Heather Alexandra

Sea of Thieves—yes, people still play it and have fun doing so—has a new patch that overhauls Merchant Alliance quests. “Cargo Runs” have been added, with special goods that pirates need to deliver and handle with care. It’ll hopefully make merchant missions a bit more exciting.

Wandersong Is A Musical Adventure Game About Saving The Planet

Wandersong starts with bad news: the world is dying. The good news is that it is also packed with excellent people worth saving. Setting out from your tiny, colorful village, you solve puzzles and dispatch grumpy ghosts with music. It combines point and click adventure and rhythm games into an adorable experience full of great…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Cultist System Is One Of The Game’s Best Features

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey balloons the further you get into it, adding layers of complex systems from nation-conquest battles to mercenary bounties. These help give a sense of how fragile and war-torn Greece has become in the game’s storyline. But a later system is more devious, and an important addition to the franchise as a whole.…

Chef Andrew Rea of the show Binging With Babish has recreated some of the best recipes from Spider-Man from Peter’s dumplings to Aunt May’s wheat cakes. Maybe try cooking them yourself?

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Giant Boar Is A Pain In The Ass

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s early adventures are easy enough: beat off bandits, dive into a cave, tackle a tough mercenary. But one early game challenge provides a surprising roadblock packed with death and snorting. The legendary Kalydonian Boar is surprisingly hard to defeat. We have some tips and some choice curse words for this perilous pig.…

I’m playing Wandersong right now on Twitch It’s a musical adventure game that’s perfect for unwinding! Come join me in chat.

Tips For Playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a huge game, with plenty of secrets to uncover and systems to fiddle with. Here are some tips that will help you go from fresh-faced malaka to a hero worthy of epic poems. Play as whoever you want Assassin’s Creed Odyssey lets you play as either Alexios or Kassandra. This can…

My First Tattoo Lets Me Remember My Love For Skies Of Arcadia

My favorite video game of all time is Skies of Arcadia, a Japanese RPG released for the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast in 2000. The Dreamcast was an amazing console, with bright and colorful games that left a major impact on me. So, when the time came for me to finally get my first tattoo, I took…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: The Kotaku Review

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is huge. Each new boundary is broken down the moment you reach it, the game world spilling out and expanding further and further than you can possibly imagine. It is big in the same way the Great Pyramids or Empire State Building are big, the result of untold amounts of labor and…

Sea of Thieves‘ New Volcanic Region Is Difficult And Hilarious

Rare’s online pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves launched into some rough waters, feeling more like a beta than full game. Since then, the developers have worked to make the seas more treacherous and exciting. Last week’s Forsaken Shores content adds an entirely new region packed with dangerous volcanoes and difficult quests. It’s the perfect…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Female Crews Sing Different Sea Shanties

Sea shanties have been a part of the Assassin’s Creed series ever since Black Flag. These lively songs breathe life into lengthy ocean voyages. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you a ship to sail around ancient Greece and a variety of crews. One small detail helps bring their songs to life. Most of the crews you’ll…

Monster Hunter: World Is Getting Less Mysterious

Monster Hunter: World has slowly expanded post-release, with new monsters and armor keeping hunters on the daily grind. But as players begin to master all of the game’s hunts and its roster of monsters becomes more familiar, World needs to find new ways to bring back the wonder that made it so intoxicating to begin…

Check Out Some Of Our Best Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Gameplay

I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey a lot lately in preparation for a review next week. In the meantime, I can finally show off some new gameplay. In this clip, I play as Kassandra and sneak my way through an enemy camp using tons of useful assassin skills. I’m not allowed to talk much about…

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood release on the Playstation 4 on October 26th. That’s just in time for Halloween and just in time to annoy your friends by asking them “What is a man!” over and over again.

Speedrunner Achieves ‘Impossible’ Super Mario Bros. Record Time

The original Super Mario Bros. is tightly optimized, as far as speedruns go. Runners have been shaving off milliseconds using highly-skilled play and glitches, all in the hopes of someday reaching a theoretically perfect run. Previously, this was only achievable using special programs, but last night, a runner did what some people thought impossible, matching…

Valkyria Chronicles 4: The Kotaku Review

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a game of extremes. Its romantic attitude towards soldiers clashes with a desire to tell a tale of mass violence and corpse-laden battlefields. It is as intimate as it is loud, and each moment captivates even if the parts are often greater than the whole. This post originally appeared 9/10/18. We’ve…

If Telltale’s The Walking Dead Is Over, It’s Ending On A High Note

When The Walking Dead: The Final Season was named, it only referred to the end of the series and the end of Clementine’s story. Now, as Telltale Games begins a “majority studio closure” and has laid off hundreds of workers, the title takes on new meaning. It’s all the more tragic since the latest episode…

Why wait for Red Dead Redemption 2 when the best video game Western already exists? Paul and I are streaming Call of Juarez: Gunslinger right now on Twitch. Come join the chat to talk about horses and whiskey and stuff.

The Autumn Harvest Festival has kicked off in Monster Hunter: World. Western players can finally get the formerly Japan-only Universal Studios armor, so log in and make sure you pick it up!

Ring of Elysium Mixes Battle Royale With Winter Sports

Tencent Games already publishes PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds around much of the world. But why have one battle royale when you can have two? Ring of Elysium is a free-to-play alternative to PUBG that adds an icy setting and extreme sports twist. It might not have PUBG’s thrilling tension, but it’s still a fun experiment. In Ring…