They’re showing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate over at Gamescom in Germany this week. They’re letting people play as Evie, the other twin in the pair of brother-sister assassins who are playable in this game. First observation from where I sit: the hat-knocking-off tech in this game is pretty good. According to previewers at GameSpot and GamesRadar,…
The belated introduction of backwards compatibility to the Xbox One won’t just allow you to play Xbox 360 games on Microsoft’s newer console. It’ll allow you to use your old save files, too. To get that feature to work, you’ll have to transfer your 360 saves to the cloud. It’s easy, so long as so…
Thanks to the release of Rare Replay today, Xbox One owners will now be able to play seven Nintendo 64 classics on Microsoft’s console. Nintendo’s current console, the Wii U, only sells people the chance to play six. While there is an asterisk to this—Wii U owners can buy and play 15 more N64 games…
Microsoft confirmed the names of a few more Xbox 360 games that will soon be functional on Xbox One through the newer console’s backwards compatibility feature, but they also showed a reel that hinted at lots more. Let’s enhance and see what we can see. The first one is unknowable. After that, we’ve got: Trials…
A chat pad for the Xbox One controller will be coming out this November. Easier typing for everyone (who buys it).
Tuesday’s Xbox One 30-game collection Rare Replay includes five short documentary videos about five games that the legendary studio Rare started making but never released. The requirements for unlocking these videos are very tough and likely beyond me and many other mortal gamers, but I was at least able to flick through preview clips for…
Late late late! I was busy writing a review of Rare Replay this morning, but I do want to share my five favorite Kotaku pieces from last week. The Witcher 3 vs. Dragon Age: Inquisition: The Comparison We Had To Make – Kirk doing what he does best. Quality Assured: What It’s Really Like To…
Rare games meant a lot to the people who played them, so a collection of 30 of (most) of their best works should mean a lot to children of the Spectrum ZX, the Nintendo 64 and even the Xbox 360 eras. Combined, they’re part of a new collection on the Xbox One that is one…
I am late. The mysteries have been solved. The loot cave has come and gone. I’m the guy just now turning in his first encrypted engram—green, of course. I’m either playing Destiny the best way or the worst way. Argument for this being the best way to play Destiny: A few million gamers have beta-tested…
In the comparison between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Sony is about as behind in how they handle cloud saves as they are in getting their console to run Halo. It’s time for them to close this gap. The difference is dramatic. While both systems allow users to save game progress to a set of…
Nintendo changed its gaming social network Miiverse today, adding some new features, cleaning up some others. Check out the new features, as screencapped from a staff Wii U. The Play Journal seems cool, and I like the idea of sections of Miiverse that are just for drawing. And hooray for the upgrade to the 30-post…
Evan isn’t the only person reading comics around here. Here are some recent surprise favorites of mine. I didn’t expect to be recommending any of these to you: Crossed + 100 #6 Above art drawn by Gabriel Andrade, colored by Digikore I’ve long avoided most of the Crossed comics, a more vile riff on zombie…
The really cool roguelike/dungeon-crawler/tower-defense PC game Dungeon of the Endless is coming to iPad this summer, according to a press release. It’ll include the game’s two PC expansions. No firm release date yet.
It’s supposed to be the slow season now, but last week was crazy. We got some really good stories on the site, thank goodness. Here are my top five… Sex Abuse Survivor Finds Comfort In Video Games – Patrick’s sympathetic, moving piece about a gamer coping with awful memories. All These Things Actually Happen In…
Pre-order incentives are pretty dumb, and the Terminator being a pre-order character for WWE 2K16 might be the dumbest, but Arnold Schwarzenegger re-doing his naked-Terminator scene with WWE’s Daniel Bryan, Finn Balor, Paige and Dean Ambrose? Funny.
Fascinating video games come out of nowhere these days. Take Prune, a new $4 iOS game about growing and pruning trees. I never heard of it until it popped up on the app store yesterday. I played a bit of it for you in the video above. It’s good! Here’s a trailer, too: Good stuff…
In case you were wondering if Uncharted 4 was any good! Looks like there’s a glitch in Google’s Uncharted 4 shopping page. Good for a laugh.
An unusually intense week down, another five Kotaku stories to highlight. The Game Maker Who Became CEO: What Satoru Iwata Meant To Nintendo | The week began with the wrenching news that Nintendo’s much-liked CEO, Satoru Iwata, had passed away. I don’t usually highlight my own writing in these round-ups, but my obituary for him…
What it is: Why, it’s a PS3 game ported to PS4! Make that three of them, three excellent PS3 action-adventure games, Uncharted 1-3 (just the singleplayer), ported by development studio Bluepoint, coming out in lieu of the delayed-out-of-2015 Uncharted 4 on October 9. What’s been changed: I saw it at a PlayStation demo event yesterday,…
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