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Doom II Mod Reimagines Maps Based On Their Names

A group of Doom II modders have reimagined id’s classic shooter in a clever and often silly way: by drawing inspiration from the names of the game’s original 32 maps. The project is known as “Doom II In Name Only.” Ella Guro, its founder, said that it took 666 days to complete. Something tells me…

One Of World of Warcraft‘s Newest Dungeons Is A Moving Train

I’m pretty sure the developers at Blizzard liked Snowpiercer a lot, because one of the new dungeons in the upcoming expansion will be something similar. Most of the time we’ll be fighting on a huge, moving train of the Iron Horde. Gnomes had submarines in Warcraft II, there’s the Gunship Battle in the Icecrown Citadel…

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Lose Your Mind. Eat Your Crew.

That’s Sunless Sea‘s tagline, the reason I was pretty much certain I had to play it. I’ve been quite pleased with my decision. The game puts you in the role of a ship captain in the dark, sewer-y “underzee” of Fallen London, a steampunk dystopia sunken below the earth (also a rather good browser game).…

Wondering what happens when a Kickstarter exceeds its goal by $30,000? Read this candid postmortem of the RPG Unrest for a fascinating breakdown of where all that money actually goes—and why the game’s writer had to work on scripts between shifts moving boxes at a hardware store.

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It’s Not Easy To Be A Cop In Mortal Kombat

And it’s not because Stryker’s in-game abilities are weak, but, as Dorkly’s recent comic shows, there is only one ninja outfit in the entire Mortal Kombat universe. And they didn’t even catch Ermac. You can read more Dorkly comics here. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Video Games Are Better With Dancing Pixel Birds

French artist Kévin creates his animations in a rather unique way: by using Flipnote Studio, a downloadable application for the Nintendo DS. This makes all of his art look like something from a 90s handheld game. In his recent gallery, he takes several games and replaces the characters in them with penguins and other birds.…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Poster Has an Unfortunate 9/11 Reference

While the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie will be out August 8 in North America, it won’t be out until September 11 in Australia. Paramount Pictures’ Australia branch showed off the movie’s poster, which is truly unfortunate. As you can see, the poster features the half-shelled heroes jumping out of a burning skyscraper. At…

Link Dies 104 Times in this Ocarina of Time Supercut

Balls in the face might be the deadliest of them all, but the other 103 threats were still dangerous enough to take out the Hero of Time. At least in this video Master0fHyrule’s latest, ten-minute clip examines all the ways Link can die during the course of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s nostalgic, like that…

A Handy Illustrated Chart Of Minecraft Enemies

A Redditor created this charmingly-illustrated chart of Minecraft enemies—click expand to see it full-sized You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Photographs Of People At The Moment They Fly Out Of A Water Slide

Krista Long posted a series of photographs of people at the moment they emerge from a water slide: You can see more than a dozen additional photos in the series here Via LaughingSquid You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​For One Night, The Last Of Us Was A Musical

Tonight’s stage performance of The Last of Us: One Night Live was weird, ramshackle, funny, and kinda unlike any video-game event I’ve seen. The best part, easily, was the musical number. Most of us have already seen this funny musical “alternate ending” to the game, which was initially thrown together by the cast on the…

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I was just listening to NPR and this story came up about some new very scientific study about how people who say “like” and “um” and generally take a long time to say things do so because they’re actually just SMARTER than everyone else. And then it occurred to me: hey, I take a long…

Sucks To Be A Viking Who Doesn’t Get Into Valhalla

This is Jotun. It’s an “action-exploration” game, where you control a viking who has died an “inglorious death”. That doesn’t sound good. Because that kind of death doesn’t get you an express ticket to Valhalla, you’re stuck in purgatory fighting a bunch of monsters until you rack up enough Valhalla Points to get to, well,…

This thing was firstshown off over a year ago. And it’s still not out. What’s up, Figma? Killing us softly? Anyway, now there are shots of Marth, in living colour. They got the feet wrong, since there are feet, but apart from that, it’s perfect. [via Tiny Cartridge]

Huge Terminator 2 Game Does Not Exist, Which Is A Damn Shame

Yes there are actual Terminator 2 games, most of them (arcade gun game excepted) garbage. This, sadly, is not one of them. Instead, it makes use of mods to turn Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into…machinima? Art? Either way, it’s one long love letter to James Cameron’s 1991 classic. This was actually released last year,…

​Watch The Last of Us: One Night Live, Right Here

Tonight in Santa Monica, something strange and wonderful took place: The actors, writers, musicians and game developers who made The Last of Us put on a performance, live onstage. The show was streamed live, but if you missed it (or want to catch it again), you can watch a recording of the whole thing right…

Mike Tyson Now Has His Own Cartoon Show. Where He Solves Crime.

Mike Tyson’s rehabilitation from ear-biting convicted rapist to popular culture hero is almost complete, with the former boxing star getting his own cartoon show on Adult Swim that’s a lot like Scooby-Doo. Only, with Mike Tyson in it. The trailer is below. Know that Adult Swim’s official description is “In Mike Tyson Mysteries, a new…

“Isn’t that the guy from Star Wars?”