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Mario Kart 8 Has Millions Of Peaches, Peaches For Me

Gamers took their sweet time making the inevitable “Peaches” joke for Mario Kart 8. But this video by YouTuber Linkums is clever enough that it’s fair to say it was worth the wait: So now that Princess Peach and Luigi both have their own theme music for Mario Kart 8, who’s next? My money’s on…

All 30 Mario Kart 8 characters, reviewed. ReadJohn Teti’s hilarious take on the cartoon cast in Nintendo’s newest kart racer. “Rather than being an empty sad-sack, Luigi has become the personified answer to the question, ‘What if Mario were kind of an asshole?’ And this is awesome.”

We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby

Talking with Stephen and Jason about Wolfenstein led me down an internet rabbit hole where I discovered this gem. It’s footage of the very first Castle Wolfenstein game, which was released way back in 1981. Something about the giant pixellated swastikas plastered across the bad guys’ chests makes me giggle: I can just imagine the…

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4,638,937 people played the Destiny beta, Activision announced this morning in a press release. That sure is a specific number! Says Activision exec Eric Hirshberg: “This is the biggest beta of this console generation by a wide margin and the largest console beta ever for a new video game IP to date.”

Sony Trashes EA’s New Access Program

Wondering why EA’s new Netflix-like Access program is on Xbox One and not PlayStation 4? Well, for starters, Sony doesn’t think it’s any good for their customers. “We evaluated the EA Access subscription offering and decided that it does not bring the kind of value PlayStation customers have come to expect,” a Sony representative said…

Making the Case That Sonic the Hedgehog Is Way Overrated

All that love for the early Sonic The Hedgehog games may be very misplaced, according to some gentlemen who recently revisited them. They even go so far to say that they’re fundamentally flawed. This episode of Red Letter Media’s Previously Recorded webseries takes aim at the first few Sonic titles, picking apart the origins of…

Imagining Mortal Kombat With Post-Apocalyptic Characters

On artist Sergey Svistunov‘s Mortal Kombat art, Kabal and Shao Kahn (with Sub Zero hands) look like members of a vicious, post-apocalyptic gang from Mad Max, and not characters of a game with mystic realms and gods. Their masks are so badass. There’s a bunch of characters from the artist below, check out the rest…

And the most unexpected launch in Kerbal Space Program history award goes to… Space_Scumbag. No rocket launches when Gypsy Danger is around. Not today by Space_Scumbag [via r/KerbalSpaceProgram] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if…

Fan Creates An Awesome Guild Wars 2 Mega-Trailer [UPDATE: One More]

Carl, who sent us the tip about the trailer, called this “the most incredible Guild Wars 2 video [he’s] ever seen.” Well, I can see where he’s coming from. The video itself isn’t long, but it’s “Mega” for the sheer volume of the source material—it’s a recut of several official trailers and timelapse clips, set…

Smash Bros. Video Puts Mario In Real-Life Tokyo

And since he’s in real life, he has to take the subway to the Smash Bros. tournament. Just like everyone else The trailer was done by Japan-based visual effects artist Dean Wright, who’s worked on the teaser for the upcoming Mighty No. 9 animated series. It’s good! I could even see this used as a…

People Are Buying The Wii U, But Nintendo Is Still Losing Money

Nintendo has released a report detailing their results for this financial year’s first quarter, and the Wii U seems to be doing better. Nintendo itself, on the other hand? Eh. The star of the report is, without a doubt, Mario Kart 8, but the Wii U’s numbers show improvement as well. Between April and June,…

Tokyo’s New Final Fantasy Cafe Is Beautiful

That shouldn’t come as a surprise: Final Fantasy games are usually beautiful, too. But I’ll tell you what, this Final Fantasy XIV themed eatery is a stunner. Behold, the Eorzea Cafe. Modelled after the Carline Canopy, it’s named after Eorzea, the region where Final Fantasy XIV takes place. Inside the cafe, you can see weapons,…

There’s A Sharknado Mobile Game

Swinging a chainsaw while riding a shark sounds pretty fun, but the reviews of the new Sharknado endless runner mostly just complain about the game constantly crashing. I posted the trailer below: $3 at itunes if you have money to burn. Via Destructoid You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the…

Pikmin And Tingle T-Shirts

There’s about 30 minutes left to buy today’s tees at TheYetee, featuring Pikmin and Tingle: Pikmin and Olimar are by Justin Chan, and Tingle is by Louis Roskosch You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

New LoL Champion Is An Adorable Monster Overcome By Rage

There’s a new League of Legends champion named Gnar. He’s absolutely adorable, until he’s overcome by his rage: A yordle born millennia ago, Gnar was captured and trapped in true ice, frozen – quite literally – in time. Civilizations formed and fell as the prehistoric yordle vacantly stared on, but nothing – not even true…

New 80’s Soundtrack-Style Synthpop Album

If you like instrumentals by John Carpenter or Jan Hammer, you’ll like Mitch Murder’s new album Interceptor. Slightly NSFW animated video below: Cover art by Junkboy You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Story Of A Disgustingly Cute Video Game

An aspiring filmmaker who made a documentary about heartbreak. An artist obsessed with making our lives malleable. A second artist who spent years drawing the human form. A game designer who transformed mathematics into a video game. Together these four individuals created Push Me Pull You. A video game about human beings made by human…

Your Favorite Elder Scrolls Character Probably Died A Horrible Death [UPDATE]

An Imgur user has put together reposted an exhaustive list of recurring characters in Elder Scrolls games—from Arena all the way up through Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls Online. Is your favorite character on it? Probably. Did they suffer some kind of cruel, shocking fate between games? Yeaaaaah… probably again. UPDATE 11/24/14: The English-language Imgur…

Yo This Is An Expensive Breaking Bad Figure, Bitch

Taiwanese builder RC has made a range of custom accessory sets (head, clothes, etc) that will transform any standard 1/6 scale figure/doll into your very own Breaking Bad toy. Warning: it is not cheap. Because everything is being made entirely by hand, you’ll pay $115 just for Jessie’s head. Shoes are $85, and his clothing…