Stand-Alone Xbox One Kinect Will Cost $150

In June, Microsoft started selling the Xbox One without Kinect. In October, you’ll be able to buy the Kinect on its own—but it’ll cost you $150. Standalone versions of the Xbox One’s Kinect will go on sale October 7, Microsoft said today. The motion-sensing accessory will come with a digital copy of Harmonix’s Dance Central…

The Sims 4’s PC Requirements Are…Non-Existent

It might be a PC exclusive to start, but The Sims 4 has an appeal far beyond the master race. Electronic Arts isn’t making its newest Sims game especially demanding hardware-wise as a result. The company recently posted its recommended specs for The Sims 4 on the game’s FAQ page, and it looks like a…

Velocity 2X and Sportfriends Join PlayStation Plus In September

September’s list of free PlayStation Plus games is out and includes Velocity 2X and PlayStation All Stars. Check out the full list in the video above or the list below. [PlayStation Blog] PS4 Velocity 2X Sportfriends PS3 PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale Hoard Sportsfriends (via cross-buy with PS4 version) Vita Joe Danger TxK Velocity 2X…

GOG To Start Selling Movies And TV Shows

Well this is interesting: GOG.com, the digital retailer best known for selling old games without DRM, is branching out into film and TV. They’re starting small, launching with a handful of independent documentaries for $5.99 a piece in hopes of eventually branching out to studio films and television shows. The folks at GOG are pushing…

Our Numbers blog is usually about the stats of gaming. Today, however, here’s something more personal…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Street Fighter x Pokémon Day 1! Ryu x Lucario! • 2014 — The Year I Returned To Madden • Why You Should Fund Under The Dog, and What this Kickstarter Represents • Game of The Week — Sky Pirates. SKY PIRATES. [Skies of Arcadia] TAY Classic—TAY Open…

One of the Best Oculus Rift Games I’ve Played Was Third-Person

When the Oculus rep met my confused look with, “yeah, we weren’t sure it was going to work either,” I didn’t know what to expect. As it turns out third person works in VR. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Developer Playful’s Lucky’s Tale is a shameless riff on Mario and other 3D platformers…

Getting Up Close with Bloodborne’s Combat

I would never say I was into horror games – I managed about 90 seconds of a YouTube playthrough of P.T. before tapping out, and even the cover art for The Evil Within is a bit much for me – but FROM’s Souls series is the exception to the rule. This post originally appeared on…

Lichdom, the linear first-person RPG where you play a badass battlemage, is now officially out on Steam after a nearly six-month early access period. If you liked playing a mage in Skyrim, you’ll probably enjoy this. There’s a new launch trailer, too. Like all good trailers, it has Two Steps From Hell. Watch it above.

It’s SimCity in Minecraft. Literally.

You’re the mayor, there’s an advisor, and you control your very own city. It’s SimCity And notably, it doesn’t require any mods to work: the map’s systems are powered by vanilla Minecraft scripts, so Simburbia can be downloaded and installed just as easily as any other user-made map—though it does require the 1.8 pre-release version…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gets Its First Major Update

2.1.0 brings with it a competitive game mode based on Diablo II’s online ladders, called Seasons, and a new type of endgame dungeon: Greater Rifts. Both of these new additions will be supported by another newly introduced feature, the leaderboards, deepening the competitive aspect of the game—and of course, there’s hundreds of bugfixes and balance…