Oh Good, They’re Fixing The Worst Thing About Assassin’s Creed

There’s a lot to like about Assassin’s Creed, but the series also has a host of long-running annoyances, chief among them the infuriating way you’ve had to “tail” people from the shadows. So thank the heads of various religious faiths and beliefs that the way you do this is changing for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed:…

Sushi Joint At Nintendo HQ Closed For “Potentially Hazardous Foods”

The dubious quality of Nintendo’s eateries has been a touchy subject for a while now, and that saga continues with the temporary closure of a vendor operating at Nintendo of America’s headquarters. According to a detail listed in a recent update on the public health section of the King County website, the food vendor “I…

Nintendo Is Planning A Future For Both 2D And 3D Metroid

Time to get your hopes up, Metroid fans. The series no-showed E3, but you might be heartened by what the men overseeing Nintendo’s game development had to say about it. Cutting to the chase, they say they’re talking internally about what to do about the series and that they’d like to talk about what’s next…

Harrison Ford Has Been Injured By The Millennium Falcon

Veteran actor Harrison Ford has been injured on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII, hurting his ankle and having to spend a little time in hospital. The culprit? His own ship. The injury isn’t serious, but it’s notable because Variety’s Marc Graser reports that he busted it on the door of the Millennium Falcon:…

Goat Simulator’s Update Makes The Game Even More Bonkers

Penguins. Whales. Jake the dog from Adventure Time. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Zoidberg. Somehow, Goat Simulator has gotten even wackier, and it’s amazing. You can watch Markiplier play through the Goat Simulator update, which added a ton of new stuff to the game for free, here. It’s also worth noting that the game adds stuff…

Zelda Boss On Majora’s Mask Remake: ‘I Hear The Fans’

Ah, Majora’s Mask. For years now, Zelda fans have been praying for and speculating about a sequel or remake to the beloved Nintendo 64 game, and Nintendo has teased us constantly about the possibility. But we haven’t seen anything yet. I just sat down with Eiji Aonuma, the man in charge of all things Zelda…

​Payday 2 Coming to Xbox One, PS4

The super-popular criminal heist game is making its way to Microsoft and Sony’s newest video game consoles. During a livestream session on Twitch showing off the upcoming Big Bank expansion, members of the Overkill developer studio confirmed an earlier tweet that said that the team-based co-op shooter would be going next-gen. No time frame was…

​Coming Up on Wii U, A Nintendo Game Where You Can’t Jump

Nintendo’s a company that’s made its fortunes on Mario, a character with incredible jumping abilities. But, in the newest spin-off from the Super Mario series, you control a character with no hops whatsoever. Turns out that’s a good thing. Kotaku‘s Jason Schreier takes Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for a spin in the video above. The…

​An Oculus Rift Game That Let Me Be Neo From The Matrix

Everybody has dreams. One of my dreams involves me dodging bullets in slow-mo like a badass. Yesterday at E3, the Oculus Rift and a game called Superhot allowed me to live that dream. We swung by Oculus VR to check out the latest game demos for their new Devkit 2 headset. One of the three…

Nintendo’s New Steampunk Game Looks Much Better In Action

Yesterday, we got our first look at Code Name: STEAM, a new strategy game for the 3DS. It sounded awesome—but the screenshots we got to see? They didn’t make the game look so hot. Fear not, though: Code Name: STEAM looks nice in motion. Here are forty-five minutes of the game in action, with some…

The Angry Birds RPG Is Here, And It’s Surprisingly Fun

Inch by inch, feather by feather, Rovio is turning Angry Birds into the bloody sword-fighting game it was always meant to be. The next step in the hit mobile gaming franchise’s evolution from a cute physics-based puzzle game arrived today in the form of Angry Birds Epic, out now for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone-powered…

Did you know there’s a Spider-Man Unlimited mobile game coming out? Gameloft is streaming it and Modern Combat 5 live on Twitch from E3 right now.

​Nintendo: Twitch Streaming Isn’t on the Wii U Because “It’s Not Fun”

Nintendo makes fun characters who do fun things in, for the most part, fun games. The House of Mario is all about the fun. But streaming yourself having fun playing a Wii U game? That is not fun, according to Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime. In an interview with Polygon, Fils-Aime explained why livestreaming services like…

The Games At E3 2014 Sure Had A Lot Of Dudes (Like Always)

It’s probably not surprising to hear that E3 heavily featured men this year—that is, unfortunately, normal—but still, after watching every dude one after the other in a supercut, everyone sort of starts blurring together as a blob of Stern Angry (And Probably White) Dude. It’s not as bad as when every protagonist ever started looking…

Deals: 3DS XL, Playstation Plus, Mario Kart 8, Attack on Titan, Blek

Surprisingly, Mario Kart 8, which is selling very well, is still on sale for $49. We don’t expect this to last too much longer, so grab the wheel while you can. As we’ve noted before you can still register your copy of Mario Kart 8 with Club Nintendo to grab a free game. [Mario Kart…

Pictures of People Taking Pictures of Things At E3 2014

Every year, when the weather finally starts to get warmer, we try to share our experiences from video gaming’s biggest conference: the Electronic Entertainment Expo. But instead of snapping pictures of the latest PlayStation 4 (there’s a white one now) or posting vines of the crazy lines for the Oculus Rift, I thought I’d show…