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Watch A Live-Stream Of Assassin’s Creed III Multiplayer Right Here

If you want to get your eyes on some Assassin’s Creed III multiplayer and its various modes, look no further than the above video. The team at Machinima has early access and is live-streaming the marathon event for your viewing pleasure. It’s worth noting that this is not the final build of the game. How…

Monaco, A Game We Like Very Much, Is Coming to Xbox Live Arcade (and PC)

Monaco is the top-down multiplayer co-op heist game we rave about here from time to time. Finally, it seems like we’re close to knowing when it will come out. What we at least know today, thanks to the game’s creator Andy Schatz, is that it will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade, through publisher Majesco,…

The Walking Dead Social Game Finally Makes it to Atlanta

When last we left the Facebook game based on The Walking Dead television show it was pretty horrible. Shane, Lori and Carl were in a hellish limbo somewhere on the highway to Atlanta, walking endlessly but never getting even a step closer. Chapter 2 is here, allowing them to move on to even more horrible…

The First-Person Medieval Slasher Chivalry Launches Today

Get out your swords and shields, today’s the day that Chivalry: Medieval Warfare finally comes to Steam. We’ve been following this game for a while now, and Luke’s even spent a good chunk of time playing the beta. I’m really looking forward to seeing how the final game works, and how good the mouse-driven first-person…

Four Comics Filled With Unlikely Parings This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Here’s The Newest Trailer For Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Developers Treyarch revealed a new trailer for Black Ops II today, which you can watch above. Lots of quick cuts, action and things on fire riddle the latest trailer, which they’re calling a launch trailer. Seems a bit early for the November 13th release, but hey. There’s a quick shot of a nifty, spider-like gadget…

A Graphic Novel about Jesus Christ Blood Money Shows That One of Comics’ Living Legends Still Has What It Takes

Some creators are meant to make myth. They’re supposed to stride into humanity’s shared stream of meaning and re-interpret the flow. Or boil it into something elemental. Comics legend Walt Simonson is one of those people. Yes, his acclaimed work on Thor and Orion had the advantage of dealing with deities in the leading role.…

Xbox 360 Gets a $50 Price Cut And a Bunch of New Bundles for the Holidays

The Xbox 360 is getting a set of holiday bundles as well as a short-term $50 price cut, Microsoft announced today. As Kotaku reported over the weekend, the $50 discount promotion applies to the 250GB Xbox 360, the 4GB Xbox 360 with Kinect, and the 250GB Xbox 360 with Kinect. (Not included: the 4GB Xbox…

The Secret to Dishonored’s Stealth, Revealed!

Evan’s Note: There’s nothing like getting a super-sneaky kill in Dishonored, is there? One minute, a City Watch Guard is looking out for trouble. The next, he’s just dinner for a horde of plague rats. Arkane Studios’ acclaimed new game lets players mix up an impressive suite of abilities to eliminate your foes’ in incredibly…

Here’s The Video That Convinced Microsoft To Pay For Mark of the Ninja

You might wonder why Microsoft decided to publish Mark of the Ninja, an independently-developed 2D stealth game that looks and plays like very few other games out there. Today Kotaku can reveal the pitch video that Ninja developers Klei Entertainment showed Microsoft in late 2010 to get them to fund the game. You can watch…

My Favorite New Wii U Stat

I asked the Activision guy who was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II at the Nintendo World Store to roleplay with me for a moment. He’d be the gamer. I’d be the person coming into the living room saying I needed the TV. This is how I discovered my new favorite Wii U stat.…

At Big Questions Online, game developer/author Jane McGonigal runs down the many ways gaming can be good for you

In Episode Four, Telltale’s The Walking Dead Shambles Assuredly Toward The Finish Line

It’s no accident that Telltale’s The Walking Dead game refers to its five-episode run as a “season.” The whole thing is structured quite a bit like a season of television, with the accompanying peaks and valleys. And so it’s perhaps not a huge surprise after the operatic highs of the spectacular third episode, episode four,…

There is Now an Official Temple Run Store. It Sells All the Temple Run Things.

CafePress and Imangi Studios take an endless run at fan’s wallets with the launch of the official Temple Run merchandise store, packed with shirts, bags and other apparel that will identify you to others prone to rubbing their mobile device for long periods of time and then shouting “Dammit!” Temple Run has been downloaded more…

The Past, Pandaria Present, and Future of World of Warcraft

Reactions to World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion, Mists of Pandaria have been more or less positive, overall—but the expansion has sold fewer copies, and those more slowly, than WoW‘s previous expansion, Cataclysm. WoW, while still a popular and beloved juggernaut among MMORPGs, is aging, and the world of gaming in which it competes has changed.…

The Year’s Two Biggest Dance Games Are Now Out. Time For A Dance-Off.

Before I officially hung up my pointe shoes by their pink ribbons, I was a dancer. I practiced ballet, tap, pointe, and jazz. I did all this for 10 years. You could say I like dancing. So when video games adopted my love for dancing and actually made good use of emerging motion control technology,…

FarmVille Haunted Hollow Chapter 5 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

The next series of goals in the Haunted Hollow saga in FarmVille has now launched, bringing us into Chapter 5. This chapter allows us to win items like decorations, animals and trees for our new farm, and we’re here with a guide on finishing them off, thanks to Zynga. Ent-Ertaining Guests Get 6 Fey Dusts…

The Reason This Game Was Rejected From The App Store Is ‘Nonsense’

Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh wanted to release his free game Don’t Look Back on the iOS store. It was reviewed by Apple’s people today. Then rejected, according to Cavanagh. Here’s what the developer tweeted this afternoon: Here’s the screenshot he linked: So remember, it’s totally okay to clone Mario or Torchlight or Canabalt or…

Looks Like Assassin’s Creed III’s Multiplayer Is Getting Some Cool Upgrades

Man, Ubisoft’s marketing teams sure aren’t afraid of running up some purple language in this new multiplayer trailer for Assassin’s Creed III. “Masterwork of Carnage.” “Blood-stained cotton fields.” That kind of thing. Nevertheless, the competitive online options appear to be getting some much-needed refinements in this month’s AC threequel. And the new Anvil engine makes…