Assassin’s Creed is skipping 2016, but Ubisoft says they’ve got a full slate for the coming fiscal year. By April 1, 2017, they’ll release: Watch Dogs 2 (which we’ve reported is set in San Francisco), For Honor, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and a new game “with strong digital live services.”
For the first time since 2009, Ubisoft will not release a big Assassin’s Creed game this fall, the publisher said today. It’s a huge shift for their tentpole series. Kotaku first broke news of this change last month, when we reported that the next big Assassin’s Creed game, which is code-named Empire and set in…
Just what makes XCOM 2 so good? How does the branching work in Fire Emblem Fates? And is Valve even working on Half-Life 3? Those questions and much more, today on Kotaku Splitscreen On this week’s episode of Kotaku’s premiere podcast, Nathan Grayson joins me and Kirk to talk Dying Light, XCOM 2, and Fire…
This week, everyone gets to celebrate Valentine’s Day festivities in Destiny, the video game version of the myth of Icarus. Naturally, Destiny players have already found a new trick (h/t Luke) for optimizing the amount of loot they score in this new event, which started yesterday and lasts until Tuesday, February 16. It’s simple: You…
Descent co-creators Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas want to make a spiritual successor to the “six-degree of freedom” shooters they released back in the 90s. And they’re asking for $300,000 to help make it happen. Overload, which went live on Kickstarter this morning, has a relatively simple pitch: The creators of Descent are proud to…
Today, Amazon announced their new proprietary game engine, finally confirming Kotaku’s report that they had spent big bucks on Crytek’s technology back in 2014. They also did something pretty amusing. Buried in the engine’s new Terms of Service page, way down in section 57.10, is this paragraph: 57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of…
Today, Bungie released another update for Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space imagining new content. The update comes with a few interesting tweaks—no more starting special ammo in 3v3!—but most importantly, it toggles a temporary new Valentine’s Day event called Crimson Days. Unlike previous events, this one doesn’t have much to…
The Division is getting another beta this month, Ubisoft announced today. This time, it’ll be open to everyone. It’ll be live from February 19-21 on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. (Like last time, Xbox players can start 24 hours early, on February 18.)
Stealthy Square Enix snuck Final Fantasy IX out on iOS and Android this morning, and presumably it’ll be on Steam soon too This new version of the ninth Final Fantasy has high-res character models, touch controls, and a set of new cheats like a “no random encounters” mode and a fast-forward button. You can also…
Do you see this? This is what madness looks like. Thank you, The Witness, for driving me truly insane. Pictured above is my notebook, covered with shapes I cut out last night while trying to solve a particularly gruesome late-game puzzle in Jonathan Blow’s new game, which came out last month for PC and PS4.…
It has become clear, in the wake of the disastrous Unsung Story, that we may never get a proper successor to Final Fantasy Tactics. Fortunately, the original game is as good today as it was in 1998. This past weekend, the game studio Playdek broke months of silence to announce that they’d put Unsung Story…
The Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption was briefly playable on Xbox One this weekend, but it’s since been removed. Said Microsoft’s Major Nelson: “Microsoft tests all Xbox 360 games with our emulator to ensure a quality experience across a breadth of titles. Due to an error, some of the games currently in test…
Unsung Story is never gonna happen, huh? After an endless string of broken promises involving the game they Kickstarted for over $660,000, the developers at Playdek said in an update today that they need to focus on other projects “for the financial strength of the company” and that they hope to get back to development…
Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Goddamn
Online zombie game H1Z1, one of the many survival games that’s been on Steam Early Access for what feels like decades now, is splitting into two games later this month, developer Daybreak said today. Starting February 17, Daybreak will start selling a spinoff called H1Z1: King of the Kill, which they say is a “large-scale,…
We’re two days away from the annual Big Football Game, where the Panthers and Broncos will face one another in a match that would be extremely lopsided if they were actual animals (and may be just as lopsided regardless). If you’re an NFL fan, you already know all the storylines: Peyton’s last rodeo; Cam’s ascendance;…
Yesterday, alongside the announcement of Doom’s release date (May 13), Bethesda showed off the cover for id’s next big shooter. It’s… generic. From the drab space marine to the piss-yellow background, everything about the new Doom’s cover feels kinda cookie-cutter. Just look at it: In fact, as NeoGAF poster shagg_187 points out, a cover like…
This week, Square Enix released Adventures of Mana, a remake of the classic Game Boy action-role-playing game Final Fantasy Adventure. Like many of Square’s other mobile games, it’s both A) pricey and B) excellent. I bit the bullet and bought a copy on iOS last night, dishing out $14 for the privilege. (It’s also out…
After playing the beta for The Division, some of us are cautiously optimistic! We’re also super hooked on The Witness. All that and more on today’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen Joining us for today’s show is Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo, who has all sorts of stories about A) what it’s been like to run this…
Less than 24 hours after releasing their latest game Godus Wars, Peter Molyneux’s studio 22cans is already facing controversy, announcing today that they’ve removed the game’s microtransactions following community backlash. Godus Wars, a simple real-time strategy game that was both announced and released on Steam Early Access yesterday, was presented as something of a fresh…
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