Watch The Smash Bros. Wii U Event Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

What’s Nintendo got in store for Smash Bros. on Wii U? New features? DLC? Ridley? We’ll find out at least some of what will be different in the home-console version of Nintendo’s mascot fighter tonight at 6pm Eastern, in a special Nintendo Direct that the folks behind Smash say will reveal 50 new things about…

Making Batman Poorer Might Actually Be a Pretty Good Idea

The long-running joke about Batman was that—where guys like Superman have multiple superhuman abilities—his only real superpower is money. Now, he’s apparently going to have less of it. And it might be one of the more interesting things to happen to the Dark Knight in years. There’s a status quo shift happening in DC Comics’…

​Your PC Must Be Très Magnifique For Assassin’s Creed Unity

The next big Assassin’s Creed game, Unity, looks like it’s going to be very pretty and very French. Both are good things in my book—though given that I can’t actually speak French and my last name is “LeJacq,” I might be a tad biased. There’s one thing we can all agree on, however: its PC…

Uncharted‘s Opening Scene, In Real Life

OK, this is impressive—a group of Scandinavian filmmakers (headed up by director Martin Sofiedal) put together this live-action re-creation of Uncharted‘s intro scene that’s just about as good a fan film as I’ve ever seen. Not gonna lie: Norwegian Nathan Drake seems like a cool dude. Maybe these guys should make the Uncharted film. Here’s…

Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s Sex Talk Sounds Hilarious

BioWare, the veteran RPG studio today best known for making Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has long been the king of awkward video game sex scenes. As writer Tom Bissell put it back in 2012 after Mass Effect 3 came out: “BioWare’s talented storytellers desperately need to rethink their curious devotion to the video-game sex…

Last Chance to Save On Sunset Overdrive, Logitech G502, and More Deals

Microsoft has been handing out a $10 gift card with your preorder of Sunset Overdrive for months, but you only have to preorder by tomorrow afternoon to get release day delivery. [Sunset Overdrive] More $10 gift cards: Halo 5: Guardians Halo: The Master Chief Collection Sunset Overdrive Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Dragon Age: Inquisition…

The New Simpsons World App Has Some Issues

If you’re a cable subscriber, you can now stream and watch every single episode of The Simpsons on your computer, tablet, or Xbox, so long as your provider supports the FXX Now app. Every single episode! In theory, this is phenomenal. Unlimited digital access to the greatest television show ever made? A chance to watch…

Players Try To Cheese Destiny‘s Hardest Boss, Fail Miserably

Hahaha oh boy. That didn’t go over too well, did it? In Destiny‘s big, epic raid, there is a final boss named Atheon. And there used to be a method of “cheesing” him, as in killing him quickly and unethically (depending on who you ask). Players would be able to push Atheon off the level,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Designer’s Corner: Beyond: Two Souls • Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit: The TAY Manga Review • Game of The Week — Surgeon “Simulator” [Trauma Center: Under The Knife] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

2012’s very beautiful PS3 game The Unfinished Swan will be hitting PS4 and Vita on 10/28, according to the Official PlayStation blog. Here’s Stephen Totilo’s review of the original release.

What The Great War In Fallout Is All About

It’s October 23, which means we’re now exactly 63 years away from Fallout‘sGreat War, the Very Special Saturday in which every nuclear nation in the world fired all of their missiles at once. Good times all around. To celebrate this pre-anniversary, the funny people at Dorkly shot this neat video containing some brief history on…

Metallic Iron Man Figures Are the Best Iron Man Figures

I’ve been waiting a year for this. (cue the Black Sabbath music) Since the announcement of Hong Kong collectible toy company’s ambitious new Movie Masterpiece Diecast line of figures – figures that use actual metal parts – I’ve spent countless hours oogling over the images of theIron Man 3 Mark XLII suit. I almost immediately…

Sword Art Online, Now With Flying

Japan’s popular series about life inside video games is getting another game. It lets you fly. Sword Art Online is a story with multiple arcs, perhaps the most famous being its initial story involving a game of death where players are trapped inside an MMO and dying in the game means dying in real life.…