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Future Assassin's Creed Games Are Ditching Modern Day Stuff, And That's Disappointing
12.9.2022
Over the weekend, Ubisoft announced about 50 different Assassin’s Creed games and projects. (Editor’s note: It was a lot…but not 50). The company also laid out the future of the series and how its upcoming hub, Infinity, will bring the franchise together in a way that we haven’t seen before....
Secretlab’s Fortnite Battle Bus Chair Is Comfy, If A Little Big
12.9.2022
Look, I can’t break new ground on “the gamer chair.” They are familiar: hulking, pricey, and often garish declarations of Fortnite prowess, padded with locks of Ninja’s blue hair (may we remember it fondly) for good luck. To accept the gamer chair is to accept the implication of Dorito dust....
Here’s Hoping Assassin’s Creed Red Learns From What Ghost Of Tsushima Did Wrong
12.9.2022
Ubisoft didn’t give us a ton to chew on when it unveiled Assassin’s Creed Red, which will follow next year’s Mirage in the long-running historical fiction series, beyond the fact that it’s set in Japan. However, that hasn’t stopped AC fans from making comparisons to Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker...
Diablo Immortal Community Faces New Unrest Over Ill-Gotten Orbs, Lack Of Bans
12.9.2022
In the real world, everything runs on Dunkin. In Diablo Immortal, it’s powered by orbs. Eternal Orbs, to be precise. And players are once again reckoning with the mobile action-RPG’s microtransaction economy after Blizzard announced that players who’d purchased hundreds of thousands of illicit orbs...
Head Of Halo Infinite Studio Is The Latest To Leave
12.9.2022
For as long as 343 Industries has existed, Bonnie Ross has been in charge of it. No longer. The Microsoft veteran announced on Monday that she would leave the studio in charge of Halo Infinite to deal with a family medical issue. It’s the latest high-profile departure on a pivotal Xbox game that...
The Battlefield Series Is Now 20 Years Old
12.9.2022
On September 10, 2002, publishers Electronic Arts and a relatively unknown developed called DICE released a multiplayer shooter called Battlefield 1942. In the 20 years since everyone involved has been on one hell of a ride.Read more
Everything We Saw At Ubisoft's Big Event Today
11.9.2022
Today Ubisoft showed off a wide variety of upcoming and currently available titles from the French publisher. With Ubisoft Forward, there were some fun titles like Mario + Rabbids and Just Dance, a bunch of stuff for The Division franchise, some hints at a partnership with Netflix, and a lot...
There's So Much Assassin's Creed Happening Now That It's Almost Hard To Keep Up
11.9.2022
I am sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an advertisement for Ubisoft right now, but do you want to know the wildest thing about it all? That’s not even everything that the French company announced recently in the world of Assassin’s Creed during its big Ubisoft Forward event. There was...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Actually Ending, And The DLC Will Be Free
10.9.2022
It felt like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla might never end. Long after the seas had swallowed the continents and the stars had gone out, Eivor would still be finding new settlements to pillage and new cosmetics to play around with. But today Ubisoft announced the almost unthinkable: Assassin’s Creed...
After Years Of Anticipation, Assassin's Creed Is Finally Going To Japan
10.9.2022
It’s finally happening: Assassin’s Creed is going to Japan. After a series of earlier reports and leaks, Ubisoft finally made the news official during Saturday’s 2022 gaming showcase.Read more
Netflix Is Teaming Up With Ubisoft For Three Exclusives, Including A New Assassin's Creed
10.9.2022
Netflix seems determined to make its name in the gaming space. During Saturday’s Ubisoft Forward showcase, where the French company is highlighting its latest and greatest, the streaming giant came onstage to announce a new partnership that will see the release of three exclusive mobile games....
Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga Is About To Get A Bunch Of New Characters, Like Cassian Andor
9.9.2022
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga contained a mind-bogglingly epic amount of content and characters from all of the nine, main Star Wars films. Yet, there’s always more Star Wars out there. So, TT Games is adding even more characters to the game via DLC announced at D23 today.Read more
Marvel’s Take On XCOM Gets Release Date Again, Plus Some Nice Animated Promos
9.9.2022
Marvel’s Midnight Suns, which you may know as SpandeXCOM, got a release date again (again). Publisher 2K Games announced the news today with a splashy animated promo during the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase. It’s out December 2 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Games Are Dirt Cheap Right Now
9.9.2022
In need of hundreds of hours of open world RPG adventuring? You’re in luck. A new Assassin’s Creed blowout sale means Valhalla and other titles are currently super cheap. And don’t worry, some of the older ones are massively discounted as well.Read more
Railbound Is A Beautiful Puzzle Game About Dogs And Trains
9.9.2022
Do you like trains? And beautiful animation? And dogs? And puzzles? And video games? Of course you do, which is why you’re going to like Railbound as much as I did.Read more
Battlefield Is Going Back To A 'Narrative Campaign'
9.9.2022
The last time the main Battlefield series dabbled with a proper campaign was all the way back in 2013, when Battlefield 4's singleplayer dropped and underwhelmed pretty much anyone who laid hands on it.Read more
Get Every BioShock, All The XCOM games, Civ VI, Borderlands 3, And More For $16
9.9.2022
A new 2K-themed Humble Bundle deal that will help support homeless youth contains one of the best deals I’ve seen all year. For only $16, you can walk away with over two dozen PC games including some genuine greats, like Civilization VI, XCOM 2, Borderlands 3, and a lot more. Even wilder, some...
27 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Disney Dreamlight Valley
8.9.2022
Disney Dreamlight Valley–out now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC– is a new cozy life sim that combines the chill village vibes of Animal Crossing with the farming and mining of Stardew Valley, all while sprinkling on a heaping of Disney magic in the form of iconic characters and locations from...
Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story
8.9.2022
Legacy media publications can keep their sexiest men and women of the year awards because the world finally has a winner in one of the internet’s most contentious beauty contests: the Tumblr sexyman award. And that winner is Sans from Undertale. Long may he reign.Read more
Halo Infinite Fans Believe Forge Is The Game’s Final Hope
8.9.2022
Last week, the multiplayer shooter Halo Infinite, which makes headlines more often for its stumbles than its successes, suffered its biggest PR blow to date: Couch co-op, a feature first flaunted half a decade ago, wouldn’t come out as intended. It wasn’t delayed, as with most of the planned...