The Steam Halloween Sale

Now through November 1st, Steam has discounted a fairly large selection of digital games in honor of… whatever they don’t really need an excuse. Most of the games on offer have at least some kind of tenuous tie to themes relevant to Halloween, but you may be scratching your head at a few of the…

What A Strange Place For A Batman: Arkham Origins Crossover

With the recent release of thethird game in the award-winning Batman: Arkham series upon us, there are plenty of places I’d expect the Dark Knight and friends to be showing up this week. As collectible characters in mobile sensation Puzzle & Dragons was not one of them. Yet here we are, with a special event…

EA Cancels Command & Conquer

And another Command & Conquer game bites the dust: EA has just axed the latest in the longrunning strategy series, the company announced today. “Your feedback from the alpha trial is clear: We are not making the game you want to play,” a rep for developer Victory Games wrote in a blog post published this…

What’s The Best Graphics Card For The Money?

Let’s just say that your hour has come again… to vote on the best gear with your fellow Kotakuites. Today’s topic: graphics cards, but not just any graphics card, and not the most powerful graphics card. We’re looking for the best GPU bang for your buck. With Battlefield 4 in hand and next-gen consoles around…

Battlefield 4 For $43, Black Flag, Arkham Origins Season Pass [Deals]

Picking up today’s release of Battlefield 4 for $17 off on PS3, 360, and PC is clearly the highlight of today’s bargain lineup. If you prefer a digital copy, hit up GreenManGaming and pay 5 bucks more. Note that this code may not work for everyone Battlefield 4 ($43) | PS3, 360, PC Physical Battlefield…

Corporate Evil: here’s a small but fun easter egg that ties together Assassin’s Creed 4 with another Ubisoft game—Watch Dogs. You can see this yourself while hacking computers in the Abstergo offices in AC4. Video by MrSkillToKill2

The ESRB Brings You This Unbearably Cute Reminder About Game Ratings

Man, I don’t have kids (that I know of) and I’m dawwwwwing all over this PSA that the ESRB just put out. It’s a reminder that it can be hard to say no when your kid’s so excited for Ninja Attack!, or whatever they’re clutching, and you want him or her to be happy. But…

Here’s a Need for Speed trailer that doesn’t star Jesse Pinkman! Yay science! A lot of pre-render in this Need for Speed: Rivals trailer, but it still looks good. And yeah, piss on those cops. These willful speed competitions only become dangerous when The Man tries to shut them down.

Arkham Origins Benchmarked: How’s Your PC Handling The Batman?

With Warner Bros Games Montréal handling development, many fans were worried that Arkham Origins wouldn’t (couldn’t?) live up to its Rocksteady-produced predecessors. As is often the case with console-oriented releases, PC gamers were burdened with the extra concern of whether to expect a quality port. Although Origins has received its share of criticism, it doesn’t…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss calls Uncharted 2 a Last-Gen Zero and explains why he thinks it’s a failed jump across the gaps of video game creativity. NotGoodForYou takes a look at indie zombie shooter Contagion. And Peter Tieryas thinks that Heavy Rain is a Last-Gen Hero, saying that…

Halo: Spartan Assault is Coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Halo: Spartan Assault—the top-down, twin-stick shooter released over the summer for Windows 8 PCs and mobile devices—is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One by the holidays, Microsoft said this morning. The game on consoles will feature a new online co-op mode, and new missions showcasing the mode. The Flood will also be an…

New X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer Brings All the Time Travel Feels

Man, I wasn’t expecting all this emotion in the clip for the upcoming X-Men prequel/sequel movie. And where are the damn Sentinels? Along with a bunch of other folks who’ve played X-Men on-screen in past movies, we get glimpses of new characters like Bishop and Blink, too. Despite loving the Chris Claremont/John Byrne storyline that…

It’s like these steel Japanese wings in the MMO combat simulator War Thunder were probably folded a few hundred times to achieve the above glitchy result. Glorious katana wings! Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if…

Nintendo confirms that sexy The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 3DS XL bundle for North American release on November 22. Aw, and they made poor Eiji Aonuma go out on the roof to do it. The $219.99 bundle comes with a 3DS XL much better than mine, and a download code for some…

HD Remasters Breathed New Life into Old Games

When I look back at the seventh console generation (PS3, Xbox 360, etc.), I can’t help but feel that the creation of HD remasters of great games was one of the best things to come out of it. The most obvious (and superficial) reason that HD remasters are awesome is simply how pretty they tend…