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A Good Game for Griefing

Playing IDARB made me feel a tiny, tiny little bit like a NBA player at the free throw line when fans are trying to mess with his focus. Except, in this case, what they did gave me diarrhea. On its face, IDARB—short for It Draws a Red Box—is a super-simple action/sports/platforming hybrid where up to…

Returning to Middle-earth is going to take a little longer for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners. It’s just been announced that the release date for last-gen versions of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has shifted to November 18 (November 21 for Europe). PS4 and Xbox One versions will still be coming out on September 30 (October…

Building LEGO With An Excavator Takes A Lot of Skill

Someone give this Finnish man named Juha-Pekka Perämäki a giant mecha. He’d control that just as easily as he controls this giant excavator. Marvel as he builds a small LEGO truck with it, without mashing the poor figurine’s head or any of the pieces. Here’s his cockpit view. I don’t even see the pieces. Building…

Real-Life Katamari Terrorizes a Beach

Grab the kids, and run. Because there’s a new king of the beach. Or should I say, Prince? It seems an air castle ended up getting blown down a beach on a gusty day, reminding folks of Katamari Damacy. Air Castle blown away on beach (Katamari edit) [MissJenniJinx via Digg via The Verge via Japanator]…

The Dudesons vs Minecraft

This might be the tamest thing I’ve ever seen Finnish pranksters The Dudesons take a swing at. Nothing explodes, nothing bleeds and the only things broken are some (impressive) cardboard Minecraft suits.

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EA Says They’re Fixing The Sims 4’s Gay Filter

Since The Sims 4 launched last week, some players have discovered that the game won’t let them share Sims through its online “Gallery” system if they use words like “gay,” “homosexual,” or “queer” in the character’s name or description. EA told Kotaku today that it’s aware of this problem and is fixing it. Kotaku first…

Sad, Beautiful Photos Of Video Games

Photographer Pavel Vesnakov is trying something cool: a blending of screenshots and real-world photography techniques to create images that are very different to what you’d normally see coming out of a game. “First I am taking normal screenshots, which I post-produce with a template that I’ve developed”, Pavel tells me. He then takes out his…

Up In The Club, Doing Our Own Lil’ Thing

Tina and I are enjoying our sweet new outfits.

Heroic Kickstarter Wants To Build A 13-Foot Star Destroyer

LEGO builder Thomas Benedikt has big dreams. He wants to build a LEGO version of a Super Star Destroyer. And yes, there’s an official model of an SSD already available, but it’s only 4-feet long. Thomas wants to build one over three times larger One catch: that takes a lot of LEGO bricks. So Thomas…

Fire Emblem Music Videos Are A Damn Good Time

Yup. That’s Fire Emblem’s Marth. Dancing to Kesha’s Tik Tok. And here’s Marth and Roy, cutting a rug. These clips, and more like them, were made by Shinju Kobayashi, using a program called MikuMikuDance, which is kinda like Source Filmmaker, only for funky moves [thanks Tiny Cartridge!]

The DuckTales Theme Song With Real Ducks Is Just Too Much

DuckTales. Real ducks. I think I speak for everyone when I say, “[collapses into cutestolgia overload coma].” And/or “woo-ooo.” For comparison’s sake, here’s the original opening, which the real duck version apes (mixed animal metaphors!) gamely, pretty much scene-for-scene. And yeah, you’re probably gonna have this song stuck in your head for the rest of…

Guy Trades In 203 Copies Of Controversial Old Sega Game

This isn’t something you see every day. Earlier this week, a man walked into a used game store in Albuquerque, New Mexico (what is it with New Mexico and treasure troves of old games?) and sold a bunch of old Sega stuff. Among it was a box that contained 203 copies of Night Trap, one…

Everyday Life With A Video Game-Style Overlay

Maybe one day Google Glass will turn our lives into this? You can see the rest of the images in the series here Via TIH You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Mass Effect, Played Without Firing A Single Shot

Regardless of what class you play in Mass Effect, one of the biggest tools in your arsenal are your guns. The game expects you to use them every once in a while, sometimes in combination with your other skills. But this isn’t stopping someone from going through all the games in the franchise entirely without…

Prints Inspired By The Sims

“Plumbob” by Ian Wilding is one of a series of prints be various artists inspired by The Sims: Manuel Kilger Glen Brogan Guillaume Singelin Gregoire Guillemin You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Zerg Impersonator Is Disgusting (But Also Accurate)

The Zerg from Starcraft don’t make noises I would call pleasant, and trying to imitate them with a normal human larynx is no easy task. Lucky (?) for us, one fan has our back. UPDATE: Looks like he removed the video. Ah well. In the video above, Starcraft fan Alex Paler tries to imitate various…

Arkham Knight comic book cover by Jason Fabok and Emilio Lopez. It’s included in the Arkham Knight Limited Edition and Batmobile Edition: The Batman: Arkham Knight Limited Edition costs £89.99 / $99.99 / €119.99 on console and £74.99 / €99.99 on PC, and comes with an 80 page art book containing concept art, a SteelBook,…

Old Game Boy Ads Weren’t Exactly Family Friendly

Nintendo’s cultivated an image as the most squeaky clean creator on game company block, but it wasn’t always that way. And by that I mean the ’90s were weird, you guys. Gaming tumblr Pxlbyte brings us a smattering of old ads for the Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket, a few of which are oddly……