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Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s Paris Looks Damned Good

Paris is a great choice to show off the evolution of the tech powering the next crop of Assassin’s Creed games, n’est-ce pas? In this new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity, you can get lingering looks at the bustling crowds, interior spaces and improved parkour that will be hitting the Xbox One, PS4 and PC…

Destiny‘s Beta Characters Aren’t Transferring to the Final Version

Millions of players might have been hoping—assuming, even—that all the work they’d put in leveling up and customizing characters during the Destiny beta would continue on in the final version of the game. Nope. The characters built in this summer’s pre-launch test are being wiped and all players will be starting fresh. News of this…

One Of The PlayStation’s Greatest Heroes, Reborn (Again) In Skyrim

The ever-rising Sir Daniel Fortesque shall live once more, thanks to a mod aimed at recreating the first four levels of the classic MediEvil in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The mod, crafted lovingly by KorinOo of Nexus Mods (via Reddit), aims to breathee new life (sorry, it’s too easy) into a PlayStation mascot that’s…

Want All The Cool Stuff At Launch? Buy More Than One Copy Of The Game.

You might think it’s cool that you can dress Lara Croft and her next game’s three co-stars as if they were actually starring in a Hitman game. You might think it’s cool that you can dress them up as if they were in a Deus Ex game. Well, bad news. On December 9, the day…

This Tony Hawk Speedrun is Flat Out Bonkers

I was pretty solid at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 in my day. But I don’t hold a candle to GeorgeThePlushie, who demolished the game in 3 minutes and 26 seconds. Take a look at it, and bathe in your game-playing inadequacies! See how fast he moves through the menus! George mentions that fraps was…

The Division’s New York Versus Real New York

THE TREES ARE WRONG CANCEL MY PRE-ORDER. Actually, it’s pretty close all round in this video, as PlayStation Access visit most of the areas shown so far in demos. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK All the major landmarks get a look-in, including the Manhattan and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, the Empire State Building, Penn…

Playing in a World of Japanese Watercolors

Back at the Tokyo Game Show last year, I got some hands-on time with Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines. At that time, I said it was the prettiest game I saw at the show. And now, as I play through the full version, I find myself loving the art style more and more. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines is…

Get ready for some indie-friendly gore, PS4 gamers. Sony just announced that Surgeon Simulator is coming to its current-gen console on August 12th. I wonder how the game’s famously difficulty controls are going to work on the DualShock 4…

Aladdin And Princess Jasmine Are Coming To Disney Infinity

Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn’t exactly “a whole new world” at this point. Disney Infinity certainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0. Don’t…

Kratos Is A Loser Even When He Wins

If there was ever a video game character that needed to go into therapy, it’s God of War star Kratos. Even David Jaffe, one of his creators, has said that the guy should calm down But can you really blame him? He lost his entire family before the original God of War even started. And…

Someone’s Suing Sony Because A PS4 Game Isn’t 1080p

Proving the theory that anyone will sue anyone for anything, a legal firm filed a class-action lawsuit for $5 million against Sony yesterday because the multiplayer mode in PS4 game Killzone: Shadowfall doesn’t run at a “native” resolution of 1080p. Yep, this is for real. The suit, which you can read below, alleges that Sony…

This Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…

Existentially troubling puzzle game The Swapper is out today on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. It’s really cool and super worth playing. But hey, you don’t have to take it from me: Check out Mike Fahey’s review of the PC version.

Road Not Taken: The Kotaku Review

Yes, it’s named after the Robert Frost poem. No, it’s not clear why. The lovely new game from development studio Spry Fox is full of mysteries, most of them with gameplay consequences. It’s basically a game about a person who lives in a village, makes friends and then heads out into the wilderness year after…

Metrico: The Kotaku Review

Metrico is a frustrating game. That’s mostly meant as a compliment. This is a puzzle game, after all. You’re supposed to pull your hair and swear once in a while. Every puzzle game walks a fine line between the good kind of frustration and the bad kind, however. And when Metrico wavers into the bad…

Dark Souls II‘s Lore Might Be Deeper Than You Think

Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon, the final boss of Dark Souls II‘s Crown of the Sunken King DLC, is one of the series’ most exciting boss battles. It’s a battle that needs something similarly cool as background. Vaati, a Souls veteran, helps us decode the game’s cryptic backstory with a masterfully crafted lore video. Here’s the…

Leak Shows Off Rogue, This Year’s Last-Gen Assassin’s Creed [UPDATE]

The second forthcoming 2014 Assassin’s Creed game, formerly discussed under the codename Assassin’s Creed Comet, appears to be called Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and feature the return of sailing gameplay and a protagonist with possible Templar loyalties, according to a leaked trailer. UPDATE (11:18am): And Ubisoft has confirmed Rogue this morning through a Game Informer cover…

Resident Evil Is Getting an HD Remaster

And it’s coming to the PlayStation 3, the PS4, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, and PC in glorious high definition. According to Famitsu, this is an HD remastering of the 2002 remake, with the goal of keeping the game’s sheer terror. Capcom assures that it isn’t making any unnecessary changes to the game that…

This JRPG’s Facial Recognition System Could Be Better

Much like the Miis on the Nintendo 3DS, the new JRPG Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines allows you to create a character by taking a picture of yourself with the Vita’s camera. Of course, why limit it to being based on your face when there are so many pictures of famous people out there? Thus, I picked…

The First Big Video Game Made By Native Alaskans

A few years ago, an Alaskan indigenous community found themselves with money to invest. Like any investment, the money would ideally multiply itself many times over. The Cook Inlet Tribal Council thought about funding funeral homes and getting into real estate. Instead, they decided to pour their money into a video game. Money’s not the…