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A Quick Test Of PS4’s New Remote Play Capabilities

Starting today, it’s now possible to stream your PlayStation 4 to a PC or Mac. That sounds pretty awesome in theory, but how’s it actually work? I’ve spent the morning playing around with Remote Play to find out. Remote Play is a technology that allows a PS4 to become a hub device that spits a…

Destiny PVP Is Getting A Bunch Of Balance Tweaks

Today Bungie announced a bunch of small balance tweaks for Destiny, a video game about warping through the solar system trying (yet again) to remember the last time you played Destiny Next week’s big update will bring raise the light-level cap and bring some big changes to Destiny’s PvE Prison of Elders, and will add…

Steam’s Hot New Cam Girl Game Is Kinda Boring

HunieCam Studio is a game all about ‘cam girls,’ that is, women who entertain viewers on the internet. In this case, the shows put on by these women are all sexual. It sounds more interesting than it actually is. (NSFW warning!) That’s because HunieCam Studio is a clicker game. 99% of what you do in…

VR Game At A Glance: Windlands Lets You Swing Around Like Spider-Man

If the new VR game Windlands is any indication, I’d be really good with a grappling hook. It’s probably not a good indication, but it’s fun, so I’m okay with that. This week I’ll be playing a bunch more VR games to give people a sense of how they work and whether or not they’re…

Hyper Light Drifter: The Kotaku Review

My favorite thing about Hyper Light Drifter is all the new swear words I invented while playing it. To be fair, swearing is one of my favorite things in general. Hyper Light Drifter generated those oaths of fury and joyful frustration that are unique to hard games. It’s an action RPG where enemies move quickly,…

Blizzcon 2016 is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 4 and 5. The $199 tickets will be sold in two batches on April 20 and 23. If you get one, you’re made of magic.

Microsoft’s announced Outland and Gunstar Heroes are now available on Xbox One, thanks to backwards compatibility. Most people didn’t play Outland, but that game’s totally bad ass, and you should change that ASAP.

Anyone Who Pirates Quantum Break Is In For A Surprise

Looks like the new time-bending shooter has a moral code: an eye for an eye. As spotted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun,Remedy Entertainment has hidden a joke within Quantum Break meant exclusively for pirates. If Quantum Break detects that players have stolen their copy of the game, it will outfit the main character, Jack Joyce, with…

Rock Band 4 PC Crowdfunding Campaign Fails To Hit $1.5M Goal

Harmonix’s latest crowdfunding attempt didn’t get anywhere close to fully funded, making it unclear if Rock Band 4 will ever come to the PC. Some crowdfunding projects are able to pull off miraculous come-from-behind rallies in the final days of a campaign, but that wasn’t the case with Rock Band 4 on PC. Harmonix was…

The Evolution of Final Fantasy‘s Iron Giant From 1988 To 2016

Besides the Tonberry, or the Behemoth, the Iron Giant is another iconic returning enemy in the Final Fantasy games. As we’ve seen, it’ll appear in Final Fantasy XV too, and RinoaMoogle collected all its appearances starting from 1988 with Final Fantasy II Its physical appearance remained roughly the same, being a colossal, 2D metal beast…

Why People Love Persona

How many games do you know that manage to combine Jungian psychology, Japanese school-life and urban legends? Just like me, the Persona series isn’t as popular in the West as Final Fantasy, but it’s been around just as long (since 1987), and is arguably much more interesting. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK on…

Modder Builds Small PC Inside Nintendo 64 Case

Here’s a great way to trick people into thinking the N64 is capable of running new PC games, without using any emulators. Modder Istartedthewar has hidden a small PC inside an old Nintendo 64 and has nine images at this link that show what’s inside. From the outside, it looks like a white Nintendo 64…

Gears of War 4 Comes Out on October 11

The next chapter in the Xbox-exclusive shooter series will be hitting this fall, and players will have to opportunity to sample a multiplayer beta on April 18. First shown at last year’s E3, Gears of War 4 introduces a crop of new characters to the planet of Sera. Folks who’ve played the Gears of War:…

Ant-Man Is Not The Star Of LEGO Avengers‘ Ant-Man DLC

Just like the movie, Michael Peña’s Luis completely steals the show in the currently PlayStation exclusive LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Ant-Man downloadable content. Let’s play! Normally I drop the gameplay audio level to barely audible when doing a Kotaku Plays video with commentary, but that went out the window the moment I realized Michael Peña was…

Watch Babymetal’s U.S. Television Debut Right Here

For the first time, Japanese metal idol group Babymetal performed “Gimme Chocolate!!” on American TV, specifically, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert This comes as the group just conquered Wembley in the U.K. and released their latest album, Metal Resistance.

Overwatch Replaces Butt Pose With Strut Pose

Having decided to alter a victory pose in Overwatch following fan feedback, Blizzard have seemingly gone ahead and implemented the change. Users are reporting there’s a new pose in the game replacing it, and here’s what it looks like. For reference, here’s the old one: Via SteveO409 @ NeoGAF, here’s the new pose: Now that…

Sinmara Saga is an animated short directed and animated by Jason Hendrich. It’s basically all the bullshit experiences you had with a JRPG as a kid, only blown up with 2016’s visuals.

Congressman’s Card Spends $1300 Of Campaign Money On Steam Games

Congressman Duncan Hunter is being questioned by the Federal Election Commission after it was discovered his credit card used “campaign funds to pay for video games on 68 separate occasions.” As the San Diego Union-Tribune report, Hunter’s campaign credit card spent $1302 on “Steam Games” last year, noting that they were a “personal expense” that…

To Explain Netcode Properly, You Need Props

Sometimes discussions on forums can get a little out of hand. Fans are pretty good at going down the rabbit hole. Sometimes it goes into full-blown conspiracy theories. In this instance yes, you the fans, were right. You’ve worked out how Overwatch’s netcode works, and that’s made the programmers happy to talk about it in…

Ashes Of The Singularity Is A Very Old-Timey RTS

Ashes of the Singularity, a new sci-fi RTS, was released last week. Long famous for being a benchmark for DX12, I’ve been playing the actual game for a few days now, and have thoughts. Pitched as a return to a type of slow, expansive experience we haven’t seen much of since the Supreme Commander days…