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Square Enix’s New Game Is Something Completely Different

Well, this sounds interesting. Square Enix just announced that it’s making a new “episodic adventure game” called Life is Strange with Dontnod Entertainment, the studio that made last year’s stylish beat-em-up Remember Me. I’m curious and tentatively excited. The game was announced in post on Square Enix’s blog this morning which included a brief description…

Lego Dinosaur Fossil Museum

This Lego dinosaur fossil museum is currently up for vote to be turned into an official set: You can vote for it at Lego Ideas Via Andrew Reiner You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Gaming Before My Time: Atari 2600 • Clipping Through: One Mad Week in Video Games: The TAY Review • Okay Pokémon, 15 Years Later and You’ve Got Me TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Thirteen-Year-Old MMO Gets Its First Expansion Pack

Since its launch way back in 2001, browser-based massively-multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape has received a steady stream of updates, but never anything as ambitious as its first expansion pack, Lost City of the Elves. So expansive it’s being released in three parts, the Lost City of the Elves expansion begins today with the epic…

This Is A Painted Hobbit Miniature

A Hobbit wandering through Mirkwood, menaced by a giant spider: The scene is by Bailey03 Here’s another terrific scene from the Hobbit I found this morning, Bilbo and Smaug by Iguazzu: Previously: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Director James Gunn Now Wields The Power Of An Infinity Gem

Rule one of possessing one of the six Infinity Gems: don’t post a picture of it on Instagram, even if Marvel gifts it to you for directing its latest box-office smash. James Gunn, the writer of Tromeo and Juliet as well as both live-action Scooby-Doo films, received one of the most powerful weapons in the…

Kickstarter Ended 20 Years of Rejection for Wasteland 2

There’s been plenty of gloom cast over Kickstarter recently, so let’s focus on the good things: like how crowdfunding ended Brian Fargo’s 20 year run of Wasteland 2 rejection. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You have to admire a man who spends two decades trying to make a game happen without giving up.…

With A Change Of Tone, Pokemon Becomes A Horror Movie

Pokemon reviewed by JB Hi-Fi You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Destiny‘s Beta Characters Aren’t Transferring to the Final Version

Millions of players might have been hoping—assuming, even—that all the work they’d put in leveling up and customizing characters during the Destiny beta would continue on in the final version of the game. Nope. The characters built in this summer’s pre-launch test are being wiped and all players will be starting fresh. News of this…

So how about some awesome Minecraft wallpapers? Here’s a few great-looking screenshots from Darastlix’s Minecraft landscape portfolio, shared recently over at r/minecraft. You can check them all out in the embedded album below. My Minecraft landscaping portfolio [Imgur, via r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest…

Videos About Minecraft Doors Are a Lot More Fun Than You’d Expect

Generally, when you build your lair in Minecraft, you need a door. There are two ways you can go about getting one: either craft one out of wood or metal, or engineer a clever gate using redstone machinery. These videos are about the latter, but they’re fun even if you don’t care about the doors…

Real Smash Bros. Is Way More Brutal Than Video Game Smash Bros.

A bunch of friends, some props, some shitty costumes, a production company…yeah, this Smash Bros. vid looked like a good time. Well, good for us. Things start getting a little weird when the lines between play-fighting and fighting get blurred.

City 17: Through War, We Remember is an essay on Half-Life 2’s architecture. If you take anything away from it, it’ll be a better appreciation of the work of Lebbeus Woods

Bioshock Infinite Songbird Cosplay

Impressive, menacing Songbird cosplay: By this Tumblr user, I believe. Photos via Twitter and R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Video Game Novels Suck (Especially Their Sex Scenes)

There have been novels based on video games for as long as there have been video games. Thing is, you could probably count the number of good ones on one hand. Pity writer Richard Cobbett, then, who spent the last week readingsome of the very worst of them. He’s recordedthe torment on his blog, and…

You Can Buy The Secret History Of The Sega Genesis

Last year, I fell in love with a very fancybook about the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Well, that book is now ready to buy (for everyone, not just those who backed its Kickstarter), and it looks amazing It’s not just a coffee table book full of pretty photos and technical diagrams, though. There’s a book book…

Like XCOM, But In The Wild West? You Have My Attention.

“In a nutshell, Hard West is a turn-based squad tactical with adventurous world exploration. Think X-Com combat with Heroes of Might and Magic world map”. Well hello there perfect game description. Hard West, currently on Kickstarter, is looking very much like its sales pitch: you explore a Wild West overworld then, when it’s time to…

Wait, The GameCube’s Pikmin Could Run In Windows?

Huh. In today’s installment of “things I wish I’d known in 2001” comes this page on The Cutting Room Floor, via Brandon Boyer, which both outlines the fact the original Pikmin on GameCube could run on a PC, and shows you howto do it. Turns out there’s a Windows executable file on the wee disc,…

Mod Is Bringing League Of Legends To DOTA 2

It’s like mixing Coke and Pepsi. A brave, perhaps slightly mad modder is working on bringing as much of League of Legends as he can to Valve’s DOTA 2, from LoL’s champions to its creeps. Those champions are being imported “1:1”, meaning its not just the 3D models being brought over (though these are being…

Twin Peaks And The Wire As Video Games

Arthur Doyle’s video game-inspired graphics feature clever takes on The Wire, Twin Peaks, Rob Ford, True Detective, and more: You can see more his work at Tumblr You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.