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Kotaku Staff Writer | Zack Zwiezen is a writer living in Kansas. He has written for GameCritics, USgamer, Kill Screen, HardDrive, & Entertainment Fuse.

I played in the last beta for it. Was the first time playing. It wasn’t what I was expecting. I’m surprised at how limiting it feels in comparison to Assassins Creed. They had it all down perfectly with Black Flag, and in this, they seemed to have simplified the whole thing. Walking around isn’t all that great. And Read more

gonna be real: I should be the prime audience for this game. I love pirate shit. I loved Black Flag. I was polled by a Ubisoft rep at E3 once about my interest in a multiplayer pirate game before this was ever even announced. I was hyped to see the first trailer drop, and disappointed by the perpetual dev hell drama.

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Oh hey, it’s today’s reminder that fandom is inherently toxic. Read more

“I was wrong all of this time, Xbox doesn’t care about us, Microsoft doesn’t care about us. We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.” Read more

Great to know Korea’s Supreme Court basically operates on the same moral intelligence level as teen fanfic writers.
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I can’t think war is terrible if I enjoy playing shooters?
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You either die a hero or live long enough to make DC's version of Marvel's Avengers. Read more

What is hilarious to me is that you just described Marvels Avengers. That game had a fairly robust 3rd person combat system, really good dialogue and scripted scenes, and an enjoyable single-player campaign. Read more

I sincerely hope he got a very nice house out of that commercial

The patch also fixes a bunch of problems with pickups. You can now loot the crossbow in NG+ if you already have it, which was making it impossible to fully complete a playthrough previously Read more

Oh please for the love of all the Gods that matter to you, please let this be a sign for DQB3. Please. Read more

How shitty do you have to be as a company, to not allow people to redeem their fairly earned game time codes *after* they’ve been laid off too?
As shitty as Blizzard, apparently.
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Bobby Kotick:  “Here, hand these out to the boys in lieu of pay.  Harrumph!  Harrumph!”
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I’ve never laughed so fucking hard at a tweet. Holy shit. Not even joking, that has fucked me up. And I have no idea why. Read more

If we’re talking about the Pokemon Company in Japan, and Pocketpair being a Japanese developer, if the Pokemon Company finds reason to pursue a copyright violation lawsuit, it’s good to note that the only way Pocketpair is getting away with it is if they can prove there were no violations at all, not even reference, Read more

I’m getting that way with Crafting Mechanics in general. Final Fantasy 16 was a big offender for me of “why the heck can’t this just be me buying/finding a better sword?” Read more

I agree with this. They really need to get over the boring tedium crap that keeps people away from these games. Read more