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Eleven Years Later, Modders Are Still Making The Original Halo Better

Halo: Combat Evolved released in fall 2003 for PC. Bungie has moved on—but the community keeps the game alive through mods. Take SPV3, for example. SPV3 is an ongoing mod that not only enhances the graphics of the original Halo, it also adds new weapons, new enemies, new vehicles, revised and extended levels/environments, and even…

Hearthstone‘s New Expansion Has Some Insane Cards

Blizzard’s addictive digital card game will grow ever more life-consuming tomorrow, as Curse of Naxxramas, the game’s first single-player expansion, starts opening up to players all over the globe. As something of a teaser, Blizzard has released screenshots of all of the new cards you’ll be able to collect as the expansion goes live. You…

​Destiny‘s Hair Is Fabulous. Step It Up, Other Games.

Video game hair rarely even looks acceptable, let alone this good. If you’ve been playing the Destiny beta and you’re anything like me, you spent an inordinate amount of time in the character creator picking out your character’s hairstyle. That’s because the coiffures in this game are straight-up fabulous, and even the crustiest ‘dos are…

Dota 2 Finals Winner Takes Home $5 Million

After a weekend of duking it out at Seattle’s KeyArena, today The International hosted the grand championship final with Newbee going up against ViCi—and millions of dollars were on the line. In a best-out-of-five face-off, Newbee has emerged victorious—nearly every match resulted in a GG from ViCi Gaming before the ancient was actually destroyed. The…

New High Quality Toy Line Will Start With The Iron Giant

Mondo has slowly branched out from high-quality limited edition movie posters to vinyl movie soundtracks, t-shirts, and video game posters. And now, toys: Just-revealed today is the Iron Giant: The 16″ tall figure will have over 30 points of articulation, light features, and other fun surprises! Accompanying The Iron Giant will be a Hogarth figure,…

Sims 4 Trailer Hints At New ‘Premium’ Version

Electronic Arts recently released a lengthy trailer for The Sims 4, the upcoming installment in its popular series of life-simulation games. The new video contained a surprising hint that EA might be planning a “Premium” version of the new game. The trailer is more than 20 minutes long, and the majority of that time is…

Final Fantasy Fan Translation Has Become A Fiasco

Last week, the creators of an unofficial English translation for the role-playing game Final Fantasy Type-0 announced that they were taking down the patch and all blog posts associated with it. “Unfortunately I’m forced to remove my posts and pages related to the popular Final Fantasy Type-0 fan translation project,” wrote the project lead, who…

Minecraft’s Main Character Is Kind of A Jerk

When you think about it, Minecraft can be a bit of a jerk simulator. Most people in Minecraft go around killing animals, destroying the landscape and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Keshen8 knows this and made the video above. Chill out, Steve Minecraft in 20 Seconds via r/videos To contact the author of this…

New Names For Smash Bros. Fighters, Supposedly From Six-Year-Old Girl

That’s not Samus Aran in her Zero Suit, guys. That’s Fighting Girl. Tumblr user The SoupyOne says that he asked a younger sibling the names of the various characters showing up in the latest Nintendo’s all-star brawler. She got some of the more popular characters right, like Mario, Luigi and Peach. Still, it’s when she…

Happy Fiftieth, Ryu!

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Street Fighter characters, that is. One day, they’re just a bunch of pixels in your favorite arcade game. Next thing you know, they’re being cast in live-action dramas including one regrettable movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme Sigh. Enjoy middle age, Ryu. It’s pretty damn impressive if you’ve been…

A Single Sailor Moon Episode Drawn In Over 250 Different Styles. Woah.

If you have twenty minutes to spare and didn’t get enough of today’s newest episode of the Sailor Moon reboot, then you should totally spend some time watching this parody episode of Sailor Moon. It’s kind of incredible. It’s called Moon Animate Make-Up, and it’s a project that started back in October 2013. The result…

They grow up so fast…

Yesterday, everyone was doing it. All seven of my online friends were playing the same game. Me? I had Lego: The Hobbit sidequests to take care of.

People Sure Are Mad That Kim Kardashian’s Game Wasn’t Working

Sometime during the weekend, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood stopped working for some players. Given the game’s popularity—it’s currently the number one free game on iTunes—it’s probably not surprising that some fans got miffed that their game time was interrupted. Even so, getting death threats over something like this is kind of ridiculous. The outrage is mostly…

Star Wars Bounty Hunter Prints, Including A Surprising Character

Alex Griendling has a new selection of Star Wars bounty hunter portraits. Along with the typical group of Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters, the selection includes Shae Vizla from The Old Republic: You can buy the set, or individual portraits here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming…

My Favorite Mobile Game, Ruined By Free-To-Play

Brilliant in concept and nearly flawless in execution, Sword & Poker and Sword & Poker 2 were two of the best reasons to own an iPhone. With the release of the free-to-play Sword & Poker Adventures, the whole thing has gone to shit. The first Sword & Poker game, available still for $2.99 on iPhone,…

Sony will be staging a live reading and musical performance of The Last Of Us in Santa Monica on Monday, July 28 at 10pm ET. The performance will feature the game’s voice actors and is overseen by the game’s creative director, Neil Druckmann. Livestreamed on PSN/Twitch/YouTube. More details at the PlayStation blog

Watch The $5 Million Dota 2 International Grand Finals Right Here

What does $5 million worth of Dota 2 look like? Find out today, as team Newbee faces off against team ViCi in the grand finals of The International. I’d say the pressure is on, but it really isn’t. With a second place prize of $1, 475, 699, it’s hard for me to imagine either team…

Reminder: the Destiny beta’s going bye-bye for a bit, for scheduled maintenance. The preview test of Bungie’s sci-fi shooter will be down starting today and returns on 7/23, the first day Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have access to the beta.