Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Assassin’s Creed Unity: The TAY Review • Music in Media Part 1: Influencing your Experiences • Freedom Wars: The Nitro Review “Phantasy Lords of God Hunter Burst Freedom Unite” • TAY Explores Comics: Blood and Steel TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Dark Souls II Beaten in Under An Hour

Beaten in 59:15 to be exact and, according to the speedrunner, Allakazzaror, this is a new world record—the first one under an hour—without using glitches. The run falls into the “current patch, glitchless any%” category (there are many many speedrun categories for this game as you can see here) which means you have to complete…

Skysaga is Minecraft Meets Bastion, And it Looks Great

To bop the elephant in the room squarely on its cuboid hooter, Skysaga: Infinite Isles looks an awful, awful lot like Minecraft This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Created by Radiant Worlds – a 50-head studio founded by veterans of UK-based Blitz Games Studios, which went into voluntary bankruptcy last year – it’s a…

PS4 exclusive Bloodborne has been delayed from February 5 to late March—specifically, March 24 for North America, 25th for Europe, 26th for Japan, and 27th for the UK and Ireland. The reason? So that From Software can “deliver the best possible final experience.”

What It’s Like To Be Poor and Rich, According to This Cartoon

While I may not agree one hundred percent, I do think there is certainly an element of truth to this illustration. Artist Rika Asakawa drew the image, which Kotaku has localized. OnTwitter, she wrote, “This is something I thought about when I became an adult.” The image appeared online earlier this fall and was retweeted…

Satellite Reign is The Syndicate Wars You Remember

Memory can be a strange thing. Especially with old games. We’ve all returned to a beloved classic to discover something unplayable and been unable to reconcile warm memories with the broken experience of something that hasn’t aged well. (For me it’s Resi 2, which is regularly reloaded and ditched within hours.) This post originally appeared…

Japanese High School Holds “Sex Change Day”

Yesterday wasn’t your typical day at Fuji Hokuryo High School in Yamanashi Prefecture. Male and female students could trade uniforms for what the school dubbed “Sex Change Day” (セクスチェンジ・デー or sekusu chenji dee). The event made the national news. According to one of Japan’s largest papers, Asahi Shimbun (via game site My Game News Flash),…

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Plants vs Zombies vs LEGO

Oh, if only this was an actual LEGO set. Well, actually, it can be if enough people vote for it, thanks to LEGO’s Ideas program. Which I’m guessing people will do, because even as a pitch it looks as good as you’d expect from the finished product. The work of killarkai, the set includes the…

Cops Raided Game Studio Because They Thought It Was A Gambling Den

Staff at the Indonesian branch of mobile gaming giant Gameloft got a bit of a surprise on Monday, when police raided the office believing it to be an “an online gambling den”. Maybe they’d got a bad tip, maybe they were jumping to conclusionsabout mobile gaming in general, but local news site Tribun Jogja (via…

Hold X To Play This Call Of Duty Funeral Tribute

Would you believe me if I said Press E To is actually kind of powerful, even if it’s suuuper minimal and based on a goofy moment from Call of Duty? Press E To is a free PC game that emerged in part from another project creator Leo Burke was working on, and in part from,…

An Underrated Classic Gets A Surprise Remake

In 1991, Codemasters released one of the greatest racing/party games of all time: Micro Machines. Despite a few sequels, it’s all but forgotten these days, Mario Kart casting a very long shadow over that style of game. But hey, good news: Codemasters just released what’s basically a remake! To very little fanfare, a game called…

​Assassin’s Creed Unity Just Doesn’t Run Very Well On PS4 Or Xbox One

We’ve been seeing complaints all day about Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s performance on consoles. Here’s what we know from our own experience, and from what others are reporting around the internet. I’ve played a fair bit of the game on Xbox One, and have found the frame-rate to be a real bummer. To my eye, it…