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YouTuber Gets Swatted, Cops Find Weed And End Up Busting Him Anyway

Whiteboy7thst, aka Alexander Wachs, is a YouTuber who streams games. Last month he was the target of a “Swatting” when it was falsely reported that he was both armed and suicidal. When cops arrived at his house to find he wasn’t a threat, however, they did find 30 grams of marijuana. Wachs and his housemate…

Catchy Animal Crossing Song Is The Star Of The New Smash Bros.

Had a rough day? Here, Kapp’n’s Song – and yes, there are vocals – from the new Smash Bros. will cheer you up.

Your First Look At Torment: Tides of Numenera In Action

Lots of Torment: Tides of Numenera updates today. The official site received a makeover, the first video showing gameplay was released (and can be seen below), and the developers put out a call for more funds. The footage below shows off several locations, dialog, and a startling encounter with a monster: The developers also hope…

Terrible Pokémon Can Be Traded, Eventually, For Legendaries

Even a piece of crap Pokémon can result in a legendary trade. The trick? Patience, and an eye for trading up. It’s sort of like the Pokémon equivalent of One Red Paperclip, where blogger Kyle MacDonald managed to barter his way from a paperclip to an actual house over the course of a year. Only…

Poster by Christina Antoinette for Adam Saltsman’s upcoming talk at NYU Game Center You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Meet The People Who Beat Destiny‘s First Massive Raid

They were the first in history to finish Destiny‘s mind-boggling raid, and—despite lives, jobs, and significant others—they’re not going anywhere. 1,605 deaths. That’s how many times uber-clan PrimeGuard collectively keeled over before finally finishing their ten hour run of Destiny‘s mad minotaur labyrinth of a raid, the Vault of Glass. They survived (well, eventually survived)…

Report: Girl Shoots Man For His PS4 While Her Baby Watches

Daniel John Zeitz, a former pro gamer also known as Phobos, has been shot and killed in a bungled attempt to steal his PS4 console, according to police in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Zeitz had organised the sale of his console via Craigslist, and had arranged to meet 20 year-old Nathaniel Vivian and his 16 year-old…

The Xbox One Controller Comes To PC, But It Might Be Too Late

The corded version of the Xbox 360 controller for Windows was one of the unsung heroes of the last generation of hardware. Combining the reliability of a wired connection with the fantastic design of the 360 pad itself, it managed – for the first time ever – to establish a standardised control pad for the…

Remove The Sky, And Mario Kart 8 Gets Pretty Weird

Ah, Moo Moo Meadows. So calming. So picturesque. Wait a minute…something’s not right here. Luigi, now what’ve you done?!?! Ok, Luigi’s not the one to blame here. This is the latest piece of Mario Kart 8 trickery done by brothers Chadderz and Bean, the first—and only—two people to hack the game that we know of.…

Bomb Threat Targeted Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming Awards Last March

An anonymous e-mailer threatened to blow up a bomb at the Game Developers Choice Awards this past March unless the hosts rescinded an award recognizing feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, the organizers of the event have confirmed to Kotaku “We can confirm that approximately 25 of GDC’s organizers received an anonymous email early in the morning…

I’m Worried About These Halo Remakes

I came into a recent Halo: Master Chief Collection preview event expecting to think, “Yep, it’s Halo alright” and be on my merry way. Instead I encountered a surprising number of problems. Halo 2 Anniversary, specifically, left me curiously cold, which is worrisome because the game is only a couple months from release. I got…

Pretty GIFs From Final Fantasy Type-0 For PS4 And Xbox One

UPDATED POST: Looks like someone at IGN accidentally pulled the trigger early on publishing English gameplay footage from the HD version of Final Fantasy Type-0, which will be out on March 17, 2015 for PS4 and Xbox One. It looked great, so we pulled a few GIFs and will leave them for you here while…

The Horror of Bringing The Sims To Life

Good thing people don’t actually act like sims—things would get out of hand quick. Not just because people would act in strange, sometimes hilarious ways, mind. Things would get out of hand because it means we’d be at the whims of some jerk player somewhere—and that’s bad news, as you can see in this video…

Critic Argues That Game Culture Is For Guys

A cultural criticwho regularly critiques modern feminists is weighing in on the ongoing debate about women in games in a new video, arguing that hardcore gaming is mostly a guy thing and saying that those criticizing women’s portrayal in mainstream games might as well be knocking women-targeted shows like The View or magazines such as…

What Starcraft Cards Would Look Like In Hearthstone

OK, this is pretty damn fantastic—Hearthstone player Fulla has dreamed up an entire Starcraft pack for Blizzard’s addictive collectible card game. In addition to Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan heroes, Fulla put together a ton of Terran- and Zerg-themed cards that somehow feel both proper and… well, at least somewhat balanced. (That Broodlord…) Check’em out:

Lara Croft Contest Date from 1999 Inspires Hilarious Fan Fiction

Once upon a time, models used to dress up as Lara Croft. You probably remember that. And you might also recall a GamePro magazine contest where a winner won a date with one of those models. Only the two of them—and a bunch of PR/marketing folks, probably—know what happened on their date. Until now. Scott…

Gone Home Map For Counter-Strike Lets You Defuse Bombs, Emotions

Gone Home doesn’t have guns, you say? Well now it’s got guns and terrorists thanks to acustom CS:GO map by Nipper that turns the Greenbriar’s house into a hostage situation. The map even has a tiny dash of story in the description: June 7th, 2015 1:15 AM Your family is mysteriously missing again. But you…

The Villager Is A Giant Troll In Super Smash Bros.

There’s something about the villager. Something sinister. Something hilarious. Something, frankly, troll-ish—which means he’s a blast to watch in action now that the game is out. It’s a combination of things. With such a happy-go-lucky face, and with such cutesy animations… …I can easily see it being downright infuriating to play against the villager—especially when…

Final Fantasy IV, which has been released on every digital device known to man, is now on Steam, too. It’ll run you $16 for the PC version, which is a port of the three-dimensional DS remake of the fourth Final Fantasy that includes some stuff that wasn’t on the Super Nintendo, like voice acting and…

Controllers, Keyboards, Mice, Headphones, Cases, Cables [Deals]

If you’ve been looking to outfit your Xbox One with some extra controllers, Newegg has the controller with the Play and Charge Kit for $60 today. [ Xbox One Controller] Today we’ve got the Stealth model of your Favorite Gaming Keyboard , the Razer Blackwidow 2014, for $80 plus a $30 Newegg gift card. [RAZER…