Elite: Dangerous is coming to Xbox One this summer, Microsoft's Phil Spencer announced today at GDC. Unexpected!
Hooray For Motion Sickness! The Saturday Stream Plays ScreamRide (Done)
The spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon arrives on Xboxes this Tuesday, giving players the ability to design, test-drive and destroy insane amusement park rides. I just want to see if the game's blazing speed will make Twitch pee itself.
Fable Legends is Indeed Free-to-Play – And it's Not a Bad Thing
To be honest, the first time I ever saw Fable Legends – Lionhead's 4v1 multiplayer remix of Fable, due out later this year – I could have made a confident educated guess that it would be free to play.
News that the next Batman Arkham game will be the first to get an M rating isn't a huge surprise, given the series' propensity to push the limits of T ratings. In 2012, the ESRB ratings group was surprisingly forthcoming with us about the oddness of Arkham games getting T's while Halos got M's. [UPDATE]
Assassin's Creed Unity Finally Drops App, Web Requirements For Unlocks…
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The latest major patch for Assassin's Creed Unity will free players from the need to connect the console or PC game to the game's companion app or Initiates website to unlock some special items in the game.
More Than a Third of 2014’s Big-Budget Games Got Day-One Patches
You may have had the feeling lately that the games you've been buying and playing didn't quite get finished when they were shoved out onto store shelves. Well, a lot of them weren't done baking.
Evolve: The Kotaku Review
I've been playing a lot of Evolve over the last week and the questions I hear are all the same: Are you tired of this game yet? Is it really repetitive? The answer to each is, simply, no and yes, respectively.
Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever
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Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream's Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why?
Tips For Playing Evolve
When you start playing Evolve, you'll probably suck. Even as you get better, you'll still run into players who also suck. It can be frustrating. So, let's skip the learning through trial by (sometimes literal) fire, and get ahead of the curve.
PSA: Don't Use Your Evolve Account On Multiple Consoles
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Some Evolve players' progress is being wiped when they attempt to try to access their game's data from a second console, myself included. It's not clear why yet, but you should probably avoid playing between consoles if you value your time.
What Buying Evolve Gets You
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If you're planning on grabbing Evolve when it launches tomorrow, you'll pretty much be getting a multiplayer experience similar in concept to Left 4 Dead where you can take on one of three monsters as one of 12 hunters (or vice versa). But it's a bit more complicated than that.
Evolve Impressions: ‘Just One More Round’
Evolve can be simplified in many ways, and you've probably heard them all before. It's a first-person shooter. It's like Left 4 Dead, four players banding together, but you're up against a Tank—played by a fifth player—each round. It's one big boss battle, over and over. But the details that go into the new game,…
Shadow Of Mordor Won A Best Story Award, Which Actually Makes Sense
Dragon Age Inquisition may have taken Game of The Year at last night's 18th annual DICE Awards, but how about Shadow of Mordor winning for Outstanding Achievement In Story? The scripted story wasn't so hot, but if they were judging by the stories that emerged as players sparred with enemies who became tougher through…
A pretty good idea in Battlefield Hardline's new beta: A mode in which your team captures cars instead of checkpoints—and has to drive above certain speed to earn points. Explained and shown over at Kotaku UK.
The Best Start To An Assassin's Creed Game
If I have one guilty pleasure series, it's Assassin's Creed. Normally, I'm not one to get excited about yearly releases, let alone broken games. But I've played and mostly enjoyed every game in the series. Recently, I returned to Assassin's Creed II, and, much to my surprise, I realized just how much I've lowered my…
Microsoft's Hologram Plans Apparently Leaked Back In 2012
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Today, Microsoft announced Hololens, an ambitious new piece of hardware designed to make it so you can finally hang out IRL with Hatsune Miku. If that sounds familiar, that's because it totally is: turns out we've kinda known about this for three years now.
It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny's Crota's End On Hard Mode
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The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota's End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it.
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Some exciting news for Xbox gamers: Microsoft just confirmed the release dates for three rad-looking games that are all coming out this Spring—i.e., soon. The games are Ori and the Blind Forest (March 11th, $19.99), Screamride (March 3rd, $39.99), and the Xbox One version of State of Decay (April 28th, $29.99). Woo!
Hope You Didn't Just Pay $400 For An Xbox One
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Did you buy an Xbox One at some point in the past two weeks? Well, Microsoft's got some fun news for you: they're dropping the price yet again.
Assassin's Creed Unity's Dead Kings DLC Is Disappointing And Glitchy
I may not have liked Assassin's Creed Unity very much, but I was still excited about its free expansion Dead Kings, which then went and failed on me twice in its first two missions.