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Cosplaying Nintendo Characters

Pikachu and Toad from Jorge Vargas’s new collection of illustrations. See Princess Peach and more below: Pikachu/Rush Toad/Piranha Plant Princess Peach/Sakura Bomberman/Ryu Knuckles/Falco Kirby/Space Marine Previously: A Link to the Past Running on a Galaxy Gear watch You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs…

Space Invaders And Other Classic Games As Renaissance Paintings

You know what would have made sitting through lectures on early modern European history a lot more bearable? Giant space lasers, and plenty of ’em. Unfortunately, the renaissance painter Fra Angelico would have had to live another 500 years or so in order to get a chance to draw inspiration from the modern-day muse that…

Ubisoft Has Over 9,000 Employees

PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS AND RUMORS: Ubisoft’s vitality sensor | The current status of the BioShock movie While many game companies have been contracting in the past several years, Ubisoft exploded in size without many people noticing. In fact, it may soon employ more people than any other gaming company, if it does not already.…

Help Me Choose Which Virtual Girl to Date

Dear readers, I am about to embark on an experience unlike any other in my 30 years of life: I’m going to date a virtual girl in New Love Plus+, the newest game in the (in)famous Japanese dating-sim series. But even before I start, I find myself at an impasse. Which of the game’s romantic…

The Villager and Wii Fit Trainer Are Still Smash Bros’ Best Fighters

I don’t know who your favorite Smash Bros. fighter is, but it’s hard to compete with characters that kick your ass with yoga and tree planting. Sorry! GameXplain breaks down the moves of all the new fighters in the upcoming Smash, and while everyone looks great, The Villager and Wii Fit Trainer are definite stand-outs…

Yoga

Caption this one yourself. (Via Nintendo’s most recent batch of Super Smash Bros. screenshots.)

Legend Of Zelda-Themed Marriage Proposal

It’s dangerous to go alone! See the chest opened below: Via R/Gaming Previously: Team Fortress 2-themed marriage proposal You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Super Mario Bros. 3 Finally Comes To Wii U And 3DS Today

Rounding out today’s Nintendo Virtual Console update is Super Mario Bros. 3, generally considered one of the best platformers ever made. I have no idea why it took this long for Nintendo to release their NES classic on 3DS and Wii U, but hey. BABY STEPS. (Also out on Virtual Console today: the GBA games…

Nintendo Almost Got A Piece Of The Skylanders Cash Cow

Imagine, if you will, a world where Activision’s crazy-popular Skylanders series isn’t just populated with giants and dragons, but Marios and Zeldas and Samuses. It almost happened, according to Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, co-founders of Skylanders developer Toys For Bob. Speaking to the gaming website Polygon as part of a larger Skylanders feature, Ford…

Keep it up Luigi, you don’t wanna fall behind. Here’s a superb animation from Slamschultz made for National Sibling Day, featuring the greatest brothers in video game history. Slamschultz [Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us…

Male Smash Bros. Fighters With Samus’s New High Heels

As I’ve previously posted, Samus has high heels and a jiggle in Smash Bros. Former Adventure Time artist Natasha Allegri gave the male Smash Bros. characters the same heels. See Olimar, Link, and more below: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​How One Mario Kart Track Has Changed in 22 Years

If you’ve been playing Mario Kart games since the beginning, you’re probably going to have a bit of déjà vu on the Donut Plains track. The folks at GameXplain take a look at the Donut Plains level as it originally appeared in 1992’s Super Mario Kart and as it’ll show up in next month’s Mario…

Daniel Bryan/Super Mario Mashup

Daniel Bryan t-shirt by Winter on sale here Previously: Bioshock Infinite and Portal Tees You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Why Fanboys Act Like Jerks

Despite the amount of annoyance that console fanboys have caused me over the years as a person writing about video games on the Internet, despite the endless comments threads they have derailed with their arguments, I still have a small reserve of affection for these people. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK There’s a…

Professor Layton Would Be The Perfect Mastermind In Grand Theft Auto

Professor Layton is getting a proper crossover game this year, but the talented animators at Polaris have let their imagination run wild and put the archeologist gentleman and some puzzles into Grand Theft Auto V If you think about it, the professor’s calm, passive-aggressive behavior fits into a world full of mad criminals after all.…

Princess Peach Gets Her Own Damn Wii Remote Plus

I’ve managed to resist picking up the Mario and Luigi themed Wii remotes thus far, but the addition of a Princess Peach motion controller at the end of the month has the game paraphernalia collector in me twitching. Dammit, Nintendo. Showing up in stores later this month, the Peach Pink Wii remote isn’t just a…

Realistic Pokémon Snap Would Give Me Nightmares

Hey that’s not the Mewtwo and the Cerulean Cave I remember from the Pokémon games. This—otherwise amazing—redesign by DeviantART artist arvalis is way more creepy. It reminds me of those combat-free horror games (Outlast, anyone?), mixed with the N64 classic, Pokémon Snap I don’t want Pokémon to be real anymore. What Lies in the Cerulean…

A Breakdown of The New Smash Bros. Mode

Based on what we’ve seen of Smash Run, the recently-revealed multiplayer mode in Super Smash Bros. where players traverse dungeon-like levels and collect power-ups, it looks like the 3DS-specific mode could be a blast. The smaller details hidden in the Smash Run footage—which GameXplain break down in the video above—only solidify that notion. Here is…

It’s Dangerous To Go Alone, Take One Of These

Don’t leave home without a Pokemon Previously: NBA teams redesigned with Pokemon-themed logos You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

It Really Is A Disney Magical World

G’mornin’ to you too, Mickey Mouse.