Anita Sarkeesian Was Just On The Colbert Report

Critic Anita Sarkeesian just made an appearance on The Colbert Report, in an interview which followed a section of the show devoted entirely to gamergate You can check out the interview in the clip below. The first clip is the set-up; the second is the interview. The full episode will be up on Colbert’s site…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Happy 27th Birthday, PC Engine! • Game of The Week—Choice and Consequences [Radiant Historia] • The Future Diary: The Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here. Top photo courtesy of Evan-Amos, Wikipedia

Here’s the Yakuza Zero Trailer in English

You saw the 15 minute JapaneseYakuza Zerotrailer. Now you can understand it. Sega has made no announcement for an international release of their latest Yakuza game, but that didn’t stop us from translating and putting English subtitles to the dramatic story trailer. Check it out below. Note: With no script or Japanese subtitles, I had…

Shadow Of Mordor’s New DLC Will Put Monsters On Top Of Other Monsters

Is there anything more menacing than Shadow of Mordor’s grisly assortment of orcs and uruks—especially the ones with super creepy taunts that nobody knows how to kill? Well, how about one such grisly uruk riding into battle on top of an acid-vomiting ogre? That’s the new kind of orc-killing Middle-Earth fans will get once Shadow…

Arnold Schwarzenegger Impressions Make Assassin’s Creed Better

So imagine if Schwarzenegger, Morgan Freeman, Alan Carr, and David Attenboroughall got together and played co-op in Assassin’s Creed Unity. As our colleagues at Kotaku UK note, Ubisoft roped in impressionist and comedian Terry Mynott to do all four voices. I like the Schwarzenegger impression best. Schwarzenegger, Freeman and Alan Carr Play Assassin’s Creed Unity…

The Creator of Smash Bros. Needs a Vacation

Director Masahiro Sakurai reflects on his workload on the latest Super Smash Bros., and holy hell, what a workload it is. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is out and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is almost complete. In his latest column in Weekly Famitsu, Sakurai took a moment to reflect on the development…

After successfully reaching the English voice acting stretch goal, Mighty No. 9’s slacker backer campaign is now raising money for a post-release DLC pack consisting of an extra stage with its own boss fight. The planned release window is Summer 2015, provided they can collect another $190,000 by the end of this year.

Nintendo’s Newest Hardware Will Monitor Your Sleep

Today, Nintendo announced that it has begun work on a new platform. It’s not quite what you’d expect. Developed with US-based ResMed, Nintendo is working on a new QOL (quality of life) platform that uses sensors and the cloud to monitor people’s lifestyles. For example, the non-wearable QOL sensor can be placed next to a…

Broken Game Faces Inspire Awesome Halloween Masks

NBA2K15’s new face tech sounded so good in theory. So of course it was a nightmare in action Rather than hide in shame from the screw-up, though, 2K are having a laugh and getting into the Halloween spirit by turning the busted faces into Halloween masks. You can print them out here. While some look…

If Harry Potter Were About DOTA 2

“Harry, yer a DOTA player.” Former Team Liquid admin Ken “Hot_Bid” Chen and Mark “SirJolt” McEntegart are Kickstarting their eSports satire publication in an attempt to turn it into a full-time job. Among many samples of their work is a chunk of the first Harry Potter book rewritten to be aboutDOTA 2, which they’ll rewrite…

A Totally Accurate Guide To The Races Of The Star Worms Universe

Ah yes, the Star Worms universe. So full of unforgettable characters and spooky aliens. Let’s take a trip down memory lane , shall we? As a follow-up to his guide to the races in the Star Trip universe, devoted Trekkie Neil Cicierega put together a guide to the fictional alien races of Star Warp. Watching…