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Assassin’s Creed Ascendance Bridges The Gap to Brotherhood

What has assassin Ezio Auditore been up to during the time between Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood? Find out in Assassin’s Creed Ascendance, coming November 16 to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. From Ubi Workshop, the folks behind the recently released Assassin’s Creed: The Fall comic book series, Ascendance is an animated short film…

Spotting the Gameplay in L.A. Noire’s New Trailer And Why It May Not Matter

Our first look at L.A. Noire in action included some pretty amazing graphics. Strike that, it included some pretty amazing facial animation. The graphics are about what we’ve come to expect from Rockstar Games, but those facial tics, the worry lines, the creases, those were an impressive display of taking a bit of an actor’s…

Preorder Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded And You Get these Things

Square Enix dropped us a line today to show off the wonderful preorder incentive for Kingdom Hearts Re: coded available at GameStop and Amazon.com. What is it? According to Square Enix PR, this is a lovely set of stickers. Yes, either it’s the late 80’s again and no one told me, or stickers are back…

The Michael Jackson Experience Makes The View Audience Scream

If you can stomach the sounds of Whoopi Goldberg talking with her mouth full, you see an impressive demonstration of The Michael Jackson Experience on the Wii and an audience overcome with the thrill of free stuff. Guinan chokes down a cookie while presenting Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson Experience for the Wii on ABC’s The View.…

Nintendo Boss Might Be A Bigger Gamer Than You

Many people love Nintendo DS role-playing game Dragon Quest IX, but Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is, well, obsessed? This is his DS, which he showed me today. I snapped two pics. Click the images to enlarge them. I told him he probably passed this DS around and had other people beef up his…

Rock Band 3 Catches Night Fever, Starts Jive Talkin’

Harmonix might be up on the selling block, but Rock Band 3 is stayin’ alive, with a six pack of tunes dropping next week from the Bee Gees. You shall now overflow with joy. I used to get the Bee Gees and The Beatles mixed up as a child, thanks to the former’s appearance as…

This Uncharted Movie Rumor Cannot Possibly Be True

Goodfellas Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro reuniting for the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune movie, with Mark Wahlberg potentially on board as well? A story about antiquities dealers in New York? That’s just crazy talk. Isn’t it? Could the dynamic duo from GoodFellas, Casino, Once Upon a Time in America, A Bronx Tale, and Raging Bull be…

Phones Everywhere Getting 1988’s Splatterhouse

Splatterhouse is getting a bloody, modern remake later this month, but that’s a gamble. The classic 1988 arcade Splatterhouse? We all know that’s a fantastic game, and now you can play it on your phone. I’m not just talking to you iPhone owners out there, Namco says they’re bringing the 88 title to more than…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

For today’s edition of Talk Amongst Yourselves, how about everyone comments about video games? Thanks to reader pinpoint45 for today’s image. Submit your own to #TAYpics and it could be featured in a future installment of this forum post thing we’ve got here.

The PC’s Best Free Games Right Now

Most of the very best games on the PC need you to cough up at least a little cash, but if you absolutely must game for nothing, then let us show you how it’s done. If you look past the obvious avenues for playing on a PC – massively-multiplayer games like World of Warcraft (that…

Gran Turismo 5 Has a Release Date, For Reals, Really Reals, Seriously

OK, hold onto your hats and duct tape your socks on, Sony Computer Entertainment of America tells us that Gran Turismo 5 is going on sale in North America on Nov. 24. Honest to goodness, cross their hearts and hope not to have to delay it a forty millionth time. Why do I sound so…

Consider This A Bra Clarification

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Turkey, Attorneys and Some Lovely Bruschetta In my typical Night Notes, I take pictures of silly things and talk about my daily life. I did not take this photo, even though it’s slightly silly. Japanese underwear maker Triumph recently held a press conference for this “Welcome To Japan bra”. It’s…

November? No, Perhaps, You Mean Movember

This month, grow a Mario stache. C’mon on. Do it. The Singapore Prostate Cancer Research Fund has a website full of famous faces without their trademark staches. We’ve seen a facial hair free Mario before, but the site has clean-shaven images of other personalities like Hulk Hogan. While this moustache mania is for a good…

Splatterhouse Visual Guide

Hrm, These iPhone Games Seem Familiar…Hrm… [Update]

There is a flood of content in the Apple App Store. It’s hard for games to stand out and find an audience. Why do that when you can ski in the wake of others? While retail game charts ebb and flow on a weekly basis, with new titles entering and old titles leaving, the App…

Sub-Zero Wins! (The Battle Of The Hammy Backstory)

See, here’s what I don’t get about Mortal Kombat: who cares how Sub-Zero became Sub-Zero? This is a fighting game. He’s there for the punching, and the kicking, and the killing, and that’s it Still, so long as there are Mortal Kombat fans out there who do care, Warner Bros. will keep releasing these story…

If Red Dead Redemption Had Been Released In 1966

We can only hope it would have looked this good. By Jesse Griffin, as seen on Herochan

A PS3 Game For Gamblers

Those looking to drop some money on pachinko can head to their neighborhood parlor in the hope of winning some extra scratch. Those looking to spend ¥7,000 (US$85) and win nothing but satisfaction, get this. CR Neon Genesis Evangelion are a series of pachinko games based on, of course, the popular Japanese franchise Neon Genesis…

Hey, Korea, Why You So Down On Starcraft II?

Starcraft in Korea falls somewhere between a national sport and a religion. So you’d think, then, that Starcraft II would have been a big hit there. Nope! A great report over on Edge highlights a bitter struggle between Starcraft developers Blizzard and Korean e-sports authorities, which has left many in Korea — which should be…

No Full Body Protective Suits For You, Kinect Players!

When the Wii was launched, gamers got hurt. They whacked their TVs, their friends and themselves with the Wii Remote, which prompted Nintendo to make a protective jacket for the remotes. Likewise, Kinect players are getting hurt Is Microsoft giving out protective body suits? Well, no. Sadly, it doesn’t not look like Microsoft will be…