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Spongebob Characters In Human Form

Just in case the recent trailer with CG Spongebob characters wasn’t enough, Chinese artist XiaozuoZ, possibly inspired by the same trailer, decided to redraw the main characters as humans. Humans from an anime parody perhaps where everyone, even Patrick, is buff. Just imagine a classic episode like “Opposite Day” with these makeovers. It’d be the…

Mod Brings Selfies to GTA IV

Now Niko, Johnny and Luis can also get in on that sweet GTA V selfie action. And the results can be pretty fun! You can check out the mod, the instructions, and some screenshots over at its GTA X Scripting page, where you can also find a loud dubsteppy trailer. But the mod isn’t just…

Watch 30 Minutes Of Gameplay From Bioshock On iOS

The original Bioshock is coming to the iPad and iPhone. This video shows gameplay starting right after the game’s opening cinema. Via TouchArcade, which speculates that game will cost $10-$20 AppSpy also posted an edited video about the game’s release: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images,…

This is not how you deal with the Executioner Chariot boss fight in Dark Souls II, but waiting for the boss like this is way more badass. It is almost like you can hear the player saying “Welcome to Dark Souls II, bro”. via Steam Community To contact the author of this post, write to:…

BioShock Goes Portable, Heading to iOS

Ready to return to Rapture? On your Apple devices? Today, 2K announced that, yes, BioShock is coming to iOS. Details are scant, and the teaser image says the game is “coming soon to iOS.” Originally out in 2007, BioShock has been released on Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3, and Mac. This is the first portable…

Nintendo’s Indie Champion Leaves After Nine Years

Dan Adelman, who ran the indie program at Nintendo of America for almost nine years, left the company last week, Kotaku has learned. Last Friday was Adelman’s final day at Nintendo. Adelman, an outspoken personality known well in the indie community, spent nine years handling outreach and support for independent developers on Nintendo platforms. His…

The Hardest Lesson in The Last of Us

The story of a minor character you never meet in The Last Of Us teaches one inescapable truth of that world: one way or another you are getting blood on your hands and you’d best make sure it’s not your own. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Note: the article contains mid-game spoilers for…

One of Minecraft’s Greatest and Oldest Web Series Turns Four [UPDATE]

“You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is this? And, yeah, you are 100% right to ask yourself that. This is Minecraft, and everything you see around me right now is a randomly generated world.” Minecraft was first revealed to the public in 2009, but it would only really take off with the release of…

Interested in a behind-the-scenes look at last week’s real-life Mario Smash Bros. trailer? The creator, Dean Wright, now has a making-of post online on his blog detailing how much work went into filming, animating, and even recording sound effects for his one-minute video over the course of four+ weeks.

Madden NFL 15 Toys Are Coming To McDonald’s Happy Meals

The next toys coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals are generic NFL player figurines to promote Madden 15. Yes, there’s an alternative for non-sports fans: Via McDonald’s You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Wu-Tang and Crash Bandicoot, together at…last? This mashup of Gravel Pit v Crash Bandicoot: Warped is just fantastic.

One Dude Sings Halo Theme In A Church, Sounds Like The Real Deal

I can’t remember the last time there was a greater disconnect between what I was looking at and what I was hearing. This is…just some dude! Looks like he’s on holiday! Only, he can sing. And he’s singing in a church in Switzerland where the acoustics are just right. I’m pretty much head-to-toe with goosebumps…

Lego Star-Lord bust by Bruce Lowell You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Awesome School Teaches Through LARPing

There is a school in Denmark that teaches through Live-Action Role-Play. Or, LARPing. Amazing. This isn’t actually a documentary; it’s part of a larger film called Trapped Treasure, which is all about LARPing. We featured another excerpt from it last year. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

So, You Can Now Buy Badass Motherboards?

Here’s a motherboard for people who buy internal PC components based on their looks. It’s the *deep breath* ASUS Republic of Gamers Maximus VII Formula Z97. Proving yet again that these companies could do with paying someone to think of better product names. In terms of specs, it can take 32GB of DDR3 RAM, has…

New World Record For Data Transfer Laughs At Your Gigabytes

A team at the Technical University of Denmark has managed to blast 43 terabits of data down a fiber cable in a single second, setting a new world record for the fastest ever data transfer speed. For reference, that’s 1GB of data in just 0.2 milliseconds. These records tend to be broken every few years…

I Don’t Want To Walk To Everything I Can See In A Game

There’s this thing that developers of open world games have been fond of saying a lot lately: If you can see it, you can travel to it. It’s meant to be an awe-inspiring statement about how rich and full the world is, but every time I hear it I roll my eyes. See, not only…

The Majora’s Mask Fan Remake Is Still Moving Forward

Everybody wants Nintendo to remake or remaster classic Zelda-er Majora’s Mask, and maybe that is going to happen someday. In the meantime, some fans have been taking this matter into their own hands for a couple years now, as you can see above. That video update for what appears to be a Majora’s Mask remake…

This Is The Zelda Monopoly Game Board, Out Next Month

Announced back in April with few deets, finally we now know what the Legend of Zelda version of the popular-amongst-old-people board game Monopoly looks like. Don’t be too alarmed by that “GAMESTOP EXCLUSIVE” tag there; as with new video games, GameStop just has a couple extra perks in its box, and all these pictures came…

Maybe This Hand-Drawn Mass Effect 3 Box Art Is The Best One

It’s always a bit difficult to gauge the legitimacy of such things, e.g. whether a store employee stuck this on this GameStop shelf just long enough to take a picture or whatever. Either way I’m amused by this ugliness, as a Mass Effect guy. Would I use this over the FemShep one, though? Eh. via…