Plush Elder Scrolls Pack Guar Probably Won’t Bite Your Head Off

What this cuddly pack guar will do is carry your burdens better than Lydia ever could. Pack guars have been around for way longer than Skyrim housecarls, so they’ve gotten good at this kind of thing. Gaming Heads’ new plushie is based on the Vvardenfell-native guar, specifically, its Elder Scrolls Online rendition (the only other…

Korean Street Explodes, Flips Car Like a Toy

The above footage is not from a movie or a TV drama. It’s real. And thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. Earlier this week in Seoul, South Korea, a water pipeline exploded, flipping a taxi into the air. NHKreports that the 56 year-old driver behind the wheel was not seriously injured. Below, you can see…

Japanese Schoolgirl Ninja Jumping Off Buildings

It’s summer in Japan. Students are starting to get out for vacation. Maybe they can spend their free time chasing each other around and jumping off rooftops. This video (well, ad) was shot in the idyllic city of Atami—apparently on a smartphone—as the two kids chase each other around, using ninja tricks like makibishi and…

The Next Captain America Is Black

Confirming an earlier report, Marvel’s Joe Quesada has revealed on The Colbert Report that the current Captain America, Steve Rogers, will soon be handing in his suit and shield. His replacement will be his partner Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon. It’s not exactly a shock. Wilson turned up in the latest Captain America movie, played…

Tumblr, Youtube, And Reddit-Themed Pokeballs

Jonathan Le Drappier’s collection of Pokeball illustrations include Pokeballs for Tumblr, Reddit, and Youtube, and also translucent Pokeballs revealing the Pokemon inside: See more Pokeballs in Jonathan’s gallery Via IG You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Art For A Very Good Cause

Kevin Kanai Griffith is an artist who has worked at Blizzard on games like Diablo III. He is also suffering from a rare form of cancer known as Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma (ASPS) To help raise funds for Kevin’s battle against the cancer, a ton of his fellow games artists have got together to create…

Some YouTubers Might Be Breaking The Law

In the past week, two excellent features have been written on the state of YouTube personalities in video games. One by Mike Rose on Gamasutra, the other by Simon Parkin on Eurogamer. They raise a number of important, albeit messy questions about the practice of these folks getting paid by publishers. You really need to…

​Sometimes A Game Only Needs To Show Me A Gif

I’m all for heady video-game concepts, but sometimes all I need to see is a gif and I’m in. The game in the gif above is an in-development PC action-RPG called Death’s Gambit, which developers White Rabbit describe as “an challenging action rpg where you explore a alien medieval planet filled with horrors, beasts, and…

Let this be a reminder to you all: there is not enough Fire Emblem cosplay in this world. Nowhere near enough. So here is some from the future, to give you hope. Cosplayer is eriotiku, photo by Ray Lum