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How Fast Can Valve’s FPS Characters Actually Run?

Let’s find out, courtesy of some clever sums by Vlad Tretiak (top image by Segaman) Picking apart Valve’s Source engine, and translating distance in the engine into actual real-world units of measurement, he’s been able to determine both the “standard constant movement speed” and “maximum possible movement speed” (ie, using items or bonuses) of some…

A Horror Game Where Enemies Die After You Flip Them Off

Some horror games hand the player a gun, while others force them to run and hide. The Night That Speaks goes another route: flipping your middle finger. Inspired by August’s GBJam, whose theme was Nintendo’s archaic handheld, Adam R. and Guy T.—their last names aren’t listed on the game’s site—created The Night That Speaks. It’s…

Halo 5‘s Awesome New Multiplayer Mode Is Working Well On Launch Day 

Halo 5’s new Warzone multiplayer mode wouldn’t be nearly as exciting if it suffered from the sort of connection issues that plagued The Master Chief Collection months after launch. So far, so good. Earlier this week Stephen Totilo posted his early impressions of Halo 5: Guardians, subtitled “Mediocre Campaign, Promising Multiplayer.” The “promising multiplayer” bit…

A Great Graphic Novel Filled With The Miserable Little Deaths That Happen Every Day

Adrian Tomine creates the kinds of comics that you don’t want to recognize yourself in. They’re the polar opposite of power fantasies, and it’s hard to find anything like a hero in his panels. But they make for damn good reading. Released last week, Killing and Dying is the newest collection from the master cartoonist,…

Here Is A Montage Of People Pretending To Be Into VR At The PlayStation Conference

Edited by Kotaku’s Chris Person, here is a supercut of VR faces from today’s PlayStation 4 conference at Paris Games Week. These shots were part of a handful of gameplay trailers and sizzle reels released by Sony today. We took out the gameplay, of course. Enjoy.

Beyond: Two Souls Designer Announces Next Game, Detroit

David Cage revealed his latest game today in Paris, and it’s called Detroit Detroit is based on Project Kara, a demo developer Quantic Dream showed off years ago, in which an android becomes aware of itself and leaves the factory it was built. Designer David Cage wondered what happened next, setting up the events of…

Bears. You can talk to them, ride them and attack with them in Wild, the in-development game coming from the creator of Beyond Good & Evil. You can take a look at what the shaman can do in the PS4 exclusive game in the video above. Contact the author at [email protected]

Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games is bringing an on-rails rollercoaster horror game to PlayStation VR called Until Dawn: Rush of Blood Sony’s said its VR headset should launch sometime next year. Contact the author at [email protected]

Here’s how LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule’s next game, Dreams, will actually play. You’ll directly control a tiny “imp,” which will allow you to possess any character and add stuff to game worlds as you explore them. You know, just like in real dreams.

Uncharted 4‘s Multiplayer Goes All Supernatural

Here’s your first glimpse at the multiplayer portion of next year’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which will hold a beta in December. This time around, they seem to be invoking the series’ mystic elements to spice up fights with other players.

The newest trailer for Gravity Rush 2 shows how new gravity styles will change up the way main character Kat attacks and moves around. Contact the author at [email protected]

Watch A Robot Dinosaur Get Taken Down In Horizon: Zero Dawn

ROBOT DINOSAURS. Guerrilla Games showed off Horizon: Zero Dawn at E3 earlier this year, but today’s Horizon gameplay footage looks way more like the game we’ll (hopefully) be playing next year. UI! Loot! Crafting! Frame rate drops!

Boundless is looking nice. The PS4 and PC (currently in Early Access) builder/explorer displays definite shades of Minecraft, but with MMO elements and portals connecting worlds. It’ll be out in late 2016.

No Man’s Sky Is Finally Coming Out In June 2016

There have been endlessly impressive trailers for No Man’s Sky, but it’s never been clear when we were actually going to play the game. Now we know: June 2016. Of course, there is a new trailer, too, showing off the planetary combat: Contact the author at [email protected]

Tekken 7, previously announced for arcades in Japan, is coming to PS4, the folks at Bandai Namco said today during the PlayStation conference in Paris. No word on a release date yet, but there is a new trailer!

Capcom’s just announced that Street Fighter V, coming only to PS4 and PC, will arrive on February 16. They also announced six new characters will be released for the game in its first year, all unlockable via in-game currency.

Watch Sony’s Paris Games Week Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over] 

It’s PlayStation Day in Paris, where Sony’s about to put on a press conference full of new games and announcements. We’re expecting to see some Uncharted 4 news, appearances from Sony’s other first-party studios, and maybe even David Cage’s next game. Fun drinking game for anyone who wants to stay sober this afternoon: Take a…

Nice Brawling Animations, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Last year I was impressed with a state of the art Assassin’s Creed kiss. This year? The latest Assassin’s Creed team has upped their game with combat animations. Enjoy some ass-kicking and some bone-crunching, folks, especially the finishing animations at the end of each of these clips: Some of the combat animations outside of the…

The Best Games I Saw At IndieCade

“Indie” might be an increasingly nebulous term these days, but the festival celebrating it was home to some damn intriguing games. IndieCade—which took place over the weekend in Culver City, California—is a smaller festival in the grand scheme of video game events, but it still managed to cram its tents with an overwhelming number of…

The Park Is Two Hours Of Jump Scares And Sadness

The Park opens with a boat ride. The player travels a set path and is told a story they’ve probably heard before, interrupted by the odd jump scare. It’s excellent foreshadowing. I whimper quite a lot during my first 15 minutes or so with Funcom’s bite-sized horror adventure, but that’s because I am scared of…