Assassins Creed Origins felt like a missed opportunity on that front — they could have got so much more out of the tension between being a Medjay (the last one?) who puts the people before himself and a father trying to avenge his son’s death, often at the expense of the people he’s sworn to protect. I mean the game…

Surely that’s what they’ve just done? Now that PUBG exists as a separate entity, Bluehole can do other things without its every decision being parsed in terms of what it means for the resources allocated to PUBG.

Hi Jason, What can you tell me about the game’s troubled development and what the story used to be before they abandoned 4 years’ worth of production to rebuild a minimum viable launch game in 18 months? More seriously, how many of these Destiny-type online franchises can the market sustain before we all have to quit…

Neymar’s also a CS:GO fan and has appeared at some events. He’s rumored to be a frequent player himself as well based on what’s reported to be his steam profile: https://steamcommunity.com/id/neyjuca

You can gather the lobby’s bounty of turrets and redeploy them all in the Trauma Centre entrance, where — with some judicious kiting — you can introduce ol’ flamy mcflameface to a salvo of bullets and the business end of your wrench if he’s still standing.

When your Helius points are equal to the sum of your Nexus and Remnant points, you can spend your minerals on unlocking an augmentation that will let you craft a helmet that unlocks a new combat ability that allows you to shoot different types of aliens, depending on which profile you’re using, while they’re still on…

In defence of the BBC, nature documentaries tend to be more of a large scale production, given the need to recruit or to send large numbers of highly-specialised crews all over the world to capture footage. There aren’t many independent nature production companies that can operate at the quality levels BBC Worldwide…

Will he tell us if there’s a light at the end of the carpal tunnel?

Having witnessed the post-announcement hype around NMS (Kotaku’s top-ranking game in pre-release death threats to Jason), they immediately seconded the finest minds in Busy Work™ from the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Division teams and charged them with rendering their talents algorithmically and applying them to the…

Did you read Kotaku UK’s mega-investigation into Star Citizen? They’re on the record publicly about the 32/64 thing:

Looking forward to listening to this! Perhaps it’s beyond the scope of your podcast, but I wondered if your research in the area had brought you into the orbit of Augustine of Hippo? It might that I’ve adopted someone else’s half-formed hunch, but the collapse of the Empire seems to bring a profound darkening to…

I can’t help but feel that Peter Molyneux foresaw this heavenly formula when he conceived his magnum opus the Cube. By giving the game away for free, it did not matter what mechanics were implemented nor what resolutions appeared in image or in narrative; only price mattered, providing the divide by zero necessary to…

I seem to remember Froome pulling a similar trick last year to stave off a late-Tour attack by Valverde and Quintana on a descent:

btw — to put into further perspective how impressive Sagan’s descent was, this is what happened when the yellow jersey group went down the same descent at slower speed:

Sagan is a very entertaining rider, who has had the green points jersey on lockdown for the past four years, mainly down to his versatility in modestly contesting fast finishes against the pure sprinters (by whom the green jersey was traditionally contested) but then hoovering up intermediate sprint points in the…

That position, known as the aerotuck, is more aerodynamically efficient going down hill, which increases your topspeed.. Contrary to what’s been said before, it can be used to steal a march on your competitors and the only reason that doesn’t happen more frequently in the Yellow Jersey race is that the risk/reward…

It’s terrific — there’s enough content already to keep you busy for weeks and another episode is going to drop in two weeks or so. The release format actually really helps to communicate the best way to play Hitman, which is to explore the many, many approaches and permutations to taking out targets within a map (for…

They’re releasing a boxed version, I think, once all the episodes are out; and I’d be pretty surprised if the Elusive Targets didn’t resurface at that point, though maybe they’ll take the form of standard contracts.

If you liked Red Dead Redemption, the Witcher 3 is arguably the best open world game since that one, in terms of the quality of its writing, even in seemingly incidental quests, and world-building that successfully strives for scale without succumbing to the accompanying instinct towards panic-filling it with…

While I thought the story and progression were handled very well, the puzzles weren’t particularly satisfying. The mechanics of each device proved quite shallow and almost all of the puzzles turn around your ability to juggle items around a level’s obstacles, which is where the quantity of puzzles begins to wear you…