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Fake Miyamoto Tweets Are Better Than Real Miyamoto Tweets

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto is not on Twitter. That’s why he has to askquestions the old-fashioned way. If he was, though, boy, wouldn’t it be awesome if he just let loose like this. Parody accounts of game developers are nothing new, but what I like about this one is that it actually cuts pretty close…

Japanese Gamers Vote on Their Favorite Developers

Do you have a favorite game developer? One who makes your interest in a game spike the minute you know they’re involved? Turns out a lot of Japanese gamers do too. Some might surprise you, some might not. Japanese site Freshers(フレッシャーズ) conducted a poll last month asking 500 people if they played video games. Those…

14 Things You Might Not Know About The Legend Of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda series is so steeped in lore at this point that just figuring out which version of Link you’re playing as can be tricky. Heck, I’m still not sure that’s even his real name The trivia-themed YouTube series “Did You Know Gaming?” took another stab at Zelda’s rich history recently, and the…

Mario Kart 8 Has Millions Of Peaches, Peaches For Me

Gamers took their sweet time making the inevitable “Peaches” joke for Mario Kart 8. But this video by YouTuber Linkums is clever enough that it’s fair to say it was worth the wait: So now that Princess Peach and Luigi both have their own theme music for Mario Kart 8, who’s next? My money’s on…

All 30 Mario Kart 8 characters, reviewed. ReadJohn Teti’s hilarious take on the cartoon cast in Nintendo’s newest kart racer. “Rather than being an empty sad-sack, Luigi has become the personified answer to the question, ‘What if Mario were kind of an asshole?’ And this is awesome.”

People Are Buying The Wii U, But Nintendo Is Still Losing Money

Nintendo has released a report detailing their results for this financial year’s first quarter, and the Wii U seems to be doing better. Nintendo itself, on the other hand? Eh. The star of the report is, without a doubt, Mario Kart 8, but the Wii U’s numbers show improvement as well. Between April and June,…

Pikmin And Tingle T-Shirts

There’s about 30 minutes left to buy today’s tees at TheYetee, featuring Pikmin and Tingle: Pikmin and Olimar are by Justin Chan, and Tingle is by Louis Roskosch You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

This thing was firstshown off over a year ago. And it’s still not out. What’s up, Figma? Killing us softly? Anyway, now there are shots of Marth, in living colour. They got the feet wrong, since there are feet, but apart from that, it’s perfect. [via Tiny Cartridge]

Nine years old today and still a brilliant game. Import it. Play it on your DS or 3DS. So good.

McDonald’s Happy Meal Customer Gives Bowser A New Paint Job

Modding Mario Kart 8 proper is hard work. Tricking out Mario Kart 8 toys, on the other hand, is an easy way for the seasoned Warhammer fans out there to to turn the fruits of their McDonald’s Happy Meals into a custom set. Reddit user ablarga put a new coat of paint (or several) on…

One Of The Last Wii Games Comes With A Free Wii U Upgrade

One of only two games left to be released on Nintendo’s last-gen console, Skylanders: Trap Team for the Wii is hedging its bets, including a download code for the Wii U version of the game in every box. The news comes from a tweet from the game’s official account way back on July 23 (via…

Majora’s Mask-Themed Stained Glass

One of three Legend of Zelda-themed stained glass creations: There’s more gaming-themed stained glass in this gallery You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

A New Look at the Next Smash Bros Game

The House of Mario’s showing off the next entry of its all-star brawler franchise at Comic-Con right now. And, can we just say, new addition Rosalina looks crazy. Nintendo’s streaming Smash today and the segment up top focuses on the Wii U version. The show doesn’t really start until 26:15 but offers a great look…

Hyrule Warriors Looks Like Zelda On Steroids

We’ve got a new Hyrule Warriors trailer recently, with (mostly) Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess characters looking vicious and pulling off some really crazy, unexpected moves. Even the most innocent ones like Agitha are now doing xtreme multi-kills. But it just looks so awesome. Even in gif form: Here’s Link, pulling out the Master…

Sorry Ubisoft, Nintendo Beat You To The Top (Of The Mountain)

Ubisoft is spending a lot of money on a competitionwhich promises to let one person become the first to ever play a video game on Mt Everest, using custom hardware built to withstand the “harsh conditions”. It sounds amazing! Pity it’s already been done. As this epic thread bump on NeoGAF shows (the original Kotaku…

Timeless Life Advice, Brought To You By Mario Kart

Video games rot the brain? Pffft, hardly. I’d like to think some of my most valuable life lessons have come from games, lessons like “be cool to people” and “that jerk took the piece of loot I wanted, nevermind.” How about Mario Kart 8, though? What can we learn from that? Let’s find out with…

​Mario Kart 8 vs. Sonic Racing: The Comparison We Had To Make

When it comes to kart racing, it often seems like Mario Kart is the only game in town. I’m here to tell you that it’s not. In fact, there’s another, arguably better game that came out for Nintendo’s Wii U console two years before Mario Kart 8 was even a thing people were playing. I’m…

The upcoming Sonic Boom games land on the 3DS and Wii U on November 11 and 18, respectively. The playable parts of Sega’s new-look re-imaginationof their super-fast mascot have different names: Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for the Nintendo home console and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the handheld.

A New World Record For Beating Pokémon Red

Despite being criticized for being too easy, a typical play-through of any given Pokémon game might take around 8-25 hours. The world record for Pokémon Red as of July 2014, though? One hour and fifty minutes—and you can watch the incredible run here. This glitchless “any percentage” speedrun was performed byCharlie “Exarion” Armitz, and it’s…

Peach and Link… They’ve Changed

They’ve changed so much that it even inspired someone to draw the perfect fan-art of it. Meet Petch and Lonk: Iguanamouth [Tumblr] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]