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News Quiz With Quizmaster Ken Jennings

I scored 411 points in Slate’s Friday news quiz You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Capcom Says They’re Fixing Ultra Street Fighter IV‘s PC Multiplayer

Widespread multiplayer connectivity issues in the Steam versions of Super andUltra Street Fighter IV have had players fuming for weeks, but apparently Capcom is working on a big fix—contrary to popular belief. First, a brief history lesson: recently Super Street Fighter IV, a relative elder statesman of the fighting game world, underwent some pretty major…

Three Tips On How To Turn Around A Hopeless League of Legends Match

If you play games like League of Legends or Dota 2, then you’ve probably been matches that seemed so grim, you were almost certain you’d lose. But if you think about the match in the right way, even lost causes can be turned around. Obviously, your team needs the appropriate amount of skill to be…

Your PC Must Be This Advanced To Run Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare [UPDATE}

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the first “pure next-gen” entry in the endlessly popular shooter series, but what does that mean for PC gamers? In short: nothing. Nothing whatsoever. UPDATE: Activision says these are the wrong specs. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s specs are the same as Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ on PC. Exactly…

Playing Wasteland 2 As The A-Team

Wasteland 2’s Brian Fargo requested pics of customized ranger teams. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

GTA Online Mods Let People “Rape” Other Players

Grand Theft Auto mods have the power to do really cool unintended things—like let players ride a UFO, or submerse the entire game underwater. They also have the power to make things rather unpleasant for other players. This NSFW post contains content that some readers may find uncomfortable. According to online reportsand forums, modders have…

Never Have Battlefield 4 Jet Skis Flown With Such Grace

People have been making jet skis rocket through the air in Battlefield 4 since the dawn of time, but this… this is just beautiful. Cinematic stunting, they call it. It’s strangely soothing to me, watching jet skis explode—metal screaming in agony as fire consumes all—while a camera pans languidly around. It doesn’t need to be…

‘Gaming Is A Disease’

Got this message from my friend Jeremy this week. He’s a music critic at Pitchfork. But as you can tell from our text-versations, he cares a lot about games too: …maybe a little bit too much, now that I think about it…

Assassin’s Creed Monopoly Comes With Six Assassin Figures

The newly-revealed Assassin’s Creed Monopoly set comes with six assassin figurines: Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Ratonhnhaké:ton, Aveline de Grandpré, Edward Kenway and Arno Dorian. The game should be available in October. Via Polygon You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Want All The Cool Stuff At Launch? Buy More Than One Copy Of The Game.

You might think it’s cool that you can dress Lara Croft and her next game’s three co-stars as if they were actually starring in a Hitman game. You might think it’s cool that you can dress them up as if they were in a Deus Ex game. Well, bad news. On December 9, the day…

Plush UFO Abduction

Alien tractor beam abduction captured in plush by Steff Bomb. Her creations include plush versions of Han’s blaster and Rambo’s knife: Via Chicago Tribune You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

One Backpack, Two Super Mario Levels

When you play video games as an adult, you have a lot of moments when you find yourself wishing you could be a kid again. Like this morning, when I came across a reversible Super Mario-themed backpack I would have worn until the straps fell off and my teacher asked me: “Shouldn’t you have graduated…

Total Cost of Publishing One Indie Game Last week Sixty Second Shooter developer Jamie Fristrom released the total cost for publishing on the Xbox One at $5,143. That figure may be daunting to some, but it’s also close to the absolute minimum to publish on a console. I spoke with Tyrone Rodriguez, a developer working…

A Game Where You Play As The Killer Kid From Horror Movies

You know the ever-looming embodiment of tiny evil that scary movies trot out for cheap scares? Lucius II will let you play as one. Expect blood. Lots of blood. I really wanted to like the originalLucius more than I did. It had a killer concept (itsy bitsy horror movie murder machine, played with almost Hitman-style…

It’s Raining Cars, Hallelujah

Road Redemption, the Kickstarted spiritual successor to damn near legendary motorcycle racer Road Rash, has a mode where cars just continuously rain from the sky while you’re driving. Seriously. Truth be told, I’d sort of been steering clear of this one after its first footage looked a bit bland and uninspired, but this is the…

Sesame Street Does Cosplay

Sesame Street did a parody of Comic-Con called Numeric Con. Batman, Wolverine, Doctor Who, and a suitably hammy Captain Kirk make an appearance: Via Bleeding Cool You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

How EA Access Will Work, According To EA

Last week, Electronic Arts announced a new online gaming service called EA Access for the Xbox One. It sounded like a promising deal to many gamers: a Netflix-style subscription service that would give people access to a library of EA games for $5 a month, or $30 a year. But many important questions remained unanswered.…

Custom Made Destiny Auto Rifle

Destiny Auto Rifle by David Carpenter. It lights up and the stock extends: This Twitch video shows off its features You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Deals: Humble Heads to Japan, Xillia 2 Collector’s Edition, Destiny LE

Humble visits Japan in this week’s Weekly with Ys, Pixeljunk Shooter, and more. [ Humble Weekly Bundle Japan Edition] Tales of Xillia 2’s Collector’s Edition, which features plushies and watches and figures and DLC, is back in stock and up for preorder. [Xillia 2 CE] Sleeping Dogs, a great example of what open world games…

The 2013 Survey That Foretold The Future Of Assassin’s Creed

Late last year, Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft sent a survey to me and other players of their long-running top franchise. They were asking for our reactions to Assassin’s Creed IV and oh, uh, just wondering what we might want to see in future games. Well. They weren’t really just wondering. I wrote about the survey…