What Is Assassin’s Creed Ascendance?

Ubi Workshop pulls back the curtain on Assasssin’s Creed Ascendance, the work previously known as Secret Project number three. What exactly is it? It looks like an Assassin’s Creed cartoon, or possibly some sort of motion comic. Ubi Workshop is the offshoot of Ubisoft dedicated to handling transmedia projects, bringing the company’s games to other…

How Does Call of Duty: Black Ops Look on the Wii?

I loved Call of Duty: Black Ops on the Xbox 360. I assume the PS3 version is just as great. The PC version, though, seems to be suffering from some major bugs. But what about the Wii take on the game? Let’s have a look. CVG gives us a look at the Wii version of…

Can’t Play, Won’t Play

If only more parts of our lives were game-ified, say proponents of “Gamification” who champion things like and Nike+ or FourSquare that offer scores for running or just being somewhere. Wrong, writes game designer Margaret Robertson. Gamification misses the point. I like neologisms. We need new words because we have new ideas, and ideas are…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

This is the first-ever direct sequel to a previous installment of Talk Amongst Yourselves — to yesterday’s of course. Admire the seamless continuity, then please talk here about video games. Reader KindaGamey is responsible for today’s image. You can be responsible for tomorrow’s. Just submit one to #TAYpics, following the rules listed at the top…

Kotaku Brasil, She’s Alive!

Kotaku Brasil is officially live! If I could samba, I’d be doing that right now. But I really, really can’t. So instead I’m checking out stories that make it look like everyone at Kotaku suddenly learned how to write in Portuguese… over night! It’s almost like the web version of watching Leave it to Beaver…

I Still Watch VHS, So?

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Shopping Season Is Almost Here I have a bunch of VHS tapes in Japan that I brought with me when I first came to this country a gajillion years ago. I *finally* got a DVD player when I bought a PS2, but for a while, it was VHS only. Really…

It’s Kinda Like Tron, But Everyone Gets Totally Naked

There is a saying: If it exists, there is a porn of it. Well, Tron exists, and, yes, there is a porn of it. According to website Bleeding Cool, the forthcoming adult take on Tron features scenes like “The Glow Job” as well as model-slash-porn-lady Zoe Voss. You might know her from “The Interns” or…

Drape Your Naked Torso In These Monster Hunter Threads

Just like these male models! Leading up to the release of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Japanese mega franchise Monster Hunter is teaming up with the country’s biggest budget clothing retailer Uniqlo for a “Mon-Qlo” line of t-shirts. Uniqlo is certainly no stranger to game tie-ins. When Metal Gear Solid 4 launched, Uniqlo did a MGS…

STALKER TV Show Pilot Looks As Bleak As The Game

Cult favourite PC shooter series STALKER is trying to earn itself a TV series deal, with the game’s developers paying for the production of a pilot episode. The show has been put together by a media outfit called Transvision, and as you’ll see in the clip below, is doing a pretty good job of capturing…

Darkstalkers Cosplay Has Never Been Classier

What is this, a high fashion editorial? An ad trying to sell me an expensive bottle of cologne? Nope. It’s some exquisite cosplay featuring Morrigan, star of Capcom’s fighting game series Darkstalkers If you recognise the model (well, the Morrigan one) that’s because it’s Filipino model Alodia Gosiengfiao, the “queen of cosplay” Helping things look…

Vampire Nazis, A Fat Lady, Uwe Boll, Oh My!

It’s World War II, but with fangs, a large woman and controversial director Uwe Boll. Following up on 2007’s BloodRayne II: Deliverance, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, which was originally titled BloodRayne: Warhammer, pits Rayne (Natassia Malthe) against Nazis out to make Hitler immortal. The trailer below might be NSFW. The first BloodRayne film was released…

Someone Spent $335,000 On Virtual Real Estate

In 2009, Jon Jacobs set a world record for the biggest ever sale of an online item. It was a space station in online sci-fi game Entropia Universe. This month, in the same game, he’s broken that record. In a single transaction with another player, John Foma Kalun, Jacobs offloaded a mall, a stadium, a…

UK Prisoners Snuggle Up With Game Consoles

Thirty hour games? Forty, fifty, seventy hour games? No bother, some of the UK’s biggest gamers have all the time in the world. According to junior Justice Minister Crispin Blunt, a third of prisoners in England and Wales are able to own game consoles via an inmate good behavior program. That means that over 36,000…

Kinect’s Star Wars Game Will Have You Force-Waving Your Arms In 2011

The Star Wars Kinect game, which so enthralled us before so quickly disappointing us when first revealed earlier this year, has around twelve months to get things right, with a release pencilled in for late 2011. “We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday”, Kinect’s creative director, Kudo Tsunoda, told the…

All The Kinect Accidents You Can Handle

With Kinect, Microsoft is getting gamers up off the sofa and getting them injured. Cue the highlight reel! As when the Wii launched, there are reports of accidents caused while playing. Some might be real, some might be faked, but most look painful. “Kinect Fail” appears to be the go to title on YouTube for…

Black Ops And The History Of Violence

The Call of Duty series’ military advisor may spend most of his time informing developers on how to best portray acts of violence, but that doesn’t mean he always agrees with what ends up in the games. Compared to the developers we’re used to interviewing, Hank Keirsey is a little different. He’s wiry and athletic…

A Week In Comments

New Member Of Kong Family Will Help Donkey Kong And Struggling Wii Gamers Comment by: NoelVeiga Nominated by: diedan I’m having this conversation all over the place, recently, but… why am I the only one who remembers that games used punishing difficulty only to mask repetition and lack of content? Being a kid of the…

What If Star Wars Was A…Classic PC Adventure Game

We’ve seen what Star Wars would look like as a classic Lucasarts adventure game, but artist Andy Rash’s glorious pixel art looks so much like a classic Sierra adventure game that it’s tough not to wonder what could have been. Imagine, instead of reliving the original Star Wars trilogy through fast-paced action games like X-Wing,…

A Visual Guide To Kinect Fail

How To Turn A Great Cartoon Into A Video Game

Adventure Time is the best new cartoon I’ve seen in years. So it’s nice to see that the first person putting down sketches on how a game adaptation would work is Pendleton Ward, the man who created the show. Don’t know what Adventure Time is? Come on, grab your friends. It’s not an official project,…