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Star Wars Bounty Hunter Prints, Including A Surprising Character
Alex Griendling has a new selection of Star Wars bounty hunter portraits. Along with the typical group of Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters, the selection includes Shae Vizla from The Old Republic: You can buy the set, or individual portraits here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…
By John Struan Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedMy Favorite Mobile Game, Ruined By Free-To-Play
Brilliant in concept and nearly flawless in execution, Sword & Poker and Sword & Poker 2 were two of the best reasons to own an iPhone. With the release of the free-to-play Sword & Poker Adventures, the whole thing has gone to shit. The first Sword & Poker game, available still for $2.99 on iPhone,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedSony will be staging a live reading and musical performance of The Last Of Us in Santa Monica on Monday, July 28 at 10pm ET. The performance will feature the game’s voice actors and is overseen by the game’s creative director, Neil Druckmann. Livestreamed on PSN/Twitch/YouTube. More details at the PlayStation blog
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Watch The $5 Million Dota 2 International Grand Finals Right Here
What does $5 million worth of Dota 2 look like? Find out today, as team Newbee faces off against team ViCi in the grand finals of The International. I’d say the pressure is on, but it really isn’t. With a second place prize of $1, 475, 699, it’s hard for me to imagine either team…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Reminder: the Destiny beta’s going bye-bye for a bit, for scheduled maintenance. The preview test of Bungie’s sci-fi shooter will be down starting today and returns on 7/23, the first day Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have access to the beta.
By Evan Narcisse Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Deals: BOGO 3DS Games, Superhero Blu-rays Assemble, Xbox One
Select 3DS games are buy one get one free today at Best Buy. It’s not the entire library of course, but there’s Bravely Default, both Pokemon games, Link Between Worlds, and more. [BOGO 3DS Games] If you don’t mind heading into the store, Target will take $15 off a $40 game if you put down…
By Shane Roberts Published July 21, 2014 -
CultureSome Sports Fans Upset ESPN Is Airing Video Game Tournaments
This weekend, ESPN2 aired a preview for the grand finals of Dota 2’s The International, the 10 million-dollar tournament for the very popular video game. The move is kind of a big deal—arguably, it grants competitive gaming more mainstream legitimacy. But not everyone was happy to see Dota 2 on ESPN. You can watch the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
‘You Want Goku? Have Goku’
(Fake Sakurai Miiverse post via Nentendo)
By Jason Schreier Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
300 Famous Characters, Redrawn in Pixels
Inspired by Bubble Bobble, pixel artist Paul Robertson took Taito’s 1986 classic’s style and redrawn a whole bunch of video game and pop culture characters. 300 of them to be exact. Here’s all of them, and I’m pretty sure this would be the best tileset ever for an RPG Maker game. Even JoJo is there!…
By Gergo Vas Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Cooking with TAY: Cacio e Pepe (Italian Mac n’ Cheese) • Starsector: A Story of Indie Development Done Right • This is One of the Best Eras of Anime, Stop Saying It Sucks • 4 Dark Souls 2 Lore Gaps I Hope the DLC Will Fill TAY…
By András Neltz Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedTen World of Warcraft Mysteries
Four expansion packs later, there are still some unsolved mysteries out there that plague World of Warcraft. DDGuides‘s here with ten of them compiled into an entertaining video. If you dig deep enough into various blue posts on the official forums and dev Q&As, you could probably find bits of information on these. But number…
By Gergo Vas Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedOne-Woman Choir Takes on Game of Thrones
The finale to Game of Thrones’ fourth season had some really nice music. Now, if we take that music, and add one of YouTube’s greatest cover artists, what we get is something truly magical. Malukah is mostly known for her renditions of various video game tunes—she even composed a song for The Elder Scrolls Online—…
By András Neltz Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedA Teasing Look At Star Wars: Episode VII‘s First Ship
We’ve already seen a few signs that Episode VII of the Star Wars saga will be embracing handmade practical effects in the form of aliens, creatures and costumes. But the newest sign is a big one. It’s a ship. One big enough for a Rebel Alliance pilot to climb into. The glimpse at the spacecraft…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Skylanders Dark Edition Isn’t A GameStop Exclusive This Year
Last year I gave Activision flack for making its special Dark Edition version of Skylanders: Swap Force a GameStop exclusive. The $99 Skylanders: Trap Team Dark Edition carries no such constraints, so if your children don’t get one it’s merely because you’re some kind of monster. Debuting to the public at this week’s San Diego…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedNew Transformers Co-Op Arcade Shooter
I’ve spent a lot of tokens happily playing goofy shooter Let’s Go Jungle at Chuck E Cheese, so Sega’s new game Transformers: Human Alliance is right up my alley: Via Sega and TAG Hobby You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Eternal Throne, Darksiders II‘s floating fortress, rebuilt in Terraria. The two leviathans and the court of the Lord of Bones look really cool in 2D. Eternal Sky Throne by Cory [Steam Community] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…
By Gergo Vas Published July 21, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Chinese Military Has One Kickass Gaming Bus
The Chinese Military has some pretty interesting toys. Some of them are pretty crappy, some of them are knockoffs, others are just impressive, but none are like their latest coach bus. Appearing on Chinese twitter-like Weibo, the People’s Liberation Army’s Second Artillery Corps now has a big camo-painted coach bus. So what is the purpose…
By Eric Jou Published July 21, 2014 - Kotaku East
Terrifyingly Large Insect Found in China
No, I wasn’t planning on sleeping tonight anyway. Or the rest of this month, for that matter. Earlier this month in Sichuan, China, the Insect Museum of West China went on an expedition and found the largest dobsonfly of its kind, Xinhua reports. Look at those mandibles. They are pure nightmare fuel. If you are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2014 -
UncategorizedBrutal Doom Is About To Become Even More Brutal
I didn’t think it was possible, but there you go. There’s a new fifteen-minute video out for Brutal Doom’s upcoming v20 update which, sadly, still hasn’t got a release date. The clip is pretty awesome though: All those splatters. Those flying limbs and bodies. That chainsaw. It’s really amazing how much SGtMarkIV can squeeze out…
By András Neltz Published July 21, 2014