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It Took Three Months To Find An Assassin’s Creed IV Easter Egg

In November, Assassin’s Creed IV writer Darby McDevitt put out a challenge on Twitter: Three months later, someone’s finally done it. YouTuber Kosappi Uni found the hidden message buried in the sound files of Ubisoft’s pirate game, and posted it in a video (embedded above). It’s strange, and meta, and kind of funny, especially if…

The Rarest Video Game In The World

On a warm evening earlier this month outside a cafe in Buenos Aires, Colin Northway took a sip of his drink and told me about the rarest video game in the world. He was making the game, he told me, and he was excited about it. He didn’t call it the rarest game on the…

Broken Age Aborts Early Access Launch for Season Pass Approach

Broken Age, the crowdfunded adventure from Double Fine launching today to its backers, won’t be offered on Steam Early Access. It will, however, release under a “Season Pass” model that gives buyers both of two planned episodes. “Early Access” releases generally carry the impression the game still is in progress or is incomplete. Double Fine…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: Legend of Zelda Weapons Would Make Call of Duty, Uncharted and Other Games a Lot Better • Awesome Food from a Tiny Island You May Not Even Know About • Another Delay Announced for Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 3 TAY Classic—TAY Open…

If Google Was A Guy He’d Probably Be Really Annoyed

College Humor wonders, “What if Google was a guy?” And by that, it means, an actual person who took your queries, rooted through a filing cabinet, and handed you what you were looking for. It’d mean that guy would have to put up with a lot of this, probably. Looks like a rather crummy job.…

Now That’s An Impressive Boss Monster, Guild Wars 2

The living story that ran through 2013 in Guild Wars 2 escalates in 2014, as the arch-villain Scarlet Briar unleashes a massive mechanical monstrosity on the unsuspecting denizens of Tyria. Meet the Twisted Marionette. Unimpressed? Perhaps some perspective will help. Those little colorful specks on the ground are players. They’re going to have to team…

EA continues to roll out fixes for Battlefield 4 on all platforms. Along with a slew of specific problems—like the “friendly marker not always showing when needed to, resulting in players shooting team members”—the latest batch of patches promises to improve the general stability of the game across the board.

I Help Make Video Games, And I’m Sick Of The Hatred From Gamers

The following editorial was written by a developer who has been testing and making games for five years. The developer asked to be kept anonymous. Dear consumers and fans of video games, You don’t know me. But you might know some of the games I’ve helped create. And as I come to a close on…

You Can Use a Giant Whip as a Weapon in Battlefield 4, Apparently

This Battlefield 4 levolution stunt, performed by YouTuber ponylion, must be one of the sneakiest and most difficult yet—detonating C4 on one of the cables holding the tower in place, which whips upwards, blowing up the enemy aircraft. Creative! Here’s the whole thing, with some preparations and planting the C4. Things get wild around the…

Today, the official website of actor Kane Kosugi issued a correction and apology, stating the actor wasn’t starring in a prequel calledTekken – A Man Called X, but rather, a non-Tekken movie with the temp title Agent X. “We would like to apologize for the ineptitude on our part,” stated Kosugi’s official site. Not sure…

The Banner Saga Isn’t Just A Pretty Face

It feels like it’s taken forever – and if you’ve been stuck playing the game’s multiplayer component, out since last year, that’s especially the case – but The Banner Saga is actually out today. And true to form, it looks incredible. I’ve been messing around with a finished build of the game for a little…

Tonight on Guild Wars: Scooby-Doo: The gang gets lost in Twilight Arbor while searching for the Lake of Fear. They should have picked another MMO, they won’t find any Scooby Snacks here. It’s still an awesome shot, made by Guild Wars 2 player Lua and her friends. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every…

Everquest Creator Seeks to Crowdfund… Another Everquest, Basically

Another Everquest, with old-school charm. Also, sweet double-barreled crossbows. The game’s called Pantheon, and it popped up on Kickstarter yesterday, promptly raking in over $40k in pledges. The guy behind it all, Brad McQuaid, had previously worked on both the first Everquest and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. It really shows. Take a look: We’re looking…

Slugcats Do Not Have Nine Lives

Rain World is a game that’s the work of two people, Joar Jakobsson and James Primate. They’ve spent two years building a world where rain is deadly, monsters will kill you and you control a slugcat that’s a lot cuter than anything with the word “slug” in its name has any right to be. It’s…

Jake Kazdal has had one hell of a career. He’s been a Nintendo Gameplay Counselor. Made N64 games. Worked on both Rez and Space Channel 5. Made Skulls Of The Shogun. Edge has a great story on his journey from artist to developer that you really should read

LAN Party Gaming PC Looks Like a Working Man’s Lunchbox

This one’s for all the LAN party devotees out there. The Fang Battle Box is a gaming PC designed specifically for those who lug their computers around to LAN parties. Which, as you can see from some of the images here, can be a precarious business. The Fang’s solution is to use a smaller motherboard…

A Cool Sci-Fi Game Where You’re Stuck On A Giant Jumbo Jet

CONSORTIUM is a first-person game, with shooting in it, but it’s not a first-person shooter. Despite the sci-fi setting, and the constant narrative potential for violence, and the moments of actual violence, this is an adventure game. And an RPG. And a pretty good one at that. You play a crew member on a giant…

When DualShock 4 Controllers Explode (On Websites)

Sony’s got a fancy new store page that lets you scroll down and, as your mouse wheel rolls, some cool animations play. Like this one, of an exploding DualShock 4. If you ever wondered why controllers are $60 new, it’s because there’s priceless Italian art hidden inside every one. Discover [Sony, via Kotaku AU]

Rubber Band Gatling Gun Fires 672 Rounds In 48 Seconds

Don’t be the guy who flicks a single rubber band off your thumb and thinks they’re a killer. Be the guy who takes Jesse Ventura’s minigun from Predator, loads it with hundreds of rubber bands and destroys entire classrooms with it. This beast is the Rubber Band Rambo, a Ukrainian invention designed by student Alexander…

Hollywood Is Making A Magic Card Movie Series. Yup.

Fox has lined up writer Simon Kinberg to produce a movie series based on Magic: The Gathering. That’s right. Not just one movie. A whole series. It’s hoped that the films can be Fox’s own competitor to stuff like Lord of the Rings. Big talk for a property that’s primarily a card game, and not…