Assassin’s Creed’s Connor, Who Was The Worst, Is Done For

Nothing typified the regression the Assassin’s Creed series took between Revelations and III more than the game’s star. We went from Ezio, a lovable, charismatic rogue, to Connor, who was…nothing. He was nothingness in a white hood. Sucking much of the life out of the franchise with his solemn frown and humour deficiency, the series…

Gorgeous Racing Game Does The Smart Thing, Abandons Current-Gen

For a game so impossibly beautiful, it always seemed strange that Project Cars was headed not just for the PC, but dated hardware like the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s less weird now, then, that those old machines will no longer be seeing the game. Instead, the game’s developers announced today that in addition to…

The 1980’s Will Help You Beat Wind Waker

I don’t think this was made in the 21st century. I think time travel was involved. I think somebody found a way to go back to the 1980s and took a copy of Wind Waker with them. It’s the only explanation I can think of as to why this fake tips VHS is so perfect…

This Copy Of BioShock Infinite’s PC Expansion Is Only 1.44MB

Zoe Brookes works for BioShock developers Irrational Games as a graphic designer, so if anyone on Earth was going to find the time to whip something this amazing up, it’d be her. Shame it’s not real (duh, the actual expansion will be counted in GB, not MB). Or that you can’t at least buy them.…

Call of Rupees: check out this unexpected Zelda easter egg in Call of Duty: Ghosts…if you’re squinting, the award is for ‘most bushes cut and pots smashed.’ And the award to the left? It might just be a TARDIS… (via r/Zelda)

​AC IV Lead: Working On Next-Gen Easier Than ‘Nightmarish’ Current-Gen

It must be awfully tricky making a game run on both current-and next-gen systems, taking advantage of the power of new consoles while keeping things running on the old ones. With Assassin’s Creed IV, one of the highest profile cross-gen games around, it sounds like the current-gen side of things was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a real…

YouTube’s Comments Might Now Be Less Awful

The fight to make the Internet a better place never ends, but today we can count one more victory on our side: now, not only can you moderate YouTube comments better, but the way comments appear is now also different. I mean, it’s not like you necessarily care about some rando’s opinion, right? Or the…

GTA Online $500,000 Stimulus Package Starts Now

Starting today, you should begin to see money filling up your delicious virtual Los Santos coffers—Rockstar just announced that the GTA Online stimulus package will kick off today. Anyone who played GTA Online in October will get a free $500,000. It’s Rockstar’s way of saying sorry for all the launch woes and technical difficulties in…

Gerard Butler, Vin Diesel Tied To Video Game Movie No One Cares About

Dear Hollywood, no one wants to see a Kane & Lynch movie anymore — I’m not sure anyone ever did. Notthen with Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx, and not now with Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel. Just let it die, already. At one point we had movie posters and an appearance at Cannes. That was…

How To Bring An Award-Winning D&D Board Game To The iPad

Back inAugust, mobile board and card game experts Playdek announced they’d be bringing Wizards of the Coast’s award-winning Dungeons & Dragons-based board game Lords of Waterdeep to iOS. It’s coming out later this month, and this is how it plays. Note the various AI player options. That’s why I love Playdek. The only thing that’s…

The Sun Sets—For Good—on the Blockbuster Night

The last 300 stores owned by rental chain Blockbuster in the U.S. will be closed by January. If the news was as a surprise, it’s only that so many were left. It leaves you with a weird nostalgia—hard to get worked up about a once-monolithic corporation, but still dewy-eyed recalling a trip to bring home…

2013 Call of Duty Lifts Scene From 2009 Call of Duty

Is it recycling? A homage? A cry for help? All of the above? As you can see in the above video by YouTuber satantribal, parts of the prologue of Call of Duty: Ghosts, released yesterday, mirror the ending of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in 2009. (Ghosts is the one on the right.)…

A Convincing Pitch For The Xbox One Kinect In Just Five Seconds

I’ve never been a Kinect guy; if I had the option, I’d rather buy a $400 Kinect-free Xbox One than one saddled with an accessory I probably won’t use all that much. But hey, Microsoft’s motion-sensing device might actually be a serious convenience, if it works properly. Via Microsoft’s Major Nelson, check out this quick…

Crytek Dev Calls Dinner Tweet ‘Boneheaded,’ Praises Work Conditions

After a couple of weeks of silence, we’re finally hearing from people who worked at Crytek, the game development studio where more than 11,500 dinners were proudly served to “crunching” developers. Two people on the game are saying that Crytek is a pretty good place to work, despite a recent controversial Tweet about those dinners…

​Don’t Expect A Modern-Day Assassin’s Creed Anytime Soon

It’s something a lot of us had been hoping for, if not downright expecting: An Assassin’s Creed game set not in an iconic historical era, but entirely in the present day. Sounds like it’s not going to happen anytime soon. “I doubt we would do a modern day AC,” wrote Assassin’s Creed IV lead writer…