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Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience is out today for PS4, Xbox One, and PC (EDIT 4:50pm— The PC version releases Thursday, October 13). The Definitive Experience includes The Phantom Pain, Ground Zeroes, and all the DLC. Here’s what we thought of MGSV when it first came out

Brotherhood Is My Favorite Assassin’s Creed

On the most recent episode of our podcast, Kotaku Splitscreen, I declared Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood to be the best Assassin’s Creed You can listen to my reasoning in the clip above or just read these extremely true bullet points: Great location Great protagonist Great missions, especially the crucifixion one in the Colosseum Great integration of…

One Of Call Of Duty‘s Greatest Heroes Died Today

Today marks the passing of one of Call of Duty’s finest soldiers. After valiantly fighting his way through nearly three entire Modern Warfare games, one Task Force 141 didn’t make it back from the October 11, 2016 mission to assassinate terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov. Spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 follow. Surely someone…

It’s not a new game announcement, but it sure is pretty. The Bravely Default Twitter celebrates the fourth anniversary of the charming RPG series with a piece of equally charmingart.

Leap. Indian Ocean off the coast of Busselton, Western Australia. By Charlez Chong. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

If GTA V (And Trevor Phillips) Were Real

This live-action comedy short by Corridor Digital has a very special co-star: Steven Ogg, the guy who voiced Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V, plays a live-action version of the same character. Warning: NSFW language ahead.

Battlestar Galactica’s Board Game Is For Hating Your Friends

Most of the board games I play with my crew are fairly recent, but on the weekend we dove into our pile of shame and played our first round of Battlestar Galactica. It either went very badly or very well, depending on how much hate and mistrust you like in your board games. First released…

Developer Error Lets Elite Dangerous Players Reach The Top Of The Galaxy

Two Elite: Dangerous players have managed to reach the top of the galaxy. “It is the very top,” said one, who goes by the name Dr Kaii. “There are no stars above at all.” It was all thanks to a mistake in the beta of the game’s upcoming Guardians update. Recently, Elite’s developers added plumes…

Some Mafia III Deluxe Editions Went Out Without Activation Keys

Players purchasing the physical copy of Mafia III’s PC Deluxe Edition through retailers like Amazon and Best Buy are not receiving activation codes for the game, leaving them unable to play. The physical version of Mafia III includes six discs and is meant to come with a game manual that contains a product key to…

Mafia III Is Seriously Glitchy

I’m still working my way through Mafia III for our review, but I can tell you this much: It’s glitchy. Damn glitchy. Certainly, there are things to like about Mafia III. New Bordeaux is a place I prefer to stroll, rather than drive, through, just to take it all in. It’s a shame, then, that…

Overwatch Fans Hacked Actual People In An Attempt To Find Sombra

The hunt for info on Overwatch’s next hero, a stealthy hacker named Sombra, has brought over 7,000 fans into Blizzard’s alternate reality game (ARG). But some bystanders have become unwilling participants in the ARG as well, as players hungry for Overwatch’s hacker have partaken in some hacking of their own. Since June, Blizzard has been…

The Video Game Horror Of HBO’s Westworld

HBO’s new series Westworld has probably got a lot of people reconsidering their most recent Grand Theft Auto V murder spree. Reconsidering, though probably not regretting. On the one hand, the first two episodes of HBO’s new sci-fi drama have asked us to at least entertain the idea that the computer-controlled civilians we just mowed…

9000 Fans Mourn Pro Gamer In Live Twitch Funeral

Around 9000 fans of Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov, a professional Call of Duty player and streamer killed in a car accident last week, have gathered on Twitch to watch his funeral live and pay their respects. Set up on Phizzurp’s own Twitch channel, a camera streamed almost the entire funeral so that friends and fans unable…

An Important Part Of Video Games Happens Offscreen, In Our Imaginations

In 2008, Dear Esther asked players to do more than just press buttons on a controller. The game asked them to use their imagination to build a personal narrative. Eight years later, contemporary titles like Hitman and Mafia III are also catching on to the value of imaginative play. I don’t think the entire experience…

The Hypest Moments From The Weekend’s Big Smash Tournament

Smash tournaments aren’t all about the game. A lot of the Smash hype, especially in the 15-year-old Melee scene, comes from the personalities players bring to the game. At last last weekend’s The Big House 6 tourney in Michigan, personality was there in droves. We clipped some of the hypest moments from the tournament below.…

Unexpectedly, PS4 Tomb Raider Shows The Limits Of What PSVR Can Track

A surprise feature buried in the new PlayStation 4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider appears to show just how much of your real-life playing area can be tracked by Sony’s new PS VR set-up. An option called “Visualize Play Area” makes the game’s VR-compatible Blood Ties expansion display green grid lines if the…

Skyrim Special Edition PC Requirements Are Much More Demanding

The remastered version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has gone gold in advance of its October 28 release, and Bethesda has released the recommended PC specs for running the prettier version of the 2011 RPG. As anyone who’s played around with mods for Skyrim on PC knows, the set of requirements for the 2011…

Rise of The Tomb Raider‘s New ‘Blood Ties’ Expansion Is A Brief, Melancholy Family Story 

The part of 2015 Xbox One game Rise of the Tomb Raider that will be new to all gamers this week is Blood Ties, an expansion being bundled with Tuesday’s PS4 release of the game and being offered as paid $10 DLC (or part of the season pass) for Xbox One and PC. It’s mostly…

World of Final Fantasy Graphics Comparison, PS4 Vs Vita

World of Final Fantasy arrives later this month, bringing piles of pint-sized creatures to two different PlayStation platforms. Square Enix has put together a pair of videos showing off differences in graphics and loading times between the PS4 and Vita versions of the game. With cross-save support and the promise of hours of tinkering with…

Mini Gaming PCs Are Ready For Virtual Reality

With recent advances from both AMD and Nvidia bringing mobile graphics processors within a breath of desktop power levels, PCs that make use of laptop tech to be tiny are more powerful than ever. I’m currently playing with Zotac’s GTX 1060-powered Magnus Zbox, and it’s handling VR like a champ. Zotac launched the original mini…