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Čínský vliv v Ubisoftu posiluje, co to znamená pro hráče?
31.3.2025
Ubisoft ve snaze finančně stabilizovat firmu založil dceřinou společnost, do níž investoval 1,16 miliardy eur čínský Tencent. Pro hráče se v krátkodobém horizontu nic nemění, vliv čínského molocha bude znát až během let
Everything We Saw At Nintendo's Last Big Direct For The OG Switch And More Of The Week's Top News
29.3.2025
The big event of the week was Thursday’s Nintendo Direct, the last one focused on the original Switch before the curtain gets pulled back on its successor next Tuesday. However, we also have details on some great games that are a steal right now on PSN during Sony’s spring sale, the lowdown on...
Ubisoft Is Getting $1.25 Billion From Tencent To Spin-Off Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, And Rainbow Six Siege
27.3.2025
Ubsioft will spin-off its most successful game franchises, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six Siege, into a separate subsidiary thanks to a $1.25 billion investment from Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The massive deal allows the founding Guillemot family to remain in control of...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ 'Projects' Aren’t Quite Battle Passes, But They’re Close
24.3.2025
You’d be entirely forgiven for thinking that the Projects screen in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is just a Battle Pass system. The gradual drip feed of rewards presented in a straight line evokes strong déjà vu of countless live service and free-to-play games like Fortnite or Genshin Impact....
How To Start Off Strong In Assassin's Creed Shadows And More Of The Week's Top Tips
23.3.2025
This week saw the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows (read our review here) and if you’re one of the many people flocking to feudal Japan this weekend, we’ve got an assortment of tips to help you get started. We’ve also got recommendations for honing your ground game in Civilization VII and some...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games To Transport Us To A Better Place
21.3.2025
Happy Ostara to those who celebrate! For everyone else, happy Spring Equinox! Winter is finally friggin’ over, and while the world might still look a little dark and bleak, thank goodness we’ve now got longer days and warmer temps on the way. Read more
Assassin's Creed Shadows Streamer's Perfect Reaction To Racists Goes Viral
20.3.2025
“The quality of health of my morning shit had a bigger impact on my thought process today than you being upset that there’s a Black guy in Assassin’s Creed.”Read more
Document Your Journey Through Feudal Japan With Assassin's Creed Shadows' Excellent Photo Mode
20.3.2025
I’m an absolute sucker for taking in-game screenshots of my favorite games and even those I don’t particularly enjoy. And I’m not alone. Virtual photography has become quite the movement among us digital shutterbugs. Read more
25 Assassin's Creed Shadows Tips To Check Out Before Playing
20.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, out now, is a very good entry in Ubisoft’s long-running franchise. But it’s also a big, complicated game with a lot of different mechanics, systems, features, and options. And Shadows doesn’t always do a great job of explaining how all of this stuff works.Read more
Assassin's Creed Shadows Addresses Ongoing Controversy Around Cultural Sensitivity With Day-One Patch
20.3.2025
A day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows will address criticisms of how the open-world RPG allows players to go on a violent rampage through religious shrines in 1500s Japan. Parts of specific buildings will no longer be destructible, and the monks inside will no longer bleed when...
Split Fiction Director: Working With EA Is Great, But 'Nobody Believes Me'
18.3.2025
A lot of people don’t like Electronic Arts—two time winner of The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award—for various reasons. But Josef Fares, the director behind the new co-op hit Split Fiction, says he’s had a great experience working with the publisher, even if nobody believes he’s telling...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Is A Game For Animal Lovers
18.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, like most modern open-world video games, features a large map filled with various animals, including horses, birds, foxes, rabbits, dogs, and cats. But unlike most other open-world games, even others from Ubisoft itself, you can’t kill any of these animals. Instead,...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Is One Of The Best-Looking Open-World Games Ever
18.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out later this week and folks, it’s really good! And while one of the big reasons I enjoyed this latest installment is because it’s wonderful to play, it also helps that Shadows is a drop dead gorgeous open-world RPG with some of the best-looking scenery I’ve seen...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows: The Kotaku Review
18.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is, if you count every spin-off and mobile game, the 31st entry in Ubisoft’s long-running historical open-world franchise about sneaky assassins and secret conspiracies. While I consider myself a fan of the series and was excited to play a new Assassin’s Creed adventure...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Devs Reportedly Advised Not To Post About It Amid Harassment Campaign
17.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out in just a few days and Ubisoft has a lot riding on the blockbuster’s launch as it reportedly explores breaking up the company following multiple years of delays, cancellations, and disappointing sales. Complicating matters, the latest installment in the long-running...
An Amazing Steam Sale, A Major Pokémon Go Development, And More Of The Week's Top News
15.3.2025
This week saw Pokémon Go become the property of the Saudi government as Scopely, the mobile game maker owned by Savvy Games Group which itself was founded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, acquired POGO developer Niantic for the tidy sum of $3.5 billion. In other news, Steam has launched...
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games Keeping Us Grounded
14.3.2025
Next week is a big one. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on the heels of new reporting that Ubisoft is looking to spin off the franchise into a standalone company backed by Chinese conglomerate NetEase. The 2025 Game Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco with talks from people behind...
The 17 Best Co-op Games You Can Play Right Now
13.3.2025
Split Fiction, the latest co-op adventure from Hazelight, has just arrived, and it’s another example of how the It Takes Two developer is leading the charge on games that are designed around what’s possible when you have two players working together to accomplish a common goal. With the unique...
PS Plus Adds Ubisoft's Best Game In Years And Some Classic Armored Core
12.3.2025
Another month, another bunch of games is joining the catalogs for PlayStation Plus’ Extra and Premium tiers. This time around, fans of arcades, punching people, 2D platformers, and retro robot warfare should all be very excited. Read more
24 Games We're Stoked For In March, Great Switch Games On Sale For Mario Day, And More Of The Week's Top News
8.3.2025
This week, we got some insight into what prompted Ubisoft to add a “canon mode”—which strips out all narrative choices in favor of adhering to one set story path—to the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Also, we looked at 24 games coming out in this fairly packed month that we can’t wait to...