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Destiny‘s First Raid Looks Insane

Yesterday, a group of six Destiny players beat the game’s first Raid. It took them ten hours. Ten hours! The Vault of Glass, which developer Bungie describes as the “most elaborate mission ever created by [them],” opened for the first time yesterday, and it sounds crazy. It’s a six-person adventure with Tomb Raider-ish puzzles, ambiguous…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Destiny: The Nitro Review “Ghost Edition” • Paradise Kiss: Ani-TAY Retro Review • Steamlog 04: Agarest: Generations of War [Following Steamlog 03: 99 Spirits] • Destiny’s Dilemma TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Goat Simulator, the best game we’ve played about being a goat, is now available on iOS and Android for $4.99. Developer Armin Ibrisagic promises that it has “all the bugs from the PC version.”

There’s More Halo 5 In Halo Master Chief Collection Than I Expected

Halo 5 won’t be out until next year, but creator 343 Industries says Halo: The Master Chief Collection will offer plenty of information on the still mystery-shrouded shooter. If you can find it. At a recent preview event in San Francisco I sat down with executive producers Dan Ayoub and Kiki Wolfkill to discuss what…

Metal Gear Solid Characters As Pokémon Trainers

Otacon would probably take Professor Oak’s place, and the Pokémon themselves would look a lot different if the Metal Gear universe met Pokémon Japanese artist Ikuyoan transformed Snake, Liquid and Raiden (I like his new “sword”) to Pokémon trainers, with cuter versions of a Metal Gear REX or Blade Wolf. Fan-art by Ikuyoan [Pixiv, via…

Gearbox’s Next Big Game Is Going to Be Very Different from Borderlands

It was the guns that did it for the Borderlands games, wasn’t it? Thousands, millions, umpty-trillions of weapons to find, collect and love more than some actual flesh-and-blood human beings. Well, in Battleborn, the people who made those games want to do for characters what they did for guns in Borderlands That’s not to say…

The Clue Mansion, Completely Remade in The Sims 4

Killing someone with a candlestick might be impossible in The Sims 4, but apart from that, everything looks perfect in raiderofawesome and PushingUpRoses‘ recreation of the Boddy Mansion from the murder mystery board game Clue (or Cluedo for Europeans). Here’s a huge gallery with the mansion itself, and characters such as Mrs. Peacock or General…

Game of Thrones’ Castle Black and the Wall Look Awesome in Minecraft

And this time it’s not even a WesterosCraft build. This is from a Chinese group called Cthuwork. It’s pretty great. According to the project description, it took the ~20-member team a total of 15 hours to finish the project, which seems quick for something so detailed and good-looking. You can take a look at the…

Someone’s Trying to Put DayZ in Doom

His reason? “I had had it with Zombies walking through walls and figured that Doom is a far more suitable engine to use.” Ouch. Still, this guy’s made an admirable amount of progress, for a one-man project. According to him, so far, DoomZ already has the following features: day and night weighted spawn points animals…

Reminder: Quake Live, with some changes, arrives on Steam today—in the afternoon, to be specific. Of course, it’ll be free-to-play, so those jonesing for some old-school arena-shooting action will be able to dive right in. Above’s the launch trailer, featuring copious amounts of bunnyhopping and spectacular shooting.

The same Game Informer report detailinga Final Fantasy XV demo for 2015 also gives a North American release date for Final Fantasy Type-0: March 17.

Report: Next Year, You Can Play A Demo Of Final Fantasy XV

It’s been a looooooooong time coming, but – according to a report on Game Informer – next year you’ll be able to get your hands on at least some of Final Fantasy XV, with Square Enix to release a playable demo of the title sometime next year. Game Informer says this demo will show you…

Glorious Grimlock and Optimus Prime Statue

Absolutely gorgeous Transformers: Age of Extinction statue by Prime 1 Studio: Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMTFM-05 Grimlock & Optimus prime Transformers Statue,The ultimate team up! Together in battle for the Epic final confrontation to save the human race from extinction. MMTFM-05 Grimlock & Optimus Prime Version specially features: – Approximately 89cm L…

Marketing, Retailers Explain Those Stupid Pre-Order Offers

It was a moment to bear witness to. This is how ludicrous the video game pre-order bonus had become. This is how low it had sunk. Pre-order Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Get an additional pair of pants that make you move faster. Pre-order pants. Pre-order pants. It was an offer so stupendously silly it bordered on…

Metal Gear Solid Kid Mantis figure teased for the Play Arts Kai line. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

PS4 Sneakers Are Badass In The Front, Silly In The Back

Behold, a pair of custom PS4-themed Jordans. The simple colour scheme makes them look, from the front, like something you’d really want to own. But then you see the back (and the price). Yes, that’s a HDMI port. It doesn’t do anything, it’s just there. Thankfully, you can take the cord out, leaving just the…

Getting Upset At Video Games Is Probably Terrible For Your Health

I tend to get angry at little things in video games. A lot. Sometimes really, really, really angry. I’m starting to think I should stop. Why? A recent study explained just how bad for us small yet frequent day-to-day stresses really are. The short version? Life-threatening. I know I’m not the only one (shit, I…

Not real, but I’d like to think that somewhere out there, someone is contemplating actually listing something similar.

Improving One Of TV’s Worst Opening Credits Sequences

I love Boardwalk Empire. Can’t get enough of it. But I, like most others, cannot stand the show’s opening credits, which are neat the first 2-3 times you see them, but which have become unbearable now we’re years into the show’s run. Here, then, are two ways to fix this. The first is by re-creating…

Great graphic for a “retro-style” Destiny review You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.