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World of Warcraft’s next big expansion, Legion, is coming out this coming summer, Blizzard confirmed today at Blizzcon. Also Illidan Stormrage is coming back! Are you PREPARED? I’m not. Watch the fantastic new trailer above.

By Yannick LeJacq Published November 6, 2015

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Overwatch Base Price Will Be $40, $60 On Consoles

Turns out Overwatch won’t be free-to-play, as many (myself included!) had predicted. Instead it’ll cost you $40 to buy the base version of Blizzard’s new hero shooter on PC, Blizzard just announced. To buy the premium “Origins” edition, which comes with a bunch of skins and other perks and is available for PC, PS4, and…

By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2015

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New Hearthstone Adventure Comes Out Next Week

Blizzard’s mega-popular competitive game is getting a bunch of new card and mechanics with the League of Explorers adventure mode, which will launch next week. Announced today at Blizzcon, League of Explorers will be a four-wing pack full of bosses and new legendary cards. It’ll also add new game boards, some class challenges, and a…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 6, 2015

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Crazy New Heroes of the Storm Character Is Controlled By Two People At Once

Heroes of the Storm’s next hero is going to be a giant ogre named Cho’gall, game director Dustin Browder said today at Blizzcon. In a unique twist, he’ll be played by two separate people at the same time. Holy crap. Blizzard really meant it when they said they’re breaking all the MOBA rules! Browder also…

By Yannick LeJacq Published November 6, 2015

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Blizzard Announces Goofy New ‘Arena’ Mode For Heroes Of The Storm

Heroes of the Storm’s Dustin Browder took the stage at Blizzcon this afternoon to announce a whacky-sounding new feature for their excellent new MOBA. It’s called “The Arena,” and lets you do crazy shit like play a game with everyone as the same hero. Nice! Establishing it as a feature suggests it’s going to make…

By Yannick LeJacq Published November 6, 2015

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Here’s The Warcraft Movie Trailer

Showcased at Blizzcon today, here’s the trailer for the upcoming Warcraft movie, which will debut in June. There are orc babies. Also some war. Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon), this Warcraft movie will be set early in the franchise’s history, and will star iconic old characters like Lothar, Durotan, and Medivh. It’ll be out on…

By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2015

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Starcraft 2: Nova Covert Ops, three upcoming missions for Starcraft 2, will drop on spring 2016, Blizzard announced today. Here’s the trailer!

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 6, 2015

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Watch The Blizzcon Keynote Right Here

Is Overwatch free-to-play? When’s World of Warcraft: Legion coming out? Where’s the Warcraft movie trailer? We’ll hopefully get some answers to those questions and more this afternoon at Blizzcon. Watch the keynote, which starts at 2pm ET, right here:

By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2015

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A PS4 Game’s Quest To Create A Realistic Woman

Hellblade, Ninja Theory’s upcoming action game that explores mental illness, wants a protagonist that looks as believable as possible. This means two things, as far as the developers are concerned: nailing the protagonist’s expressions so they look human, and giving the character a body with realistic proportions. Two weeks ago, Ninja Theory detailed all the…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 6, 2015

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Activision Blizzard Launches Film And TV Studio

You might think that, after this week’s surprise $5.9 billion acquisition, Activision might be out of big announcements to make. But it turns out they’ve got at least one more. The mega-publisher announced today that they’re launching a studio for film and TV projects in their huge stable of francises, which includes Call of Duty,…

By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2015

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The Dumbest Video Game Marketing Moves

This week’s terribly generic announcementof Paragon got us thinking—what were the worst marketing moves in video game history? That’s the main topic for this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, where Kirk and I regale you with all sorts of video game talk. Our special guest this week is Matthew Burns, a writer and game developer…

By Jason Schreier Published November 6, 2015

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Riot still isn’t working on adding a sandbox mode to League of Legends, developer Jeffrey “RiotLyte” Lin confirmedlast night on Twitter. This comes three months after a tremendous outpouring of anger and disappointment from fans who really wanted a sandbox mode. Riot’s working on a ton of other cool stuff, though.

By Yannick LeJacq Published November 6, 2015

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The Life and Creativity of A Great Bethesda Artist

I couldn’t stop smiling one day in late 2005 as I was led through the darkened basement of Bethesda Softworks toward the little corner unit that was to be my cube. My geek barometer was pinging off the charts. I could scarcely believe that I was there. The place looked like a laser-tag facility; the…

Jonah Lobe Published November 6, 2015

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Track: No Diggity | Artist: Black Street, Dr. Dre | Album: Single Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

By Yannick LeJacq Published November 6, 2015

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Street Fighter Character’s Motivational Speeches Are Hype As Hell

R. Mika really knows how to get people pumped, let me tell you. Earlier this year, we wrote about R. Mika’s special V-Skill ability, which allows her to become so powerful, she can almost one-hit-kill her enemies—provided, of course, that she can finish the entirety of her speech beforehand. It looked really rad! That’s not…

By Patricia Hernandez Published November 6, 2015

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Why Bad Pro Wrestling Injuries Can Often Be Good News

Pro wrestling injuries suck for the wrestlers who get hurt. For everyone else, they are, weirdly, a good thing. That’s true even this week as one of the WWE’s best performers, its top champion Seth Rollins, suffered multiple knee injuries during a non-televised match in Ireland and will be shelved for the next six to…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 6, 2015

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Black Ops III: Last-Gen vs Current-Gen

You’d think from hanging around the internet that by 2015 most people would be playing Black Ops III on a PC, Xbox One or PS4. But remember, there are still a lotta folks out there with last-gen hardware. Now is the time to be reminded of their predicament. When the latest consoles were still brand…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2015

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The Gamer Who Didn’t Leave His House For Over a Year

“I went to GameStop a couple of months ago and even that wasn’t a far trip at all,” says Troy. He pauses for a few seconds, as if lost in thought. “I wanted some Wii U games,” he laughs. “That was interesting.” This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Troy, a video game streamer from…

Joe Donnelly Published November 6, 2015

Esports

That Was One Close Mortal Kombat X Match

Two pro players, Xarakamaka and st9rm, played one of the best Mortal Kombat X matches I’ve recently seen last night, during the ESL Pro League Season 2 semifinals. It was full of perfect combos, block strings and last second comebacks. They’re both character specialists at their finest, playing the same character from day one. So…

By Gergo Vas Published November 6, 2015

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The Japanese Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Has Lots of New Footage

This is not simply the old trailer with Japanese subs on it. This is much more. You can watch the one minute and fifty-three second trailer below. Lots of hot stuff in this trailer! Like… …and… Thanks RaviCNN and JohnTV! To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2015