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See What An Xbox One Dashboard (Might) Look Like In Action

This video could have been great. It shows the kind of thing a prospective buyer of a brand new console wants to see: menus, commands, switching between programs. The nuts and bolts of your every day experience. It’s a shame, then, that Microsoft decided to take such a “real” premise and make a staged advertisement…

‘Extinction Mode’ Among the Rumors Trickling From Call of Duty: Ghosts

With about a week to go before the latest Call of Duty hits shelves, this is high season for pre-release leaks from those who managed to cajole an early retail copy out of someone. Did you know Call of Duty: Ghosts is on two discs for the Xbox 360? Yeah, well, neither did I. There’s…

The Week in Games: Bold New Look, Same New Games

Battlefield 4 draws first blood in EA’s annual shooter stare-down with Call of Duty. It didn’t pick a great time to go first as it must fight with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag for attention on Tuesday. Rasslin’ fans, your WWE sim title arrives under new management. Here’s the week in video games. Welcome back…

So, we’ve discovered the formula for doing a next-gen trailer in the sports genre, especially when the series is miles ahead of the competition. Begin with a good 30 seconds of slow-motion pregame, then build up to kick-off/tipoff at the crescendo of a pop anthem. Here’s FIFA 14‘s trailer for PS4 and Xbox One.

Is ‘The Jordan Challenge’ Returning to NBA 2K14 for PS4 and Xbox One?

One of the most confounding things about the NBA 2K series over the last two years is why two special modes—”The Jordan Challenge” from NBA 2K11 and “NBA’s Greatest” from NBA 2K12—have neither carried forward nor, at least, been re-released as DLC. But a curious domain name registered to 2K Sports may change that. Fusible,…

Online Play Restored to PES 2014 on Xbox After Monthlong Outage

Konami says it resolved the monthlong online-play blackout for Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 on the Xbox 360. The fix is available through a title update that is available now. The publisher says the update delivers both online play and Master League Online service and corrects other problems users had updating the game. Additionally, a full…

We Took A Look At Two New Features In Batman: Arkham Origins

Batman does a bit more detective work in his new game. Good thing? Bad thing? Take a look as Evan Narcisse and I show you what’s new in Batman Arkham Origins. Take a look at our full review of the game here Batman: Arkham Origins is out now on PC, Wii U, PS3, and Xbox…

Rockstar Delaying GTA Online Stimulus Package Until Bugs Get Fixed

Been waiting for the first chunk of that $500,000 in-game cash infusion that Rockstar promised as a make-good for the bumpy launch of GTA Online. You’re going to have to wait a while longer. The makers of Red Dead Redemption don’t want to throw all that money out in the world until more bugs get…

Batman: Arkham Origins: The Kotaku Review

Troy Baker’s Joker voice is one of the best things about Batman: Arkham Origins. But it’s also a disturbingly reverent impersonation of Mark Hamill’s take on the Clown Prince of Crime. Therein lies the conundrum of the latest video game featuring the Dark Knight. On multiple levels, this game is about finding one’s voice. Players…

The Xbox One’s TV Commercial Is Full Of TV and Games

Hype season has begun. We are less than a month away from the debut Xbox One and the spot above is one part of how Microsoft will be trying to sell their next-gen console to TV-watching folks around the world. The fusion of television watching and high-end gaming sits at the center of the “Xbox…

Somewhere beyond the sea, Somewhere waitin’ for me. You’ll be able to go back to Rapture on November 12 when part one of BioShock Infinite‘s Burial at Sea DLC comes out for consoles and PC.

Who’s in love with the Big Bad Wolf? Sometime this fall, The Wolf Among Us—Telltale’s new adventure game based on the long-running Fables series from DC Comics—will land on PlayStation Vita and iOS devices. See what Kirk Hamilton thought of the Xbox 360 and PC versions right here

Saints Row IV‘s DLC Might Be Better Than The Game

Enter The Dominatrix was originally announced for Saints Row The Third, then turned into a full sequel, now it’s DLC again. I think Volition found the perfect way to include their crazy story that began as an April Fool’s joke. If you’re a fan of DVD extra features and deleted scenes (and also Saints Row),…

You’re Not Ready for MGSV. You Need Ground Zeroes to Prepare

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be divided into 2 parts: The prologue, Ground Zeroes, which takes place in 1975, and the main game, which takes place in 1984. Sound confusing? It’s actually done that way to make it less so. In a one-on-one interview with Weekly Famitsu, Kojima talked about the reasons…

Gamers Shrug as Next-Generation Sports Get Last-Gen Hype

Eight years ago I convinced myself I needed a new video gaming experience. I’d been dragging a canvas deck chair into the living room, sitting three feet from the screen just so I could make out the receivers from defensive backs in Madden, or tell a curveball from a fastball in MVP Baseball. I finally…

PS4 Will Let You Use Your Real Name Online At Launch

Sony will let users of their new console use their real names on the PlayStation 4’s online service when the system launches on November 15, the company has confirmed to Kotaku. This is an option, not a mandate. It’s also a point of distinction between PS4 and Xbox One. Microsoft, which also wants to allow…

Let’s get ready to Batman. Batman: Arkham Origins hits stores on Friday, leaving us enough time for several hundred preparatory views of the official launch trailer. Going to Batman so hard this weekend. How about you?

Battlefield 4‘s Story Trailer Punches A Dog Right In The Face.

Man, remember the Battlefield 3 single-play story, with the train and the…that rat? There was definitely a rat. And a building collapsed. That’s all I got. Battlefield 4 looks much more memorable. I certainly won’t forget the guy straddling and punching a dog at 1:36 in this trailer. Maybe it’s a dig at everyone’s favorite…

This Generation’s Best Final Fantasys Weren’t Named “Final Fantasy”

This console generation saw only a few Final Fantasy games during its time in the sun but luckily two of them were amazing. Of course, I am not talking about Final Fantasy XIV—decent as it is after its relaunch—or any of the Final Fantasy XIIIs. No, I’m talking about Lost Odyssey and The Last Story…

Obama Compares Health Insurance To Buying A PlayStation

Earlier this month, president Barack Obama mentioned Microsoft’s Xbox as a way to frame the government shutdown. Today, it’s PlayStation’s turn: this time, Obama’s comparing health insurance to Black Friday sales. Clearly the president of the United States understands how important it is to stay neutral in this high-stakes next-gen console war. If you’re the…