Three Ways to Brag About Your Gaming Prowess (Without Being a Jerk)

You know those moments when you’ve accomplished some insane gaming feat and end up hopping around in your living room doing the crazy dance as your cat quietly judges? Everybody has them from time to time, but what do you do when there’s no one else around to bask in your gaming glory with? One…

​Metal Gear Rising’s Soundtrack On A Kazoo Is Still Badass

The soundtrack to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a lot like the game — totally insane, sometimes stupid but always appropriately fun. And not even the power of the kazoo can temper how badass it is. Youtube TheRealHonkmaster has taken the most iconic songs from the game and covered them on kazoo and guitar. The…

People Sure Do Hate When You Narrate Their Life

I suppose the guys at Mega64 couldn’t get enough of The Stanley Parable, because they decided to go out and narrate a bunch of people’s lives to their faces. The results weren’t too friendly. Mega64[YouTube]

Huge Collection Of Classic Games Needs A New Home

Facing mounting financial pressure, the Danish museum Spilmuseet (“The Games Museum”) is about to jettison a massive collection of classic video games and related hardware. And with nobody opening their doors yet, all these refugees of console wars past are still in need of a new home. The collection consists of roughly “10,000 console and…

These GIFs Are Ready To Be Turned Into Hit Mobile Games

This is Gustavo Torres’s most recently-posted animated GIF. His animated GIFs would make great mobile games: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Glory Days Of Platform Adventure Reclaimed By One Brave Hamster

2010’s The Flying Hamster is an adorable bite-sized shooter mainly aimed at mobile and portable platforms. Flying Hamster II: Knight of the Golden Seed is a gorplatforming adventure that aims to resurrect the spirit of the classic Wonder Boy/Monster World franchise. Normally, when a mobile-centric shooter gets a sequel, the developer stays in or around…

Get A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Kotaku

The full force of Kotaku NYC (some of whom are too busy playing Threes on their respective devices in this picture here) will be headed to Boston this weekend for PAX East for fun game things, reporting things, and hanging out things. But we’ll also be hosting a panel on Friday morning. It’s called Kotaku’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Koda’s Winter 2014 Anime Season Awards • Bioshock and perpetuating the Damsel trope (to a degree) • Love to Lose TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Diablo III‘s Endgame, Cleared Insanely Fast

Reaper of Souls introduced huge, randomized dungeons called Nephalem Rifts to Diablo 3. One run usually takes more than 10 minutes, depending on the difficulty level. Well, here’s one Korean gamer who completes a relatively huge dungeon in under 4 minutes on Torment difficulty. This will make you cry if you’re doing these runs, hoping…

Someone Made Gorgeous HD Screenshots of Nintendo DS Games

Ever wondered how those classic Nintendo DS games that were not entirely 2D would look in HD, upscaled to 720p? One talented Japanese fan experimented with the games and the system, managing to render them in a higher resolution than their native setting. You can check some of his results below. They’re a huge source…

How To Eject Properly In Titanfall

By using your own custom-built Titanfall Eject Button. It’s not just one of those big red buttons you can buy everywhere, but one that was created and programmed for one purpose only: To help you leave your Titan in the coolest way possible. ‘Hideous’, the creator of this unique peripheral, even shared a detailed guide,…

Korean Dev Allegedly Ripped Off One of the Wii’s Best-Looking Games

Muramasa: The Demon Blade was truly a lovely game. While it was originally released in 2009, there are now allegations that it’s been copied by a Korean game developer. There are claims that the knock-off even stole Muramasa’s original code. As noted on My Game News Flash (via tipster Sang), upcoming Android title Soul Hearts…