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​Injured Wrestler Wants People to Buy Him a PS4 to Help Recovery

This is probably a joke. Or maybe a sad reality. But it’d make a great wrestling storyline. The man known in Scottish wrestling circles as Red Lightning is not in prime shape anymore. What Andrew Wason needs to get back to peak form, so he says, is a PS4. So he started up a crowdfunding…

Only One Retailer Gets LEGO Batman 3‘s Best Preorder Bonus

I get it, lots of people hate preorder bonuses. The only thing they hate more is retailer-specific preorder bonuses. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham features six different retailer-specific incentives, but only one is a Plastic Man minifig. Which retailer gets it? Oh you know. Keychains? Feh. Mini-sets? No reason I couldn’t build them myself. A…

Three More Characters Announced For Super Smash Bros.

Nintendo promised one new Smash Bros. character reveal this morning and instead gave us three: the returning Captain Falcon and two characters from Fire Emblem Awakening—Robin and Lucina. Chrom also made an appearance in this morning’s trailer, but sadly, he appears to be an assist trophy or Final Smash for Robin, not a playable character.…

Nintendo’s about to reveal a new character for Super Smash Bros.—you can watch the news right here, or just refresh Kotaku for breaking news as it happens.

Player Gets To Wave 138 Of World of Warcraft‘s Proving Grounds

It’s pretty impressive to survive 30 or 40 waves of enemies in the Proving Grounds, a World of Warcraft scenario where you can test your raiding abilities by facing enemies that get stronger with each wave. So the fact that frost mage Akuyama reached wave 138 and set a new world record is incredible. You…

The one thing I really liked in classic LucasArts adventure games was how full they were with colorful details. Venezuelan artist Glen Fernandez Sardi did a great job bringing these memories back with his digital paintings featuring Monkey Island 2, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango Tributes by Glen Fernandez Sardi [CGSociety,…

One Of The Highlights Of EVO 2014 Was An Incredible Win With Pikachu

Hyping the crowd with a Pikachu plushie, Smash Bros. player Axe pulled an incredible win against Silent Wolf with his Pikachu, beating the hell out of his opponent in record time. It wasn’t the grand finals, but without a doubt one of the best moments of all the games played at EVO 2014. Here are…

This is what it looks like when Fi from Zelda: Skyward Sword joins the battle in Hyrule Warriors She, as you can see, is very much into sword-themed magical attacks, which makes a lot of sense, really—if you’ve played Skyward Sword, you’ll know why.

Beautiful Minecraft Village Helps Soldier Deployed in Afghanistan

“Autumnvale. Serving in Afghanistan, so I created this world so I finally have something pretty to look at.” Redditor udlose submitted their build to r/minecraft yesterday with the above description. A small, scenic (but not yet finished) town, Autumnvale has sprawling wheat fields: A fishing pond: And neat little gardens: Though it might look peaceful…

The 2014 EVO Champ Just Won Using a PS1 Controller

Forget your fancy arcade sticks. The breakout player during this year’s EVO fighting game tournament used a gamepad to beat down all comers. Not just any gamepad, either. Luffy won the top spot with a controller from the original PlayStation. A member of the Meltdown pro team, Olivier ‘Luffy’ Hay ran an incredible winning streak…

Tekken 7 got a premature announcement earliertoday. To give you a little more to chew on than just a logo, here’s the game’s debut trailer.

An Idiot In Azeroth: Part Two

I think I am starting to enjoy World of Warcraft. That was unexpected. When I decided to play World of Warcraft for a month I thought of it a task that would require fortitude and discipline. As someone whose knowledge of MMOs was scarce and mostly limited to memes, jokes and the first-hand accounts of…

Blade Runner As Anime

Bits of anime recut and combined with voice acting from the Blade Runner movie to create Blade Runner as anime. Via Gavin Rothery You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Homemade Injustice: Gods Among Us Arcade Cabinet

Homemade Injustice: Gods Among Us arcade cabinet. Get a better look in the video below: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Epic Comeback Leads To EVO Glory In Marvel vs Capcom

Get to 12:30 on this Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 EVO semifinal clip and you’ll see/hear what looks like an impending defeat for Justin Wong in his matchup against Filipino Champ. Until he pulls it out of the fire and everyone goes nuts That win put Wong in Final against Chris G, where he emerged…

Somehow, This Beautiful Cartoon Is Being Animated By Just Two Guys

Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms is an animated film based on the classic Chinese story that’s due in 2016. Its trailer makes it look like something coming out of Studio Ghibli, but somehow, the hand-animated sequences are being done by just two humans. There are more people involved in the rest of the flick…

Attack On Titan? More Like Attack On Dark Souls

Or, reason #18543 why it’s so great to mess around with the PC version of a video game. This is a surprisingly faithful recreation of the original Attack on Titan anime intro, swapping out characters and locations with those from Dark Souls II. And if that’s not enough, you’ll see some points where the creator…

Metroid As A Hanna-Barbera Cartoon

Metroid in the style of a Saturday morning cartoon by Wil Overton. You can buy a print here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Evo’s Smash Bros. Final Came Down To An Elite Fox Vs. Jigglypuff Battle

The Super Smash Bros. Melee grand finals at this weekends huge Evo fighting game tournament culminated with a match between reputedly the world’s best Fox McCloud player against the world’s best Jigglypuff player. The guy playing Fox won the tournament last year. Could he repeat? You can watch the final round of the final match…

Everything Is Better With Dinosaurs, Especially Deer Hunter 2014

Damn, Glu Mobile — just damn. You took my favorite mobile guilty pleasure — Deer Hunter 2014 — replaced the animals with prehistoric creatures, juggled some textures, added some new weapons and bam, I’m hooked all over again. Well played, Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores. When I say this is pretty much the exact same game…