Here Are 24 Songs That Will Be In The New Guitar Hero

Presented without comment (via Rolling Stone). The Black Keys – “Gold on the Ceiling” Blitz Kids – “Sometimes” Ed Sheeran – “Sing” Fall Out Boy – “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” Gary Clark, Jr. – “Don’t Owe You a Thang” Green Day – “Nuclear Family” The Killers –…

With thesuccessor to Castlevania funded on Kickstarter, now is a great time to read former Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander’s take on what makes Castlevania so great—and why people keep going back to it.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Has Pre-Order Incentives, Of Course

You need a cheat-sheet to figure out how to get what you want out of any new game these days. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is no different. Here’s what we’ve figured out so far about navigating your way to buying the game. Syndicate will be the next major Assassin’s Creed game, moving the series to Victorian…

League Of Legends Is Too Expensive

Here’s a sad truth: Unless you have thousands of hours or hundreds of dollars, it’s impossible to enjoy more than a sliver of League of Legends. Yes, obviously League of Legends is a free-to-play game. That’s always been one of its defining characteristics. The unique problem League faces now, which it didn’t face when it…

Attack on Titan Has The Best Miiverse Community

Today, Attack on Titan: Humanity In Chains releases for the west on the 3DS. But since the Japanese version of the game has been out for a while, that means the game’s Miiverse forum is already chock full of fantastic art. It’s surprising what people can pull off with such limited tools! Let’s take a…

“I think Banjo-Tooie’s the better game.” So says Kotaku reader BlackmanFord in a series of comments below the chat we published yesterday celebrating Banjo-Kazooie. Read his thread for some Tooie love.

What’s The Craziest Thing You’ve Done For A Video Game?

You’ve probably been to your fair share of midnight launches and spent long nights replaying previous titles in preparation for sequels. But dig down deep and share your more shameful stories. Did you steal a friend’s game? Fly to Japan? Mug an old lady for the cash for one? Sleep with a hooker and then…

Five Things I Hate About Heroes Of The Storm

Heroes of the Storm is coming out very soon. That means it’s officially time to process my feelings about Blizzard’s intriguing new MOBA. Yesterday I gave the positives. Now let’s do the negatives. It’s way too expensive. I know I said yesterday that Heroes of the Storm has a great “try it before you buy…

Except for Just Dance, all of Ubisoft’s upcoming games will only be released on new-gen platforms, the company said during its fiscal year earnings calltoday. The means no more Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of games like Assassin’s Creed or The Division going forward. Contact the author at [email protected]

In an apparent delay, Ubisoft is now describing its third-person shooterThe Division as a “fourth quarter” release. Given that their company’s financial year ends in March, that would peg the game for sometime between January 1 and March 31, 2016.

The Black Glove, a surreal indie game being made by former BioShock developers, has been shelved indefinitely. Developer Night Games explained in its announcement that they were unable to find a good publisher following the game’s unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign. Bummer! It looked like a very promising game. Contact the author at [email protected]