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Here’s Halo‘s newest character. Played by actor Mike Colter, Agent Locke will be showing up in the live-action Halo: Nightfall series being produced by Ridley Scott. The character will then appear in next year’s Halo 5: Guardians. Variety has more details.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Rockmandash Reviews: Kanon [Visual Novel & Anime] • 10 Things The International 4 Has Taught me About DOTA 2 • Back in the TAY Review: Ultraman – Towards the Future • In Defense of Sword Art Online TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Nvidia’s New Tablet Tries Damn Hard to Earn Real Video Game Respect

What would a tablet have to do to be seriously considered as the best place for you to play games? Native Twitch streaming? Good-as-console versions of popular games? Play-from-your-couch capability? Nvidia’s new gaming tablet can do all of that. And some extra stuff besides. You can use a controller with it, too. It’s been about…

“Distributed by the Hand of Satan.”

Original Grand Theft Auto poster. Via GiantBomb and R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The moon from Majora’s Mask looks a lot scarier on Vincent Bisschop‘s artwork from deviantART. It’s definitely up there with the one from the upcoming Hyrule Warriors Majora’s Moon by Vincent Bisschop [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

Valiant Hearts’ Trailer in Minecraft Is Both Silly And Poignant

We’ve got the first trailer for Valiant Hearts, Ubisoft’s fantastic game about World War I, with its own distinct visual style and powerful narration and music. Now, what if we take this visual style, and substitute it for Minecraft? Surprisingly, it works. Kinda. Done by Minecraft machinima group PowerTnTAllOver, the trailer remake uses custom skins,…

Who wants to mainline and/or liveblog this

This is the closest I’m going to get to binge-watching the entirety of The Simpsons once it finds its way onto Netflix (unlikely) OR I dig up all my old DVD collections from my mother’s storage unit (also unlikely):

Imagining Bioshock As A PS1 Game

NeoGAF has an entire thread dedicated to imagining more recent games as titles for the original Playstation. The highlight is these animated gifs for Bioshock: Via Wario64 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

I once wrote about an indie adventure game called Nelly Cootalot. It was so long ago however that the post isn’t even on our servers anymore. Which means it’s time to refresh the topic with a trailer for its sequel, which is coming seven years later

Multi-Screen Gaming On A Laptop? Crazy, But Sure, Let’s Roll With It

Matt Relf has found a smart way to turn a small laptop into the kind of multi-screen setup you normally only see on a verge large desk with a very important desktop computer. He’s running a Kickstarter called Packed Pixels, which uses a mount to attach either one or two iPad-sized displays to the side…

It’s Destiny, Running In 1080p, On The Xbox One

We’ve seen what Destiny looks like on PS3, and PS4, but what about Xbox One? Well. It’s complicated. The Xbox One beta for the game is not going to run in full, 1080p HD (it’ll be around 900p). But the final game will. Below is footage of the game running in said 1080p. Which you…

DEATH MTN makes shirts like these. As you can see, fans of Dark Souls are being well catered-for. Though there is also Zelda and Dragon Quest. DISCLAIMER: DEATH MTN is run by some guy who used to work at Kotaku

There Appears To Be A Female Assassin In The Newest AC: Unity Video [Update: Alt Theory: She’s A Templar?]

We can’t tell who she is, and it’s unlikely that she’s playable. But it nevertheless looks like Assassin’s Creed: Unity, like earlier games in the series, will have female assassins. No comment from Ubisoft. The lady appears briefly at around the 7:24 mark of a new making-of video posted today by gaming site IGN Unity,…

Xbox Sends Tweet That Doesn’t Understand The Word “Exclusive”

Um, I don’t think anybody is saying that. In case you haven’t got there already, three of those games (Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Evolve) aren’t just going to be released on PS4, but PC as well.

Up Close With Valve’s First, Unfinished Game

The inner workings of Valve are shrouded in mystery, particularly when it comes to game development. Consider the unfinished game that Valve was working on at the same time as the original Half-Life: Prospero ValveTime.net took the time to unpack everything we know about the long lost game. They get into the nitty gritty about…

Turning A Video Game Store’s Entrance Into An Adventure

Making the best of a video game store’s broken security gate. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Destiny’s Beta On The PS3 vs PS4

While the final release of Destiny might differ a bit from what everyone experiences and sees during the beta, we’ve already gotten a sense of how the different versions of the game will visually compare. Obviously, something on a last-gen console won’t look as hot as a current-gen console release—as you can see in this…

Adam Jensen is not a tidy man

​The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Ruins Most Movies

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man has improved exactly one movie: Ghostbusters. If you added him to any other movie, he’d probably kill the vibe. That was the idea behind last night’s #AddAPuftRuinAMovie, anyway, which takes the existing idea of #AddAWordRuinAMovie and makes it a little bit more Ghostbusters-specific. I like the 2001 one best, I…