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Watch The Metal Gear Solid V Show Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Are you ready to learn more about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain? Maybe, say, a release date? Well, we’re not getting our hopes up too much, but today’s big Gamescom preview event should at least give us some more insight about what to expect from the next entry in Hideo Kojima’s batshit insane…

​Some PS4 Owners Can’t Play This Week’s Great New Indie Game

Hohokum came out for the various PlayStation platforms yesterday. The beautiful, weird exploration game isn’t quite like anything else on the video game landscape lately. So it’s really messed up that some folks who bought the game for the PS4 are saying that they can’t play it. Over on Sony’s message boards and Twitter, many…

Metal Gear Solid V Is Coming To PC

Who needs next-gen consoles? The Metal Gear Solid series is hitting PC once again with entry #5—both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain will come to Steam, publisher Konami accidentally leaked today just before a big MGS livestream. Looks like someone on Konami’s web team jumped the gun. This is the first time in a very…

“We will clearly spend money on marketing the game, there’s no doubt about that. And we do [that] on games where we have very little to do with development, and with games that we fully develop. And we will definitely be spending money on developing the game – I want to make sure that it’s…

Deals: Advanced Warfare Xbox Controller, Corsair Gaming Mice

In addition to all the new Xbox One bundles we rattled off yesterday, the limited edition Advanced Warfare Xbox One Controller will also be sold separately. Like the Titanfall controller before it, it won’t be around forever. Update: The Advanced Warfare Controller is $55 on Newegg, price shows in the final step of checkout. The…

Shady Minecraft Convention Disappears, Ticket Money Missing

Over half a million dollars could be MIA as the organizers of a failed Minecraft convention refuse to explain what they did with all the ticket money—or why they’ve deleted their website and Twitter account. Mineorama, which was marketed as an unofficial gathering for Minecraft fans in New York City last month, never actually happened.…

What Our Company Is Doing About The Attacks On Our Comments

Our parent company, Gawker Media, is taking several actions to deal with the troll attacks on our comments sections. Please read through this post, which is from our sister site Jezebel and explains what’s happened and what happens next. Notably, we will be bringing back the concept of “pending” comments, primarily for new readers. We…

Payday 2’s Creators Are Making A Walking Dead Game

Payday 2 creator Overkill Software is making a new game based on the popular zombie franchise The Walking Dead, the company just announced. Robert Kirkman, the creator of the original comics, said in a post on Steam that it’s “the co-op game that all of the Walking Dead fans have been waiting for.” Overkill has…

DOTA Heroes In Hearthstone Would Be Game-Breaking

Rollow, a fan of both DOTA and Hearthstone, created a huge deck featuring all Dota 2 heroes as if they were in Blizzard’s card game. With the appropriate powers and stats. There are 144 cards in this fan-made gallery, and some of them are ridiculously owerpowered, but still it’s a fun concept. There are some…

Patrol The Tate Gallery In London With A Remote Controlled Robot

For the next five days, four robots will patrol the Tate Gallery in London. You can view the feed at the official site, and even request to control the robot remotely: This video shows the robots being made and patrolling the gallery: Via Chris Hadfield You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…

Elementary School Concert Features Super Mario

From Spring 2013, Jamieson Elementary performs Beware the Forst Mushrooms, complete with Mario taking on various enemies and gathering coins: Via Polygon You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Claptrap Cosplays As A Pirate Ship In The New Borderlands Trailer

Meet the heroes in this trailer for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel: Previously: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Rise of the Tomb Raider Isn’t Really An ‘Xbox Exclusive’

Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the first bomb of Gamescom 2014: that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be an Xbox exclusive. Except, wait. It’s not. Turns out this was yet another a case of shady corporate double-speak, and this is actually a timed exclusive. “Yes, the deal has a duration,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Eurogamer.…

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The Witcher 3 Sure Is Pretty

It’s hard to discern much about how The Witcher 3 plays, or whether it will feel as grand as it looks, or whether the combat is any good. But there’s one thing we can tell from this new gameplay footage: The Witcher 3—out in February for PS4/Xbox One/PC—sure is pretty. I mean, look at that…

The Armored Troops From Quantum Break

I love the look of the armored soldiers in the new Quantum Break trailer. (Not a fan of the hero’s normcore style, though): You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Tiniest Skylanders Of Them All Are Now Playable Characters

Along with the normal and large-sized Skylanders toys, over the past year or so Activision and Toys For Bob have been releasing these ridiculously cute little promo figures that acted as cosmetic pets in games like last year’s Swap Force. In this year’s Trap Team, they’re fully playable and fully freaking adorable. During my Skylanders:…

NBA 2K15 will be hitting the PC in the exact same form as its PS4/Xbox One console brethren, with enhanced graphics options available for that platform. The screenshot above is from the PC version. That’ll be good news to fans who felt that last year’s release was an under-realized port.

Latest Alien: Isolation Trailer Emphasizes The High Tops

Amanda Ripley shows off her kicks as she flees the Alien and assembles a familiar tool in this CGI trailer for Alien: Isolation: Previously: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Pokémon, As Giant Beasts From Monster Hunter

Flower armor and explosive tails. That’s a very creative way to redesign Pokémon as giant monsters from the Monster Hunter series. Arvalis on DeviantART likes to make badass-looking Pokémon and this series he recently started looks very cool. Here’s a redesigned Charizard, and the Venusaur in its full glory below: Check out arvalis’ DeviantART page,…