Mega Pokémon, Hanging Out With Their Kids

Aww. Who knew that badass mega Pokemon acting like caring, loving parents could be so sweet? Take this Charizard using its tail to help lil Charmander toast its marshmallow, for example. Artist arkeis-pokemon has a whole bunch more where that came from, too: Adorable. You can check out more of arkeis-Pokemon’s work here.

Nintendo’s Plan To Work With YouTubers Sounds Ambitious

After initially tolerating YouTubers who ran their own ads on Nintendo-related videos and then cracking down on the practice, Nintendo recently promised to implement some sort of revenue-sharing program. What had sounded like a plan to split ad money on Let’s Plays suddenly sounds like something grander. “Think of it as an affiliate program where…

Forest Sharks: The Forest, that survival horror game with cannibalistic mutants, just got a big ‘ol update with lots of fixes, changes and bug-squashing. The update includes stuff like sharks and a more dramatic scene involving your son, Timmy. Neat.

What Xbox One Games Gain And Lose With The New Kinect-Free Option

Microsoft recently said that game developers will be able to get a little more power out of the Xbox One to make their games more visually impressive if they choose to forgo some Kinect features. What’s the actual trade-off? As previously indicated by Microsoft, developers willing to go forgo Kinect sensor support for their games…

The Smash Bros Miiverse Could Drive Anyone Nuts

Part of what makes Smash Bros. so great is that it pits characters from all sorts of different franchises together—naturally, fans have ideas about what characters such be included. Like kids sending letters to the North Pole, tons of people take to Miiverse and write letters to Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Smash Bros, in…

Given that they’re bundling it with The Lego Movie Video Game, it’s no big surprise that Sony expects the new PlayStation TV for the young ones. “We think it primarily will appeal to 6-12-year old kids—with families who like to play together in a local co-op way,” Sony VP John Koller told us at E3.…

​GTA V Looks Better On PS4—Or At Least The Trailer Does

Now that the inevitable has happened and versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PS4, PC and Xbox One have been announced, it’s time to discuss what’s on everybody’s minds: how’s the 2014 version going to look? Pretty good if the trailers are any indication. Digital Foundry spliced together footage from last year’s GTA V…

Woman Freaks Out Playing Virtual Reality Zombie Game

The Oculus Rift by lonesome is never enough for some people. Above is a video of a woman trying out a crazy virtual reality installation that involves motion capture, guns, and a computer backpack. The company is called Zero Latency, and they’re running a crowdfunding campaign for a VR game experience (as in, not the…

Infamous YouTuber PewDiePie netted $4 million last year, “most of which is pure profit,” according to a new Wall Street Journal profile. He wishes he wasn’t so famous. “I’m so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like ‘Why is he so big?'” PewDiePie said…

The Real Problem With Sex Workers In Video Games

When you’re playing a game as infectiously compelling as Grand Theft Auto V, it can be difficult to take a step back and reflect on all the wanton acts of destruction in which you’ve participated. This can be weird in its own right considering how much of a time sink open world games can be.…

Peter Dinklage’s Destiny Performance Is…Not Great

We were all pretty excited when Bungie announced that their much-hyped multiplayer shooter Destiny would feature beloved actor Peter Dinklage, best known for his show-stealing portrayal of Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones, in a large voiceover role. For the past week or so, Bungie has been running an early-look alpha of Destiny, which gave…

Deals: Sunset Overdrive, Halo 5, Shadow of Mordor, Lara Croft, 2DS

Unexpectedly, pre-orders of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor on the PS3 and 360 are $10 off on Amazon today. We’re not complaining. [Shadow of Mordor] Want to see all our deals, and in one place? Check out Kinja Deals . Speaking of pre-orders, get $10 in Best Buy rewards for pre-ordering Halo 5 today. [Halo…

Screenshot and animation by Marty Seefeldt for a NES-era Black Widow game. Via Twist Street You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​A Virtual Reality Fan That Really Blows

Kickstarter is an absurd place where dreams often become reality — dreams like USB-controlled fans that you control with your face. Above is the Kickstarter video for the Petal: a usb-controlled fan made to integrate with the Oculus Rift. It is both the most Oculus and Kickstarter-ey thing I have seen in a long time,…

Tomodachi Life Is Putting Me To Sleep (In A Good Way)

“Maybe you don’t know what the nights are like for people who can’t sleep,” the poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his Book of Hours I’ve fought with insomnia as long as I can remember. Rilke’s line here has always struck me as the best description I’ve read of the experience. Trying to force myself…