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Cultures Clash in These Assassin’s Creed III Videos

A culture clash theme anchors a couple of viral cosplay videos commissioned by Ubisoft Netherlands, showing Connor Kenway coming to grips with the new world. The first is above, here’s the second. There’s a choose-your-own-adventure outcome at the end, each outcome neither much surprising nor terribly violent. The costume and settings still form a nice…

Here, Two Enormous GTA V Posters

Here, for your wallpaper/viewing pleasure, are two super-sized pieces of Grand Theft Auto V artwork. They were posted on Game Informer earlier today, and at a resolution of 1920×2432 each, you’re free to pick over them and find as many clues as you like. Like, oh, the fact that arrested lady is wearing a Love…

It’s Hitman On Hitman In This Hitman Short Film

This Hitman short film by David ‘dwyz’ Wayman has got a lot of Hitman in it. It starts with someone playing Hitman! And then, it has a lot of hits, man. It’s neat, and twisty, and bloody. Check it out. (Via Joystiq)

Beat Halo 4 and Take $25 Off Your American Express Bill

Finishing Halo 4 will give you cash back on your credit card. And it’s not like it’s some $1.52 bullshit you get back from Discover either, it’s $25 off (or £25 in the UK) your American Express bill, provided you link the thing through a promo site. Linking your card and collecting the “Wake Up,…

There’s a New Pink 3DS

Nintendo quietly revealed a new 3DS XL colour scheme today, with online retailer Gilt getting the exclusive on a pink/white unit that includes a copy of Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.

The Ten-Year Evolution of Halo’s Master Chief

It’s been over ten years since the first Halo game was released, and even longer since we first laid eyes on the Master Chief. A lot has changed since then. Like, ten years of combat has literally sucked all the colour out of him. More seriously, I’m slowly coming around to appreciate his armour in…

Just in Case You Thought Doom Needed to be Even More Brutal

The original Doom was a pretty violent game, lots of blood and guts flying around, but boy, it looks like a Disney movie compared to BRUTAL DOOM. A neat mod first released earlier in the year, it ramps up the gore, it beefs up the weapons and is, in short, BRUTAL. Don’t watch if there…

Hurricane Sandy Delays Second GTA V Trailer

From the newest edition of the Rockstar Newswire, the official online newsletter for the makers of Grand Theft Auto: “We are working on a second trailer – unfortunately Hurricane Sandy has derailed our plans somewhat but we will have something to show soon. Its hard to be precise as we have no power whatsoever in…

“Every Day’s Great At Your Junes”

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Your Favorite Video Game Characters Review Their Favorite Games

by Kirk Hamilton So many games have other, smaller games within them that sometimes it feels like video game characters spend as much time playing games as we do. In the spirit of Kotaku’s made-to-order box quotes, we thought we’d ask some of our favorite video game characters what they think of the games they…

Get A Load Of This Amazing Real-Life Assassin’s Creed Parkour

Just when you think no one could really move through the forest as gracefully as Connor from Assassin’s Creed III, someone does. Free-runner Ronnie Shalvis, specifically. You can find more on Shalvis at his Facebook page, and see a behind the scenes video here Man, this really makes me wish Jesper Kyd had done music…

To Pavol—and All of Our Readers—With Love

We love all of our readers and thank you for following us to our Emergency Broadcast Tumblr, but I want to offer a special thank you to Pavol Buday. He is a loyal reader from Slovakia, and he answered my call last night for screencaps of any readers that were so dedicated to Kotaku that…

Madden NFL Social Makes the Right Call on What Mobile Sports Should Offer

Madden NFL Social launched two weeks ago on Facebook with almost no announcement from EA Sports. They were waiting for today, when the game’s mobile application hit iTunes. Social combines aspects of the player management and collection seen in modes like Ultimate Team and the Facebook game Madden NFL Superstars, with a bite-sized gameplay experience…

Win a Sweet Star Wars Laptop

Razer is holding a sweepstakes to give away a limited edition Star Wars edition of their $2500 Blade laptop. I was going to wait until after sign-ups were closed to tell you folks, but figure if I win I’d just have to give it away all over again anyway, so have at it

Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor is Currently Free For iOS (It’s Good)

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This Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Glitch Created an Anti-Gravity Alligator

I like the portable Assassin’s Creed game a lot. But it clearly could have spent more time in development. One bug I encountered had an alligator spawn about five feet in the air. That didn’t stop me from killing it, though, which left its sad carcass floating aloft as a warning to those would mess…

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver brings his ingredients to Zynga’s ChefVille this month. It’s a food revolution!

The Robot Is Pretty. Fight It? Wait, What Is Going On

There are several types of weird interactive fiction. For example: The type that’s just plain weird, and the type that’s delightfully weird. Walking Story by Michael Brough is most certainly that second type. Are they haikus? Not technically, but sort of in spirit. Are they bizzarre? Yes. Will you laugh? I don’t know, but I…

Reviewers Love Playing With Animals, Climbing Trees, and Stabbing People In Assassin’s Creed III

Swinging through the treetops certainly doesn’t seem like a particularly colonial pastime. And yet reviewers seem to love it. The newest entry in the Assassin’s Creed saga takes to the 18th century and the heart of the American Revolution. Can Boston and New York, in their fledgling states, measure up to Damascus, Rome, and Istanbul?…

Creatorverse is One Of the Coolest Things You Can Do With an iPad

Released today by Linden Labs, Creatorverse is a playground for the inventive mind. Connect simple shapes, assigns colors, behaviors and physical properties, and then combine them into wonderful complex machines you can share with the world. Linden Labs was once known solely for Second Life, the virtual world completely built and driven by its players.…