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Crashing Cars On Race Tracks, Next-Gen Style

Here’s a speedy look at Driveclub, the PS4 launch game that lets you go all vroom vroom into the next generation of consoles. Enjoy watching me fail to steer around curves.

Horrifying, Giant Hatsune Miku On The Oculus Rift Is Just Too Much

This video starts off tame enough. It’s just an average imaginary virtual reality with Hatsune Miku backed by fake (but pretty impressive) interactions thanks to the Oculus Rift and the Razer Hydra motion controller. Then, around the 3:30 mark, an oversized Nendroid Miku appears and all hell breaks loose. Nao_u‘s demo is the single most…

Watch Me Shoot Things On The PS4

Killzone: Shadow Fall sure is pretty. Out for the PlayStation 4 this fall, whenever the system launches, the latest Killzone game lets you shoot people in all sorts of ways, as you can see in this video we shot yesterday. Enjoy.

Sony To Kill Multiplayer For SOCOM 4, MAG In Early 2014

Womp, womp: Sony has announced that SOCOM 4 and MAG, the two military shooters that never quite managed to become as successful as they would’ve liked, will be losing online multiplayer support early next year. Hey, at least they’re giving half a year’s advance notice! The news comes a bit more than a year after…

A Plea To All Animal Crossing: New Leaf Players Out There

Hey. How’s it going? Are you having fun digging up fossils and being the mayor of your town? Yeah? I’m glad. Will you have a seat? No, calm down. This isn’t an intervention per se, but…listen, we need to talk. I’ve noticed something while playing New Leaf. At first, I thought I was just imagining…

An Easy Fix For Man of Steel’s Ridiculously Destructive Throwdown

It just wasn’t a very “Superman” thing to do, was it? Superman might be the easiest superhero to nitpick, because the dude is Superman. He can do almost anything. Why did they go with… that? That sort of nitpicking is on fine display here, as the folks from How It Should Have Ended have a…

The Moneysaver: Rayman Legends, Donkey Kong, The Last Guardian?

Chronicle of a deal foretold. Even with our PC and Mac deals rolled in to the Steam Sale coverage, we’ve got quite a substantial post for you today. Dig in to your respective platform’s section, and don’t miss out on the robust app selection today either. Following a pre-order discount on Prey 2 out of…

The Battlefield 3 Easter Egg Nobody Has Found

Between the spaceships and dinosaurs, you’d think Battlefield players have found everything hidden in Battlefield 3 by now, right? I mean, Battlefield 3 has only been out for almost two years now. Still, there’s one easter egg which nobody has found in-game (or, if they have, it hasn’t been documented yet). How do we know…

You’ve Seen LEGO Movie Games. Now There’s A Game Of The LEGO Movie.

This isn’t just an excuse to post the amazing trailer for The LEGO Movie again, I promise. That’s not saying I’m not going to post it again — of course I am. I’m just posting it within the context of the oddly wonderful occasion of TT Games, the developer responsible for making LEGO video games…

He Woulda Gotten Away With It If It Wasn’t for His Meddling Grandma

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. Snitches Do Cross-Stitches MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio—Police thwarted the shoplifting…

Unbelievable Skyrim Mod Lets You Use Dishonored‘s Powers

Have you ever, while playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, thought, “This is great, but what it really needs is Blink from Dishonored?” If so, you are probably me. Or maybe you are Madrilous, the clever person behind a new Skyrim mod called Gifts of the Outsider Gifts of the Outsider adds six new abilities…

SimCity Devs Form Indie Studio, Announce Primordial Simulation Game

SimCity creative director Ocean Quigley announced today on Twitter that he’s leaving Maxis to found an indie studio called “Jellygrade” alongside two other Maxis designers Their first game will start out on iPad and according to Quigley will be “A simulation about the dawn of life on earth; about lava, water, rock and the emergence…

Princess Rescue—that homebrew Atari 2600 homage to Super Mario Brothers—is now available through AtariAge as a $30 cartridge. An emulator ROM is on its way too.

The Frickin’ Greatest Legend Of Zelda Debate Ever.

“You can’t hate Legend of Zelda!” You make a compelling argument, SammyClassicSonicFan, but HaleyTheHedgehog isn’t buying it. Maybe it’s time to bust out the “pitch-perfect gameplay.” This delightful YouTube debate has me simultaneously excited for and dreading the point at which my own children will be cognizant and coherent enough to argue the finer points…

We Didn’t Always Love Steam

We love Steam almost as much as we love sales. Perhaps your wallet (or, hey, let’s not forget about purses) has combusted due to overuse. Over the years we’ve come to trust Steam, but that wasn’t always the case as my video above shows. Music: Atlantean Twilight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Have words you want to…

Moneysaver: Steam Sale Day 6 Breakdown [Updated Wednesday 9:45am]

Dealcano. About the Moneysaver The Steam Summer Sale is without a doubt the year’s most well-known series of discounts on games, but at Kotaku we know you want gaming deals every day. Brought to you by the Commerce Team, the Kotaku Moneysaver posts every day at 2:15pm ET*, bringing you the best, most complete, and…

Navigating a Maze of Real Lasers is Harder Than You’d Think

Look — We all love lasers. And we all agree that mazes made out of lasers, a la the movie Entrapment, are awesome. What you may not realize is that navigating a laser maze in real life is harder than you’d think. It was raining, and yet dozens of people came out to try their…

Nine Minutes With One Of The PS3’s Most Interesting New Games

This is Puppeteer, out for the PS3 on September 10 (September 11 in Europe). It’s really neat. Watch me play it alongside creative director Gavin Moore.

Possibly-Profound Gaming Lesson: Don’t Shoot, And You’ll Heal

The person who is playing the upcoming video game Luftrausers in the GIF here understands a basic rule of the game: don’t shoot, and your ship will heal. Games are made of simple rules like these. Occasionally, those rules can feel profound. I’m not saying that Luftrausers is a deep message game. It is, more…

Capsized Tries A Little Of Everything, But Only Some Of It Works

Capsized starts out like a metroidvania game, but you soon find yourself swarmed by hordes of enemies, looking for levers while being carried away by a hot air balloon with teeth. You know what, it’s hard to explain, you should just watch the video. Capsized is available now on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MS…