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The Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Soundtrack Is A Stealthy Success

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation , the new portable entry in Ubisoft’s popular historical adventure series, offers up a few genuine surprises. It’s impressive how well Ubisoft managed to cram a fully-packed Assassin’s world onto the handheld PSVita, and players might be surprised at the myriad ways that historical tropes from the African-American experience show up…

The Sounds And Stylings Of Black Ops II‘s Kick-Ass Soundtrack

I haven’t played enough of Black Ops II to render a real verdict on how I feel about as a game, I can say for sure that I really enjoy the soundtrack. It’s a cut up from past games in the series, an exciting, diverse blend of whirling orchestral parts, ethnic instruments and atmospheric electronics.…

For Your Consideration: The Second Annual Saxxy Awards

Valve has opened the voting for the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2, and a winner shall be crowned on Nov. 30. Why so soon? Well, because the best overall winner is going to be announced at the Spike Video Game Awards on Dec. 7, and the video is going to…

The Lead Designer Of Guild Wars 2 Is Answering Your Questions Right Now (Q&A Closed)

ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer Guild Wars 2 has been out for a few months now, and many of us here at Kotaku really like the game. Like any MMO, it’s already changed quite a bit since launch, and ArenaNet has begun regularly adding new content, quests, and gear to extend the game’s life well into the…

The Best (Worst) Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Comments, Immortalized

I’m excited about Grand Theft Auto V. You’re probably excited about Grand Theft Auto V. And with so many people excited about Grand Theft Auto V, pretty much everyone out there with a keyboard an functioning brain has taken to the internet to voice their opinion about the impressive second trailer that Rockstar released yesterday.…

Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s free-to-play option is live now. Update the game; get a killer robot pal in the process.

Now Facebook Games Can Create User Groups to Fill With ‘Add Me’ Posts

The second Zynga posts a message on the app page for a game like FarmVille 2 it fills with posts from people seeking friends to help them in-game. Now there’s a new feature in beta for Facebook developers that will allow for apps and games to create their own groups, giving players another place to…

Just when you thought it was safe to switch to Android, the fiendishly addictive Dragonvale is released on Google Play

From Pong to Mass Effect 3: Time Names 100 Best Games of All Time

In what is ultimately sure to be a fool’s errand, Time magazine has compiled a list of the 100 best video games of all time. Coming up with lists of the bests is harder than it looks, and any set of criteria used will have flaws in it. Curation is hard, and lists change all…

The Odd Gentlemen Return With a Distinctively Different Music Puzzle Game

Way back in the golden days of 2010, small developer The Odd Gentlemen released a pie-collecting platform puzzler on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam called The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. It was genius. Then The Odd Gentlemen disappeared into the mists, never to be seen again. Well, they did do a thing for PlayStation Home…

At Least Black Ops II Doesn’t Lecture Me Every Time I Die

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” It was General Douglas MacArthur who said that, and his words are as true now as they were in his time. The reason I know MacArthur said that is because…

We Didn’t Ask For This: Sinister Director To Helm Deus Ex: Human Revolution Movie

The movie based on the third Deus Ex game, announced this summer, now has a director: Deadline reports that it’ll be Scott Derrickson, the guy who directed… the supernatural horror movie Sinister (62% on RottenTomatoes). And… the supernatural horror movie The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (44% on RottenTomatoes). I guess someone must have asked for…

FarmVille 2 Thanksgiving Crafting Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

With any new tree or crop release in FarmVille 2, players can expect a set of crafting recipes to be released as well. With the Thanksgiving item release, that tradition continues as farmers can now plant Parsnips or limited edition trees to earn ingredients for three new recipes within the Crafting Kitchen. Since Thanksgiving items…

Tiger Woods Will Serve You Arnold Palmer Next Year

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 revealed its cover today, pairing Woods with a younger Arnold Palmer, as he appeared during his heyday of the early 1960s. Palmer returns to the game as a playable character, too, having last appeared in the game in 2006. While EA Sports is giving out no additional details yet, Palmer’s…

This Game Doesn’t Need Guns Or Explosions To Make You Care. Just A House.

If you’ve played a game, you’ve probably encountered some form of environmental storytelling. In Left 4 Dead, safe rooms have notes scrawled on the wall from past apocalypse survivors, frantic missives to whomever comes along. In Fallout 3, a long-abandoned gas station reveals that its past occupant liked to play dominoes. And, perhaps most famously,…

There’s an Official Pokemon Pokedex in the Japanese iTunes App Store

The North American iTunes store is chock full of amateur Pocket Monster catalogs, assembling data from the popular Nintendo creature collecting series. They might soon be obsolete, should the official Pokedex for iOS released today in Japan make its way stateside. From what I can gather from the app’s official page, the iOS Pokedex is…

The Next Borderlands 2 DLC Is Called Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage [UPDATE: Now with a picture!]

Gearbox, or rather Borderlands 2‘s DLC character Gaige, today announced the next chunk of campaign DLC. Gaige’s Twitter account teased the news this afternoon, under the guise of a hacker named Torgue taking over her account. Here’s a picture of Torgue. This is the second campaign DLC to release, following Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s…

This Striking Motion-Controlled iOS Boxing Game is Completely Unreal

Powered by Unreal Engine 3, Vivid Games’ Real Boxing is not just another pretty face waiting to be beaten into submission. It also uses your iPad, iPhone or iPad Touch’s camera to deliver surprisingly responsive motion-controlled boxing. If you don’t want to look completely silly throwing punches at your iDevice, Real Boxing is still an…

The Walking Dead‘s Episode Four Stats Lead Up To Final Episode, Coming Next Week for All Platforms

If you, like me, are an episode or two behind in Telltale’s remarkable Walking Dead series, don’t watch this video. If you, unlike me, have caught up on episodes three and four of the five-part series, then by all means, go to town. In addition to releasing the player stats video for episode four, Telltale…

Watch The First Few Minutes Of Hitman: Absolution While Conan Makes Fun Of It

Oh, Conan. You surely are the clueless gamer, but you manage to make some of the best commentary regardless. Clueless Gamer: Conan Reviews “Hitman: Absolution” – CONAN on TBS [YouTube]