Assassin’s Creed Origins Metacritic Flooded With Fake Positive User Reviews

A barrage of fake user reviews has hit the Metacritic page for Assassin’s Creed Origins, all of them positive, and all of them gibberish. “Ways better than assassins creed unity and assassins creed syndicate,” reads a review that appears roughly a dozen times, each from a different username. “it is more mature and bayek is…

Nintendo’s Giving Us New Style Savvy For Christmas

Technically, Nintendo is giving us the opportunity to purchase Style Savvy: Styling Stars on the 3DS on December 25 and not just giving it to us, but it’s a joyous gift nonetheless. Style Savvy: Styling Stars is the latest game in Nintendo’s secret best series ever. I am completely serious here. I really enjoy shopping…

Nintendo is dressing up the plain old 2DS in The Legend of Zelda for Black Friday. The $70 green and yellow handheld comes pre-installed with Ocarina of Time 3D. There’s also a special “Explorer’s Edition” of Breath of the Wild for the Switch, bundled with a 100-page guide and a map for $60.

Make Anime In Japan, Get A Shitty Salary

Making anime isn’t easy! Not only is it a highly skilled profession, but loads of talented people are trying to break in. P.A. Works, the studio behind anime Shirobako, is now hiring for whatever it’s making next spring, and the hourly animator salary is not so good. Actually, it’s terrible. What makes this so interesting…

Shibuya Trashed After Halloween So Volunteers Clean Up

Recently, Shibuya has become Halloween central in Japan, with mobs of costume-wearing partiers descending on the neighborhood. While it looks like they have a blast, they do leave a lot of trash. The crowds are a sight to behold: But the following morning isn’t something you want to see. Via 2ch and Twitter, look at…

Now, This Is An Excellent Pokémon Costume 

The bar for Pokémon costumes has been raised. Just look at this Lugia outfit. It’s wonderful. Twitter user Shuuto created the costume, uploading the clip below and wishing everyone a happy Halloween. This isn’t the first time he’s created a Pokémon themed Halloween costume. Check out the outfits of years’ past.  Can’t wait to see…

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A Future Porsche That Doesn’t Need A Driver

Andrian Luchian is a concept artist and illustrator based in Germany. You can see more of Andrian’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing…

It’s October 2017, And Spintires Is Back On Steam’s Best-Sellers

Wolfenstein. Assassin’s Creed. Call of Duty. The biggest names in the video game business are being unleashed upon a highly suspecting populace, and Steam’s sales charts reflect that. With one exception. Right now, here’s what Steam’s top sellers list looks like: All the big names, but then, toward the middle, is humble Spintires: Mudrunner. It’s…

Where Art Books Meet Strategy Guides

Strategy guide books are a tough sell in 2017, since the internet is free, but I like what Future has tried with their newish Last Guardian thing, which tries to combine tips with other stuff like interviews and concept art all in the one book. I know this isn’t the first book to try that,…

Here’s To Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Helpful Boat Guy

Sometimes in Assassin’s Creed Origins, you’ll have to cross a body of water and you won’t have a boat. Fortunately, there’s this guy who really, really wants to let you use his. Origins tends to sprinkle its beaches and docks with boats your protagonist Bayek can freely use. Sometimes, however, you’ll find yourself out in…

The Most Expensive Things You Can Buy On Steam

Allow me to posit for you a hypothetical scenario: you’ve just come into a large sum of money, perhaps because a wealthy relative passed away, or maybe because there was a great societal upheaval, and you ate a rich person. Regardless, you can afford to splurge a little. Here are some options. The single most…

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, One Year Later

It’s been rough journey through space for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. After a reveal trailer that became the most-disliked video in YouTube history, it started to seem like the shooter series’ push into outer space was a push too far. Activision eventually called it “the wrong game at the wrong moment.” One year later,…

Mario.exe Has Stopped Working

Today on Highlight Reel we have Assassin’s Creed glitches, Mario jumps, The Last Of Us advice and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch…

Beautiful New PS4 Game Isn’t Very Fun To Play

Yesterday, at Sony’s glitzy Paris Games Show presentation, a pastel, nonviolent game about being a human-dragon hybrid surprised viewers with its same-day announcement and release. Presenters’ comparisons to the respected titles Abzu and Journey added to its branding as a chill, atmospheric game with lots of style (and a little mystery). I am an optimistic…

What Wolfenstein 2′s Bloody Twist Has To Say About Its Protagonist’s Body

Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazkowicz is one of the original first person shooter protagonists. He is a muscle bound action hero, the all-American army man. Through examining BJ’s body, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus paints a thin line between power fantasy and Aryan ideals. SPOILERS AHEAD After his injury at the start of The New Order, BJ…

Overwatch Players Resolve Overtime Match With Torbjorn Hammer Duel

A lot of people think winning an Overwatch match is about coordination, acumen and skill, when actually, with just a little imagination, it can be about two Torbjorns hammering each other to death. TheBeginS queued up for a normal Quick Play match the other day that, by the end, was neck-and-neck. Three minutes before the…

We Tried A Dungeon-Themed Escape Room

With Halloween finally upon us, I get to live out my dream of being a camera guy on a ghost hunter TV show walking down dark corridors, crawling through secret passages, and tripping over chains. Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra and Alex Bedder take a trip to Brooklyn Escape Room to see if they have what it…