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Diagram Of The Fearsome New Assasssin’s Creed Rogue Ship

This video shows the ship using its front-locked cannons, launching broadsides, baiting enemies into fiery oil slicks, and utilizing its wicked battering ram. After the successful naval battle, the rogue lands and proceeds to hunt to down an assassin for an extended boss battle: This second video shows a series of ship battles in the…

Surprise! That Mysterious New Dragon Ball Character Is You

What a dirty trick to play, Bandai Namco. Introducing a never-before-seen character for Dragon Ball Xenoverse, leaving fans to wildly speculate for months before revealing it as the first Dragon Ball game that allows players to inject their own creations into the series’ greatest battles. So sneaky. So good. For the first time in any…

Super Smash Bros Limited Edition 3DS

The limited edition Super Smash Bros Brawl 3DS XL listed in the Nintendo UK store for October 3 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here’s The World’s First Level 1000 Diablo III Character

In the olden days, reaching level 99 in Diablo II was a pretty big challenge, but even though it’s easier to level up in Diablo III, getting to paragon level 1000 is just insane. But one dedicated guy, Gabynator, did it way before anyone else. He managed it with his guildmates, who opened up Malthael…

Four Minutes Of Online Co-Op In BioWare’s Newest Game

Earlier today, BioWare unveiled a new action role-playing game called Shadow Realms. And now, here are four minutes of hands on gameplay from IGN. Have a look and let us know what you think in the comments. 4 Minutes of Shadow Realms Gameplay – Gamescom 2014 [IGN@YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write…

Meta Knight Returns, Looks as Menacing as Ever in Super Smash Bros. 4

Menacing or cuddly, depending on how you look at him. Kirby’s nemesis and the first on Brawl’s pro-gaming tier list, Meta Knight will be appearing for the second time in Smash Bros. He’s going to behave a bit differently according to series creator Masahiro Sakurai, who wrote: Meta Knight’s Up Special Move, Shuttle Loop, changed…

How To Eat When You’re a Marvel Character

Deadpool doesn’t know. Maybe he should watch this video Remember the How XX Eat Their Food meme? That was a bit of a thing last year—they even made one themed around video games. So now we have this video from D Piddy, also known as that-guy-who-cosplays-as-Deadpool-a-lot, and it really doesn’t matter that it’s a year…

No, You Can’t Bite People in FIFA 15

Sebastien Enrique is the lead producer on the PS4 and Xbox One versions of FIFA 15. He’s been at EA Sports since FIFA 06 – in other words, when the series was still awful – and he’s been there to see its rise to greatness. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I think he’s…

Up Close and Personal with Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Combat

Skills. Flashy effects. Spells. Oh, and don’t forget the big-ass flaming swords. At Gamescom, EA showed us what combat looks like up close in Bioware’s upcoming RPG, Dragon Age: Inquisition, along with the systems powering it and the tactics involved. The demo involved both stealth and straight-up hacking and slashing, and we caught a glimpse…

12 Minutes of Battlefield Hardline’s Singleplayer

Today at Gamescom, EA revealed the singleplayer mode for the upcoming Battlefield game. The campaign stars Nick Mendoza, a detective from Miami, and the whole singleplayer mode is structured like a cops vs. criminals TV drama, according to EA, with each level resembling a TV episode-like unit. Here’s the twelve-minute gameplay video: EA also revealed…

BioWare’s Newest RPG Is Called Shadow Realms

As hinted at during this year’s E3, here is a first look at BioWare’s brand new game. It’s called Shadow Realms. Set in a “modern fantasy world,” Shadow Realms is an action role-playing game. Have a look at gameplay in the trailer below: It has four-versus-one gameplay, with four players able to fight against the…

First Look at Assassin’s Creed Rogue Gameplay

While the Assassin’s Creed Roguedebut trailer was CG heavy, we now (finally!) get a look at Rogue‘s gameplay—on land and at sea. Set during the Seven Years’ War, it features a Templar named Shay—something Kotaku first reported this past spring. Assassin’s Creed Rogue will be out this November on last gen platforms. Assassin’s Creed Rogue…

Watch The EA Press Briefing Live, Right Here

A new day dawns on Cologne, Germany, and with it, Gamescom 2014. Yesterday, we heard from Microsoft and Sony—now, it’s EA’s turn. In twenty or so minutes, EA’s Gamescom press conference will kick off to tell us all about the new Dragon Age, the new FIFA, the new Sims, the new Battlefield, the upcoming MOBA…

Lego Titanfall Titan And Half-Life Hunter-Chopper

Infomaniac’s Lego creations include a Titanfall Titan with opening minifig-sized hatch, Half-Life Combine Hunter-Chopper, taco-themed podracer, and Lego for Girls-colored tank: You can see many more of his creations at Flickr Via TBB You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Father Takes Kids To Israel To Teach About Real War

When Carl-Magnus Helgegren’s young sons revealed how obsessed with Call of Duty they’d become, he decided it was time to teach them some things about war. And have them taught by people in the business. “They were talking to me like it was a cool game, and everybody else was playing it, and it had…

Nice Controller, Call Of Duty

We firstsaw the Call of Duty Xbox One console and controller this morning, but the pic was tiny and generally unhelpful. So here’s a better look. I…kinda like it! It’s like an expensive, militarised coffee machine.

World of Warcraft Has New Trolls, And They Look Great

Blizzard has today shown off another of its updated designs for World of Warcraft, this time for the Trolls. Thanks to some pretty stellar art design on the original, the differences between the old (shown on the left of each pic) and new male Trolls aren’t that significant (at least until the customisation kicks in,…

“We actually bought all the graphical assets off the internet. I think we bought the goat for $20 dollars on the internet. It was on sale, 75 percent off.” If you only read one more thing on the internet tonight, ensure it’s this, on how Goat Simulator was made.

The Sims 4‘s Create-A-Sim demo is now free for everyone. Make anything your heart desires, so long as it can be sculpted (literally, if you want) from human flesh. I made an evil Leonardo Da Vinci. What will you come up with?

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Mirror’s Edge (And Is Instead Minecraft)

I’ve seen a metric brick-stick-fuck-ton of game location recreations in Minecraft, but I don’t think one’s ever come this close to looking exactly like the original. Look at that. It’s the city from Mirror’s Edge. That’s it. What else is there to say? You can download it here