When not busy with Heroes of the Storm, artist Luke Mancini draws wild fan-art, like this cartoony one with Super Mario, Peach, and Yoshi, who transformed into a beast. Or he’s Bowser’s hand, as you can see in the full picture: Maario by Mr—Jack [DeviantART, Gamers for Good] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Is This Adult Stealing a Baseball from a Kid? A Special Report.

Recently, the above GIF has been appearing on numerous Japanese sites. Commenters have been criticizing the woman based only on this animated image. But what’s going on? Time to delve deeper. The incident happened recently at a game between the Yokohama DeNA Baystars and the Chunichi Dragons. The Baystars are owned by mobile game company…

Students and Principal Battle Over Cosplay

As Kotaku first reported back in February, some Korean high school yearbook photos can get outrageous. This year, students at Uijeongbu High School had a showdown with their principal over graduation photos. A cosplay showdown. As pointed out by tipster Sang, Twitter user IwantAlbis from Uijeongbu High School recounted how the principal declared that graduation…

The Smash Bros. Where You Can Play As Sora, Naruto, Ichigo, or Goku

The first Super Smash Flash was originally submitted to Newgrounds almost 8 years ago, in 2006. You can play its sequel right now, though it is still in development—in fact, it’s getting a huge update very soon. Essentially, the game is (currently) a stripped down version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl with different stages and…

A Better Look At Halo: Nightfall’s Hero​

Mike Colter is Agent Jameson Locke in Ridley Scott’s upcoming series Halo: Nightfall: Via Halo Waypoint and Variety You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

War Is Hell (Except With Tiny Pigs)

Redsteam is a creative studio based in Shanghai that “maintains an essential role in the production of Gameloft games”. We’ve featured the work of some of their individual artists previously on Kotaku, but today we’re going to look at the studio’s recent output as a whole. You can check out more of their stuff at…

Video Game Buttons To Scale

Video game buttons size comparison by Matthew Kenyon You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

FFXIII’s Lightning. Cosplay by Rainer, photo by vaxzone

Tips For Playing Civilization V

Civilization V has grown over a few big expansions to become one of the very best games on the PC. I’d go so far as to say it’s *gasp* the best Civilization game of them all. To help out newcomers, then, or just those who are upgrading with the expansions, I thought I’d put this…

Stop Licking The Screen, Doofus, This Is A Screenshot

By my count (*checks watch*) this is about the 117th time I’ve posted screenshotsfor the upcoming Project Cars. Whatever. They keep looking this good, we’ll all keep on enjoying looking at them. These pics in particular show off the game’s weather, which the devs describe as a “fully-dynamic weather engine include rain droplets, riplets and…

The Original Unreal Got Aliens Right

Editor’s note: I’m sure I’m not the only one with fond memories of the original Unreal, which came out on PC one million years ago in 1998. What was it that made that game special? Let’s find out. The following is an excerpt from the new book Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the…