Video Games Are Better With Dancing Pixel Birds

French artist Kévin creates his animations in a rather unique way: by using Flipnote Studio, a downloadable application for the Nintendo DS. This makes all of his art look like something from a 90s handheld game. In his recent gallery, he takes several games and replaces the characters in them with penguins and other birds.…

Black Bullet Irredeemably Ruins An Otherwise Good Premise

Back at the start of the spring season, as I wrote short summaries about all the season’s then upcoming anime, post-apocalyptic tale Black Bullet was one of the anime I was most looking forward to. However, less than two episodes in I could already see that it was failing to live up to its interesting…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Poster Has an Unfortunate 9/11 Reference

While the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie will be out August 8 in North America, it won’t be out until September 11 in Australia. Paramount Pictures’ Australia branch showed off the movie’s poster, which is truly unfortunate. As you can see, the poster features the half-shelled heroes jumping out of a burning skyscraper. At…

New Anime Casts the Ghostbusters as Penguin-Hunting Kidnappers

Tokyo ESP is the story of a teenage girl with the power to phase through solid objects and a teenage boy with the power to teleport who decide to become superheroes. So while I wouldn’t have been surprised by an X-Men cameo, I certainly didn’t expect the Ghostbusters to show up—especially as villains! In all…

Link Dies 104 Times in this Ocarina of Time Supercut

Balls in the face might be the deadliest of them all, but the other 103 threats were still dangerous enough to take out the Hero of Time. At least in this video Master0fHyrule’s latest, ten-minute clip examines all the ways Link can die during the course of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s nostalgic, like that…

Pokémon Wearing Glasses Is a Meme

Who knew Pocket Monsters looked so good in glasses? I sure didn’t. But now I do. In the past few days, fans have been uploading photos of their Pokémon plush toys wearing glasses. Their look is somewhat unexpected! Even Pokémon game designer Junichi Masuda has been retweeting the pics. I’m assuming that recent promotional material…

If Your Phone Rings on Live TV, Don’t Do This

Recently, on a Vietnamese morning show, a guest was talking about the serious flooding in Lang Son when something unexpected happened: His phone rang. In the clip below from YouTuber Góc Thư Giãn, you can see the stealthy way the guest dealt with the situation: Very smooth! Didn’t even notice. Phóng Viên Ném Điện Thoại…

Ever wondered how a top-shelf cosplay outfit is made? Or know how and just want some tips from a master? Well, Henchmen Props and Dara Defreitas are teaming up to run a weekly Q&A so that “friends and fellow cosplayers can join, hangout, ask questions and bounce ideas!” More info here

A Handy Illustrated Chart Of Minecraft Enemies

A Redditor created this charmingly-illustrated chart of Minecraft enemies—click expand to see it full-sized You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Photographs Of People At The Moment They Fly Out Of A Water Slide

Krista Long posted a series of photographs of people at the moment they emerge from a water slide: You can see more than a dozen additional photos in the series here Via LaughingSquid You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​For One Night, The Last Of Us Was A Musical

Tonight’s stage performance of The Last of Us: One Night Live was weird, ramshackle, funny, and kinda unlike any video-game event I’ve seen. The best part, easily, was the musical number. Most of us have already seen this funny musical “alternate ending” to the game, which was initially thrown together by the cast on the…

Huge Terminator 2 Game Does Not Exist, Which Is A Damn Shame

Yes there are actual Terminator 2 games, most of them (arcade gun game excepted) garbage. This, sadly, is not one of them. Instead, it makes use of mods to turn Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into…machinima? Art? Either way, it’s one long love letter to James Cameron’s 1991 classic. This was actually released last year,…