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Watch Dogs PC At Its Best And Worst

Even on the lowest settings, Watch Dogs is a pretty PC game—but it’s on ultra is where all the small environmental details really start to pop, bringing Chicago to life. You can see the difference between low and ultra settings in this comparison video by Digital Storm. Or, if you’d like, you can check out…

inFAMOUS: Second Son, Logitech Headset, $70 Off-Contract Moto G

PS4 owners that still haven’t played inFAMOUS: Second Son are missing out on one of console’s best early games. Today’s a great day to rectify that though, as Amazon’s Gold Box deal of the day is offering it up for $36. [inFAMOUS: Second Son, $36] We’re bullish about the importance of audio around here, but…

Watch 15 Minutes Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Not only does this video contain more than 15 minutes of footage from the upcoming last-gen-only Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it also includes more than 15 minutes of narration in both regular and Australian flavors. What a bargain! If this gameplay footage seems familiar to you, then perhaps you attended the PAX East presentation which it…

Mark Wahlberg Doesn’t Seem Too Shocked By Transformers. Or Anything.

Mark Wahlberg didn’t sound particularly jazzed to see Optimus Prime in the original trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction. Lucky for us, the folks at Fox’s ADHD have figured out how the movie will probably go down (fictional spoilers ahead): For context, here’s the original trailer: Real talk, though: I am incredibly excited to see…

These Wolfenstein Screenshots Look Like Paintings

We’ve seen what you can do to crank up the settings on an older game like Crysis 3, but Wolfenstein: The New Order is also looking pretty great Flickr users K-putt sent in these screenshots of the latest Wolfenstein game, and as usual, at a glance, some of them look more like concept art than…

PS4 Developer On What It Means To Be Next-Gen

Back when new-gen was known as next-gen, gamers and critics alike pondered and daydreamed about the kinds of experiences we’d get with new hardware and promises of impressive power. And a lot of that anticipation has been squarely on the topic of shiny visuals. But there’s more to the look of a game than just…

Report: Next Battlefield Game Is Cops Versus Robbers

The next entry in EA’s premiere shooter franchise—coming for last- and current-gen platforms—will reportedly be called Battlefield: Hardline. The 2014 release will put players in the middle of armed conflict where it will be cops and criminals fighting each other. Eurogamer rounds up various bits of information about Hardline, which have popped up on EA…

Watch Dogs Benchmarked: How Does Your PC Stack Up?

Set in an alternate reality techno-dystopian Chicago, Watch Dogs hit every gamer’s holiday wishlist after appearing at E3 2012. The open world hackfest wowed onlookers with its urban stealth action and its seemingly ‘next-gen’ graphics. Unfortunately, a month before its November 2013 release the game was delayed for another six months — the short-term blowout…

I Wish 24 Didn’t Still Feel So Predictable

Let’s start with the good: last night’s 24, like all episodes of 24, was crazy fun to watch. As always, the folks behind 24 packed 3:00pm-4:00pm full of terrorists, technobabble, and even a few trademark Bauer One-Liners. (“So I was right.”) We also got to see Jack and Audrey reunite for the first time since…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: House of Five Leaves: The TAY Manga Review • Cheat to win! Impossible Spell Card TAY Review • Returning to Pokémon: Better to Faint With Honour TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Evil Within Made Me Want To Throw Up

At some point, something happened and I stopped liking roller coasters. This was news to me. I used to love them as a kid. I was the first one running back down and around to the back of the line to ride them again. Now my stomach lurches and my neck feels uncomfortable and I’m…

Watch Dogs Is Full Of Memes

If you’ve ever picked up a new video game and thought “Gee, I wish this had a bunch of terrible Internet humor,” this one’s for you. Watch Dogs, the open-world hacking extravaganza released today by Ubisoft for current- and last-gen consoles (except Wii U), is packed with the web in-jokes we’ve all grown to love…

Artist Gives Video Game Characters A Cartoony Facelift

Browsing German artist HeavyMetalHanzo‘s gallery and realizing how much potential some video games and video game worlds have as Western cartoons or comics makes me sad. Most of these will probably never get such a treatment, and these amazing pieces remain the closest things. Here’s some of Hanzo’s recent work. Check out his profile for…

Lego Batman 3 Is Here, And He’s Going Into Space

Here’s your first look at Traveller’s Tales’ third brick-based Batman. The latest in the series builds on the suits of the last installment but takes the action into space, including some very Resogun-like shooting sections – ironically with a less blocky appearance than the original source. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The sections…

The Order: 1886 has been delayed to 2015, still exclusive to the PS4.

​A Developer’s Defense Of 30 Frames Per Second

At the start of this new generation of consoles the debate of framerate and resolution importance still wages on. The gold standard to live by is a solid 60 fps and 1080p. If those numbers aren’t on a bullet pointed press release somewhere, eyebrows and questions are raised. But what if hitting 30 fps is…

Transistor‘s ‘Red’ and ‘the Kid’ from Bastion, hand in hand. Jen Zee, the art director of Supergiant Games, celebrated the launch of their second game, Transistor with this adorable piece, where the main characters from the two games join forces. Transistor… Hasshin! [JenZee, DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

Using Game Characters To Make Miis Isn’t Always A Good Idea

Vinesauce Vinny has always been good at turning video games into glitchy nightmares, and this time he doesn’t even need special tools for that. The Wii U’s camera, its face recognition software, and a couple of celebrities and characters are enough to create their avatars in Mii form. So here’s the full clip, with a…

Horror Shooter Offers A Haunted Spaceship Filled With Killer Robots

And either that’s a haunted laptop, or help.exe was coded by an extremely passive-aggressive programmer. Not very helpful when you’ve got killer robots after you. Spirits of Xanadu takes place in an alternate eighties where humanity is already pretty far along in their quest to explore space. You’re investigating the research vessel Xanadu, which, as…

Magic: The Gathering Jumps Off Cards, Lands On Your Desk/Shelf

Magic: The Gathering has, over the years, lured some of the best fantasy artists on the planet to draw some of the coolest fantasy characters on the planet. So this line of action figures based on some of the best are a no-brainer. Amazingly, these will be the first official Magic figures in over a…