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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Sort Of Works On PS5, If You Don’t Mind The Shadows

Remember when Ubisoft said the PS4 version of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate wouldn’t run on the PS5, then said never mind? Well, the quietly excellent 2015 Assassin’s Creed game mostly works on Sony’s new system. There’s just a lot of flickering. I downloaded Syndicate to my PS5 a few days ago and was pleased to see it…

YouTube Is Down, So No, It’s Not Just You [Update]

YouTube is suffering one hell of an outage right now, with not just its video playback but accompanying services like YouTube music also down for the count. I first noticed it about an hour ago while…looking up old Homeworld videos, then quickly noticed that my YouTube Music playback (I keep music playing in the background…

Now 2021 Cosplay Shows Are Being Cancelled As Well

We were all expecting most 2020 conventions to have been cancelled, but the complete inability of most of the planet—and the United States in particular—to get its shit together means that we’re already starting to see big 2021 shows thrown in the bin as well. Katsucon is the first, announcing earlier today that “It is…

Twitch Apologizes, But DMCA Fiasco Continues With Punishments For In-Game Sounds, Deleted Clips

Twitch’s past three weeks have been bleak, to say the least. Late last month, the company abruptly purged thousands of streamers’ videos and advised them to delete all remaining clips in advance of a massive music industry DMCA crackdown—one it had known about for months, but failed to adequately warn streamers about until it developed…

This Speedy Gaming Monitor Was Co-Designed By Porsche

Non-congressional gaming monitor maker AOC and Porsche Design have teamed up to create exactly what one would expect from such a collaboration—an incredibly fast gaming monitor. The $800 Porsche Design AOC AGON PD27 is a 27-inch QHD monitor with a 240 Hz refresh rate, .5 millisecond response time, and a stand design inspired by a…

Plague Inc. Now Has A New Mode In Which You Try To Stop A Pandemic

The most successful video game about spreading disease got a long-promised new mode today that lets you try to stop a pandemic. Plague Inc’s new Cure mode challenges you to find the right mix of contact tracing, lockdown enforcement, vaccine research, economic assistance, and similar measures to bring society to the moment we’re all dreaming…

Roblox Creators Will Now Have To Pay For The Game’s Iconic ‘Oof’ Sound [Updated]

Kid-game sensation Roblox’s meme-famous death sound, a distressing and guttural “oof,” will be temporarily removed from the game. Following a settlement with the sound’s creator, at the end of the month the “oof” will cost money to use in games created in Roblox, and a new default death sound will replace it. (Correction, 7:45pm—A PR…

We Tested All The PS5 Demon’s Souls Graphics Filters

I’m happy to report that I’m finally playing Demon’s Souls, my most anticipated next-gen game. While full impressions will require more time, let’s take a look at the various visual filters the game provides to players on PlayStation 5. (These are 4K images captured via the console’s Create button, by the way, so be sure…

Vaping Trick Makes It Look Like New Xbox Is Blowing Smoke [Update]

Viral videos are circulating on Twitter showing the newly-released Xbox Series X seeming to billow smoke. While this would certainly be cause for concern, others have pointed out possible causes besides the console burning up, and Spanish Twitter news account Xbox Studio demonstrated how easy the effect is to recreate using an ordinary household vape.…

Diablo-lite Minecraft Dungeons is finally getting cross-play on November 17. Players on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC will all be able to matchmake with one another to loot mobs together.

World Of Warcraft Had The Perfect Playlist To Kill Hogger To

Good morning children of the Alliance and welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make.. Today we’re vendoring trash, cleaning out our bank tabs, and disenchanting for dust as we prepare for the launch of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands with a musical nostalgia roadtrip…

Track: I Know The End | Artist: Phoebe Bridgers | Album: (Seth Meyers Live Performance)

The Brotherhood of Steel officially arrives in Fallout 76 on December 1. The game’s Steel Dawn expansion will include new story missions and player-vaults called camp shelters.

They Brought Back Destiny’s Loot Cave, But Not The Loot

Destiny’s prodigal cave has returned and it comes bearing, well, not much. Back in 2014 when Destiny 1 first launched, the loot cave was all folks could talk about. Bungie invested years and millions into making a vast shared world scifi game and all anybody wanted to do was aim their gun into a dark…

Michael B. Jordan Wants Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 On PS5 And I Can’t Argue With That

Creed and Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan already has a PlayStation 5. Such is the life of a celebrity. In a recent Instagram post, Jordan wrote that while he thinks the PlayStation 5’s gameplay and graphics are “🔥,” he also wants to see a certain old-school fighting game make a resurgence on the next-gen…

Three All Elite Wrestling Games In Development

Three separate games featuring the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) brand are currently in development, the organization announced today. This lineup of upcoming AEW games includes an as-of-yet untitled wrestling game for current and next-gen consoles helmed by former WWE 2K developer Yuke’s, mobile general manager simulator AEW Elite General Manager, and virtual gambling game AEW…

Official Spider-Man x PlayStation Sneakers Are Blergh

As we told you last month, Miles Morales—who in the recent animated film made Air Jordan 1s an iconic part of his entire character—has lost his Nike deal in exchange for an Adidas one. And it’s a definite downgrade. While originally all we had to go on were some images from the game, Adidas and…

Destiny 2‘s Steam Player Count Is Nearly At An All-Time High, Despite Beyond Light Launch Difficulties

Any time there are millions of people itching to play a new expansion, there’s bound to be difficulties. You might even call it Destiny… 2: Beyond Light’s rollout, which is happening right now. Today, Bungie’s sci-fi flavored entry in the “bad guys fall down, numbers go up” genre is within spitting distance of a new…

How PS5 Remote Play Works On PS4

A surprise application appeared on everyone’s PlayStation 4 yesterday that allows the console to remotely access the PlayStation 5. Here’s a quick primer on how this feature works. Playing PlayStation 5 games remotely on the PlayStation 4 works much the same way as the feature did between prior Sony consoles. Users will need to activate…

The PS5 Doesn’t Support 1440p Output Now, But It Could In The Future

Keep bugging Sony about it and the PS5 might one day support 1440p just like the Xbox Series X/S. This ray of hope comes via an interview with Japanese tech outlet AV Watch in which two Sony VPs explain that there’s nothing technically holding the PS5 back from outputting in 1440p, the native resolution of…