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Square Enix in Trouble with SNK and the Cops

Police are investigating Square Enix for allegedly using copyrighted SNK characters in the manga High Score Girl. Square Enix, which publishes the manga, says it didn’t receive requests from SNK to halt publication and SNK says it never gave Square Enix permission to use its characters in the manga. According to Sankei News, characters from…

How Metal Gear Solid: Rising Became Revengeance

This video details how the game initially teased, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, eventually turned into Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. Along the way, the game lost features like wall-running, abandoned the stealth concept, and settled on a dramatically different story: Via VG247 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…

Survival Games Are Moving Beyond “Zombies & Crafting”

Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so…peaceful? I’m someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original…

Mario Kart 8’s DLC Is So Gross

That weird Mercedes DLC for Mario Kart 8 is out at the end of the month. And yeah, it’s not pretty. We initially thoughtthere was going to be one real car made available for the game (for free, since this is sponsored content), but there are actually three. Which gives Nintendo/Mercedes enough cars to make…

One Of The Best PC Games Of All Time Is Now Free

Origin’s “On The House” deal, which randomly gives away free PC games, is doing a very good thing today, because it’s giving away Wing Commander III. One of the greats OK, so it was never that great a game, and especially won’t be now, but you don’t enjoy Wing Commander III for the flight. You…

Misleading Steam Racing Game Now Offering Refunds

Last week I reported on a Steam racing game, Colin McRae Rally, that seemed to be a remake of a classic from the ’90s. Instead it turned out to be a port of a mobile game from last year. Fans were pissed, feeling misled. Now publisher Codemasters is offering refunds. Now, it’s important to note…

When 90s Tom Cruise Got Stuck On A Game, He Called For Help

In 2014, celebrities playing video games is as natural as the sun rising and the earth spinning. But in the 1990s, it wasn’t. Especially when it came to relatively obscure shooters on the Mac. Hardcore fans of the game might already know about this story (it’s quietly done the rounds for years now among the…

Pokémon, Ranked

Now that Pokémon X & Y have been out for a while, we’ve revisited our expert list of Pokémon rankings. Here is the new list—it takes into account all the new Pokémon and it uses highly advanced science.

Existentially troubling puzzle game The Swapper is out today on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. It’s really cool and super worth playing. But hey, you don’t have to take it from me: Check out Mike Fahey’s review of the PC version.

Mario Vs Pokemon Live-Action Short Is Kinda Disturbing

I don’t even know what I just watched. I think… I think I liked it? It’s, um… huh. So I know for sure that this is a movie. Ostensibly it takes place in an old-school Game Boy and is about a Pokemon trainer attempting to battle and capture Mario. For reasons. He’s got some kind…

​Well Of Course Broforce Is Getting An Official Expendables Tie-In

Let’s be honest: Broforce was basically already an unofficial Expendables video game, so it’s not a huge shock to hear that they’re making it official. It is, however, a reason for there to be more (free!) Broforce, which is always a good thing. Titled The Expendabros, the promotional tie-in is a collaboration between the people…

Modders Add A Zombie Apocalypse To GTA Online

Who knows, maybe Rockstar will add zombie DLC to GTA Online—but modders aren’t waiting around for it to drop. Instead, they’re going ahead and just adding zombies into the game themselves. While there are a few floating around on the web, this particular zombie outbreak mod comes from Chr0m3xMoDz. It’s not the most elaborate, fleshed-out…

​Spaghetti Western Turns TF2 into The Good, The Bad and the Heavy

Guns drawn. Tumbleweeds rolling by. An eerie silence. Only this time, it’s not Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef squinting death stares at each other. It’s the Heavy and the Spy. You have film student Arif Khan to thank for this Sergio Leone-styled Source Filmmaker short starring two of Team Fortress 2’s most popular characters.…

The Friendliest Dark Souls II Hack

What happens when you fuse the twisted magical art of pyromancy with positive thinking and technical know-how? Why, a Dark Souls II hack made in heaven. It appears as though Benzoin-Gum found a way to combine the Fire Whip pyromancy and the Very Good! Carving, forging a spell that’s as dangerous as it is friendly.…

Evolve Delayed To February 2015

Yet another game won’t be making it this fall—publisher 2K Games has delayed their co-op shooter Evolve to February of next year, their parent company Take-Two announced in a financial statement today. Evolve will now be out on February 10, 2015 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. “We primarily decided that the title deserves and…

Ten Bizarre New Glitches In The Last of Us PS4

The Last of Us: Remastered is out on PS4, and it’s pretty great. The original PS3 version, however, was famous for some downright hilarious glitches, and I’m happy to report that Remastered does its rough-around-the-polygons grandpappy proud with new ones of its own. Alright, are you feeling loose? Are you ready to cock your head…

Seconds You Could Stay in Space without Injury (Guardians of the Galaxy Spoilers ahead) There’s a common misconception that exposure to the vacuum of space would cause immediate death. Guardians of the Galaxy came out last weekend and there’s one scene in which Peter Quill floats through space for some time without any protection .…

Charge Your 3DS/XL Over USB with this $4 Cord

I finally caved and bought a 3DS a few months ago, and while I love the thing, it’s always bothered me that it shipped with a bulky AC wall adapter, instead of a USB power cord like I’d grown accustomed to with all of my other gadgets. So on a lark, and with a few…

Check Out All The Goodies That Come With The New XCOM Board Game

There’s a new XCOM board game that comes packed with 16 soldiers, over 200 cards and tokens, and more: As the department heads of XCOM, you and your friends must succeed where the world’s militaries have failed. You lead the elite members of an international, military organization, which is funded by a secret coalition. It…