In 1745, all-time-great American Ben Franklin wrote a letter to his friend advising him that if his friend was still going to "persist in thinking of a commerce with the sex inevitable" after getting married, this friend should get a mistress—an old mistress.

Every year the Writers Guild of America awards a special Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing award to the team responsible for the most memorable interactive entertainment script. Which of these five titles will walk away a winner on February 19?

Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in.

There's a war going on in Paris, and despite the lessons we've learned from video games that war never changes, this is the first war I'm aware of that is being waged with Post-It Notes. On one side is Ubisoft's Paris HQ. And the other is French bank called BNP, each trying to one-up the other with video-game…

In our first post-Christmas Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter TheolaRegulus keeps the mood festive by giving thanks to Ubisoft for keeping the plot of the Assassin's Creed series together across many mediums.

In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show:

Every day this week, Steam will be featuring special deals on Ubisoft PC titles, with Assassin's Creed up first on the block.