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I Designed The Most Hideous Xbox One Controller
The custom controller masters over at The Controller Shop have built a photo-realistic lab for their website, where customers can create and save their dream creations. As you can see, this is not always the best idea. Blue sparkly directional pad? Check. Candy red buttons? Check. Pink and black metallic tiger striped face? Yup. Green…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Enjoy This Week’s Gaming Wallpapers
Dark Souls 2 by K-putt leads off this week’s selection of over a dozen gaming wallpapers, including Child of Light, Broforce, and Amazing Spider-Man 2: Dark Souls 2 by Seyavesh The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by WordsintheWater The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by HolyFridge Broforce by littlegrasshopper Infamous Second Son by c4implosive Infamous Second Son by PsihoPerihelion…
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UncategorizedThis Vine Shows Why Developing Games For Android Is So Hard
Kotaku has featured Bounden before. It’s an upcoming game that relies on two people using an iPhone to work together to dance (or just end up tied in knots). It’s supposed to be released May 21 for iOS and Android, but that’s easier said than done: As the Vine above illustrates, it’s difficult to impossible…
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UncategorizedWatch An Actress Be Transformed Into Alien: Isolation’s Ripley
Amanda Ripley and the rest of the cast in Alien: Isolation are based on real actors. Check out the process of turning the actors into digital characters in the new developer’s diary below: Via A:I You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
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UncategorizedThe Ultimate Version Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song
Every Saturday, Scott Bradlee and his slow jam crew deliver a sexy slow jam version of a classic cartoon theme. This week they’ve completely outdone themselves. Pokemon, Duck Tales and Chip and Dale — those were just warm-ups for the main event. Every time I see a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on a screen of…
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The Return Of The Worst Pokémon Trainer Ever
After more than a year on standby, Dorkly recently returned to continuing saga of Rusty, the Pokémon trainer who kept a dozen Bidoofs in a single ball, killed Snorlax with a Toyota Camry and drowned his Zubat trying to teach it Surf. As Rusty enters a Ghost Pokémon tower, past mistakes return to haunt him.
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
The Saturday Morning Stream: Bound By Flame (All Done!)
In this week’s exciting episode of The Saturday Morning Stream, I play a challenging fantasy action-adventure game that just sort of showed up this week — Bound by Flame. I love it when a game sneaks up on me. It hardly ever happens in my line of work. When it does, it generally means one…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
3D-Printed Banner Saga And Dishonored Character Sculptures
Ubin from The Banner Saga sculpted by James Cain and 3D-printed by i.materialise. See his other busts based on Dishonored (which you can download and print yourself) and The Banner Saga below: You can download the Dishonored files to print your own bust here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 5
I don’t know about you guys, but I sure am grateful that this week is over. So let’s celebrate by reading all our best content right here. And if you want a t-shirt of the above Atari dig commemoration by pacalin found on Gamefreaks, here you go To contact the author of this post, write…
By Tina Amini - Uncategorized
Video Game E.T. Paper Toy
To celebrate the discovery of the buried Atari E.T. video game cartridges, Tubbypaws made this paper toy based on E.T.’s look in the game: You can download the E.T. paper toy here. Also, available: Doge Via GI You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs…
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Uncategorized276-Hit Combo In Street Fighter IV
Above is the culmination of a 276-hit, 1076-damage combo in Street Fighter. Watch video of the combo below: Chun Li’s infinites are a perfect place to start but there’s one major problem. As they only work against crouching characters, after the opponent is stunned (and they reset into standing) you won’t be able to use…
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UncategorizedNew Super Time Force Trailer Shows Off Slow Motion
The latest Super Time Force trailer lets you savor the flying cars, giant mechs, and dinosaurs in slow motion: Super Time Force is frantic hyper-action videogame filled with total mayhem, total madness and total non-stop shooty-shooty-bam-bam destruction, but it’s also a game with super sweet, soothing, perhaps even quite sublime moments of slow motion. Every…
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Wind Waker Link Joins The Assassin’s Creed Universe
I commissioned M.S. Corley to illustrate Wind Waker Link as an Assassin’s Creed IV-style pirate as a gift for fellow Kotaku-writer Luke Plunkett. He created this illustration, and also a color version suitable for use as a desktop wallpaper: Check out more of Corley’s art at his site. He also has several Dungeons and Dragons…
By John Struan - Uncategorized
A Fan Vastly Improved Wasteland 2’s Dialog Screen
Above is the dialog screen the Wasteland 2 developers created. They sought feedback in the game forum, and a fan helped them vastly improve the design: One of our fans by the name of Alex ‘Olovski’ Drożyner saw this UI and responded by offering some mock-ups of his own, improving and tweaking our work. We…
By John Struan