Edition, which is already out on PC, and includes Duke 3D Atomic Edition and all three officially released expansion packs. Release dates are January 13 for North America and January 14 for Europe.

Our Watch Dogs 2 Wishlist

Last week brought news that Watch Dogs has now shipped more than nine million copies. (Not sold; game companies don’t talk about that as much). It’s another sign that Watch Dogs 2—and probably Watch Dogs 3—is inevitable. Well, Ubisoft people, if sequels will be made, we have some requests… Figure out what Watch Dogs is…

How To Ride Destiny‘s Sparrow Like A Surfboard

Are you still driving your Sparrow with your butt planted on the seat like a normal guardian? How embarrassing. Freke Out has simple instructions on how to use your Sparrow like a surfboard instead—while dancing, no less. It’s as simple as timing an interruption of your mounting the Sparrow with a gesture. So you can…

Today’s PS4 Update Makes Rest Mode Work Again

That sound you just heard is millions of PlayStation 4s finally waking up from Rest Mode, where they’ve been hibernating for the past week. Yep, Sony’s finally released an update to last week’s faulty v2.00 firmware. It’s called v2.01, it’s live today, and it’s 200+ megabytes of nothing but fixes for what v2.00 broke. The…

13 New Details About New-Gen GTA V

By now, you’ll almost certainly have read about Grand Theft Auto V’s new first-person mode on new-gen consoles and PC. But it’s not the only new detail that has emerged in the past 24 hours. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Rockstar didn’t invite us to play the new-gen versions, because clearly Rockstar doesn’t…

What A ‘Yak Farm Mission’ Says About Gaming In 2014

I responded to last week’s news about a new pre-order-“exclusive” yak-related mission for Far Cry 4 with a snort. Was this a joke? Was this what gamers are supposed to get excited about these days? So many questions. It’s not a joke. And maybe it’s not even a big deal. Or maybe it’s 2014 pre-order…

Six Days Later, PS4’s v2.00 Update Is Still Causing Problems

It’s been almost a week since the rocky 2.00 firmware update went live on PS4, and although Sony has acknowledged all of the issues it’s caused, there’s still no ETA on when things will be fixed. PS4 v2.00, which came out last Tuesday, has triggered a number of widespread problems over the past few days,…

I Never Knew Metal Gear Solid Could Be So… Cute

Awwww, Solid Snake is so tiny. And so is Gray Fox. I sure hope nothing bad happens to either of them, ever. This interactive chibi-fied diorama of Metal Gear Solid 1 was put together by Glenatron, and it’s full of nice little touches. It nails the basic style of MGS 1 while also making everyone…

Faulty New PS4 Update Forces Evolve Alpha Delay

The PS4’s new update—version 2.00—is really screwing things up, huh? First there was the whole Rest Mode thing, and now we’ve got news from publisher 2K Games that they’re delaying the PS4 version of the upcoming Evolve alpha. Why? Because the PS4’s new update is something of a disaster, and 2K’s running into problems getting…