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Blizzard CEO Addresses Gamergate Saga In Everything But Name

Blizzard Entertainment’s president and CEO Michael Morhaime began his presentation at the 2014 Blizzcon this afternoon by addressing some recent controversial events that have occurred in the gaming community. He didn’t identify it as the Gamergate saga and everything that has happened around it, but come on: we all know what he was talking about,…

Watch the Blizzcon 2014 keynote here. But, don’t worry if you can’t watch. We’ll have all of Blizzard’s biggest new on Kotaku as soon as it breaks.

Elite: Dangerous will be out on December 16. Sure, lots of people (like me) have been playing the online space sim’s ongoing beta for a while, but Elite will get a ‘real’ release in just a few weeks.

Free Metro 2033, Assassin’s Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 Discounts, More

GreenManGaming’s VIP has a killer set of discounts going, including $12 off Assassin’s Creed Unity, $12 off Far Cry 4, and about $4 off Valkyria Chronicles. [ GreenManGaming] There are also Far Cry 4 console preorder discounts in their respective sections below. The Humble Store is celebrating it’s first birthday with a whole bunch of…

​Watch Bioware Talk About the Future of Mass Effect Right Here

Today’s N7 Day, the semi-important holiday where BioWare celebrates its much-loved Mass Effect series with fans. A perfect day to talk about what’s next, no? Bioware will be streaming a developer roundtable focused on Mass Effect at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on Twitch today. While they probably won’t show anything really juicy with regard…

This Is What Smash Bros. Looks Like With Eight Players

Nintendo sent us an early copy of Super Smash Bros. Wii U this week, which means we get to share some footage with you in advance of the November 21 release date. Witness: EIGHT PLAYER SMASH. It’ll take some careful logistical planning to get seven controllers (and seven friends), so you might want to get…

Ridley to the rescue! In this Super Smash Bros for Wii U clip, one of us uses the famous Metroid villain to our advantage. Ridley only shows up on the Pyrosphere level and attacks everyone until one player smashes him enough to make him an ally. As Nintendo showed, you don’t actually control Ridley.

Bungie Sends One-Of-A-Kind Destiny Gun To Man Who Had Brain Surgery

Today in Stories That Will Warm Your Cold, Cynical Heart, meet Brittany Levasseur, whose husband has had seven brain surgeries over the past year. It’s been brutal, but they’ve found at least one helpful recovery tool—earlier this week, Levasseur wrote a long Reddit postabout how their doctor recommended that he play Destiny as a form…

Assassin’s Creed Musical Is Charmingly Dorky

Are there any kinds of nerds that are more intense than video game nerds? Oh, right: theater nerds. So what happens when you put the two of them together? You get a dude dressed Altaïr belting out some dulcet tones about how he needs to take a “leap of faith,” obviously. Assassin’s Creed: The Musical…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Sunset Overdrive: The TAY Review • Speedypups: A Runner that Calls Back to Classic Games • Gaming and Misbehaving: Spore and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion • Disney Infinity’s 2.0 Originals, Ranked TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

​Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is More Than Just A Nostalgia Trip

I remember loving the Halo series. I remember investing hours in replaying the campaigns on harder difficulties, sometimes with friends and sometimes solo for the extra challenge. I remember smiling menacingly at killstreaks in multiplayer and throwing grenades right on top of banshees and long missions I thought would never end. But these were all…

Captain America 2, As An 80s VHS Action Movie

That’s a nice selection of tunes for an 80s parody. But ChiefBrody’s fan-made Captain America 2 video has it all: fake VHS tape effects, news bulletins and switchblades. Maybe the only thing missing is one of those massive, futuristic looking APCs every 80s sci-fi movie had. There’s even a plot, taking place in the chaotic…

LEGO Westeros Has A Lot Of White Bricks (And A Peeing Tyrion)

Displayed at an Italian convention, the creators of this massive Game of Thrones LEGO build chose a rather unusual centerpiece: a peeing Tyrion Lannister. Yep. That’s him. And I’ve never seen that many white blocks. Pretty sure this took a lot of time to build up. But it’s not just the Wall and Castle Black.…

BioWare Polling Fans On Mass Effect Trilogy Re-Release

Bioware’s Edmonton & Montreal studio GM, Aaryn Flynn, has been canvasing for opinions on a Mass Effect trilogy re-release in a NeoGAF post. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Well, eventually. It took him a little while to get there: Once he got everything working he started asking people what they wanted, if there…

The Majora’s Mask Comparison We’ve All Been Waiting for

So, Nintendo is remaking The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 3DS. Let’s see how it stacks up with the original Nintendo 64 version. The N64 version was originally released in 2000, while the upcoming remake, titled The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, will be out in spring 2015. Fifteen years later,…

Bungie Executive Swatted, Finds Police Chopper Over His House

At 4am on Thursday, a police helicopter descended on the street an unnamed Bungie executive resides on, and cops surrounded his home. Authorities had been told the exec “had an assault rifle and he had placed explosives in the yard and he was holding a family hostage”. He had of course done nothing of the…

90s Magazine Cover Sure Was Grim

With the PlayStation 2 on the way, the April 1999 issue of France’s Player One magazine had some ideas on the future of Mario and Sonic. Bleak, yes, even if it also ended up being half-right… [supper mario broth]

Completing Borderlands With No Guns, Only Butt Slams

One player is doing a Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel run with no guns or melee. Butt slams only. They’re challenging others to join them in this gleeful insanity. Enterprising (and fittingly named) Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel player Moonswirl Butts is attempting to play through the entire game using only their character’s meteorically crashing backside, and they’re video-ing…

New Episodes of Bee and Puppycat Are Here, Hooray!

Yessssssss. Finally! For those that don’t know: Bee and Puppycat is a show by Natasha Allegri, a character designer and storyboard artist for Adventure Time. If you like Adventure Time, Sailor Moon, or cute things, chances are good you’ll like this show, too. The premise is basically: a young woman goes on intergalactic adventures with…

LoL’s Summoner’s Rift map is about to undergo some pretty important changes. Sure, you could fumble your way through them yourself (if you’re taking part in the beta), or you could do the easy thing andtake a look at this Google Earth-style interactive guide put together by Riot