Mafia III: The Kotaku Review

Mafia III takes hours to really get going. Sometimes it’s a predictable, janky slog. Once it finds its groove, though, it’s an open-world crime game unlike any other. It’s a bold depiction of a difficult time and place—a portrait of New Orleans in the late 1960s, racism and ugliness included. Early on in Mafia III,…

Britney Spears’ son is Lord Frieza, the pop star bragged in a Halloween tweet today. What’s better—the image of Spears watching Dragon Ball Z or…. no, nothing is better.

Ubisoft Is Giving Away Beyond Good & Evil For Free

For the next month, Ubisoft’s ultimate cult classic, Beyond Good & Evil, can be yours for zero dollars if you have a PC and a free Ubisoft Club account. That’s down from $10 on Steam. The mega-publisher is giving the game away as part of a year-long celebration of their 30th anniversary (and maybe boost…

The third episode of Telltale’s Batman game will be out for PC and console on October 25, the studio said today. It’s called New World Order, so hopefully there’ll be cameos by Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and that other guy.

WWE 2K17 Glitches Are A Good Time

WWE 2K’s physics may not misbehave quite so perfectly as FIFA’swhen they go wrong, but when it goes wrong, it can still be pretty great. The game’s only been out for a day, and already we have sightings of poltergeist body slams, wrestlers wearing tables and ladder murder. WARNING: Lotta gifs ahead.

Netflix’s Skylanders Series Looks Like Fun

Launching October 28 on Netflix, Skylanders Academy taps top animation, voice and production talent to make the toys-to-life game characters livelier than ever. Check out the official trailer. Along with this year’s installment of the hit video game franchise, Skylanders Academy gives characters like Spyro, Stealth Elf, Eruptor, Jet-Vac and Pop Fizz much more personality.…

A playable demo of World of Final Fantasy arrives on October 17, a week before the game’s October 25 release date on PlayStation 4 and Vita. Celebrate this news with the game’s anime opening cinematic. It’s so damn cute.