Switchblade Monkeys' Secret Ponchos is no longer only coming to PlayStation 4 -- the spaghetti western multiplayer game is also on track for a PC release this year.
You knew this was coming but, yes, the title will launch first on Steam Early Access. That initial release is happening this summer and the studio says the beta period will fuel development on PC and let it carry "additional balance and polish" into the PS4 version of Secret Ponchos as well.
I've played this before and found it to be pretty fun in the several minutes I spent with the game. It remains to be seen how much longevity a title like this will have but I'm keeping watch. Secret Ponchos will be playable at PAX East this weekend, by the way. Look for it in the Indie Megabooth.
The soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a lot like the game — totally insane, sometimes stupid but always appropriately fun. And not even the power of the kazoo can temper how badass it is.
The Titanfall launch event in Hong Kong featured a Titanfall-decorated climbing wall and Titanfall pilot cosplayer. See the pilot scaling the Titan and more photographs below:
Additional tracks for Forza Motorsport 5 is a very good thing indeed, I think we can all agree. Especially when they're delivered as free DLC. Like the Road America track before it, Turn 10 is giving away another course, southern California's Long Beach Circuit, starting tomorrow.
As per usual with add-on tracks, Long Beach will be playable across all of Forza 5's modes. There's also a Long Beach Booster Pack containing five new vehicles on the way, although this is unsurprisingly only free for Car Pass owners. Those cars are: the 1977 Ford Coyote Gilmore77, the 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale, the 1956 Jaguar D-Type, the 1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG Mercedes CLK GTR, and the 1971 Ferrari #2 Ferrari Automobili 312 P.
Free Update Adds Long Beach Circuit to Forza Motorsport 5 [Xbox]
I suppose the guys at Mega64 couldn't get enough of The Stanley Parable, because they decided to go out and narrate a bunch of people's lives to their faces. The results weren't too friendly.
Facing mounting financial pressure, the Danish museum Spilmuseet ("The Games Museum") is about to jettison a massive collection of classic video games and related hardware. And with nobody opening their doors yet, all these refugees of console wars past are still in need of a new home.
You know those moments when you've accomplished some insane gaming feat and end up hopping around in your living room doing the crazy dance as your cat quietly judges? Everybody has them from time to time, but what do you do when there's no one else around to bask in your gaming glory with?
A spin-off of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series is coming to Vita in Japan this year. Dengeki PlayStation magazine has a spread on Hyperdimension Neptunia U, which brings some action to the RPG series. Neptune and the gang will be featured, and a new Dengeki mascot called Dengekiko will be introduced, says Gematsu.
Japan gets this title at the end of summer, with a standard edition and a limited edition (priced at 7,980 yen) slated to drop on August 28.
I bet we'll see Hyperdimension Neptunia U come our way before long. What say you, NIS America?
The industry is currently trying to support two generations of consoles at once, which means game publishers have to decide what the safest bet is for their next projects. Some companies are creating the the same content for both last- and current-gen, while others are just focusing on creating experiences against "next-gen" specs.
In the case of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it's going to be sticking to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Why? Mostly because developer Gearbox wants to release on platforms they feel their customers already have.
"It's more about the fact that we know that the biggest customer for [Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel] is a person who loves Borderlands, and 100% of those customers are on the platform that we're supporting," president of Gearbox Randy Pitchford told us. Pitchford feels that with Borderlands 2 moving well over eight million copies, "there's more people that bought Borderlands 2 than there are installed units of Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s. Meanwhile there's 150 million installed PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s."
The full force of Kotaku NYC (some of whom are too busy playing Threes on their respective devices in this picture here) will be headed to Boston this weekend for PAX East for fun game things, reporting things, and hanging out things. But we'll also be hosting a panel on Friday morning. It's called Kotaku's Incredible Fantastic Panel Extravaganza XVIII-2 and it's going to be exactly that.
Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Koda's Winter 2014 Anime Season Awards • Bioshock and perpetuating the Damsel trope (to a degree) • Love to Lose
