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Treachery in Beatdown City looks like it could be something special. The indie game from Shawn Alexander Allen is promising a fusion of strategic, tactical combat and side-scrolling brawling. In addition to the intriguing genre mash-up, Allen wants to give players a far more diverse cast of playable characters than most other games. If any…

These Ugly Designs Could Have Been The Playstation Logo

Rejected Playstation logo concepts. Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

What do you get when you combine Lemmings and Tetris? Letris? Uh…sure. But the good people over at indie studio Crunching Koalas seem like they have a better idea with this painfully adorable-looking new game MouseCraft. Check out the new trailer above. It comes out July 8th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC,…

Your PC Must Be This Beefy to Play Wolfenstein: The New Order

When Nazis take over the world, Xbox 360s all around the weep in agony. Wolfenstein: The New Order will ship with a hefty four discs for Microsoft’s last-gen game console. You’re going to need a decent chunk of space on PC and PlayStation hardware, too. Bethesda’s letting players know the requirements they’ll need to run…

Even Superpowers Can’t Separate Seattle From Its Dark Past

Flames coursing around my arms, I look at the Seattle police officer standing before me. He puts his gun on the sidewalk and raises both hands in the air, shaking his head. I can accept his surrender or not. But I can’t stop thinking about the murder of a Native American woodcarver by anon-duty SPD…

The Next Gorgeous Game That’s Coming To PS4

Move out of the way, Infamous: Project Cars has got your number. Though we’ve seen the racing game in action before, today Sony has released a number of screenshots of Project Cars which show us what the game will look like running on the PS4 specifically. “Both the cars and tracks [in the game] are…

After a “rocky start,” the sci-fi MMORPG Defiance is marking its one-year anniversary by going free-to-play, developer and publisher Trion Worlds announced today. Coming alongside the premier of the second season of the related SyFy show, the change will go into effect on June 4th on the PC and July 15th on the PS3. No…

Old Harry Potter Games Were Absurd

I never played any of the older Harry Potter games, and now, watching Criken2 play through the PlayStation version of Harry Potter and The Sorceror’s Stone, I’m not sure if that is a mistake or not. I mean. On the one hand, WIZARD CRACKERS (???). On the other hand, cripes…this version of Hogwarts is the…

Sony Announces A Dozen More Indie Games For PS4

The PlayStation 4 already has no shortage of good indie games, and soon it’ll be getting even more. Today at an indie-focused press event outside of San Francisco, Sony revealed a bunch of new indie games that’ll be coming to PS4 and other PlayStation systems. The current list: Axiom Verge will be coming to PS4…

Watch Sony’s New Zombie MMO In Action [UPDATE]

Sony is continuing its semi-crowdsourced campaign to help develop and promote its new zombie MMO H1Z1 with a series of compelling public-facing initiatives. Yesterday, the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) team ran a 12-hour live-stream of gameplay from an early build on Twitch. It’s still pretty rough around the edges, but you can watch some of…

Here’s a new creeptacular trailer for Murdered: Soul Suspect, the game that’s like L.A. Noire but with ghosts. It comes out on June 3rd for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC.

Watch The Next Disney Infinity Reveal Live, Right Here

Teasers went out a few weeks ago and now it’s time to see what the next evolution of Disney’s hit collectible toy game will look like. Time to shout Excelsior? The House of Mouse will be hosting a Google Hangout at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET today that’s widely expected to introduce Marvel Comics characters…

How to Use the PS4’s Fancy New Video Editor

The PS4’s most ambitious firmware update yet is going to let you make sharp-looking videos from your gameplay. Let’s take a look at how the ShareFactory editing suite is going to work. You could already do some rudimentary trimming of gameplay video clips on the PS4 but the ShareFactory upgrade lets you splice in your…

The PS4 gets a big update tomorrow, and Sony’s shared a list of all of the new features it’ll add. The new HDCP-free option and improved video sharing get top billing, but I’m just as psyched that we’ll finally be able to dim the controller’s light bar.

Sweet Old Man Tells You to Kill Nazis. You Damn Well Better Kill Nazis.

Don’t let the old man down. He exploded a National Socialist’s head for you, after all. The trailers for the upcoming Wolfenstein game have been good at getting folks intrigued but it’s tough to tell what the balance is going to be between snarky killfest and world-gone-wrong horror. Seeing as how this is merely a…

Driveclub Is Out This October For PS4

One long delay later, the PS4 racing game Driveclub will be out on October 7, Sony announced today. New trailer above. Driveclub, originally slated as a launch game for the PS4, was delayed last October just before the newest PlayStation came out. “The problem with being ambitious is you have to be prepared to accept…

Fan Film Turns Battlefield 4 Into A Third-Person Experience

I love the way the running soldier connects the scenes. In Through My Eyes, a fan-made Battlefield 4 short by YouTubers The Two Scotsmen, they pretty much maxed out the possibilities with the camera tools and angles, not to mention the graphics. Battlefield 4 Through My Eyes – Cinematic Movie [The Two Scotsmen, YouTube] To…

Dark Souls II is not just about the constant trial and error and boss mechanics. You can easily go wild with its character creator and do amazing things, just like Beemo did. Mon Dieu, this one’s fancy! Dark Souls II [Steam Community] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the…

The next PS4 update happens on April 30 and it’s going to be one of those BIG ones. The 1.70 firmware will be bringing pre-loading and the much-ballyhooed ShareFactory functionality to the console, as well as the ability to turn HDCP off so that recording devices can capture gameplay video.

Console-Exclusive Metal Gear Missions Are No Longer Exclusive

Starting May 1, the platform-specific content in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will become platform agnostic, publisher Konami announced today. Up until now, PlayStation and Xbox players both got slightly different Ground Zeroes experiences, since both versions of the game came with a unique mission. PlayStation 3 and 4 players were the only ones…