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Meghan Sullivan discusses why Final Fantasy IV is her favorite game of all-time.

Your PS3s and PS4s are about to get 37% more radical. OlliOlli—the hit side-scrolling skateboarding game that came out for PlayStation Vita earlier this year —will be coming to Sony's home consoles this summer. There's also an update on the way that will fix a crash bug and include other stuff, too.Read more...

We really don't know what makes someone good at video games. We can speculate, but we don't know. What we need, frankly, are better stats.Read more...

Probably the best thing about these videos from GameSocietyPimps is that everyone involved is such a good sport. Often these "character plays a multiplayer first-person shooter" pranks lean toward the cruder side, but this impression artist stays in fairly true character. Imagine Key & Peele's Obama skit but a little less...angry. Read more...

Trials Frontier, one of the two upcoming games in the motorcycle-flipping series from developer RedLynx, will launch April 10 on iOS. The mobile entry in the series will roll to Android at a later, undisclosed date.

Being the first Trials game on iOS and Android isn't Frontier's only departure for RedLynx, as the game is also set in a futuristic wild-west environment "after the fall of the Trials Fusion universe." Players unlock small villages that are all that remain of civilization in Frontier as well as new motorcycles, characters and upgrades for their bikes. Those that connect the game with Trials Fusion will receive bonus gear as well.

Trials Frontier was first announced during publisher Ubisoft's E3 2013 press conference alongside Trials Fusion. Fusion is slated to launch April 16 on PC and entered a closed beta phase late last week. [Image: Ubisoft]

The 2014 IGF Awards have finished and the winners have been announced, but we still have insights to share. Before reading on, you should relive John’s liveblogging of the IGF Awards ceremony so that you can see if Klei’s Jamie Cheng left the event happy. Don’t Starve received a nomination for the Grand Prize but Cheng was backing a different game – a game that he describes as ‘a masterpiece.

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Submit to the addictiveness of Monster Hunter with MH: Freedom Unite, free for PlayStation Plus members starting Tuesday, 3/25. Take down bizarre creatures and loot their bodies for crafting components so you can make more powerful weapons to take down bigger, badder monsters. If you don’t want to take on enemies alone, you can play with up to 4 of your friends. Even if you can’t pull a group of friends together, you can always hire a Felyne companion in the game, and let’s face it, they are way more adorable than any of your friends.

This week for our Spring Fever sale you can pick up Fez on PS4, PS3 and PS Vita at a discount along with a bunch of BioShock markdowns.

You can download Monster Hunter Freedom Unite after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow, 3/25.

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members

*The biggest Monster Hunter title to date with over 500 hours of gameplay.
*Huge variety of character customizations including 1400 weapons and over 2000 armor sets.
*Players can form a team of up to 4 players through Ad-Hoc play and experience the social gaming phenomenon.
*AI Felyne companion, who will accompany players on quests and provide aid through the challenging battles.
*Fans of the series can transfer their data from Monster Hunter Freedom 2.

Spring Fever Sale Title Plus Price Regular Price Fez (Ps4) $10.39 $12.99 Fez (Ps3) $10.39 $12.99 Fez (Ps Vita) $10.39 $12.99 Bioshock $5.00 $9.99 Bioshock 2 $5.00 $9.99 Bioshock Infinite – Burial At Sea – Episode 1 $7.34 $10.49 Bioshock Infinite – Columbia’s Finest Pack $2.44 $3.49 Bioshock Infinite – Clash In The Clouds $2.44 $3.49 Other Discounts Title Plus Price Regular Price Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma (Pre-Order) $40.49 $44.99

Last Chance (Leaving on 4/1)

Instant Game Collection
TOMB RAIDER (PS3)
DEAD NATION APOCALYPSE EDITION (PS4)

Discounts
FEZ (PS4)
FEZ (PS3)
FEZ (PS Vita)
BIOSHOCK
BIOSHOCK 2
BIOSHOCK INFINITE – BURIAL AT SEA – EPISODE 1
BIOSHOCK INFINITE – COLUMBIA’S FINEST PACK
BIOSHOCK INFINITE – CLASH IN THE CLOUDS
BLAZBLUE: CHRONO PHANTASMA
REAL BOXING

What’s your favorite content from this week’s update?

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Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Why Post-Game Content Sucks • 10 Reasons Awesomenauts Is The Best MOBA • A Tale Of Dark Souls II Cooperation Read more...

The track list for Harmonix's Fantasia: Music Evolved has expanded again, this time leaning a bit more heavily on modern music. New songs that will be featured in Kinect rhythm game include David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust," Nicky Minaj's "Superbass," The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" and Lorde's ubiquitous "Royals." Classical music fans will also be happy to know that Anotonin Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9 from the New World" has also made the cut (now you can associate it with something other than Asura's Wrath).

We got to spend some time with Fantasia at GDC, and we enjoyed every minute of it.

If you need more space on your phone, camera, or anything in between, Amazon's got you covered today with a ton of storage options from Samsung. Each form factor comes in 2-3 different capacities and two different speeds, but the prices are uniformly great. Popular models tend to sell out quickly during Gold Box sales, so grab yours now. [Amazon]Read more...

I think we might have gathered a few too many X-Men, you guys. Read more...

They would survive and adapt easily, or at least that's what deviantART artist Kasami-Sensei's artwork suggests. He put several Disney characters into the Walking Dead universe, making all the appropriate changes. It's weird to see Anna from Frozen with an M4 carbine, but you can't survive otherwise.Read more...

OlliOlli developer Roll7 has announced the addictive skating game will be making its way to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in the near future.

Gnah! is a puzzle game about the inside of heads. If it were set inside my head, currently all you’d find would be a picture of a dog dressed as a unicorn, and fresh memories of the Seven Of Nine episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. Alas, it actually takes place inside heads rendered by crisp, graphic illustrations, and is about unlocking progress by alternately poking at each head’s eyeballs and flicking its internal light switches.

Yeah, I don’t really understand it fully, but a short teaser trailer and more screenshots await inside.

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Konami and UEFA are offering a range of pretty amazing prizes to anyone who gets involved.

Imagine what MacGyver could do with a modern day smart phone. Fairplay Digital has announced it's cobbling together an official mobile game based on classic action-adventure TV series. Fairplay will reveal the game in the coming weeks, after which it will explode as Richard Dean Anderson leaps away from it in slow motion. Read more...

Well, it’s been quite a rollercoaster for us at Roll7 over the last few months!

Our submission process last year was pretty hardcore, with many a pizza-stained late night at our Deptford HQ, London. The team was pretty much broken by the time OlliOlli came out. We had broken down everything that was ‘wrong’ about the game to such an extent that we had managed to successfully convince ourselves that the game would most likely be a flop, a mediocre launch at best…

What we were met with on the 21st and 22nd of January this year genuinely knocked us sideways. There was media frenzy for days, amazing review scores and most of all gamers, real people (not testers or our friends) were playing the game and enjoying it.

There were numerous late-night emotional drinking sessions in central London as we essentially came to the realisation that we were a ‘proper’ studio with a hit game – it has still not properly sunk in for most of us!

The BIG moment was almost fate-like. We were out doing a belated wrap party on the project at our local in New Cross and at about 10pm (after many rounds of tequila) we found out via Twitter that we had won the GameSpot Game of the Month for January. Let’s just say that there were a few teary eyes by midnight — it was a career highlight, and an evening none of us will ever forget.

We met with Shahid and Spencer who run the strategic content team at SCEE, and they recommended that we get the game onto PS4 and PS3 – so that’s what we are doing! We have partnered with BlitWorks, who are based in Barcelona, Spain. We already have a first playable version up and running on PS4 and a big screen — it’s like our little OlliOlli grew up and got some balls! Really feels amazing on DualShock, too.

Such exciting news deserves a big manly jump on a hill…

OlliOlli will remain a PS Vita exclusive until summer 2014, and Roll7 is very close to fixing the crash bug that some players are experiencing. When that patch is released, we’ll bundle in a nice little update that should put a smile on people’s faces.

If you are UK-based, and you fancy getting your hands on OlliOlli and having a chat with us, you can find us at Rezzed, Birmingham (March 28th – 30th).

Check out our OlliOlli Development Video to get more of an insight into Roll7 studio life, and follow us on Twitter for all the latest. Keep it Indie, and keep it Sony in 2014!

We haven't been shy about praising Harmonix's Fantasia: Music Evolved thus far. Based on our experience with it at GDC 2014 last week, that's not likely to change anytime soon. We tried the latest version of Fantasia, running on Xbox One, and the Kinect-powered experience was delightful from top to bottom.

Whether you're intuitively creating your own synthesizer solo in "Ziggy Stardust" or ringing bells hanging from the horns of a giant stag - no, really - the level of creativity and craftsmanship on display is always apparent. You can witness the magical madness yourself in our video preview.

Fantasia: Music Evolved, is slated to arrive this year on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

The Cuccos from The Legend of Zelda are making an appearance in Super Smash Bros Wii U, and in the picture above, Toon Link is in trouble if he's really about to hit one of them. You shouldn't bully them... they might hurt you.Read more...

GIFs aren’t only the internet’s favourite medium for sharing slapstick animals. They’re also a tool for democratising promotion and marketing. Can’t afford the time or money necessary to edit together a slick trailer? Don’t worry, a three-second GIF may better convey what’s smart, cool and interesting about your game.

Or if your game doesn’t have animation just write really long posts detailing the making of it anyway. Whatever. DEVLOG WATCH GO.

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We discover the enchanting Hollow forest realm and take a spin in the new competitive multiplayer mode.

Today’s Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn post is especially interesting for those of you that have never played a subscription MMO before, as well as those of you who wonder if a monthly subscription is really for you.

When you buy a single-player game, the expectation is usually the same. Buy the game for the full price, and some DLC will follow. Final Fantasy XIV is fundamentally different, as it’s an MMO that will run for years.

With Final Fantasy XIV, your subscription fee will guarantee you regular content updates throughout the lifetime of the game. The first update hit last December with Patch 2.1: A Realm Awoken, and we’ve just launched the feature site for Patch 2.2: Through the Maelstrom.

Just a few features (not even all) that will have been added to the original game with 2.1 and 2.2 updates:

• New Main Scenario Quests, continuing your story
• Two new raids
• Housing
• New Dungeons
• New Dungeon Hard Modes
• New primals to fight: Leviathan and Good King Moggle-Mog XII
• A new difficulty for primal fights, Extreme Mode
• Player versus Player Combat
• Treasure Hunts
• New factions (Beast Tribes) with Daily Quests
• Tons upon tons of new quests of all kinds
• New customization options for your characters
• Tons of optimizations and new features for the game

…and the list goes on and on (honestly, it does — you can check out the patch notes for Update 2.1 here). There’s something in it for everyone — no matter if you like to casually make your way through the game, or if you’re a hardcore, endgame raider. And remember: all of that for the subscription fee starting at $12.99, no PlayStation Plus required.

But it doesn’t end there; we’ve got a lot of stuff planned for the future. You’ve learned by now that there’s housing — how about having a basement in your house where you and your mates can build your own airship? Awesome, right?

This is what you get for your subscription: a world that will constantly evolve and expand, for years and years to come. If you want to have a go at it, remember that our second PS4 beta phase will take place from April 4th to the 7th (and yes, you’ll be able to carry characters created during beta 2 into the final game). We’re launching on April 14th, and if you want in, feel free to pre-order now.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Eorzea!

Bring the woodland wonderland to life by creating your own melodies.

You read that headline right. Chinese internet giant NetEase will soon be selling pork.Read more...

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's upcoming MOBA, looks fun when big YouTubers, like TotalBiscuit, StarCraft's Husky, Jesse Cox and a few others team up to try out the game, which is currently in alpha—a fact that explains why it looks a bit empty at the moment, compared to, say, DOTA.Read more...

You will probably never look at dick faces, I mean tigers, the same way ever again.Read more...

Rumours that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all sat around a campfire during GDC, toasting marshmallows and singing Kumbayah are entirely false. From a distance, the merry folk troubadours might have looked like the creators and purveyors of generational gaming devices, but closer inspection revealed an entirely different picture. Microsoft were there, yes, represented by Microsoft supremo Phil Spencer (not Kirstie Allsopp’s chum). But the other figures were animatronic effigies, constructs of cloth and straw vaguely resembling PC gaming’s past and future. One of them distinctly resembled Gabe Newell and Spencer applauded his every move.

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Attack on Titan isn't exactly an adorable anime. But this doggy cosplay sure is.Read more...

Though jumping in that titan would probably be a bad idea, one of the employees of an EB Games store in Melbourne, Australia came up with the best way to use up empty Xbox One and 360 boxes: he built an almost life-sized titan from Titanfall to guard the store.Read more...

Architecture is art. Some buildings are just cool to look at. Others are mesmerising and hypnotic, like one compound in East China's Jiangsu province, which has been dubbed by Chinese netizens as the "magical Rubik's compound".Read more...