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Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, Furi Headline PS Plus Lineup For July

It’s looking like a solid month for Games With Gold and PlayStation Plus. Remember, though Sony advertises these games as “free,” you need an active PlayStation Plus subscription to access them. That’s not free. Here’s the lineup for next month: PlayStation 4 Furi Saints Row: Gat out of Hell Paragon (PS Plus subscribers get into…

In Their Next Game, Life Is Strange Developers Are Tempting You To Make Evil Choices

People who play video games prefer to play as good guys. That’s what game designer Stéphane Beauverger’s research has shown, with some three quarters of players who are faced with in-game moral choices choosing to walk the path of angels. He wants to play with that. He wants to tempt players to play evil. He’ll…

Final Fantasy VII Gets An Official Monopoly Board [UPDATE]

You probably won’t want to play as Aeris in Final Fantasy VII Monopoly, announced today for release in April 2017. “Delve into the evolving city of Midgar in search of the latest business opportunities,” reads the description at online retailer Merchoid, where you can pre-order the game. “Perhaps you’ll buy up a string of plots…

Uncharted 4 enjoyable multiplayer is getting a new map and, more significantly, a 70-level character leveling system: XP, unlocks, etc. Available today via a free patch. More details at the PlayStation blog

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: This Is A Job For Torbjorn

Just because Overwatch’s resident turret-banger is getting toned down on consoles doesn’t mean Torbjorn can’t still be a productive member of society. There are plenty of employment opportunities for dwarf with a robotic arm, like whatever you guys come up with this week. Originally published 6/26/2016—just three days left to get Torbjorn’s job applications in!…

Halo 5 is free to download and free to play for the next week (June 29 to July 5) if you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber. Not a bad deal that, since you can easily wrap up the singleplayer campaign in that time.

Fans Discover FIFA Glitch That May Have Been Ripping Them Off

FIFA fans, fed up with what they felt was a “handicap glitch” affecting their play, have diagnosed and likely uncovered a problem that may have been undermining the game’s “Ultimate Team” mode for years. Which is a big deal, since that mode costs real money. Ever since FIFA 09, the game has included a separate…

The Crushing Design Of World Of Warcraft’s Big Raids

Hardcore raiding schedules in World of Warcraft can turn an otherwise unproductive “leisure” activity into a competitive sport. At the extreme end, it can become a stressful obligation rife with social dependencies and pressure. This is an excerpt from World of Warcraft, by Boss Fight Books, which you can get here In his 1961 book…

System Shock‘s Remaster Already Has A Playable Demo (And It’s Great)

Night Dive Studios is asking for $900,000 on Kickstarterto fund its proposed remaster of the first-person sci-fi classic, System Shock. Better yet, they’ve released a playable demo that nicely demonstrates how they might do it. If there’s one lesson that Kickstarter backers are learning the hard way, thanks to projects like Mighty No. 9, it’s…

Brexit Ousts Donald Trump As The Most Deadly Disease In Plague Inc

The people have spoken. According to players of global extinction disease game Plague Inc, Brexit is now deadlier than Donald Trump and his distant third place rival, Death. In Plague Inc, you name a disease and then spread it across the planet. You win when nobody’s left standing. It’s pretty grim, but you can do…

Doom’s first big post-release update is coming on June 30. The update includes a photo mode, bug fixes, lobby improvements, and most importantly, the ability to place a gun in the center of the screen, like the old games. Hell yes!

The Bitter End Of The Great Autobot Decepticon War

In the first of four prelude videos leading to the Transformers: Combiner Wars animated series, Autobot leader Optimus Prime recalls how he ended the last great war. Here’s a hint: one stands, one falls. The Autobots and Decepticons are no more at the beginning of Machinima’s official animated Transformers series. Fearing the escalating power of…

Blizzard has announced that Overwatch’s competitive mode is launching on PC today. Due to the launch’s timing, the first competitive season will only be 1.5 months long. The mode will undergo some big changes before the fall season. Competitive mode’s console launch will happen sometime next week.

Umbrella Corps Is An Interesting Experiment That’s Not Much Fun To Play

Resident Evil 7‘s first-person take on the franchise is a bold experiment that holds tons of promise. The same could be said for Umbrella Corps, a new attempt by Capcom to graft multiplayer onto Resident Evil. Sadly, it doesn’t really work. Umbrella Corps sports mercenary groups of three facing off in constrained maps, both fighting…

Get A Load Of This Official Game Of Thones Xbox One Console

Xbox could have gone so many ways with this limited edition giveaway. Model it on a castle, or a sigil, or a city. Perhaps just a custom colour scheme with some nice graphics on them. But no, they had to do more So here we have one of a handful of limited edition Game of…

Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s next zombies map has a dragon. Not a wall dragon, but an actual flying dragon. It also looks like the Ray Gun Mark 3 will finally make an appearance. The “Descent” DLC hits PS4 first on July 12. Might be time to dust off my zombie-killing boots and give…

Why The Resident Evil 7 Demo Is So Scary

Dark hallways, bloody murder, cockroaches, and creeps. Resident Evil 7‘s new demo Beginning Hour is eager to return the horror franchise back to something subtler and terrifying. It is slow. It is quiet. And yeah, it’s also pretty dang scary! How does it all work? What are the design tricks at play? In this video,…

How To Access The Division‘s Underground DLC

If you have The Division for Xbox One or PC, you can access the game’s first paid expansion, Underground, today. But how to find it? First, you need to have own it, of course. It costs $15 (and won’t be out for PS4 for about a month, such are the ways of platform exclusivity deals).…

Microsoft Altering Its Shady Windows 10 Forced Upgrade System

It’s telling that most of my stories about Windows 10, a genuinely decent operating system, have been about how crappy Microsoft has made the upgrade experience. Microsoft seems to be getting the hint, though. For more than a year, upgrading to Windows 10 hasn’t cost anything. Rather than let people organically upgrade, the company began…

The Secretive Creator Of Yandere Simulator, A Game About Murdering High School Girls

Yandere Simulator would be less messed up if it was just about murdering high schoolers. In the game, which is still in development but available for PC, you play as the psychotic Japanese schoolgirl Ayano Aishi, who will do anything to be with her senpai — including torturing and killing her competition. A bland older…