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Spanish Website Says Square Enix PR Cut Off Their Review Copies For Giving Out Low Scores

A Spanish gaming website says Square Enix will no longer send them review copies because they allegedly handed out lower than average review scores, including a 7.5/10 for the recently released Final Fantasy XV. AreaJugones, a website based in Spain that says it reaches around 700,000 people per month, said in a blog post last…

Fans Find Treasure Trove Of Cut GTA V Content

Earlier this year I covered the GTA V community’s attempt to find beta and cut content. Recently, that group hit the motherlode with images that give us a sense of how GTA V changed over development. GTA Forums user ZT discovered these new development images, and they showcase concept art of early UI for GTA…

Resident Evil 7 Demo Update Lets Players Finally Solve The Finger Mystery

The Resident Evil 7 demo got one final update over the weekend, bringing with it a solution to ariddle that has been driving players crazy for the last six months.We finally know what we’re supposed to do with that finger item that the horror demo lets you pick up. (SPOILERS.) Reddit user BruhTheShark has written…

Parappa The Rapper Is Looking Really Sharp On PS4

Announced this weekendat the PlayStation Experience event, PSOne rhythm classic Parappa the Rapper is getting a high definition remake next year. YouTuber Erick Marroquin created a video comparing the original to the PS4 demo version, and the differences are crisp and clear. It’s like the right side of the image is showing what my brain…

Podcast: Westworld’s Killer Finale And The Mysteries That Remain

HBO’s Westworld just put a cap on its terrific first season. Come talk about it with us, won’t you? Jason and I stayed up late to record a special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen focusing entirely on the Westworld season finale and the first season as a whole. Spoilers, obviously. At the end, we added…

Guy Buys PS4 Dev Kit Full Of Data From Closed Studio

You find the strangest things at bankruptcy auctions. Like, say, PlayStation 4 development kits full of stuff from the now-closed developers of Sleeping Dogs United Front games shut down in October, and on Saturday morning an auction was held to sell a bunch of their stuff. Among the server gear and office equipment and lamps…

Counting Down The Months Until Persona 5 Is Out

As sad as it is that Persona 5 isn’t coming out in the West until April 2017, here’s a new English-language trailer for the game. Course, for Japan’s Brian Ashcraft it’s already out, so you can check out his impressions (as a Persona newcomer, no less) on the final game here

Surprise, Mechwarrior 5 Is Coming

And it’s a big, proper, singleplayer Mechwarrior game. Not an online thing, not a strategy game,not a mod, but a full-blown, first-person, fifth Mechwarrior title. It’s being developed by a separate, dedicated team at Piranha, the same studio behind Mechwarrior Online Here’s the pitch: In MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries you will adopt the role of a…

Hearthstone’s Latest Expansion Is Full Of Personality

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan came out last Thursday and I’ve been playing around with it for a few days trying to tease out some of its secrets. While it’s chaos in the world of Blizzard’s collectible card game at the moment, the distinct style and mood of the latest expansion has me enjoying this brief…

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance first appeared on the PS2 fifteen years ago today! Celebrate by watching Tony Jay voice a giant eyeball with tentacles and reliving the glory of one of the best Diablo clones available on console of all time.

Rocket League Team Survives Lower Bracket To Become New World Champions

FlipSid3 Tactics just won the Rocket League World Championship in Amsterdam after beating grand final opponents Mockit Aces in two best-of-seven-series. After losing to Mockit Aces during the semifinals, FlipSid3 was sent down to the lower bracket where they managed to work their way back up to the top and earning a rematch. Since Mockit…

Two Years Later, Fans Have Cracked P.T. Wide Open

Horror game P.T. was released in August 2014, and canceled months afterwards. Fans kept digging for secrets a year later, but by 2016, most of us would assume we’ve found everything. Well, not quite. Over at the Xentax forums, user luxox18 posted a datamine of P.T. that was completed just a few days ago, revealing…

The Last of Us Part II Will Be A Game ‘About Hate’

During a panel discussion for The Last of Us Part II at this year’s PSX, the game’s director, Neil Druckmann revealed the whereas the first game was about love, the follow-up would be about “hate.” The game’s bleakness came through in its announcement trailer, which included a sobering conversation about the people she needed to…

Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite Gameplay Trailer Shows Us The Power Of The Infinity Gems

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was revealed during yesterday’s Keynote address at this year’s PSX, but now there’s also a gameplay trailer that shows how the game looks and feels in action. The new trailer dropped during last night’s Capcom Cup tournament for Street Fighter V and is all centered around the Infinity Stones, the powerful…

Sources: Bruce Straley Not Directing The Last of Us 2 [UPDATE: Sony Confirms]

Bruce Straley, who co-directed The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, will not have the same role on The Last of Us 2, sources tell Kotaku. His longtime creative partner Neil Druckmann is directing the game. Official word at the studio, sources say, is that Straley is on a yearlong sabbatical. Sony and Naughty Dog…

Kojima Is Using The Horizon Zero Dawn Engine To Do Creepy Stuff In Death Stranding

Kojima Productions is using the same engine as Horizon Zero Dawn to make Death Stranding. Guerrilla Games’ new Decima Engine is apparently a perfect fit for the designer’s intense attention to detail. Kojima revealed the news during a panel discussion of the upcoming game at PSX. He was joined on stage by Mark Cerny and…

Cool Games You May Have Missed From The PSX Keynote

Today’s PlayStation Experience showcase was packed full of people talking and images flickering by so quickly you could be forgiven for missing half of the games that got some love on the big stage. Some of them, like Pyre, we already knew a fair amount about, but others, like Nex Machina, are completely new. Below…

Watch The 2016 PSX Keynote Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Today in Anaheim, California is the third annual PlayStation Experience, an event for all things PlayStation, including panel discussions, news about upcoming games, and even a Street Fighter V world championship tournament. Sony’s keynote showcase will kick things off today at 1:00PM EST, which you can watch live in the YouTube stream below. Since last…

New Details On The Crash Bandicoot Trilogy Remaster

Everyone suspected that a Crash Bandicoot revival might be in the works, but when the N. Sane Trilogy was announced at this past E3, people weren’t sure what to make of it. Were the old games only getting remastered for the PS4 or was there something more to the trilogy? According to the latest info…

Naughty Dog Announces The Last of Us 2

While it has been rumored for a while now, today we got official confirmation that The Last of Us is getting a sequel that follows an older Ellie and Joel. (EDIT 5:30 PM: During a panel discussion later in the day, creative director Neil Druckmann confirmed that Ellie will be the playable character in The…