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Wandering The Wyoming Wilderness, Waiting For It To Burn

It’s easy to get freaked out on a solo trip through barren wilderness, especially when your job is waiting for it to catch on fire. Here’s our first look at Firewatch in action. Set in the gorgeous Wyoming wilderness, Campo Santo’s Firewatch is a first-person adventure game where your only link to civilization is the…

I Could Watch Civilization: Beyond Earth All Day Long

Debuting during the Firaxis Megapanel at PAX Prime this weekend, the “Master Control” gameplay trailer for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth teaches us about the Purity Affinity, Virtues, the Orbital Layer and how October 24 can’t come soon enough.

A Titanfall Statue Without Those Pesky Titans

What wondrous timing! Just as a new, mech-free game mode is announced for Titanfall, we get a statue that’s 75 percent pilot, 25 percent debris and zero percent giant killer robot. While having a giant robot to boss around is all well and good, the more I played Titanfall the more I, like many others,…

The Coolest Cosplay at PAX Prime, Day 1

The PAX that begat all other PAXes has come back around, bringing thousands of fans of all stripes to Seattle to nerd out together. Is there cosplay? Of course. Take a look at some of the best geek culture get-ups right here. These pics come courtesy of Cosplay Boom, a documentary series dedicated to telling…

The Saturday Morning Stream Casts Lichdom: Battlemage [Stream Complete]

In this week’s very special episode of the Saturday Morning Stream, the mildly-medicated Michael Fahey triumphantly returns to get his first-person magic combat on with Lichdom: Battlemage. What is Lichdom: Battlemage? It’s sort of like an Elder Scrolls game, only without the weapons. It tells the story of a person who can suddenly shoot fire…

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8/25/2014: Bad Plumber’s Mate

It’s not Wario, it’s Bad Plumber. It’s not Waluigi, it’s Bad Plumber’s Mate, as Ben Lee has found. Poor Waluigi. He’s not even “Bad Plumber # 2.” If you’re not wandering around PAX Prime today, like I am, you can feel free to review out best stuff from this week over at Kotaku Selects And…

Mad Science Cat Game On Hold For Mobile Super Meat Boy

You might remember that Team Meat, two-man studio behind uber-tough platformer Super Meat Boy, was working on a mad science cat breeding sim, Mew-Genics. Moral of the story? Cats are gross, but awwww kitty! Now, though, it’s on hold in favor of a new Meat Boy game—for phones (and Steam). The new game is called…

Peggle 2 No Longer Xbox Exclusive, Coming To PlayStation 4

Peggle 2, PopCap’s previously Microsoft-exclusive black hole time vortex of sheer addiction, is finally coming to PlayStation 4. PopCap confirmed the news on its Twitter account. The game will be out on October 14th. The EA published ball-based rainbow explosion classical music wonderment simulator originally launched on Xbox One late last year. It came to…

Super Famicom Box Art Collection Kickstarter

This sounds wonderful—an art book collecting the box art from Super Famicom games. And the mockup pages also look great: The book is the goal of a new kickstarter by Super Famicom Guy, who explains that the art is from his own large collection of Super Famicom games. However, the kickstarter does not seem to…

The Ominous First Advertisement For The NES

A menacing ROB stars in the first advertisement for the Nintendo Entertainment System: Via the excellent Video Game Preservation Dump (and Twitter). You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Good And Bad Of Mario Kart 8’s First Major Update

Nintendo made a few changes to Mario Kart 8 this week—some big, some small, some the size of a luxury car brand’s new SUV. If nothing else, this gives us a good opportunity to pause and reflect on how one of the summer’s biggest games is doing. So let’s do that. I’ve been playing Mario…

Costume Quest 2 Gameplay Trailer

Poor Candy Corn—see it in action in this gameplay trailer for Double Fine’s Costume Quest 2. Trick, treat and pick a fight with villainous dental soldiers in Costume Quest 2, the sweet sequel to Double Fine’s hit original, Costume Quest, that turned fans of all ages into candy obsessed crusaders. This inspired RPG adventure includes…

​How Mortal Kombat Is Getting More Complex

The next Mortal Kombat is going deep. Not just in the ‘show you highly detailed internal organs’ kind of way, either. The newly announced Variations feature and other tweaks in Mortal Kombat X are going to give players other layers of options for how they beat each other up. As previously detailed, players will be…

The Most Realistic Fighting Game, In A Manner Of Speaking

I believe that Double Fine’s latest venture into indie publishing, Gang Beasts, is one of the most realistic depictions of combat ever seen in a game. This is because 90 percent of fights are sloppy, awkward affairs where all involved fall down and give each other angry hugs. Gang Beasts is a local multiplayer game…

Eight Big Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Questions, Answered

The first current-gen Final Fantasy will be out within the next year, it’ll serve as something of a stopgap before Final Fantasy XV, and, well, it’s got kind of a silly name. RPG fans have been waiting a very long time for Final Fantasy Type-0, which was released for PSP in Japan way back in…

What We Know About The New 3DS So Far

Nintendo woke us all up early this morning with a fresh batch of information about a new and improved 3DS mobile console it’s making. Most of this was geared towards its Japanese audience, however, so let’s break down the relevant parts of the news for gamers outside the company’s home country. Here are the main…

If Christopher Nolan Directed Pixar’s The Incredibles

The Incredibles is already a dark movie at points — It deals with ideas of individuality and conformity, even if it is in a wacky cartoon shell. I’m just glad The Dark Knight director Chris Nolan didn’t get his hands on it. In the video above, Youtuber Bobby Burns uses the deranged rantings of villain…

New Saints Row Expansion And New-Gen Port Coming in January

As part of its big PAX panel Volition just announced a new Saints Row. It’s called Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and it’ll be out on January 27th. It’s a standalone expansion pack for Saints Row IV in which you play as the ever… colorful Johnny Gat or the booksmart yet utterly badass Kinzie—or…

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