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WWE 2K14: The Kotaku Review

Twenty-five years ago my best friend and I set up a wrestling ring in my basement—four barstools for the turnbuckles, some old mattresses for the canvas. The actual wrestling we did was hesitant, unplanned and uncompelling. But man, the stuff we did out of the ring makes me smile to this day. My facemask was…

You Can Be Revived While Falling In Battlefield 4 (And Other Myths)

Can you imagine the ridiculous Battlefield moments arising from the fact that you can revive a falling player? Oh, nevermind that. What about the epic, heroic moments you’ll have when throwing yourself over an explosive to save your friends? This stuff and more is tested out in the latest Battlefield 4-themed mythbusting episode by DefendTheHouse—I’m…

Madden Lawsuit Settlement Mails Out the Checks in Time for Next-Gen

Just in time for the next-gen release of Madden NFL 25, lo and behold, here’s my check from the settlement of the ridiculous Madden ‘monopoly’ lawsuit—for $64.14, which is four cents less than what the game would cost, with tax, at any of the GameStops I frequent. That means, if you filed your claim by…

Call of Duty Makers Explain Why Resolution Is Lower On Xbox One

When word came out last month that upcoming dog simulator Call of Duty: Ghosts runs at a higher resolution on PS4 than it does on Xbox One, the reactions were loud and angry. Was this a launch-day anomaly, or will all multi-platform games perform better on Sony’s console? Today, the people who make Call of…

Check Out the Rejected Lightning Returns Logos

This is the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy logo. You might have also seen this logo with an all-black background. But have you ever seen the rejected ones? At a recent event in Tokyo for Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD, Square Enix showed off the Lightning Returns logos it didn’t end up using. Below,…

This Is How You Make A Video Game Trailer

This is the latest trailer for Capy’s Super TIME Force, and while their lastone was awesome, this might be even better. Forget expensive cinematics or insomnia-curing developer diaries; this is how you sell a video game. You entertain and inform. Seamlessly. If you thought your Xbox 360 was done for, think again, because this hits…

Another Good Look At The Xbox One’s Dashboard

Videos of the Xbox One’s dashboard and user interface in action have been getting progressively better, the latest being this handy clip put together by The Verge Shot with a half-decent camera/phone, and by a man who can keep his hand steady while filming, this video also benefits from uploader Tom Warren narrating the action…

The Week in Games: A Duty to Perform

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a longstanding first-Tuesday-in-November tradition, scaring off nearly every other big release that has a bunch of marketing behind it. But there are a few others of note, including a Castlevania collection and State of Decay on PC. Here’s the week in video games. Tuesday, Nov. 5 Call of Duty: Ghosts…

Next-Gen Games Will Fill Our New Consoles’ Hard Drives In No Time

The PlayStation 4’s internal hard drive is 500GB, and if you buy and start playing just two of its launch day first-person shooters this month, you may already be using more than a 10th of the drive. Welcome to a somewhat different era of console gaming. Above you’ll the see part of the back of…

Megan Fox Stars in the Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Live-Action Trailer

You’re gonna live ’til you die in Call of Duty: Ghosts which, for millions on Tuesday, will be about 16 seconds after spawning. A bombed-out, bro’d out Vegas stars alongside Megan Fox (Bad Boys II, as “Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall”) in the live-action launch trailer Activision just pushed out for its megabazillion-dollar franchise.…

Meet the Specialists of Call of Duty‘s Extinction Mode

Extinction, the horde mode replacing (or so it seems) zombies for Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature four classes specific to the mode, according to this post yesterday afternoon from the game’s developer. The classes are rather meat-and-potatoes: Weapon Specialist, Tank, Engineer and Medic. The first two are your offensive classes, the second two are…

Peggle 2 will be out “a few weeks later in December” and not on the day Xbox One launches (Nov. 22), PopCap said. An earlier listing by Microsoft called it a launch-day title. The game is a timed exclusive to Xbox One.

​EA Wants You To Feel Like Their Games Are a Steal

Many years ago, Andrew Wilson, the new boss of Electronic Arts, met rap impresario Russell Simmons. The man behind Run DMC, LL Cool J and other classic hip-hop artists said something that stuck with Wilson. “[Simmons] said, listen, human beings have an inherent need to steal, built into our DNA,” Wilson told me. “I thought,…

The Toughest Life Or Death Choice In The Gaming Universe

Many games in the previous generation gave us choices about who would live or who would die. This was, I dare say, the best one. In some games, like BioShock, we could do the math on a life or death choice and strip emotion out of it. Go with the most beneficial option for leveling…

Minecraft Gets An Official Skyrim Make-Over

You could take the time to rebuild all of Skyrim in Minecraft, or you could play Minecraft: Skyrim Edition, announced today by Microsoft and Bethesda for the Xbox 360. This one takes less effort. Via Microsoft: Developed by 4J Studios, “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” Mash-Up features an exclusive Skyrim-themed texture set, 40 character skins,…

Privacy and player data on Xbox One have been big concerns ever since Microsoft revealed its next console. If Microsoft’s latest changes regarding Kinect and privacy haven’t quieted your worries, you can read through their privacy statement in full over here. Be sure to click on the learn more links to expand each category. If…

It was recently revealed that Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be out March 6 next year in Japan.

Giant Xbox One Opens, Zombies Come Pouring Out

Mystery surrounded the unveilingof an enormous Xbox One in Canada earlier in the week. Well, mystery solved. It opened up tonight, and out came…zombies. Part of a marketing stunt for the console and Dead Rising 3. Perhaps of more practical use is the fact that once the zombies had cleared out, inside the giant Xbox…

Dark Souls, Now With More Guitar Riffs

The quality of fan-made video game songs can tell a lot about a game’s community. Keeping this in mind while watching Lordvessel by Tanooki Suit above—you can easily tell that Dark Souls has a pretty damn awesome community. The song might sound a bit Linkin Park-ish, but surprisingly it fits really well with all the…

If you live in Japan and own Grand Theft Auto V, good news. GTA V Online is finally rolling out in the region on November 7. It gets its own server, which might bother some players. Others won’t care.