Assassin’s Creed Will Actually End One Day

Many of gaming’s biggest franchises have no endgame in mind—ask Nintendo when they’ll stop making Mario games, for example, and you’ll be laughed out of Kyoto. And the actual NFL is more likely to end before Madden ever does. Assassin’s Creed, though? The folks behind Ubisoft’s longrunning action/adventure series say it’ll end one day. They…

GLaDOS Actress and a Portal Gun Help Guy Adorably Propose to Boyfriend

People propose at fan conventions like PAX, Comic-Con or GenCon all the time. And, yes, many of these declarations of love involve costumes. But a very select few—maybe only one?— have the fan-favorite actress who gives voice to Portal series antagonist GLaDOS singing “Still Alive” along with a banjo. The cuteness here is off the…

Moneysaver: Discounted Playstation Plus Memberships and PS4 Pre-Orders

For Michael you. If you own a Playstation 3, or Vita, and don’t have Playstation Plus, you’re doin’ it wrong (do people still say that?). I love using visual aids in the Moneysaver, so just look at that image, the value is ridiculous. Today Best Buy is offering a rare discount on Plus memberships, and…

Taiwan Animators Come Up With Better Gamertags Than Xbox Live Trolls

Next Media Animation has made a good living offering allegorical reenactments of controversies—many of them in video gaming—and setting them to the sonorous tones of a Mandarin voice-over. I wasn’t expecting them to do something on Xbox Live’s new Enforcement United Project so soon, however. Well, hey, it’s Monday in Taiwan, too, I suppose. In…

Tips for Playing Pikmin 3

Pikmin 3 is good at many things. But it’s not so good at explaining the best parts of its control scheme or even how to have the most fun with Nintendo’s new game. Thank goodness we’re here to provide you some tips… Use The Wii Remote, Nunchuk and GamePad You can control Pikmin 3 purely…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: SloopyDrew—who’s new to playing games with a keyboard-and-mouse set-up—wants help from WASD and right-click masters. JJtheTexan continues his catalog of long-lost Nintendo games with a look at Game Boy Color titles. And Cimeas has a great piece about open-world games, focusing on how Rockstar’s approach…

30 Minutes Of The Elder Scrolls Online And The Final Dishonored DLC

Last weekend’s QuakeCon was not only about tournaments and John Carmack. Bethesda Softworks and Arkane both showed new gameplay footages from their upcoming titles: The Elder Scrolls Online and Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches, which will be the final downloadable content for the game. You can check both presentations below. The Elder Scrolls Online During the…

Splinter Cell: Blacklist Won’t Feature Offline Co-Op Play on Wii U

While none can doubt Ubisoft’s commitment to publishing on the Wii U, that console’s version of Splinter Cell: Blacklist will lack a feature the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions all have: offline cooperative multiplayer. In an interview with Nintendo Life, producer Liu Jun of Ubisoft Shanghai said the feature was left out of Splinter…

Apple Rejected This Game To Keep You From Killing Your iPhone

Rejected by Apple for “encouraging behavior that could result in damage to the user’s device”, Carrot Pop’s Send Me To Heaven arrives on Google Play, because no one cares if your Android device shatters on the pavement. “Throw your phone as high as you can” reads the primary instruction on S.M.T.H., a free game that…

A Creepy-Looking New Game Set in the Days Before America Was America

You won’t quite be able to figure out what’s going on in this trailer for new horror/FPS Betrayer. But it’ll still make you feel queasy. Maybe it’s the ghosts flying at the camera in a stark, 17th-Century rural landscape. Or the muskets, crossbows and tomahawks promised on the game’s official site. But Betrayer—which PC Gamer…

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Elise the old monkey grandma is finally leaving! (And Catbus fireworks)

Yes, those are Cat Bus fireworks you are seeing. They were real and they were spectacular. Elise finally asked to leave yesterday, which coincided awesomely with the fireworks show! I really shouldn’t be so happy about my neighbor leaving but she’s just so curmudgeonly and old.

QuakeCon 2013’s Most Epic Frags, Summarized In Five Minutes

The world’s best Quake players descended on QuakeCon 2013 this past weekend—guys like evil, Chance, Stermy and DaHaNG. This awesome highlight reel from Youtuber neoQLive showing them all fragging each other with the most precise shots you could imagine. QuakeCon 2013 had Quake Live tournaments for 4 days, so catching the best moments might be…

Quick Q&A: There Aren’t Enough Video Games

Welcome to the second Kotaku Quick Q&A, this time with a small twist. Our interviewee answers four of my questions and then has one question for me and you. On the hot seat today is Rami Ismail, who co-runs the indie studio Vlambeer. Popular critical hits such as Super Crate Box and Ridiculous Fishing have…

Kirby is acting like a face-hugger on top of poor Samus in Masahiro Sakurai’s latest Smash Bros screenshot. The world’s first intergalactic pink puffball waddles his way into the battle. 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…

Japanese Anime Comes Alive with These Amazing Sand Sculptures

It’s summer! Time to hit the beach, get a tan, and look at giant sand sculptures of anime characters. Yay! In the past few years, sand art has become increasingly popular in Japan with more and more beachfront cities holding sand art festivals. And this being Japan, some of the sand artists look to Japanese…

Apple Stores in China Don’t Actually Require Scalped Tickets

Last week, 9to5 Macran a piece from the Beijing Evening News about Apple store scalpers selling Genius Bar reservations. In their article, the Beijing Evening News claims that it’s impossible to make an appointment at the Genius Bar without purchasing one from a scalper. But is it really? Scalpers in China are old news: they’re…

Watch a Japanese Nerd Stampede

We are days away from the summer Comiket, a huge, self-published comics event in Tokyo that over a half a million people attend. Make that a half a million geeks. This video is a taste of things to come. It’s okay to be a geek! I’m also a geek. Maybe you are, too? If so,…

China’s First-Person Military Shooter Has a Terrible Message

At first, I was intrigued by the idea of a game about the Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army. But now after spending a weekend with the Glorious Mission Online’ s public release, the novelty has worn off. Originally slated to be a People’s Liberation Army training game akin to America’s Army, Glorious Mission Online…

In This Game, the Characters Have Penis Names

The game’s developers are so not dicking around, because doing so would be a complete cock up. Ikare Chinpo-ya (いかれちんぽ屋) is an upcoming boys’ love computer game that features a protagonist named, literally, “Angry Cock Merchant” (“Ikare Chinpo-ya” or いかれちんぽ屋). There’s also his mouse friend named “Benis” (“Benisu” or ベニス), the “Detective of Buck Naked”…