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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…

Not a joke—there’s an $11 Newsweek Destiny Collector’s Edition You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

What EA Expects to Pull in from DLC Next Year In a chat with Bloomberg, a spokesperson from EA mentioned that total revenue from DLC could hit $1 billion this year, with sports titles being a “major contributor” to that figure. According to analyst firm Cowen and Co., Madden 15 alone should generate $350 million…

PSN PAX Sale, Breaking Bad Barrel is Back, SteelSeries Sensei [Deals]

The Breaking Bad Complete Series Barrel is back for 2014, with new Better Call Saul inclusions. It’s one of the cooler special editions for a TV series we’ve ever brought your way, and we’re glad to see it come back. Currently $90 off MSRP. [Breaking Bad] If that barrel doesn’t put you over one, or…

Funko’s Big Hero 6 Toys Revealed

The latest additions to Funko’s Pop! vinyl toy line are these figures from Big Hero 6: These are scheduled to be released in October, and will presumably be available for preorder any minute now. Via MTN You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Problem With ‘The Casual Cruelty’ Against Women in Video Games

Violence against women is an ugly reality that’s all too common, no matter what walk of life people come from. Yet, video games tend to portray it in only a few cliched ways, to create a sense of environment and tone and cheaply get a reaction out of players. That’s a problem. The latest Tropes…

The whacky indie side-scroller Joe Danger is coming to the PS Vita on September 2nd, Sony just announced. Anyone who owns the console and loves games about daredevils and/or Sonic the Hedgehog should definitely check it out.

Stand-Alone Xbox One Kinect Will Cost $150

In June, Microsoft started selling the Xbox One without Kinect. In October, you’ll be able to buy the Kinect on its own—but it’ll cost you $150. Standalone versions of the Xbox One’s Kinect will go on sale October 7, Microsoft said today. The motion-sensing accessory will come with a digital copy of Harmonix’s Dance Central…

The Sims 4’s PC Requirements Are…Non-Existent

It might be a PC exclusive to start, but The Sims 4 has an appeal far beyond the master race. Electronic Arts isn’t making its newest Sims game especially demanding hardware-wise as a result. The company recently posted its recommended specs for The Sims 4 on the game’s FAQ page, and it looks like a…

Velocity 2X and Sportfriends Join PlayStation Plus In September

September’s list of free PlayStation Plus games is out and includes Velocity 2X and PlayStation All Stars. Check out the full list in the video above or the list below. [PlayStation Blog] PS4 Velocity 2X Sportfriends PS3 PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale Hoard Sportsfriends (via cross-buy with PS4 version) Vita Joe Danger TxK Velocity 2X…

GOG To Start Selling Movies And TV Shows

Well this is interesting: GOG.com, the digital retailer best known for selling old games without DRM, is branching out into film and TV. They’re starting small, launching with a handful of independent documentaries for $5.99 a piece in hopes of eventually branching out to studio films and television shows. The folks at GOG are pushing…

Our Numbers blog is usually about the stats of gaming. Today, however, here’s something more personal…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Street Fighter x Pokémon Day 1! Ryu x Lucario! • 2014 — The Year I Returned To Madden • Why You Should Fund Under The Dog, and What this Kickstarter Represents • Game of The Week — Sky Pirates. SKY PIRATES. [Skies of Arcadia] TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Did Yoda Fall To The Dark Side?

Why is that cave on Dagobah tainted? And why is Yoda so determined to stop Luke from challenging Vader? Maybe because Yoda had already fallen to the Dark Side: Redditor Kavis offers a creative reimagining: I’ve thought this for a while now. It makes a lot of sense, I think. He warned Qui-gon and Obi…

Sadly, the “real” Ashlands of Vvardenfell never quite looked so pretty. At least not in-game in Morrowind Ogilac’s “Ashland” shows us what the Red Mountain and its surroundings might look like when the place isn’t covered in ash storms—it’s quite the visual treat. Shoot down those cliff racers and it’s perfect. Ashland [Ogilac@deviantART] Dayshot is…

One of the Best Oculus Rift Games I’ve Played Was Third-Person

When the Oculus rep met my confused look with, “yeah, we weren’t sure it was going to work either,” I didn’t know what to expect. As it turns out third person works in VR. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Developer Playful’s Lucky’s Tale is a shameless riff on Mario and other 3D platformers…

Getting Up Close with Bloodborne’s Combat

I would never say I was into horror games – I managed about 90 seconds of a YouTube playthrough of P.T. before tapping out, and even the cover art for The Evil Within is a bit much for me – but FROM’s Souls series is the exception to the rule. This post originally appeared on…

Lichdom, the linear first-person RPG where you play a badass battlemage, is now officially out on Steam after a nearly six-month early access period. If you liked playing a mage in Skyrim, you’ll probably enjoy this. There’s a new launch trailer, too. Like all good trailers, it has Two Steps From Hell. Watch it above.

It’s SimCity in Minecraft. Literally.

You’re the mayor, there’s an advisor, and you control your very own city. It’s SimCity And notably, it doesn’t require any mods to work: the map’s systems are powered by vanilla Minecraft scripts, so Simburbia can be downloaded and installed just as easily as any other user-made map—though it does require the 1.8 pre-release version…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gets Its First Major Update

2.1.0 brings with it a competitive game mode based on Diablo II’s online ladders, called Seasons, and a new type of endgame dungeon: Greater Rifts. Both of these new additions will be supported by another newly introduced feature, the leaderboards, deepening the competitive aspect of the game—and of course, there’s hundreds of bugfixes and balance…