You have (probably) not held a PS4 controller yet. Neither have I. But Shuhei Yoshida has. He’s the head of Sony’s worldwide studios, so he better have! Yesterday, I had to rely on him to tell me what the controller feels like. Sony, you see, wasn’t letting reporters touch the new PS4 controller—the DualShock 4.…
Hey, did something happen in video games last night? You couldn’t tell from looking at Nintendo’s corner of the world. It’s business as usual over there, with wacky Nintendo Direct hi-jinks and a new crop of downloadable goodies for consoles and portables. Worth noting is the debut of Wii U and 3DS demo versions of…
Diablo III coming to PlayStation was one of the big reveals from last night’s PlayStation Meeting. The fact that a PC-only release would be coming to consoles made some people angry. But, for all the rage, we didn’t get an example of what Blizzard’s action RPG will look like in its reconfigured form. The screens…
Stemming fears of the always-online requirement still rumored strongly for the next Xbox, a Sony PR rep confirmed to Kotaku that: “PS4 games will be playable without an Internet connection.” I’m still hearing from at least one very good source who hasn’t failed me yet that the next Xbox, codenamed Durango, will require an online…
BioShock developer Irrational Games has just announced the Season Pass accompanying their newest entry into the franchise, BioShock Infinite. The pack will contain three pieces of post-release downloadable content—DLC which, so far, Irrational hasn’t talked about. Their press release follows: The BioShock Infinite Season Pass will be available on March 26, 2013 when the game…
Valve has just made DayZ (the mod, not the standalone version) officially available on Steam. But why now? Why so late?
Kenji Eno, musician and game designer, passed away yesterday at the age of 42. He died of heart failure, induced by high blood pressure, reports The Asahi Shimbun Eno was perhaps best known for the survival horror game D, released in 1995 for the Sega Saturn, and its sequel. He was also famous for his…
Open world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is headed to the PS4, the game’s developers revealed today. And boy do they seem excited! “We were thrilled when asked, several months ago, to be one of the developers who were granted early access to the PlayStation 4,” said Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt…
The future is here! It’s tech that beckons you with a piercing gaze. Look. Go on. Do it. Game developer Quantic Dream created this old man head, which really looks like David Carradine, to show off its PS4 capabilities. I’m sold! Very impressive. Just don’t creep me out anymore like this. Cool?
There was speculation that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would appear at Sony’s PS4 reveal. Shinji Hashimoto, Versus‘ producer, arrived on stage. Surely, this was the moment. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t at all. Hashimoto, who is also the Final Fantasy brand manager, announced that Square Enix was making a new Final Fantasy. Square Enix, which…
Yesterday, I posted a story called “Goodbye Fantasy PlayStation 4s! It’s Been Fun”, thinking that Sony would unveil the PlayStation 4 today. Silly me! Sony did unveil the PS4, but didn’t show off its new console. Because that’s what you do at console reveals these days. You don’t show the console. That’s not true, actually.…
This is Sucker Punch’s Nate Fox, speaking at yesterday’s PlayStation 4 launch event. For the briefest moment, between recounting tales of police surveillance and introducing his studio’s newest game, the clouds parted. The future was right there. And suddenly, his world stopped.
Google will use all kinds of fancy terms and words to sell its Glasses tech when it eventually goes on sale, but for you guys, it will only need to say this: it’s a HUD. As you can see in this demonstration video, showing footage captured via the glasses, the lines between reality and imagery/actions…
Time for a PS4 palette cleanser. If you just looked at the outside of this LEGO recreation of the Ghostbusters HQ, you’d think it was pretty good. Looking inside, though, is when you realise it’s absolutely incredible There’s a level of detail in the interior decoration that I just didn’t think was possible with conventional…
It just wouldn’t be a video game event without a trailer. So here’s a trailer for the PS4. Which, before you scoff too deeply, actually serves as a pretty handy visual recap of everything that went down yesterday
Sony’s PlayStation 4 reveal earlier this evening was one of the stranger console announcements I can remember. We heard from a ton of developers, but some big ones didn’t have anything concrete to show or talk about. We saw a lot of games, but many were games we already knew about. And we heard all…
If you were expecting a next-gen shooter on the PS4 to look a lot like it would on the PS3, only shinier, well, congratulations. You were right. Killzone: Shadow Fall is the next game in Guerilla’s series, and a gameplay video was shown at Sony’s PS4 unveiling earlier this evening. Most images here appear to…
Xbox spokesman Major Nelson weighs in on the PS4 conference. Shots fired!
“What is this article doing here?” you may be asking right now. “I mean what on earth?? This has nothing to do with the PlayStation 4!” Yeah, well, it’s time for the nightly off-topic post, and DAMN IT, WE’RE STILL DOING IT. Everyone looking forward to Game of Thrones season 3? Cool. I am too.…
Capcom’s always-adorable Yoshinori Ono has made an appearance at Sony’s PS4 unveiling to announce Deep Down (working title), a new IP. It’s based on a new Capcom engine codenamed Panta Rhei, and has dudes in armour fighting huge dragons. Well, until the end, when things get weirdly sci-fi. More pics below.
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