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Hell Yes, Phantom Dust Returns on Xbox One
Hell’s gotten a lot colder. The cult game from the original Xbox is getting re-imagined for Microsoft’s newest console. A teaser trailer showed characters that looked like they could be the metahuman Espers charged with saving the Earth. This clip didn’t appear to be captured gameplay but, what the hell, it’s new Phantom Dust
By Evan Narcisse Published June 9, 2014 -
Everything We Know About the Halo Master Chief Collection
News of the Halo: Master Chief Collection already leaked a few weeks ago, but Microsoft and developer 343 Industries officially announced its existence today. It’ll be out on November 11 this year, in tandem with Halo 2‘s 10-year anniversary, and it’ll come with access to the beta for Halo 5: Guardians One Disc In a…
By Tina Amini Published June 9, 2014 -
The New Fable Features Co-Op and Lets You Play as the Villain
You’re not going it alone in the next release in the Xbox first-party RPG franchise. You’ll have friends questing along with you. Unless you’re the bad guy, in which case you’ll have enemies. Fable Legends got its turn on the Xbox stage today, with a video that showcased multiplayer battles and a feature that lets…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 9, 2014 -
The Next Forza Horizon Hits On September 30
With Forza 5’s Drivatar tech and player-controlled clubs with up to 1000 members, along with dedicated servers for smooth multiplayer connectivity, Forza Horizon 2 is arriving to Xbox One and Xbox 360 on September 30. Playground Games’ new racer will feature “more than 200” cars to drive, and a new system for some “dramatic” weather…
By András Neltz Published June 9, 2014 -
Xbox One Games Might Soon Look A Little Better
Ever since launch, many multiplatform games just haven’t looked as good (or run as smoothly) on the Xbox One as they have the PlayStation 4. Going forward that gap might be closed. At least a little. From launch until now, developers had to leave some resources on the console’s GPU free for Kinect integration, which…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2014 -
Hideo Kojima Says Metal Gear Solid V Is This Big
Metal Gear Solid mastermind says the map for next MGS will be big… 200 times bigger than the map from the Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. The Ground Zeroes map is the red blotch on the bottom right of his chart. The square it’s on is MGS V Kojima showed this chart during a Metal…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 5, 2014 -
The Hero Of Shadow Of Mordor Is Quite The Badass
Here he is, slaughtering orcs left and right in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor’s CG trailer. It looks like Talion will become quite infamous among the Uruk ranks for his deeds during (or before) the game’s events, turning into a legend of sorts. And, well, he’s certainly got the presence for that: Middle Earth: Shadow…
By András Neltz Published June 5, 2014 -
A Fresh Look At The Next Borderlands Game, Which Arrives This Fall
2K Games has released an all-new gameplay trailer for their upcoming FPS-RPG, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel The trailer has it all: new vehicles, new monsters, low gravity, and even a big moon dance number ’cause hey, why not. It’s fun! The game arrives to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 14, 2014 in North America,…
By András Neltz Published June 5, 2014 -
HBO Go Is Finally Coming To Xbox One
Rejoice! We can now watch all of Game of Thrones on our Xbox Ones. Provided you have an HBO Go subscription and an Xbox Live account, of course. But this is still awesome news, and something I’ve personally been waiting on. The Xbox team announced the news today, including a host of other awesome entertainment…
By Tina Amini Published June 4, 2014 -
How To Rearrange The Xbox One’s Dashboard Pins
The June 2014 update for the Xbox One lets you rearrange the square “pin” icons that decorate the left pane of the system’s dashboard and serve as the console’s game/app shortcuts. That’s handy! So how do you do it? And why might you need a mirror? We can explain and make it easy for you.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2014 -
ReviewsWatch Dogs: The Kotaku Review
My first question for Watch Dogs was, “Well, what if I don’t want to shoot Maurice?” “Sorry,” the game replied. “You are going to shoot Maurice and that’s all there is for it.” It was the very first interactive moment of the game, and I had two things: A gun, and a prompt to shoot…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 3, 2014 -
ReviewsMurdered: Soul Suspect: The Kotaku Review
I came across something midway through Murdered: Soul Suspect that summed up the majority of my experience playing this game. I was strolling through a police station as Ronan O’Connor, a detective so hard-boiled that his own death could not stop him from hunting down the notorious murderer as The Bell Killer. The game begins…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 3, 2014 -
I Drove Batman: Arkham Knight‘s Batmobile
And I liked it. The Batmobile is basically an extension of Batman’s repertoire of gadgets. In fact, even though Batman is of course a combat specialist, developer Rocksteady’s excitable Dax Ginn explained that the Batmobile is part of Batman’s primary toolset. The Batmobile operates in two modes. On a chase, pursuit mode is most appropriate.…
By Tina Amini Published June 3, 2014 -
Batman: Arkham Knight Delayed To 2015
“Awesome takes time,” the ever-ebullient Dax Ginn recently told a group of reporters in explaining why his studio’s new Batman game, the first from Rocksteady since 2011, is no longer scheduled for a late-2014 release. If this news sounds a wee bit familiar, it’s because a whole bunch of games seem to be slipping to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2014 -
Mortal Kombat X Wishlist
There’s a newMortal Kombat? Cool. I’ve invited a handful of Mortal Kombat fans for a chat about what they’d like to see in the newly-announced Mortal Kombat X. They’re hashing it out below. Note: I’m using this post, in part, to test a new “invitation” system that lets us automatically feature certain people’s comments. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 2, 2014 -
One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2013 Promises?
E3 is a-comin’. Next week, great gaming companies will take to the stage to show off all kinds of games and make all kinds of promises, as they did in the past. Like last year, for example. Let’s look at what Microsoft told us at their 2013 briefing. After the somewhat unfocused reveal of the…
By András Neltz Published June 2, 2014 -
LeVar Burton Wants To Bring Reading Rainbow To Game Consoles
By now you’ve probably seen the extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign for Reading Rainbow, the TV show hosted actor LeVar Burton that helps teach kids to love reading books. They’ve already raised $2.8 million for the project, which hopes to bring the show to children everywhere. Naturally, they want to make more money. And one of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2014
