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UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Unity Has The Best Glitches
Who knew Parisian adventures of sneaky assassinations could be improved with a few choice bugs and hiccups? Since it’s release, players have found all sorts of entertaining glitches in Unity. Some bugs show the horrors of what happens when textures don’t load. Some glitches show Arno struggling with climbing things—sometimes, seemingly swimming/dangling on things he…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 12, 2014 - Uncategorized
The heartfelt and deeply personal indie game That Dragon, Cancer is shifting gears. Ryan Green, who is making the game to tell the story of his son’s death from terminal cancer, says that it will no longer be an Ouya exclusive. Green and his co-developers have launched a new Kickstarter to help finish it in…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 12, 2014 - Uncategorized
Xbox LIVE for $35, PS4 Last of Us Bundle, Razer Gear, and More Deals
New Rakuten customers, or those willing to create a new account for this purpose, can grab a year of LIVE for just $35 today with code THANKS15. [LIVE] You can do the same thing to get a DualShock 4 for the same price. Groupon is having a nice sale today on pretty much everything they…
By Shane Roberts Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedGuy Can’t Stop Laughing At How Buggy The Remastered Halo Games Are
Since the launch of 343’s remastered Halo: The Master Chief Collection, many players have been reporting a laundry list of issues. Some of those, when players can actually connect to the multiplayer servers, include matches with skewed teams. You can see an example of that in the video above, where player Mark Edward Neace Jr,…
By Tina Amini Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Honest World Of Warcraft Trailer Evokes Strange Feelings Of Pride
When a normal game gets theSmosh Games Honest Trailers treatment I just point and laugh along with the video. Having been a semi-permanent resident of Azeroth for the past decade, the Honest Trailer for World of Warcraft makes me proud to have been a part of this glorious nonsense. “Get hooked on the MMO that…
By Mike Fahey Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedMonument Valley, one of the best games for the iPad, is now even more best, as eight new peaceful puzzling levels arrive in the game’s Forgotten Shores expansion. The new levels are available today on iOS via $1.99 in-app purchase, with Android and Amazon versions of the update coming soon.
By Mike Fahey Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedThat Moment When LEGO Batman 3 Gets Really Good
Like the first two games in the series, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham begins with the terrestrial adventures of Batman and Robin. It’s a slow start, but then comes a moment when it all comes together and the game kicks into high gear. It’s not an easy moment to pinpoint, but after much soul-searching and…
By Mike Fahey Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedWhy Assassin’s Creed Makes No Sense To Me
Assassin’s Creed has been around for seven years now. This makes it ancient in video game years. I doubt it’s going anywhere anytime soon, either. This is a problem because the relentless pace at which Ubisoft churns these games out can make it hard to take a step back and evaluate what’s not working about…
By Yannick LeJacq Published November 12, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Assassin’s Creed Unity: The TAY Review • Music in Media Part 1: Influencing your Experiences • Freedom Wars: The Nitro Review “Phantasy Lords of God Hunter Burst Freedom Unite” • TAY Explores Comics: Blood and Steel TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published November 12, 2014 -
CultureDark Souls II Beaten in Under An Hour
Beaten in 59:15 to be exact and, according to the speedrunner, Allakazzaror, this is a new world record—the first one under an hour—without using glitches. The run falls into the “current patch, glitchless any%” category (there are many many speedrun categories for this game as you can see here) which means you have to complete…
By Gergo Vas Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedDARPA’s “Atlas” Robot Can Now Do The Karate Kid Crane Stance
That’s some serious balancing. Engineers at Boston Dynamics are making progress with “Atlas”, the 6-foot, 330-pound humanoid robot. Still a long way to go from this to fast robot ninjas, but it’s already intimidating as it tries to do the famous “Crane Kick” (or at least the stance) from Karate Kid You should turn the…
By Gergo Vas Published November 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
An Astro Boy crossing signalwas just installed in Kanagawa Prefecture, outside Tokyo. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2014 -
UncategorizedSkysaga is Minecraft Meets Bastion, And it Looks Great
To bop the elephant in the room squarely on its cuboid hooter, Skysaga: Infinite Isles looks an awful, awful lot like Minecraft This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Created by Radiant Worlds – a 50-head studio founded by veterans of UK-based Blitz Games Studios, which went into voluntary bankruptcy last year – it’s a…
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Published November 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
PS4 exclusive Bloodborne has been delayed from February 5 to late March—specifically, March 24 for North America, 25th for Europe, 26th for Japan, and 27th for the UK and Ireland. The reason? So that From Software can “deliver the best possible final experience.”
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
What It’s Like To Be Poor and Rich, According to This Cartoon
While I may not agree one hundred percent, I do think there is certainly an element of truth to this illustration. Artist Rika Asakawa drew the image, which Kotaku has localized. OnTwitter, she wrote, “This is something I thought about when I became an adult.” The image appeared online earlier this fall and was retweeted…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Final Fantasy VIII Remake Could Be a Beautiful Thing
Just look at it. This fan art is based on Final Fantasy VIII‘s Balamb Garden, and it not only looks fantastic, but also screams HD remake for FFVIII This was created by Scott Honeycutt, a 3D environmental artist—and a talented one at that. These images have been floating around Japanese web forums, impressing Final Fantasy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2014 - Kotaku East
Japanese High School Holds “Sex Change Day”
Yesterday wasn’t your typical day at Fuji Hokuryo High School in Yamanashi Prefecture. Male and female students could trade uniforms for what the school dubbed “Sex Change Day” (セクスチェンジ・デー or sekusu chenji dee). The event made the national news. According to one of Japan’s largest papers, Asahi Shimbun (via game site My Game News Flash),…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2014
