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Why Are Nintendo Characters in This Chinese Smartphone Promo? [Update]

Many game developers are rushing towards mobile phones as a place to release their games. Nintendo, however, has preferred to stick close to its own gaming hardware. Which is why it’s so odd that Nintendo characters appeared at this mobile phone booth at the recent China Joy gaming expo. China Mobile, China’s largest telecommunications carrier,…

Video Shows How Far Project CARS Has Come in Two Years

One racetrack, one car, one game, two years apart. From the foliage to the road textures and the overall colors, the changes are quite noticeable. The eight-minute clip comes courtesy of Adrián Bermúdez, aka ADRIANF1esp, who is also responsible for this spring’sProject CARS-to-real-life comparison video. Here, he races across the same track in two different…

Game Of Thrones Subway Map Is A Handy Guide To Westeros Travel

Michael Tyznik, a graphic designer, has built something that could have saved some folks – Arya and The Hound especially – a lot of time and bother. It’s a subway map for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. I love that not only does it look great, but the lines and stations serve a kind of…

Worlds Collide: Pokemon vs Final Fantasy, Dragon Age vs Mass Effect

Artist Andrew Ryan, who it’s safe to say is a fairly huge BioWare fan, has a portfolio full of amazing images. Images that are a crossover fanfic writer’s dream While many are related to BioWare’s big universes in some manner, like crossing characters between Mass Effect and Dragon Age, there are some outliers, like a…

Gordon Freeman Is A (Relatively) Tiny Murder Machine

Artist Andrew McGee, who did something similarfor Shadow of the Colossus, returns with another “for scale” pic, this time for Half-Life 2. Funny how size, while looking impressive on paper, means so little in that game. I’d fight 1000 Striders before taking on a single Poison Headcrab. Half-Life 2: Freeman vs. Combine [DeviantArt]

If you want to see what marketing regret looks like, scroll down this Twitter thread, as folks respond to Nintendo’s question to “tell us what you love about” Princess Peach.

Come On Dark Souls, Even Link Can Jump

I mean, Link’s just a kid and he can get up there. Work it out, dude. “Try jumping,” they say. Hahaha, oh that’s rich. The Dark Souls struggle is real, everyone. Not that a spoiled prissypants like Link from The Legend of Zelda would know. Always leaping small gaps and scaling short barriers everywhere he…

4344739’s channel modded a 3DS so they could use a Gamecube controller on it. Woah. Suddenly, portable Smash Bros actually sounds enticing! (Via Tiny Cartridge)

It Took Seven Years To Find 400 Stunts In Halo

The Ultimate Stunting Tutorial is a tremendous effort by dozens of people who came together in the name of doing awesome stuff in the original Halo. Flips. Explosions. Balancing acts. Vehicle launches. Defying physics. UST has it all. Best of all, as the name implies, the video series—which takes place entirely in Blood Gulch—teaches you…

Twitch Cracks Down On Music In Videos, Users Freak Out

Twitch has made some changes today. Some were pretty boring. Another, however, has a lot of people very upset. The streaming giant has implemented audio monitoring tools similar to those used by YouTube, aimed at identifying the use of copyrighted music in archived copies of user’s videos. The software will scan 30-minute sections of videos;…

Kratos Is A Loser Even When He Wins

If there was ever a video game character that needed to go into therapy, it’s God of War star Kratos. Even David Jaffe, one of his creators, has said that the guy should calm down But can you really blame him? He lost his entire family before the original God of War even started. And…

Someone’s Suing Sony Because A PS4 Game Isn’t 1080p

Proving the theory that anyone will sue anyone for anything, a legal firm filed a class-action lawsuit for $5 million against Sony yesterday because the multiplayer mode in PS4 game Killzone: Shadowfall doesn’t run at a “native” resolution of 1080p. Yep, this is for real. The suit, which you can read below, alleges that Sony…

Nintendo Trolls Majora’s Mask Fans

Majora’s Mask wallpaper posted by Nintendo Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Sims 4 Without Toddlers Looks… Weird

The Sims 4 will have no toddlers. None. You can look in ball pits, on precariously high tables, at Lego-eating conventions—anywhere. You will not find them. Many players are upset. How will the game work without that crucial stage of development? Like this. So that’s a bit, um… strange. Don’t get me wrong: I wish…

I Love That I Can Pause Dota 2

The first time someone paused a match of Dota 2, I was shocked.I didn’t know pausing was possible. I remember thinking to myself, wow, what the hell? What’s happening? Am I seriously playing a multiplayer game that people can pause? Games have done stuff like this before, that’s true. But as I sink more time…

Times I Died Finishing Resident Evil 4‘s Professional Mode RE4 is among my all-time favorite games. It’s a comfortable fall-back. When I get sick of new games and just want to slaughter some pseudo-zombies, it’s always been there for me. Part of that comes from the game’s crazy unlockables and the ease with which you…

​Yoshi’s Real Name Is Actually ‘T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas’

An old Nintendo character guide lets us know all sorts of things about Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends. Like the fact that Bowser invaded Princess Peach’s sovereignity because he can’t stand the thought of ‘happy fungi.’ Over the last 24 hours, writer Blake Harris—who penned the excellent Console Wars book—has been sharing tidbits from…

She Says It’s Not Her Fault

The latest surreal teaser trailer for Bioware’s new game: Here are the previous trailers: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Twitch is changing the way its users can edit and archive their gameplay videos, the company announced today. While this is meant to improve the way that videos are stored and made available to watch after they’re originally broadcast, it also means some archived material could disappear. None of this material has to go away,…

8 Bit And Beyond Art Show

Bottleneck Gallery’s new art show 8 Bit and Beyond 2 opens Friday. Here’s a preview of the posters and custom figures that will be featured in the exhibit: Nick Runge. Kyle Crawford. Electric Fang. Nacho Diaz. Mark Chilcott. Marie Bergeron. Andy Fairhurst. Marco D’Alfonso. Cuyler Smith. Nagy Norbert. Carlos Angeli. Chris Koehler. You are now…