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Toukiden will be out in Japan sometime this summer, Sony announced tonight

Phantasy Star Online 2 hits the PS Vita on February 28, Sony announced today

The PS Vita Gets a Price Cut in Japan [Update]

Tonight in Japan, Sony announced that it will lower the price of the PS Vita. Both the WiFi and the 3G versions are priced at ¥19,980 (US$214) starting February 28. The 3G version’s launch price was ¥29,980, while the Wi-Fi version launched for ¥24,980. Update: Sony Computer Entertainment of America tells Kotaku that there is…

Fans Design Their Own Gran Turismo 5 Car. So, Yeah, It Can “Transform”.

Despite what looks like a screenshot from the game, above, the E-motion concept car is not available to drive in Gran Turismo 5. It’s not even a real car. It’s instead one of the best fan projects I’ve ever seen for a game. Four French designers have teamed up to design the vehicle, which they’ve…

You Won’t Blend In Wearing A Snazzy Dishonored Shirt

It looks like I may be about to add a third outlet to my tiny list of “stores I buy gaming shirts from”, because Gametee—a new outlet that’s about to hit its Kickstarter goal—is designing some very attractive tops. As they should! One of the partners is British artist AJ Hately, whose Dishonored work floored…

There’s A Playable, If Broken Build Of An Unreleased Resident Evil Game Out There

One of the more famous unfinished games on the PlayStation is Resident Evil 1.5, a title that was originally intended to be Resident Evil 2 before it was scrapped at the 11th hour and replaced with, well, Resident Evil 2 The title’s unfinished and mysterious nature has led it to develop a bit of a…

Welcome To Pandora… And Hyrule… And The Citadel…

As usual, it’s been a stellar week in cosplay around this spinning ball of dirt, with a great assortment of characters, costumes, photography and towering Warhammer 40K Chaos Marines. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them below and…

Fresh DayZ Screens Show New Faces, New Map Areas

The standalone version of DayZ is on its way, and in these new screenshots, developers Bohemia Interactive show off some more improvements slated for the upgrade, including face models and some low-res shots of one of the new areas of the map being slotted in. A post on the game’s development Tumblr is also worth…

A Man Has Played Q*Bert For Over 80 Hours To Break A 30-Year World Record [Update]

The last two guys to try and beat the Q*Bert world record had to pull out due to fatigue, because they’d need to have played the game for over 70 hours to beat it. Well, consider that record broken. Last week, two men—George Leutz (one of the failed iron men from 2011) and Ed Heemskerk—set…

Giant LEGO X-Wing Might Be The Coolest LEGO Set Ever Made

Normally when we post something LEGO-related on this site, it tends to be a custom build, because that’s where the really amazing stuff happens. Today, though, my hat is off to LEGO’s designers, because this new X-Wing model is fantastic. Replacing the older, weird-looking version (I never liked the nose), this Ultimate Collectors Series “Red…

That Terrific Mortal Kombat Series Is Back For Season 2

Mortal Kombat Legacy, the web series that was way more professional than it had any right to be, is back for a second season. And it’s looking even slicker. Some of the cast involved have appeared in projects like Glee and Hawaii Five-O, and they’ve even got the original Shang Tsung, but all eyes—well, both…

Destiny Dev Says ‘Nobody Plays Shooters The Way They Used To’

Well, Destiny, that didn’t take long. Speaking with Destructoid, Bungie’s co-founder Jason Jones says something that anyone reading this with mouse in hand at keyboard at front might find a little… weird. We did a bunch of ambitious things on Halo deliberately to reach out to people. We limited players to two weapons, we gave…

The Rarest PSP Game Ever Might Be This Hilton Hotel Employee Trainer

It’s real, and it’s… boring. Back in 2009, we reported that some 500 Hilton hotels created a training video game, and it wasn’t some PC game played on an HR computer. It was a PSP game with its own UMD disc. Well, now someone has gotten a look at its contents. The video above is…

“The biggest thing to come along since TV was invented.” Sony’s console retrospective moves to the PlayStation 2.

Major retailers already are taking preorders for Destiny, but if anyone’s showing a release date, it’s a placeholder.

Aliens: Colonial Marines Should Have Followed the Example of Sports’ Gaming’s Elite

Inside a publisher or a studio, there are few surprises when a video game bombs in its reviews. Before it goes from gold master to warehouse to retailer, the focus groups are empaneled, the “mock reviewers” are contracted, and their verdicts are in. Everyone knows roughly where the game will land in the all-controlling 100-point…

Everything I Know About Bungie’s Next First-Person Shooter, Destiny

The creators of Halo aren’t leaving their face-shooting skills behind. Destiny, Bungie’s first new game since they parted ways with Microsoft, looks and sounds like a first-person shooter—even if they don’t like calling it that. I flew to Seattle this week to get the official reveal of Destiny, or at least what teases Bungie and…

Bungie Reveals its Destiny in This Documentary

Bungie, the studio behind Halo is today revealing its next saga, Destiny, to be published by Activision. This is the first documentary describing the new sci-fi world the studio is creating. In Destiny, coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, players will be thrust into the role of defending Earth, setting off on adventures on…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Diggin’ in the Desert

Yesterday, I said to myself, “Self, this image of Nolan Bushnell, the man who founded Atari, digging a hole in the desert outside of Dubai, looks like an A-list exploitable for the next Kotaku “Shop Contest.” Now, if my self concurs (or disagrees), should it address me as “Owen,” or also as “self”? While I…

Here’s a Peek at Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack—Before Bungie’s Date with Destiny

Today’s the big day for Halo‘s ex, Bungie, which will soon tell all about its new affair, Destiny. That makes the discovery of these four images for Halo 4‘s forthcoming Majestic Map Pack quite a coincidence, indeed. It’s probably not as nefarious as it sounds, actually. NeoGAF user Wifiplayer13 found them by altering the URL…