It won't arrive in time for the long weekend, but as far as free games go (for those with an Xbox Live subscription), April is looking very good.

It's clear enough that a lot of us here at Kotaku liked Assassin's Creed Syndicate. The game earned a positive review and a spot on our best of 2015 list. All the same, our three biggest Assassin's Creed nerds had yet to sit down and talk it out.

At Ubisoft, big video games like Assassin's Creed are developed by hundreds of people at many different studios across the world. As you might imagine, this can be an organisational nightmare.

Video: I was kidnapping a guy the other night in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and overheard a couple of Londoners engaging in some insult sword fighting. If you ask me, most of the enemies in these games fight like dairy farmers...

Dayshot: A lot of very nice words have (surprisingly, given Unity's qualities) been written about the latest Assassin's Creed game, but there's one thing a lot of them overlook: just how pretty this video game is.

In Assassin's Creed Syndicate, there's a guy whose entire job is to stand on a boat and get knocked into a river. That's it. That's his whole life. This man is a hero.

Let us praise a thing that matters a lot in video games: the quality of an in-game map. Zooming in, let us heap praise upon 2015's most magnificent in-game map, the one that appeared in Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate's new Jack The Ripper expansion is a compelling if rough-edged remix of the base game that cleverly works in one of history's most famous killers. It pulls off another trick, too, going to extraordinary lengths to engender empathy for a group of people who don't get much of it in video games: prostitutes.

Video: The Jack The Ripper expansion for Assassin's Creed Syndicate will be out for PS4 and Xbox One on December 15, a week later on PC, according to publisher Ubisoft. It stars Evie Frye and is set 20 years after November's very good new AC. Now, what happened to her brother, Jacob? Hmmm.

If you've been holding off on picking up a gaming-related Christmas present -- specifically a console or a game -- then EB's Mad Monday sale will probably tip you over the edge. There's some offers here that are too good to ignore. Let's check them out.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate is, as Assassin's Creed games usually are, very pretty. Which is the result of a massive team of artists from all over the world working on the game.

If there's been one constant with the Assassin's Creed games over the last few years, it's that they have run like shit on PC.

Video games are getting better and better at showing us convincing-looking cities. Cities are usually full of crowds, however, and video games aren't nearly as good at handling those.

Here's a modern day video game mystery we haven't been able to solve: Why are the download files for new Assassin's Creed Syndicate outfits so enormous?

This spring's big Assassin's Creed game features not one but two main characters: twin siblings Jacob and Evie Frye. Obviously one is better than the other. The question is, which?

We've been pleasantly surprised by Assassin's Creed Syndicate 'round these parts. In the ever-unfolding tapestry that is the Assassin's Creed franchise, Syndicate is one of the good ones.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate's various add-on missions, given to those who preordered the game or who bought it on a specific platform, are wildly uneven in quality. The worst were even advertised in misleading fashion. The best should make Xbox One fans temporarily jealous of PS4 owners. Let's break this down.

Today on Highlight Reel we have spartan ground pounds, horses shitting in space, DiRT flips, missed train rides, and much more!

Last year I was impressed with a state of the art Assassin's Creed kiss. This year? The latest Assassin's Creed team has upped their game with combat animations.