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Let’s Talk About JRPGs

Here at Kotaku, we don’t spend nearly enough time talking about JRPGs. I mean, sure, we have a column every week dedicated to JRPGs, and we’re usually pretty good about covering RPG news from Japan, and I do my best to cover JRPGs as much as humanly possible. But, still. There’s just so much to…

Five Things Every Great First-Person Shooter Needs

I’ve had many people tell me over the years that shooters are “dumb,” because these people believe that shooters are simple games about pointing at enemies and clicking on them until they die. I don’t think that’s true. This has been a great year for shooters, many of which have a lot more going on…

Faulty New PS4 Update Forces Evolve Alpha Delay

The PS4’s new update—version 2.00—is really screwing things up, huh? First there was the whole Rest Mode thing, and now we’ve got news from publisher 2K Games that they’re delaying the PS4 version of the upcoming Evolve alpha. Why? Because the PS4’s new update is something of a disaster, and 2K’s running into problems getting…

10 Hours of Walking Around In Skyrim (While Wearing Skimpy Armor)

How do Skyrim’s townsfolk react to seeing a player walk around in suggestive body mods? They don’t. They just repeat the same lines they’d say normally, but that’s exactly what makes this video funny. Shinji72 decided to “recreate” a video you may have seen floating around recently, where a woman walks around New York for…

Forza Horizon 2, PlayStation Silver Headset, and More Deals

Forza Horizon 2 Is As Close To Living Your Car Fantasy As You’ll Get, and today you cangrab the Day One Edition for $48. [Forza] The Xbox 360 version is down to $38. One of the best, and best-looking JRPGs of the last decade is coming to Steam. You can get it for just $14…

If You Got The New PS4 Update, Don’t Use Rest Mode [UPDATE]

UPDATE (11/5/14): The new v2.01 update appears to fix the widespread Rest Mode issue, so if you’ve downloaded that, it should be safe to put your system in hibernation again. Original story follows: Earlier this week, Sony released a new patch for the PlayStation 4, and if you’ve downloaded it, here’s my advice: be very,…

How To Step Up Your Screenshot Game In The Sims 4

It’s very easy to capture screenshots in The Sims 4. All you have to do is press “C.” Capturing screenshots that actually look good is a totally different story. More than many other games, The Sims forces you to act like a photographer or filmmaker. Here are some ways to do that. I, for one,…

Nothing Says Halloween Like People Screaming at Horror Games

Let’s plays of horror games are popular for good reason: watching someone else lose it over a jump scare can be hilarious, and, in case you’re a huge coward (like me), even therapeutic. There have been lots of really good videos over the years—and what better time to take a look back than Halloween? NSFW…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Gaming and Misbehaving: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light • Gaming and Mental Illness: How One Helps The Other (Part 1) • The 16-Bit Halloween TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

So That’s How Marvel Can Plan So Far Ahead

It’s easy when not just superheroes, but also decision makers have otherwordly powers—and they use it for scheduling future movies. Also, as Dorkly’s latest comic and its background shows, Marvel has different future plans in this alternate universe… and they somehow acquired DC too. Click here for more Dorkly comics. How Marvel Can Plan So…

Cartoony Evolution Of Famous Vampires

Artist Jeff Victor’s chart has a couple of famous vampires lined up in chronological order, just in time for Halloween. It has some interesting choices (and some might miss the young Christopher Lee) but that’s why it’s a great piece. And I guess this makes it clear that no one can beat the creepy, silent…

Final Fantasy XV‘s World Is Freakin’ Enormous

Tonight, Square Enix showed off some of the world where Final Fantasy XV takes place. It looks huge. As you can see in the video below, you can freely explore the field. If you like, you can can stop at gas stations and rest. When running in the field, your party members get tired and…

A Look at the Tech that Powers Final Fantasy XV

Square Enix just showed off this footage in Paris. It looks impressive. As you can see in the below clip, via YouTube user Mika IIM, the demo shows off some of the game engine’s fancy tech. As soon as it starts going, that dude’s head gets out of the way. Somewhat. You’ll be happy to…

As per their latest financial report, Sony shipped 3.3 million PS4 systems in the financial quarter ending on September 30. This brings their total to 13.5 million consoles shipped in less than a year. Sony also moved 800,000 PS3 consoles and 700,000 portable (Vita, Vita TV and PSP) consoles during this time. PlayStation logo via…

Some of the Best Pumpkin Carvings of This Halloween

Hey! It’s Halloween. Did you carve your pumpkin yet? You better get on it. And if you need some good ideas, here are some terrific carvings. Like this one up here posted on Twitter by @ blue_zoo Granted, these are some—goodness, not all by any means—of the best pumpkin carvings of Halloween 2014. If you…

Camo Xbox One Is Sadly Not For Sale

This special Xbox One / A Bathing Ape console, which I like very much, will sadly never be sold to the public. It was a piece of swag, used only as a “promotional gift” for an event in Hong Kongearlier this month. I mean, I guess it might turn up on eBay, but given the…

You Can Call This Video Game From A Real Phone

Dial this number, and it will take you to far away places. MINOR SPOILER ALERT. The game—really more of an interactive phone line—is the latest extension of the brilliant Kentucky Route Zero series, a serenely bizarre (or perhaps bizarrely serene) theatrical adventure game. This is an extension of that universe, and a weird one at…

Well, That’s One Way To Fix The Xbox One’s Backwards Compatibility

It still irritates me that the Xbox One isn’t backwards-compatible. From Red Dead to GTA V, there are old games I still own and still want to play, but because I don’t have an Xbox 360 anymore (one died and I traded the other in for the XB1), they just…sit there. It’d be OK if…

New City-Building Game Combines Two Of My Favorite Things​

Concrete Jungle is a game where you build a city. But not like you would in SimCity. You construct cities in Concrete Jungle by building a deck, like a card game. How did nobody think of this until now? It all sounds so easy. You get some cards, and each card has a building on…

Valve doesn’t seem too pleased that devs have made a group to upvote each others’ games on Steam Greenlight. A rep said, “Clearly this is not the feedback we are seeking from Greenlight. We do track these sorts of things and folks ‘going this route’ will likely not find the results they may have hoped…