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We Finally Agree About An Assassin’s Creed Game

Three of us on staff have a habitof disagreeingon…well, almost everything when it comes to Assassin’s Creed. So what happens when Kotaku‘s three AC fanboys sit down with the shortest, least-hyped Assassin’s Creed game in years? The unthinkable… …we actually agree. Well, about most things when it comes to Assassin’s Creed Rogue, which was just…

Battlefield Hardline Tries Real Hard Not To Be Battlefield

Battlefield Hardine is a shooter that rewards not shooting. In the single player at least. If you wondered how it would deal with the idea of a ‘bad cop’ in the current real-world climate, it turns out the solution is, ironically, to pretend it didn’t happen. (Quick note: if ever there was a game to…

Lego Jurassic World: The Basics

What is it? Lego Jurassic World, another of those Lego games we’re always getting, this time covering the four Jurassic Park movies (including this summer’s Jurassic World). Who is making it? TT Fusion, who previously made the superb Lego Movie Videogame. Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Yes, briefly during a demo session at…

Assassin’s Creed Rogue: The Kotaku Review

The biggest plot twist in Assassin’s Creed history is this: Assassin’s Creed Rogue, the least-hyped console game in the series, the one we had good reason to think would be bad, is…a very, very good game. It’s a must-play for any AC fan. What in the world? Did you even know there was a game…

Elite: Dangerous is coming to Xbox One this summer, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer announced today at GDC. Unexpected!

Hooray For Motion Sickness! The Saturday Stream Plays ScreamRide (Done)

The spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon arrives on Xboxes this Tuesday, giving players the ability to design, test-drive and destroy insane amusement park rides. I just want to see if the game’s blazing speed will make Twitch pee itself. From Frontier Developments, the studio that ported the first RollerCoaster Tycoon to the original Xbox, ScreamRide…

Fable Legends is Indeed Free-to-Play – And it’s Not a Bad Thing

To be honest, the first time I ever saw Fable Legends – Lionhead’s 4v1 multiplayer remix of Fable, due out later this year – I could have made a confident educated guess that it would be free to play. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Its reliance on team play and selection of different,…

News that the next Batman Arkham game will be the first to get an M rating isn’t a huge surprise, given the series’ propensity to push the limits of T ratings. In 2012, the ESRB ratings group was surprisingly forthcoming with us about the oddness of Arkham games getting T’s while Halos got M’s. [UPDATE]

Assassin’s Creed Unity Finally Drops App, Web Requirements For Unlocks [UPDATE]

The latest major patch for Assassin’s Creed Unity will free players from the need to connect the console or PC game to the game’s companion app or Initiates website to unlock some special items in the game. From a statement on the company’s website: “We will be unlocking all content exclusive to Initiates and the…

More Than a Third of 2014’s Big-Budget Games Got Day-One Patches

You may have had the feeling lately that the games you’ve been buying and playing didn’t quite get finished when they were shoved out onto store shelves. Well, a lot of them weren’t done baking. We’re a few years into a new console hardware cycle, one that promised to make games on the PS4, Wii…

​Evolve: The Kotaku Review

I’ve been playing a lot of Evolve over the last week and the questions I hear are all the same: Are you tired of this game yet? Is it really repetitive? The answer to each is, simply, no and yes, respectively. Some of you will hate this game. You’ll think its rote nature too boring…

Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever

Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream’s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why? With a twisted story, ordinary characters in strange circumstances and advanced cinematic storytelling, playing Fahrenheit back in 2005…

Tips For Playing Evolve

When you start playing Evolve, you’ll probably suck. Even as you get better, you’ll still run into players who also suck. It can be frustrating. So, let’s skip the learning through trial by (sometimes literal) fire, and get ahead of the curve. Tips For Playing A Hunter Play To Your Class If Battlefield is about…

PSA: Don’t Use Your Evolve Account On Multiple Consoles

Some Evolve players’ progress is being wiped when they attempt to try to access their game’s data from a second console, myself included. It’s not clear why yet, but you should probably avoid playing between consoles if you value your time. It’s happened to me consistently now, as I switch back and forth between my…

What Buying Evolve Gets You

If you’re planning on grabbing Evolve when it launches tomorrow, you’ll pretty much be getting a multiplayer experience similar in concept to Left 4 Dead where you can take on one of three monsters as one of 12 hunters (or vice versa). But it’s a bit more complicated than that. Single Versus Multiplayer Evolve is…

Evolve Impressions: ‘Just One More Round’

Evolve can be simplified in many ways, and you’ve probably heard them all before. It’s a first-person shooter. It’s like Left 4 Dead, four players banding together, but you’re up against a Tank—played by a fifth player—each round. It’s one big boss battle, over and over. But the details that go into the new game,…

Shadow Of Mordor Won A Best Story Award, Which Actually Makes Sense

Dragon Age Inquisition may have taken Game of The Year at last night’s 18th annual DICE Awards, but how about Shadow of Mordor winning for Outstanding Achievement In Story? The scripted story wasn’t so hot, but if they were judging by the stories that emerged as players sparred with enemies who became tougher through the…

A pretty good idea in Battlefield Hardline’s new beta: A mode in which your team captures cars instead of checkpoints—and has to drive above certain speed to earn points. Explained and shown over atKotaku UK

Microsoft’s Hologram Plans Apparently Leaked Back In 2012

Today, Microsoft announced Hololens, an ambitious new piece of hardware designed to make it so you can finally hang out IRL with Hatsune Miku. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it totally is: turns out we’ve kinda known about this for three years now. Way back in 2012, when everyone thought “Xbox One” meant the…

It Took 27 Minutes To Beat Destiny‘s Crota’s End On Hard Mode

The newest update to Destiny— that introduces a hard mode to the Crota’s End raid—has only been out for about two hours at the time of this writing, but a team of players has already beaten it. It doesn’t look like Invigorate—the team that was the first to complete the Vault of Glass raid on…