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9 Minutes of Dying Light to Get Your Heart Racing

Even though I’ve already played through this level of Dying Light at PAX Prime, I’m still shifting in my chair, on edge while watching and waiting to see if the protagonist lives or dies in these 9 minutes of footage. I mean, of course he’s going to live. But as skilled as whoever’s behind the…

​Did You Get A PS4 Or An Xbox One?

The next-gen dust has settled enough to begin to get a sense of just who picked up which new console. So, we thought we’d just ask. Both Sony and Microsoft are crowing about various sales numbers based on various metrics. But let’s leave all that aside for a moment. If you read Kotaku and picked…

How To Prepare For The Walking Dead Season Two

One of my favorite games of last year is returning for its second season this week. With the adorable-yet-tough Clementine from the last season returning as the protagonist, it’s sure to out-depress the fantastic (and very depressing) last season that featured father-figure Lee. If you’re preparing for Season Two as it rolls out on its…

Golden Xbox One Will Cost You Just $9778.80

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I love video game consoles—I just wish they were more expensive, ostentatious, and tacky”? Today is the day for you, lucky shopper. British dream factory Harrods is selling this 24-carat-gold-plated Xbox One for just £6,000, or $9778.80, or the price of approximately 19 normal (peasant) Xbox Ones, but…

Here’s our first look at the colorful plastic world of LEGO The Hobbit. Announced officially late last month, the 2014 TT Games developed adventure will span the first two movie in the trilogy, paving the way for the inevitable complete version once the third film is out, followed by a bundle of both it and…

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are being removed from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network stores—both their digital versions and their DLC. Tuesday is the last day PSN subscribers in North America can get DLC for the game; Thursday is the last day in Europe. Dec. 26 is the deadline,…

The Week in Games: The Walking Dead Begins a New Season

Retail console releases may be done for this year but there still are marquee names waiting for their closeup as we finish off 2013. Chief among them is the next season of The Walking Dead, which arrives Tuesday along with Terraria on the PS Vita. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday, Dec. 17 The Walking…

Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features

Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…

EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game

Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…

Microsoft hopes to start running their original TV shows on Xbox in early 2014, Variety reports today. The details are still hazy.

​The Xbox One Game That Will Make It Feel Like You’re Touching Your TV

This week, I played a game that felt like the lovechild of an SNES platformer and a touchscreen puzzle-solving title. Where’s this cute and wonky hybrid showing up? Why, the Xbox One, of course. At first blush, you’ll think you know exactly what you’re getting in Max: The Curse of Brotherhood. It’s a shiny-cute adventure…

​No, People, Bitcoin is NOT an Xbox Game or a New iPhone

Bitcoin has fascinated people for a little bit now. It’s got that futuristic sounding name that sounds cool. Seems like something you should get into, right? But don’t be like the six percent of surveyed Americans who thought that Bitcoin was an Xbox game. Because it’s not. The Atlantic has a write-up of a Bloomberg…

The Big Games Are Out, So Now It’s DLC Season.

Don’t trade your games in (yet?). We’re moving into DLC season, what with yesterday’s confirmation of next week’s release of Assassin’s Creed IV‘sfirst big expansion, the recent news of bold DLC plans for GTA V—and now info about the first one for Xbox One launch game Dead Rising 3 Here’s the official blurb: Today, Capcom…

Battlefield 4 isn’t justflawed. It looks like it’s Lost, too. This video uploaded by YouTuber mormonrage shows an anomaly that looks a whole hell of a lot like the smoke monster from the popular ABC mystery series. Man, watching the trees fold away like that is super weird.

Battlefield 4 Problems Have Shareholder Law Firm Thinking Lawsuit

A law firm that appears to specialize in suing publicly traded companies suffering publicly embarassing problems has turned its attention to Electronic Arts, specifically over Battlefield 4 The “investigation” that Atlanta firm Holzer Holzer & Fistel has begun concerns whether EA “complied with federal securities laws” when the company was making statements about Battlefield 4…

Microtransactions don’t work exactly like this in NBA 2K14, but this parody video by GoodGameBro clearly communicates how ridiculous some find the practice when it intrudes on their favorite sports game. Actually, you can purchase dunks, they’re just signature animations for your created MyPlayer.

Microsoft Sells Two Million Xbox Ones, Which Is Good News For Everyone

Microsoft announced this morning that they’ve sold two million shiny new Xbox Ones, and if your immediate reaction, dear Kotaku reader, is to say something about the PS4, please stop. Forget asinine console wars and nonsensical company loyalties for a second—both current-next-gen consoles are selling quite well, and that’s good news for anyone who likes…

Elder Scrolls Online Arrives April 4 for PC, June for PS4, Xbox One

The Elder Scrolls Online will release on April 4 for the PC and Mac, Bethesda Softworks revealed this morning in a new trailer for the MMO set in the Elder Scrolls continuity. PS4 and Xbox One gamers will have to wait until June. “War in Cyrodiil,” is the title of the gameplay trailer, which is…

Lightning Returns‘ Collector’s Edition Is So Fancy It Gets A Trailer

Not only is the collector’s edition trailer-fancy, the $90 box set is also exclusive to theSquare Enix store, so if you want a silver-embossed pocket watch, and art book and an Aerith costume, it’s your only hope.

Peggle 2: The Kotaku Review

Peggle is a puzzle game that involves clearing colored pegs from a board by shooting balls from the top of the screen, but that’s not what the game is about. It’s about getting to the explosively colorful celebration at the end of each level, and Peggle 2‘s celebrations are the most satisfying yet. It could…