Every time I play Ubisoft’s gargantuan Assassin’s Creed Odyssey I’m astounded at how much of it I have left. I’m…
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Former Editor-in-Chief. Kotaku forever!
All these Ubisoft games are connected, huh? We’ve seen that Assassin’s Creed is a game played in the world of Watch Dogs (and seems to co-exist in the same world as Watch Dogs). Now, in today’s new Division 2 prequel comic book, The Division: Extremis Malis, you can squint and see that people in that Ubisoft series… Read more
Zelda II is back in the news thanks to Nintendo’s announcement that the game is coming to the Switch this month for subscribers of Nintendo’s online subscription service. Did you know that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has some regrets about how this game came together? We talked about it with him in 2013. Read more
You don’t need to know the backstory of Shoeless Ogarneos, a mercenary who may try to kill you in Assassin’s Creed…
For 13 years, I’ve been listing the games I’ve played each year. This used to be a means for me to log how many…
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Kirby Star Allies launched on Switch in March, and it was decent, but a significant drop in quality from 2016’s…
A quote attributed to Kotaku in a launch trailer for Battlefield V was recently removed from that trailer by…
I was recently reminded that Nintendo’s “My Nintendo” rewards program has a single reward that I want. I’ve wanted…
The PlayStation 4 remains a top-flight gaming platform as it wraps up its fifth year and enters a 2019 sure to be…
We were disappointed that your dog companion in Far Cry 5 couldn’t ride in your car with you and instead ran behind. According to the official Twitter feed for the franchise, the dog in February’s Far Cry New Dawn will ride with you, as the game’s debut trailer last night teased.
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A day after releasing their game’s new Black Armory expansion, the creators of Destiny 2 are lowering the power…
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In what might be the most revealing teaser in gaming hype history, Ubisoft has just tossed up a trailer that spoils…
Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw is now working at Ubisoft Quebec, the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. In a studio blog post, it’s noted that Laidlaw had been consulting with Quebec on an unannounced project for the past nine months. Hmm. Read more
I am living the true modern gaming experience these days when I fill the empty moments during Assassin’s Creed…
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The comically large map of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which players can spend well over 100 hours exploring without…
One of the best Lego games, The Lego Movie Videogame, is getting a sequel tied to the second Lego movie, hopefully rendering its entire game world in Lego bricks like the first one did. More details here. It is slated for Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC for February 26, with a physical Switch release a month later. Read more
Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn’t force many of its myriad activities on players, though it it’ll often send characters…
When I’m playing through a massive open-world video game, sometimes the little tasks I do line up to create the…
“I’m thankful for my two terabyte hard drive, so that I don’t have to delete Spider-Man in order to download Red…
Some games’ post-release plans are stingy, others generous, some comically convoluted. And then there’s the…