She’s Making An Honest Game About Sex

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman, who is currently making a game called Cibele. It is an autobiographical game about Nina’s experience having sex for the first time with someone she met through an online game. The game uses real filmed sequences and sections of an MMO-like game to tell an…

Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Star Wars Rebels

You can watch the action-packed first seven minutes of Star Wars Rebels below. It’s all classic Star Wars, including a crowded marketplace, gun battle with Stormtroopers, and speeder bike chase. And nothing could be more Star Wars than introducing a new, slightly different type of Stormtrooper to turn into an action figure: Via Rebels Report…

What Every Serious Mario Kart 8 Player Needs

There are 179,712 possible vehicle combinations in Mario Kart 8. That’s enough to drive even the most serious gamer insane. Thankfully, one player who’s not scared of number-crunching has compiled all this raw data into a handy mobile app that’s worth its weight in gold stars. It’s called “Configure MK8,” and it’s currently available for…

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Where Sonic The Hedgehog Went Wrong

Is it possible to care about Sonic the Hedgehog? Can a person really be concerned about Sega’s blue creation and what happens in his worlds? The answer is yes, but it depends on where you encounter him. I don’t think that Sonic is a mascot. He may act like one sometimes. He’s certainly not a…

Pokemon As A “Free To Play” Mobile Game

Think you want Nintendo games on your iPhone? Careful what you wish for, because here’s a realistic take on what Pokemon would be like as a free mobile game with in-app purchases: Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

17 Ocarina of Time Glitches You Might Not Know About

Maybe you’ve played Ocarina of Time before. Maybe you’ve watched some speedruns of the game, too. But Ocarina of Time has so many glitches, there is still plenty in the game that you’ve probably never seen before. If you have seventeen minutes to spare, you should definitely watch this video by A+Start—it highlights the best…

Bioshock And Half-Life-Themed Emergency Boxes

Bioshock-themed emergency box by a Redditor who also made this Half-Life-themed box: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Last of Us: Remastered’s New Photo Mode Is Fantastic

Give people the power to stage their own screenshots, as The Last of Us: Remastered does, and something magical happens. Artistic, even. Folks like AlphaPot, who snapped the stern-looking Joel above, are putting the new photo mode to good use. Sometimes this means taking pictures of ridiculous things like Joel’s teeth.But most of the time,…

Adorable Guardians Of The Galaxy Toy Qualifies As A Spoiler

An enterprising Etsy seller stepped in to provide the toy people want most after watching Guardians of the Galaxy: Baby Groot in a pot. Alas, it doesn’t dance, but you can buy one at Etsy. The word from Marvel is there’s no official dancing Groot yet: Also in available in the Etsy shop is this…

A Father’s Struggle To Make A Game After Cancer Killed His Son

“Jesus, I can’t even watch this,” the man sitting next to me whispered, fidgeting in his seat. The screen in front of us played a home video of an infant child named Joel Green, gurgling happily as he played with a bunch of golden retriever puppies. It was April, and we were sitting in a…

Nightmarish Arcade Features Giant Flappy Bird, Minecraft-O-Matic

Andrew Reiner visited a dystopian arcade that expects you to pay to play games like a giant version of Flappy Bird and Minecraft pachinko: You can see more games from the arcade here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.