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Tomb Raider Gets A Next-Gen Facelift

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will come to PS4 and Xbox One by the end of January, updating this year’s Tomb Raider reboot for the next-gen platforms. A specific date was not announced. [Update: Here’s the trailer!] Camilla Luddington, the voice of Lara Croft and Scott Amos of developer Crystal Dynamics introduced the game at the…

NBA 2K14 Keeps Crashing, but 2K Sports Says It Knows What’s Wrong

A recently released patch for the Xbox One version of NBA 2K14 appears to have done little to solve the repeated crashes occurring in the game’s MyCareer mode. While 2K Sports says it knows what the problem is, it has no timetable on when a solution may arrive. Server problems have bothered NBA 2K14 players…

Sheriff Offers Xbox One as Reward to Catch BB Gun Vandals

A shrewd lawman in a town outside of New Orleans has a novel approach to putting a stop to a recent wave of pellet-gun vandalism: Offer an Xbox One as a reward. Maybe that’ll get someone to fink on these twerps. Sheriff Greg Champagne of St. Charles Parish, La. offered up the bounty on Thursday.…

Destiny Will Be Out On September 9, 2014

Bungie’s big new multiplayer shooter, Destiny, has a release date. September 9 of next year for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4. The news comes via Bungie themselves. And they’re promising a beta in the summer for PS3 and PS4. The game, or at least its beta, had previously been pegged for a spring…

Don’t Fall For This Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Prank

A spurious image has been making the rounds and implying that you can use the Xbox One’s developer tool menus to make the Xbox One play Xbox 360 games. Problem is, the image is dead wrong and you could brick your Xbox One. Don’t do that. Earlier this week, the inputs that let you access…

Bigby who? Is he the guy next to Jack? The second episode of Fables, Smoke & Mirrors, is almost ready for prime time, so Telltale Games decided to call in a little star power to finish the job. That handsome blond fellow? He’s Jack, aka Jack Frost, aka Jack the Giant Killer, aka not really…

​Call Now and Get a Great Deal on Next-Gen Video Game Pictures!

Poor Peter Clatworthy—the guy who paid £450 (USD$735) for a picture of an Xbox One—has been the butt of many an internet joke. This video, while verging a bit on the mean side, is one of the best. VideoGamerTV’s TV shopping show parody nails the frantic hucksterism of channels like HSN and zeroes in on…

Ultra Street Fighter IV is coming to consoles in June, PC three months later. A post on Capcom’s Unity blog (via Event Hubs) reveals the ultimate version of SFIV will appear as a $15 update for the Xbox 360 and PS3 first, to ensure players have time with the game prior to EVO 2014 in…

​Today’s Battlefield 4 Update Gives All Players Once-Exclusive Gear

The developers of Battlefield 4 have acknowledged that their FPS is facing significant issues. And now, as part of a previously announced player appreciation program, DICE is rolling out a piece of in-game kit that only developers had access too. An announcement on the BF4 Battlelog says that the M911 pistol scope gift will become…

If You Love Final Fantasy X-2, You’ll Love Lightning Returns

When people ask me what Lightning Returns is like, I always respond that it’s a lot like Final Fantasy X-2. A lot of people seem to take this as an insult to Lightning Returns. It’s not. While I feel like I am in the minority, I loved FFX-2 and much of what made it so…

Daisenryaku Perfect: Ruler of the Battlefield, delayed like eight times, has another release date: February 6, 2014. The previously announced Xbox 360 version of the game, however, appears to have vanished from the game’s official site. I eagerly await the next delay!

Lightning Returns Isn’t Revolutionary, But It Is a Lot of Fun

Few sequels are as different as Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is from the other titles in the FFXIII series. It has a new world and a battle system so highly modified as to be nearly unrecognizable. But when it comes down to it, these changes are all for the good as they make for…

Teenager Pays $735 For A Picture Of An Xbox One

English teenager Peter Clatworthy made some very bad decisions during an Xbox One auction on eBay, paying £450 (USD$735) and not even getting a console. He got a picture of a console. The 19-year-old student told the Nottingham Post that he’d saved up the money so that he could buy the console as a surprise…

See PlayStation and Xbox Controllers Evolve Before Your Eyes

A new generation means new controllers—but the road to the current PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers was full of tweaks. Not all of these changes are visual, of course, but it’s still cool to look at these GIFs by Gadget Love and see just how much has changed since the PS1 and Xbox days.…

Capy—the indie studio behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery—will release their next game, Super Time Force, on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The bad news: they’re delaying it to next year.

Reminder: The Witcher 3 Is Going to Look Pretty Damn Good

The last part of CD Projekt Red’s trilogy will be hitting the PS4. It looks pretty freaking great. Watch the trailer and you’ll see glimpses of bustling medieval hamlets, ominous storm-drenched beaches and impressive-looking combat. The game is also hitting PC and Xbox One and should be out some time next year. Read Kirk Hamilton’s…

Helpful Tips For Navigating Your Xbox One

The Xbox One’s interface has been a source of much delight and frustration in my household. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson put together this nifty video to help befuddled folks like myself make sense of it all. The Xbox One has quickly become the central hub of my living room — we use it for games…

Every Xbox dashboard, leading up to the current dashboard on the Xbox One—neat to see how much stuff has changed, no? GIF via(r/gaming)

EA Won’t Work On New Battlefield 4 DLC Until Flawed Game Is Fixed

Flagship first-person-shooter Battlefield 4 is so troubled that the game’s development studio won’t proceed on development of any new, planned expansions until the game’s problems are sorted out, BF4 publisher EA told Kotaku in a statement today. That update comes at at an awkward moment. Online connection issues have been frustrating some players of the…

Here’s Another Call of Duty: Ghosts Comparison For Xbox One and PS4

Last month, we saw Call of Duty: Ghosts compared on PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4. In the following video, you can finally see the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game compared. It’s really getting harder and harder to tell the difference. At least for me. Can you spot any discrepancies? It’s a YouTube…