I'm supposed to put something clever here, but I really just want to power through these stories as quickly as possible so that I can get to Bitmob's Call of Duty: Black Ops Game Night. Although I have to admit I did get distracted daydreaming about Elder Scrolls 5. 

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Regardless of how people felt about the quality of the show, the VGAs brought us several world-premiere trailers of games worth being excited about. Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Mass Effect 3, Resistance 3, SSX: Deadliest Descent, Mortal Kombat, Batman: Arkham City, and Prototype 2 all made an appearance during the course of Spike's award ceremony. I knew about some of these games before hand, and nothing really surprised me -- with the possible exception of SSX. Since the VGAs have ended, release dates for a few of the games have been discovered. Uncharted 3 is confirmed for November 1, 2011, and Elder Scrolls 5 will hit retail shelves only 10 days later on November 11, 2011. Complicating the fourth quarter of 2011 even further is the "holiday 2011" release of Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC simultaneously. Time to start saving up those vacation days. 

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the fastest-selling PC game of all time. Blizzard announced that the expansion pack to their ineffably popular MMO sold 3.3 million copies in its first 24 hours. In the press release from Activision, Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, wrote that this was WoW's best expansion yet. “We want to thank all of our new, existing, and returning players throughout the world for their incredible enthusiasm and support, and we look forward to hearing what they think about all the new content,” said Morhaime. I'm not sure why I'm bothering to report this: Any gamer who cares about this particular news blip is probably too busy Catalysming to read it. 

Public service announcement: If you have an account with Gawker Media -- which includes Kotaku -- then your password may have been compromised when Gawker's servers were hacked over the weekend. A database of over 185,000 passwords and 500,000 user emails was posted to The Pirate Bay. Slate has a widget where you can check if your email is listed among the hacked accounts. Gawker is suggesting that everyone change their password on their site and any other site they may have associated with the same password. I've already seen several friends on Twitter posting about losing weight thanks to acai berries, which is a red flag that their account has been hacked. (No offense to those people I follow on Twitter who are genuinely stoked about acai berries.)

Open-source developer successfully boots a Dreamcast emulator on an Android device. The emulator, known as nullDC, is being developed by drk|Raziel, who claimed getting the emulator to boot was apparently the hard part. Now getting a game to run should be fairly straightforward. Of course, playing emulated games is only legal when the gamer also owns a hard copy of the same title, but for Sega fans, the nullDC will be like the follow up to the Nomad they never knew they wanted. [Android Central]

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