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The Silent Hills Teaser Isn’t Nearly As Scary When It Glitches Out

I think I speak for everyone when I say that P.T. might as well stand for “Pretty Effin’ Terrifying.” That is, of course, unless things stop working in the demo. Then things get kind of hilarious. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s teaser for their new…

Total Crowdfunding for Star Citizen Star Citizen hit a new milestone this weekend, blazing past $50 million raised in total. It is by more than ten times as successful as Torment: Tides of Numenera, the next most crowd funded game. Just two weeks ago the Star Citizen broke $49 million. At the time project lead…

Here Are The Disney Infinity Baymax and Hiro Figures

This is the Disney Infinity Big Hero 6 Hiro figure. You can see Baymax below. Via Infinity Inquirer You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

SteelSeries Gaming Peripherals, Walking Dead Season 4, MSI 770 [Deals]

The Logitech G710+ was one of your top 5 nominations for Best Gaming Keyboard, and today you can grab it for $105. [Logitech G710+] But wait, there’s more. The SteelSeries QcK, the best-selling gaming mousepad and one of your favorites is down to $7. [SteelSeries Qck] And here are a bunch more SteelSeries accessories on…

Nobody Expected This Pokémon To Win The Championship Last Weekend

This weekend, video game matches at the Pokémon World Championships saw the usual suspects. There was Garchomp. Aegislash. Mega Charizard. Just to name a few. But the championships also saw the delightful inclusion of Pachirisu, a Pokémon used by Masters champion Se Jun Park. Some context. Pachirisu is an electric squirrel-like Pokémon introduced in the…

​A Rare, Deep Dive Into A Game That Never Got Made

Usually, when you hear about games that never make it out into the world, you get a few screenshots. Maybe a trailer teasing what might have been. But the dev studio behind Heavenly Sword and DmC are showing damn near all the work they did on a title that never saw the light of day.…

The People Behind A New Indie PS4 Game Will Answer Your Questions [Over]

The developers behind a promising-looking new action side-scrolling indie game that’s about to launch on the PS4 have come from seemingly everywhere. Their team is composed of developers from LucasArts, Pixar, Rockstar, Gearbox, Epic and other studios who have come together to make their first game, CounterSpy, out of the new San Francisco-based studio Dynamighty.…

The Xbox One’s August update will start rolling out today, Microsoft says. Improvements include a better friends list, new activity feed updates, and a low-battery notification for the controller.

If Michael Bay Directed Pixar’s Up

Say what you want about Michael Bay, but you can’t deny that the one-man blockbuster-movie-making machine has a unique style. It might not appeal to everyone. But hey: let’s all just be glad the guy isn’t making Pixar movies. That would be very…explosive, to say the least. YouTuber MrStratman7 recently offered up this vision of…

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Diablo II Maps In Minecraft Will Fill You With Nostalgia

Even though the Arcane Sanctuary and the jungles of Act 3 in Diablo II were not the nicest maps with their unforgiving layout and enemies, there’s something in laztheripper‘s Minecraft recreation that makes me want to log back and run through them again. Here’s a huge gallery with almost every key location from Diablo II.…

Stitch And Merida Star In The Other Way To Buy Disney Infinity 2.0

As much fun as I’ve been having watching all of these Marvel superheroes come to life in Disney Infinity 2.0, not every child enjoys comic book characters. For those that don’t, there’ll be a Disney Infinity Toy Box Starter Pack starring an alien puppy and a Scottish princess Leaked last week, this new set is…

Here are Özil and Thomas Müller, two stars of Germany’s national soccer team, acting weird in FIFA. This time their body parts are not glitching through the 5th they’re just trying to impress each other. via r/FIFA Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…

How Lady Gaga Finally Delighted Nationalists in Japan

Last week, Lady Gaga wandered around Tokyo. Her outfit made some people (not all!) on the Japanese internet upset. But when she left, she donned clothes with nationalistic Japanese connotations, making some unhappy folks happy. The outfit that originally got under the skin of some Japanese online featured the Korean script for “color” (컬러). The…

Smartphone Gamer Dragged Through the Subway

Last week an incident broke out in the Beijing subway system. A young woman got into an altercation with her apparent boyfriend over a mobile phone game, it seems. The end result: she dragged the man onto a subway train. But was this just a PR stunt? Sina Games reports that the incident took place…

The Best Pokémon Players In The World For 2014 Are…These Guys

The 2014 Pokémon World Championships, held in Washington DC, finished up earlier today, leaving the planet with six new Pokémon Masters across both video games and the card game. Those champs are: TCG Junior Division World Champion: Haruto Kobayashi, Japan. Video Game Junior Division World Champion: Kota Yamamoto, Japan. TCG Senior Division World Champion: Trent…

Star Trek Homage Figures It’s “Better Late Than Never”

Ah, Star Command. It was a pretty good mobile game, but the mobile game we got isn’t what we were promised when the project was successfully backed on Kickstarter. That promised game is still coming, though, even if it’s almost two years late. Having promised to keep working on things following the mobile release, Star…

New Minecraft LEGO Will Fit Your Minifigs

There’s been Minecraft LEGO for a whilenow, but it’s been on a tiny scale, with tiny little figures. These new sets are “normal” scale, meaning your Star Wars v Minecraft fan-fic role-playing just got a lot easier. The two sets, “The Cave” and “The Farm”, aren’t huge, but they are big enough to accommodate 3-4…

System Shock 2 Custom PC Case

Impressive custom PC case featuring SHODAN from System Shock 2: This video shows the customization process: Via TTLG andR/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Shenmue HD Is Being Made By A Fan, Because Sega

Your petitions, they will do nothing. As far as Sega is concerned, cult adventure series Shenmue is dead in the water. But as far as fans are concerned, well, that’s another story. Korean fan NoconKid has got to work remastering the original Shenmue in HD, and he is doing a damn fine job. Leather jackets,…