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It’s Time To Buy A Modern Video Game Console

Hey, you. Gal or guy who’s interested in video games but still doesn’t have a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One (or, of course, the PC equivalent). Now is the time to buy one. In November of 2013, when Sony and Microsoft first launched their video game boxes, it was hard to recommend either of them…

Star Wars Battlefront Impressions: Skimpy Singleplayer, Fun Multiplayer

What is Star Wars Battlefront actually made of? The heavily hyped multiplayer game from the makers got an early release for EA Access subscribers on Xbox One. I dove in on Thursday to see what the game is all about. Battlefront is, not surprisingly, a multiplayer-centric game. Everyone figured that, given that that’s pretty much…

With its story concluded in Episode 5, Square Enix’s episodic adventure Life is Strange is ready to get its retail version. It’s coming out in the U.S. on January 19 for PS4 and Xbox One. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Your Memory is The Key To Solving a 15-Year-Old Murder Case

How do you solve a mystery that took place 15 years ago? Through 15-year-old letters with a long lost pen pal of course. On Tuesday, Japanese game developer Kadokawa Games announced a new project; an adventure game series called the Kadokawa Game Mystery. Each game in the series will focus on a different region of…

Touring Boston’s Freedom Trail in Fallout 4

Approaching Fallout 4 like a tourist isn’t easy. There aren’t as many Bostonians around as there are in present-day Massachusetts, and there are more Super Mutants and feral dogs. (I’m not saying it’s worse in the 23rd century.) Still, there is a sightseeing tour. A version of Boston’s red-brick Freedom Trail is in the game,…

Twenty Hours With Fallout 4

I’m 20 hours into Fallout 4, and I still don’t know whether I like it. That’s a testament to the game’s virtues as well as the game’s failings. I have no plans to stop playing. I’d rather be playing Fallout 4 than typing these words. Yet I still haven’t forgiven the game for taking so…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 will be out on February 23. Popcap’s sequel to its plant-and-zombie-based third-person shooter, which is coming to current-gen consoles and PC, will feature a total of 8 new classes, along with a single-player mode and multiple new multiplayer modes.

New Steampunk Outfits For Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Are Nearly 1GB Each To Download

Here’s a modern day video game mystery we haven’t been able to solve: Why are the download files for new Assassin’s Creed Syndicate outfits so enormous? A new free download that gives players a single Steampunk outfit for Syndicate’s twin protagonist Evie Frye is an 820MB download on Xbox One. The PS4 lists it at…

PlayStation Now isn’t dead yet—Sony’s just added 105 new gamesto the expensive streaming service, including a ton from Capcom (Resident Evil, Lost Planet, etc.) among other publishers.

LEGO Diorama Is The Perfect Homage To Crash Bandicoot

We won’t see a new Crash Bandicoot from Naughty Dog anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the series is losing its popularity. LEGO builder Martin Stipkovic paid tribute with this set featuring multiple levels of Crash Bandicoot 2 The color palette is a perfect match: And what’s inside the black box? Crash Team Racing! To…

What the New Assassin’s Creed Gets Wrong (and Right), According to a Historian

Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned, recommends Assassin’s CreedSyndicate, the entertaining new Ubisoft game set in Victorian London. He likes the way it successfully captures the feel of the British capital in the 19th century, and he particularly likes the way the…

Street Fighter EX Character Gets A Badass Tribute Video

It’s an awesome combo video with a twist: Street Fighter veteran Desk used Street Fighter IV’s Mexican luchador El Fuerte and one of the game’s new horror costumes to recreate the goofy fan favorite from the EX series. He even remixed Skullomania’s theme to make it perfect. To contact the author of this post, write…

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate‘s DLC Missions Range From Terrible To Great

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s various add-on missions, given to those who preordered the game or who bought it on a specific platform, are wildly uneven in quality. The worst were even advertised in misleading fashion. The best should make Xbox One fans temporarily jealous of PS4 owners. Let’s break this down: The Terrible We’ll get the…

15 Interesting Things I Learned About Wild

When we first saw it at Gamescom last year, nobody really had any idea what Wild actually was. It had a caveman survival-game vibe, and a giant lady who lived in a tree. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Shown again during Sony’s European press conference two days ago, Wild has taken shape: it’s…

Watch Sony’s Paris Games Week Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over] 

It’s PlayStation Day in Paris, where Sony’s about to put on a press conference full of new games and announcements. We’re expecting to see some Uncharted 4 news, appearances from Sony’s other first-party studios, and maybe even David Cage’s next game. Fun drinking game for anyone who wants to stay sober this afternoon: Take a…

Nice Brawling Animations, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Last year I was impressed with a state of the art Assassin’s Creed kiss. This year? The latest Assassin’s Creed team has upped their game with combat animations. Enjoy some ass-kicking and some bone-crunching, folks, especially the finishing animations at the end of each of these clips: Some of the combat animations outside of the…

Our incredibly efficient pals at Lifehacker have posted a wonderfully-detailed comparison of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, to help people decide which to buy. Spoiler: They say you can’t go wrong with either.

Three Minutes of Fighting Over a Half-Naked Man in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but devoid of spoilers—from Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, a game I quite like. The setup: Jacob Frye, the assassin I’m controlling, has just knocked out a British royal guardsman and stolen his uniform. Next, he’s (we’re?)…

New Assassin’s Creed Changes Series’ Signature Message About Diversity

Since the first Assassin’s Creed in 2007, games in Ubisoft’s history-hopscotching series have always begun with an on-screen message about the diversity of the people who made the game. You see it as the game boots up, before you can play anything. For this year’s Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the 10th major release in the series,…

Here are the patch notes for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s first two patches, both available for download as soon as you get the game. Capped from a PS4. For the record our reviewer had no major performance issues with his version of the game, which we believe was running with at least the first patch (the…