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Ubisoft Shutting Down Online Service For Old Assassin's Creed Games And More
30.10.2023
Ubisoft has announced plans to shut down online services for nearly a dozen video games, including Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction. The games will lose online functionally on January 25, 2024. Read more
34 Million People Have Played The Best Assassin’s Creed Ever
30.10.2023
10 years ago, Ubisoft launched Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, an open-world pirate-themed RPG that set the stage for the modern iteration of the long-running series by revitalizing its open-world exploration and adding remarkable naval combat. And in that time, millions of people have played...
Destiny 2 Maker Bungie Latest PlayStation Studio To Cut Staff
30.10.2023
Bungie is the latest PlayStation studio to face layoffs. While the scale of the cuts wasn’t immediately apparent, multiple, now-former staff members began posting on social media on October 30 that they’d been let go by the beloved Destiny 2 maker. Read more
Kotaku’s 24 Most Anticipated Games Of 2024
30.10.2023
Congratulations, gamers, you have successfully made it through another year of back-to-back big video game launches, disappointing cancellations and delays, and bizarre tribalistic discourse over which console is the best. Joking aside, 2023 was a very good year for video games, with bangers like...
Ubisoftu se daří, prokletá Skull and Bones však stejně jen tak nevyjde
27.10.2023
Herní vydavatelství Ubisoft se pochlubilo finančními výsledky v předchozím kvartálu. Díky novinkám Assassin’s Creed Mirage a The Crew Motorfest překonalo optimistické predikce, daří se i nesmrtelné střílečce Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Report: Awful King Kong Game Was Made In A Year By Overworked Devs
20.10.2023
Skull Island: Rise of Kong was released earlier this week and was quickly derided as one of the worst games of 2023. What happened? Well, a new report claims it was made by a small team of developers on a tight budget in just one year, putting the studio in a situation where making something good...
New King Kong Game Is Very, Very Bad
17.10.2023
Hey, good news! It’s been a long time, but we finally got a new King Kong video game. Bad news, Skull Island: Rise of Kong appears an ugly mess of a thing and it might be the worst game of 2023. Yes, even worse than Gollum. Read more
Prosím, dejte moji kočku do hry, žádal fanoušek. A dočkal se
17.10.2023
Ve hře Assassin’s Creed Mirage můžete najít potulnou kočku, která má barevné skvrny na obličeji ve tvaru loga hry. Autoři ji sem však neschovali náhodou, ale vyslyšeli prosbu fanouška, který má takovou kočku doma
Microsoft Closes Activision Blizzard Acquisition, Making Call Of Duty Officially Part Of Xbox Now
13.10.2023
The video game industry just got a lot smaller. The long and winding saga of Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard has finally come to a close with the companies announcing the completed merger today following one last greenlight from regulators in the UK. Call of Duty is now part...
Ubisoft Indefinitely Delays CoD Clone Because Of ‘Inconsistencies’
10.10.2023
Ubisoft announced on October 9 it was indefinitely delaying Call of Duty-like XDefiant’s preseason, adding to the ever-growing list of issues standing between the free-to-play arena shooter and a release date.Read more
Sexuální skandál v Ubisoftu vyústil v pět zatčených bývalých zaměstnanců
6.10.2023
Celkem pět bývalých zaměstnanců francouzské herní společnosti Ubisoft bylo odvedeno k výslechu na policii. Čelí obvinění ze sexuálního obtěžování
17 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage
5.10.2023
Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Ubisoft’s latest entry in the long-running franchise, is out now across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. And unlike recent games in the series, Mirage isn’t some giant 200-hour RPG. Instead, most players will be able to wrap up the main story and most side content in the game...
Ex-Dragon Age Devs Sue BioWare Over Denying Full Severance
4.10.2023
BioWare laid off 50 employees at the end of August. Mary Kirby was one of them. A 17-year veteran of the studio beloved for its story-driven RPGs, Kirby has worked on every Dragon Age game, and her contributions have shown up in some of the series’ most memorable characters and questlines....
Five Former Ubisoft Execs Arrested By Police For Questioning About Sexual Misconduct Allegations
4.10.2023
Three years after allegations of sexual misconduct inside Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft first surfaced, French authorities are moving ahead with a criminal investigation. Five former executives were detained for questioning on October 3, including former VP Tommy Francois, and CEO Yves...
Assassin’s Creed Mirage: The Kotaku Review
4.10.2023
Assassin’s Creed Mirage isn’t like the past few games in the series. It’s not like Odyssey, and it’s not like Origins. Those games both evolved the series into something bigger, adding hundreds of side-quests and newfound RPG elements, like loot drops and enemies with levels. Those games were fun....
Last Of Us Studio Naughty Dog Is Cutting Developers
3.10.2023
The video game industry is currently facing a big wave of layoffs, and even contract developers at PlayStation first-party studio Naughty Dog aren’t immune. Kotaku has learned that the maker of hits like Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and The Last of Us Part II has begun cutting contracts short...
The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Assassin's Creed Mirage
2.10.2023
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Fortnite Brings Back 'Share The Wealth' Emote On Same Day As Mass Layoffs
29.9.2023
The video game industry is still reeling from Epic Games’ September 28 announcement that it will lay off nearly 900 employees. If developers at the Fortnite money-printing factory aren’t safe, nobody is. In perhaps the worst-timed microtransaction ever, Fortnite’s “Share The Wealth” emote went back...
Leaked Xbox Boss Email Perfectly Explains Why Game Publishers Are Eating Themselves Alive
22.9.2023
You probably saw a ton of headlines about Xbox leaks this week: new hardware, upcoming games, Game Pass costs, acquisition strategies. A trove of unredacted documents accidentally uploaded to a federal court’s case server gave the world an unprecedented look into the secret machinations of...
Hold Onto Your Butts, Microsoft's Massive Activision Blizzard Deal Is Finally Happening
22.9.2023
Twenty months after it was first announced, Microsoft’s unprecedented deal to buy Call of Duty and Candy Crush publisher Activision Blizzard for $69 billion appears to have beaten its final boss. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority revealed on Friday that it has provisionally approved...