This week, Batman: Arkham Knight got a few challenge mode maps lifted from Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. The maps were selected by fans on the game’s forums, and those fans’ actual forum conversations have been transcribed into the game itself. The new maps, dubbed the “Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #6,” are now available on…
The next Star Wars movie in the new trilogy has been pushed back a bit: Episode VIII will hit theaters on December 15, 2017, several months later than its initially scheduled summer 2017 release date. Per StarWars.com, the Rian Johnson-helmed sequel to last December’s The Force Awakens will be in theaters almost two years to…
It’s clear enough that a lot of us here at Kotaku liked Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. The game earned a positive review and a spot on our best of 2015 list. All the same, our three biggest Assassin’s Creed nerds had yet to sit down and talk it out. As we did with Assassin’s Creed III,…
Games have rules. It’s sort of their “thing.” But just because a game suggests you’re supposed to play it one way doesn’t mean you can’t come up with some rules of your own. Whether you do it consciously or not, you probably restrict the way you play games. Maybe you force yourself to live with…
I didn’t do a “what are you playing?” post for January, so instead I’m going to do one for this coming weekend. Weekends are people, too! So: What are you playing these days? I’ll go first: If you’ve been listening to our Kotaku Splitscreen podcast, you already know that I’ve been playing a lot of…
A few days ago a bunch of members of the gaming press went and played Ubisoft’s upcoming tactical shooter/RPG Tom Clancy’s The Division. Let’s see what they thought of it. We didn’t attend the preview event (obviously) but the embargo lifted this morning and there are enough substantive hands-on demo videos out there that I…
The independently developed Half-Life 2 expansion Prospekt is now Valve-approved. It’ll be available on Steam in February. Created by lone indie dev Richard Seabrook, Prospekt continues the story of Half-Life: Opposing Force and threads its way through the narrative of Half-Life 2
Fallout 4’s latest update is en route, promising to bring a few changes and fix a bunch of bugs, several of which are related to dismemberment. Gotta get that dismemberment working right! The 1.3 update is currently in beta on Steam but doubtless will be coming to all platforms in the not-too-distant future. On PC,…
Few games lend themselves to fan theories like Undertale does. I only finished it a few weeks ago, but I’ve already been having fun tracking down and pondering the most popular theories about the game’s world and characters. Undertale spoilers follow! One of Undertale’s most memorable characters is the fearsome warrior Undyne, a eyepatch-wearing fish…
I was kidnapping a guy the other night in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and overheard a couple of Londoners engaging in some insult sword fighting. If you ask me, most of the enemies in these games fight like dairy farmers…
Like a one-term president we’ve had enough of, we’re ditching the Yes/No/Not Yet review system we’ve been employing for the last four years. What was meant to be a defiance of review scores became a review score. We don’t like review scores. Away it goes. We’ll be keeping the rest of our review system intact,…
If you played BioShock, you remember the opening level of the game. Who could forget it? In a cool new video, ex-Irrational designer Bill Gardner sits down with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey to play through “Welcome to Rapture,” the iconic opening level from the first BioShock. They chat while they play, hitting topics that range from…
We came, we saw, we played. We nominated, we debated, we decided. Here, in alphabetical order, are Kotaku’s top 12 games of 2015. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate BoxBoy Bloodborne Destiny: The Taken King Life Is Strange Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Rocket League Splatoon Super Mario Maker Transformers: Devastation Undertale The Witcher 3: Wild…
The video games of 2015 often looked great, usually felt good, and probably smelled okay, too. But how did they sound? We’re glad you asked! With input from all of our staff—and in no particular order—here are our favorite video game soundtracks from 2015. Grab some headphones and listen along. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Composer: Austin…
Every year in video games brings with it some lovely surprises, but every year also brings some sorry disappointments. [This post originally ran on December 17, 2015] At the end of each year, we like to take a moment to look back and complain about all the things that bummed us out. Hey, it’s part…
Every year in gaming is full of shocks and surprises. This year had some really good ones. [This post originally ran on December 15, 2015] As we’ve done in past years, we’ve made a list of the best surprises from the year. Read it, and maybe you’ll even be surprised! (It can be fun to…
Another year is ending, and with it another year of our Ask Dr. NerdLove advice column. The Doc—real name Harris O’Malley—kept his usual office hours this year, turning up a couple times per month to answer reader questions and, hopefully, help a few people on the way to a happier, healthier love life. Here are…
In Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, there’s a guy whose entire job is to stand on a boat and get knocked into a river. That’s it. That’s his whole life. This man is a hero. If you’re running along in Syndicate’s version of London and happen to cross the Thames, you’ll probably see this guy. He’s all…
My 2015 was a little bit like Luke’s: I never felt like I had a shortage of cool things to play at any given moment, but when I sat down to pick my top ten, I wasn’t overwhelmed by my options. In past years, I’ve always wound up listing more than ten games. (Those lists:…
Opinions about Fallout 4 may be as sprawling and changeable as the Commonwealth wasteland, but most people agree that the new dialogue system leaves something to be desired. Fortunately, there’s a mod for that. With their newest game, developer Bethesda decided to change the dialogue system they’d used in previous games like Skyrim and Fallout…
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