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Revel In The Horrors Of A Subway System

Because I am the kind of person who looks at actual subway posters as though they were works of art, last week I picked up a game called Mini Metro, which is basically a puzzle/sim game where you build your own subway system. There’s no brown dirt of grimy tracks, though. The whole thing is…

id Software Lives Dangerously, Decides To Change Classic Quake

Quake Live is a free-to-play variant of Quake III Arena, a legendary arena shooter released more than a decade ago. Fans, then, were furious when they found out major gameplay changes would be coming in a new update. They demanded answers. Now id has given them. The biggest changes—made as part of a newly released…

You Too Can Be A Young, Crappy Luke Skywalker

Sure, he killed a buncha bad guys later, but Luke Skywalker wasn’t always a badass Jedi. He spends much of the first film wandering around like a useless dork, which is exactly the kind of Luke Sywalker this new VR demo will have you simulate. Using an Oculus Rift and a couple of motion controllers,…

Who The Hell Is Watching Porn On a 3DS?

PornHub released a bunch of graphs yesterday breaking down what platforms people are viewing their service on. Among other curiosities (there are humans in 2014 watching porn on Windows NT and Blackberry phones), the company showed what gaming systems are most commonly, um, used. The leading two stats seem weird. I’m going to assume they…

Star Wars Armada is threateningto steal what little spare time and money I have left. If you’re as interested in seeing how it actually plays as I am, check out this vid BolS shot at GENCON.

Internet Prank Goes Too Far, Sends Schools Into Lockdown

“Swatting” is a “prank” that involves calling the police on Twitch streamers for bogus crimes. They get arrested mid-stream, one (anonymous) person in the whole damn world has a good laugh, and nobody else wins. This time it got way out of hand. Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson, founder of popular streaming collective The Creatures, was streaming…

Most Pics In IKEA Catalogues Aren’t Photos, They’re 3D Renders

Swedish furniture behemoth IKEA has very nice, very large catalogues that I had thought contained hundreds of very staged, very nice photos. Turns out that assumption was only half right. Over the past few years, IKEA has been replacing photos – which can be expensive and laborious to set up – with stunningly lifelike computer…

“Social Justice Warrior” T-Shirt Design By Olly Moss

Olly Moss designed a Social Justice Warrior tee and posted the high-res file so you can print your own. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Transistor Flash Drive

The official site is selling a Transistor flash drive. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

“Superstition, myth, and religion offer rationales that fill in the empty spaces between performance and results.” That’s Ian Bogost being his transcendent self in an excellent essay on the Flappy Bird sequelSwing Copters for The Atlantic. Much like his earlier piece on Flappy Bird, this comes highly recommended. Also: have you been playing Swing Copters?…

Fully Functional Lego Band Plays Depeche Mode

Sorry, music industry. We’re replacing you with a bunch of small plastic robots with cups for hands. Yep, those lego people are playing actual music—all on their own. Or, well, with the help of sophisticated machinery and the tiniest bit of magic, but you know what I mean. The song in question is “Everything Counts,”…

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Where The World’s Best Fighting Game Characters Come From

Thanks to a tradition that goes back as far as Street Fighter II, fighting game stories are usually presented as world tournaments. It’s a convenient narrative device, as it allows the opportunity to display fighting styles from around the world to distinguish characters from one another. But which of these countries produces the best fighters?…

Here’s What’s ‘Exclusive’ In Destiny On PlayStation

Gamers have known that some stuff in Destiny would be exclusive to the PS3 and PS4 for a while now. But as it so often is, “exclusive” has been a vague term here. A new video Sony released today gives a clearer picture of everything that PlayStation owners will get their hands on before anyone…

How To Walk Around Walls Using The Fourth Dimension

The above video will not help you in real, three-dimensional life. But it should help you understand how you’d be able to move if you could sidestep your way into a fourth spatial dimension—sort of like what might happen if a character in a 2D cartoon leapt into our 3D world. This fourth-dimension stuff will…

​GTA Creators: Lindsay Lohan Is Suing Us ‘For Publicity Purposes’

In July, Lindsay Lohan filed suit against Rockstar Games for a Grand Theft Auto V character that she says is based on her. Now the makers of Red Dead Redemption say that the movie star is only suing them to garner buzz. An Associated Press article on the suit quotes court documents that have been…

Let’s Rank The Mario Kart Games, Worst To Best

Happy birthday, Mario Kart! It’s been 22 years since the first Mario Kart released on the SNES in Japan in 1992. How time flies, huh? In celebration of the vey first Super Mario Kart, let’s sit in judgment of it and its siblings and vote for the very worst and very best in Nintendo-style racing.…

Now that’s a Yoshi of a different color! As part of its big Mario Kart 8 updateannouncement yesterday, Nintendo revealed that two of the game’s most popular characters—Shy Guy and Yoshi—are now available in eight different shades. They all look pretty great: The good news is that this means Mario Kart 8 players will be…

New Poster Shows GoT Should End With Dormer Riding All 3 Dragons

So have they announced a Hot Toys Cressida figure yet? Asking for a friend. Check out Natalie Dormer’s Cressida and the rest of the rebels in the the new Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 posters below: Via Wired You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and…

Police Called On Game Creator Over Nuclear War Diagrams

A game called Global Thermonuclear War that uses Google Maps to simulate devastating conflicts between nations? Oh boy. But nobody could ever believe plans for a video game were a roadmap to actual, factual nuclear warfare, right? Yeaaaah, about that. The Guardian brings word that video game developer Henry Smith nearly found himself in hot…