​Taking Down a Slave Ship in Assassin’s Creed IV‘s DLC Isn’t Easy

Boarding a slave ship and liberating its human cargo is probably the most satisfying thing you can do in the new Freedom Cry DLC for Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s also one of the toughest. Take a look at how this naval battle to free slaves almost ended in tears. The video here shows me taking…

The First Halo Game On Xbox One Looks A Little Different

Halo: Spartan Assault was originally banishedto Windows 8 devices, but now that there’s a shiny new Xbox on the market, it’s available on Xbox One. So just in time for Christmas, I bring you a look at how the game plays on Xbox One. We liked the original game, and the new version of Spartan…

Angry Birds Plus Beastie Boys. Listen To It.

There’s no reason that McMaNGOS should have mashed up the theme from Angry Birds and the Beastie Boys’ ‘Intergalactic’. Except that it works surprisingly well. via /r/mashups

The Year In StarCraft II

Esports and StarCraft II in particular had a pretty cool and eventful year. Here’s a clip, edited by YouTuber Soohyung Kim, with all the memorable matches and moments from this year’s streams from MLG, the World Championship Series and other tournaments. It’s nice to see that a lot of the great, veteran personalities like MC…

A Stop-Motion Dreamcast Striptease, Trivia Included.

Jake Roper of Vsauce3 included six awesome facts about the Dreamcast in the latest stop in his stop-motion teardown trip through console history, so you didn’t have to feel as bad about watching console porn. But it’s still console porn. The Dreamcast was a beautiful machine, inside and out. None of these hardware failures. No…

The Most Unsettling Way To Ask For An N64 For The Holidays

As Christmas approaches, now is the time to reflect on holidays past. And what better way to celebrate that than with an incredibly creepy song about the N64? In the video above, an incredibly weird man-child asks his mother for the gift of the N64. He then proceeds to twerk it out like he’s John…

eShop Credit, Deals On The Most Popular Games Of 2013 [Deals]

Nothing like free money, especially free money good toward video games. Grab yourself some discounted eShop credit and pick up Link Between Worlds or any number of other great titles for your holiday gaming. $50 eShop Gift Card for $40 $20 eShop Gift Card for $16 Need last-minute gifts with free one-day shipping? Gizmodo has…

Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold Is Making A Diablo Clone

What, you expected a pet sim? Tapping into the band’s deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the … Diablo. It’s called Hail to the King: Deathbat. From the…

If you’re into classic arcade games, check out Michael Mateyko and Hans Thiessen’s “A Field Guide To Classic Arcade Design.” Very cool stuff. (Via The Verge)

Drunk Gran Turismo Champion Drives About as Well as I Do Sober

Responsible Young Drivers, despite its English name, is a Belgian advocacy group that, well, advocates responsible driving for the young. What better way to illustrate that than with a video game, and a smashed driver behind the wheel? Tina was skeptical that AMO_RACING87, the top Gran Turismo driver in all of Belgium, was really this…

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki joked about his plans for future Souls games on twitter today: We here at Kotaku are fully behind the idea. Here’s your first piece of concept art, Mr. Miyazaki: Feel free to leave your Ernest-Borgnine-in-Dark-Souls related photoshops in the comments.

Dead MMO’s World Could Live On as an Explorable Relic, says Developer

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closed down on Wednesday when the licensing agreement Electronic Arts had with Games Workshop ended. A developer who worked on the game says there is a way to preserve its world in a kind of museum-exhibit way, should EA choose to release it. Andrew Meggs, who was the lead client…

Ah, So Lara Croft: Reflections Is A Card Game. Great.

Back in March of this year, Square Enix trademarked the name Lara Croft: Reflections. Some speculated it would be a 3DS or PlayStation Vita game. Nope, it’s a free-to-play card battler. Lara Croft: Reflections is in testing right now in Austraila and New Zealand, so anyone with an account in those regions can download it…

The 13 Most Popular Video Games Of 2013, As Purchased By You

We’ve come to the end of another great year in gaming, and we at the Commerce Team can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by looking back at the games our readers chose to treat themselves to. There are some no-brainers and some big surprises, and we can’t wait to see how next…