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Reminder: There’s a Nintendo Direct coming up at 10 a.m. Eastern / 7 a.m. Pacific. If you’re at a Best Buy, you’ll be able to watch and then play demos of the games shown during the broadcast.

I’m All About Battlefield 4‘s Commander Mode

This is how I want to kill you. I’ve tried killing you in the trenches, face-to-face, but that rarely ever happens. You’re behind me, with a knife. You’re rounding the corner just as I’m turning to look the other way. We bump into each other in the alley and you recover from the surprise a…

What Happened at Microsoft’s Big E3 Event? Here’s All You Need to Know

Today the Xbox One got a second chance to make a better impression following a May debut that, by any objective measure, went light on games. At E3 2013, Microsoft took pains not to repeat the mistake, rolling out a 90-minute pastry cart of game after game after game. Happy now? Or not? With more…

The Elder Scrolls Goes Online in Spring 2014 on PC, Xbox One, and PS4

“Never have our choices weighed more heavily,” boasts the narrator. That’s hard to believe, considering we’re talking about an MMORPG—but hey. Awesome-looking (and sounding!) trailer. Those first-personshots really help give it that Elder Scrolls feel. And… oh, yeah. The game’s coming to next-gen consoles, too. TES Online’s game director, Matt Firor, said the team at…

The official website for Popcap’s new, insane third-person shooter, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, confirms that in addition to the Xbox One and Xbox 360, the game will also be released for the PC. Thank goodness.

Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference, Made Shorter And Much Funnier

Maybe you’re curious what Microsoft showed at their E3 press conference this morning. But maybe you don’t have time to watch the whole thing? Also, maybe you’d like it to be much funnier than it was. You’re in luck! Matt Lees from Videogamer.com has done another of his “abridged version” videos, this time for Microsoft’s…

See The PS4’s Game-Swapping, Share Button, Menu & Chat In Action

During its E3 conference, Sony talked business and showed games. Leaving some of the more mundane – but no less important – stuff to come out after. Stuff like this video, which shows the system’s user interface. We can see how the PS4 swaps between programs (like a phone), how the share button works, how…

The PlayStation 4 Is Region-Free

The PS4’s lack of online requirements or used games DRM has been cause for celebration for many, but for me, as someone who lives in neither the US or Japan, one thing was even more important. Whether the PS4 was, like its predecessor, region-free. According to SCE boss Shuhei Yoshida, it is. Yes

Well, E3. That Was Quite A Pleasing Day Of News.

The show hasn’t even technically begun yet – the doors to the LA Convention Centre don’t open until later today – but June 10 is a day gamers are going to remember for a very, very long time. And for all the right reasons. This time last year, I was as down on the show…

The Next Command & Conquer Wants You Inside Its Closed Beta

Remember the game that was going to be Command & Conquer: Generals 2but then got repurposed into a free-to-play online multiplayer real-time strategy game set in the Command & Conquer: Generalsuniverse? It’s going to go into closed beta soon, and it wouldn’t mind having you. Oh come on, it doesn’t look that bad, and look…

Francis Is Crying Because Sony Won The Console War

Well, he’s still mostly just mad at Microsoft. Furious, even. But you know Francis; he’s pretty much mad all the time.

Yup, Sony Is Still Making Wacky PlayStation Commercials

If there’s been a single constant throughout the life of the PlayStation brand, it’s been Sony’s insistence on using…different means of advertising its consoles. Sometimes it’s a dismal failure, sometimes it’s a critical success, but at least it’s always interesting. A tradition this new clip continues. It’s a bit corny, yeah, but I like the…

At Least Microsoft Is Winning The Console War In My Hotel Bathroom

The hotel maids stuck this sign in our bathroom while we were at today’s E3 press conferences. It doesn’t make much sense. “All in one. Input one.” It literally means nothing, as Stephen pointed out yesterday. But hey. Sony might be winning the war for our living rooms, but at least Microsoft won the war…

Dead Rising 3 Explores A Grittier Sort Of Zombie Apocalypse

Dead Rising 3 isn’t designed to be the laugh riot of the older Dead Risings. TheXbox One exclusive from Capcom Vancouver is a grittier kind of zombie game. It’s set 10 years after Dead Rising 2, the game’s executive producer Josh Bridges told me during a demo of the game on Monday evening. New hero…

Specs Sheet Says The PS4 Has A 500GB Hard Drive, Camera Not Included

I’m not sure why this wasn’t part of the company’s presentation yesterday. Maybe they left it out because it simply matched Microsoft, instead of under-cutting it. But hey, the PS4 has a 500GB hard drive. UPDATE – Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed that, like the PS3, the PS4’s HDD will be upgradeable. The tidbit was…

By the time you read this, Wikipedia will probably change the article back—but for now, ha. I’d say “burn,” but that would be redundant. (Proof it was real.) Edit: and now, a Jack Tretton edit:

The PS4 or Xbox One? Can You Tell the Difference?

Sony just revealed the PlayStation 4. It’s a black box! Funny, because the Xbox One is a black box, too. What a kwinky-dink. Above, you can see both the PS4 and the Xbox One. Can you tell which is which? Can you? This is incredibly difficult! (Note that Kotaku removed each console’s logo.) To contact…

I’m Still Not Convinced Xbox One Will Put Games First

In the time between Microsoft’s reveal of their next-generation Xbox One console and today’s E3 press conference, the company promised that they’d show games. Not just any games, either. They essentially said, “Ready your eyeballs, oh Skeptical Fanbase, for a suite of playable software that will make your heart skip beats.” Well, after watching this…

Here’s Your First Look at Batman: Arkham Origins‘ Gameplay

This clip, shown at Sony’s E3 press event tonight, give viewers the first glimpse of what it’ll be like to play as Batman in the upcoming game developed by Warner Bros. Montreal. Hints of some Bat-plane action, investigations and more capable enemies in the clip. And we get to hear those new actors, too.

Sony Just Smacked The Xbox One In The Mouth

Usually, verdicts of “winners” and “losers” coming out of E3 press conferences are little more than armchair pondering. One person’s view of some competing events that don’t really matter. But today, boy, it’s hard seeing Sony’s press conference as anything but a punch in the face to Microsoft’s Xbox One ambitions. The second half of…