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​Assassin’s Creed III Was Disappointing. How Does Black Flag Stack Up?

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag had a lot of making up to do. I thought the previous game in the series, Assassin’s Creed III, was a resounding disappointment. I’ve already weighed in on the new, pirate-themed Black Flag: It’s pretty good. But for those who felt burnt by the last game, a more thorough comparison…

Microsoft Trumps Sony’s PS4 Apartment With An Xbox One Hotel

Sure, you could stay at a normal hotel while you’re in France. Or…you could stay at the Xbox One hotel—because that’s a thing now. Open in Paris for the month of November, the Xbox One hotel is a response of sorts to the “Apartment 4” launched by Sony last month to showcase the PlayStation 4…

X Rebirth is coming soon. November 15, in fact. Here’s the latest trailer, which shows off some of the ways you’ll be able to explore the game’s vast, open space.

The Vita Gets A Brand New JRPG On November 26

Oh hey there, Mr. Vita. It’s been a while. I was worried about you. Good to see you’re getting some JRPGs of your own. The action-role-playing game Ys: Memories of Celceta comes out November 26, publisher XSEED announced today—just in time for Thanksgiving. Because nothing says America like turkey, stuffing, and a good old-fashioned JRPG.

​PS3 System Updates, You Were The Worst

You made me angry with my PlayStation 3, if only for a few minutes at a time. Why’d you have to do that? One of you managed to actually render PS3s inoperable. Most of you were just nuisances. All of you should’ve been downloaded automatically without wasting our time. PS3 system updates, you were the…

Our First, Teasing Glimpses Of The Next Mass Effect

In celebration of N7 Day 2013 (November 7, get it?), Mass Effect producer Michael Gamble tweeted a teasing glimpse at the future of the franchise. Then other BioWare folks got in on the act. “The next chapter of Mass Effect is upon us!!” proclaimed Gamble’s tweet. Then came BioWare Montreal studio director, Yanick Roy: “…with…

Halo 4 Blooper Reel Is Worth Watching Just For Creepy Cortana

The people behind Halo 4 just released this blooper reel. It’s creepy, kinda funny, and worth watching just for Creepy Cortana, which is apparently based off a 343 designer’s face Watch right here:

​Diablo III Expansion’s BlizzCon Trailer Leaks

A nifty new trailer for the first major Diablo III expansion, Reaper of Souls, has popped up in a number of places on YouTube. The trailer, which Blizzard was likely planning to debut during this weekend’s BlizzCon festival, shows off a number of new features for the expansion, including, for a few moments, some sweet…

Goodbye, Massive Xbox 360 Power Brick

For this Last-Gen Zero, we recognize the original Xbox 360 power brick. Last-Gen Heroes is Kotaku‘s look back at the seventh generation of console gaming. In the weeks leading up to the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, we’ll be celebrating the Heroes—and the Zeroes—of the last eight years of console video…

Using Pokémon To Teach Safe Sex Is Super Effective

Colleges that provide easily-accessible free safe sex supplies are already rad, but it certainly doesn’t to do something a little more playful than ‘here are a bunch of baskets with condoms, dental dams and other fun stuff,’ too. Case in point: the mysterious college that Redditor ParadeOfTigers attends, which uses Pokémon references to promote safe…

Episode VII of Star Wars will be out on December 18, 2015, LucasFilm just announced. Just 771 days left.

Lightning Returns‘ Clothing Options Make Me All Giddy

Oh god. I didn’t realize I could do this. I am going to get stuck playing dress-up in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for days. Seriously, these are exactly the sort of completely unnecessary features that distract me completely from whatever saving-the-world nonsense I am supposed to be focusing on. They might as well just…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: StormBorn’s redesigns of Super Mario Brothers characters continues, with a great-looking Donkey Kong. Marsh Naylor shares a great personal story about his stepson’s love of the Batman. And The Mushroom offers up a funny/scary account one dad’s GTA V obsession Don’t forget that you can…

Second Robocop Trailer Is A Damn Good Time, Except For The Robots

If you removed all the bits featuring robots, cops, and any combination of those two from the second trailer for 2014’s Robocop reboot, you’d still have a movie that looks like a blast. That’s great. Also not great. It’s a problem that’s hard to avoid when you bring together a cast featuring Samuel L. Jackson,…

Forget Cars. Let’s Race Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs make everything better—and racing games are no exception. Dino Run 2 is a multiplayer game where you have to outrun extinction—a rather novel premise, no? I don’t even particularly like racing games, but this has my attention. Naturally, you get to play as all sorts of different dinosaurs, each with strengths and weaknesses. These…

The Internet Reacts To Internet Explorer’s New Anime Mascot Girl

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer officially has an anime heroine called Inori Aizawa and people are already coming up with tons of fan art of her. This is the Internet. There’s no such thing as turnaround time here. So far we’ve found a lot of artistic interpretations and GIFs—usually the first wave after a shocking reveal like…

New Humble Weekly, Your Favorite Gaming Mouse, Game of Thrones [Deals]

In addition to a ton of other great deals today, we’ve also got a brand new Humble Weekly featuring the games of Deadalic Entertainment, including Deponia and The Whispered World The Razer DeathAdder 2013 is your choice for best gaming mouse, and within $1 of its lowest historical price, and a steal at this price…

​Marvel’s Defenders Shows Shouldn’t Be Just Another Avengers

Superhero enthusiasts all over got a big exciting surprise this morning when news broke that Marvel and Netflix would be partnering to create streaming series for the Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones characters. When the shows culminate into a Defenders team-up, the end result might be more grounded and more human than…

Museum Director Says Games Are Art But Shooters Aren’t Interesting

Yesterday somebody on cable news had a fairly reasonable conversation about video games as an art form. In the video above, taken from MSNBC’s The Cycle, host Touré sat down with Paola Antonelli, senior curator for the Department Architecture and Design at the MoMA, about the inclusion of video games in the museum. They talked…

Take-Two has lost its bid to retake control of an old Manhunt promotional domain that someone else had turned into a fan site, counting down to the 10th anniversary of the game’s launch on Nov. 18.