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The Quest to Build Mario Kart Inside Dota 2

You know what they say about oil and water, or kart racers and multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs). Neither mixes together very well. But that hasn’t stopped a brave crew of Dota 2 players-cum-modders from attempting to rejigger Valve’s classic to be a little more like Mario Kart. The unorthodox union is called Dota Dash.…

GTA Online Glitch Lets You Walk on Water

Bugs in the online component of Grand Theft Auto V have let players walk underwater before. Now, a new glitch lets them amble over Los Santos’ bodies of water. As documented by YouTuber Big Spaz, the glitch looks simple enough to replicate. It doesn’t let you heal the lame or resurrect the dead but you’ll…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Soul Eater Not!: The Ani-TAY Review • How Nintendo Can Keep Mario Kart 8 Awesome • Unpopular Gaming Opinions Time! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Phantom Pain-Style Metal Gear Solid 3 Trailer Is Surprisingly Powerful

Big Boss (and David Hayter) go nuclear in YongYea’s fan-made Metal Gear Solid 3 video. It was made to match the emotional E3 trailer of MGSV as closely as possible and we can’t say he didn’t succeed. Here’s the clip below. And obviously, watch out for Metal Gear Solid 3 spoilers: Metal Gear Solid 3…

Alien Isolation Riddle Decoded

The Alien Isolation Twitter feed posted this image and this tease: HUGE news coming this Wednesday! Until then, want some clues? Solve, seek and you shall find: http://www.youtube.com/______ ? “Nostromo Edition” seems to be the solution and leads to this quick video, which seems to do no more than promise more information will be released tomorrow:…

LEGO Warhammer 40k Battlefield Is A Work Of Art

This Warhammer 40k diorama, made entirely from LEGO bricks, is just so fantastic. It makes me wonder: If these were official kits, would it be cheaper than buying regular Warhammer space marines and orks? At least building them would definitely take less time. Credit goes to Jerac, a veteran LEGO builder who built this for…

Build Your Own 3D-Printed Gameboy

Adafruit shows how to build your own “Gamegirl” with a 3D-printed case, Raspberry Pi computer, and various electronic bits: Via 3D Print You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Throne of Games. Via VGM You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

“Of course it drives on the ceiling: it’s the Batmobile.”—The Arkham Twitter feed. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Inconceivably Great The Princess Bride Lego Dioramas

The Battle of Wits by Daniel Church, one of nearly a dozen Lego creations in the Princess Bride Collaboration 2014: Inigo vs. Westley by Daniel Church The Bedroom by Casey McCoy Inigo versus Count Rugen by Matthew Oh The Fire Swamp by Max Pointer Westley and Buttercup by Casey McCoy Miracle Max by Paul Vermeesch…

CivilizationCraft: It’s Minecraft Crossed With… Can You Guess?

There are ambitious Minecraft mods, then there’s the kind that tries to turn Mojang’s game into one of the best (and most epic) strategy games of all time, Civilization This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK CivilizationCraft, as it is so un-catchily named, does just that. You play like any other Civilization game, building your…

The Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color is making its way to the 3DS eShop… in Europe. The game will arrive on Thursday, and will cost €5. We’ve contacted Nintendo to ask when (or if) the game will come to the US eShop, and will update you should they reply. (via Kotaku…

Midna Is The New Dragonborn

Arrows? Dragonrend? Midna just straight up pulls that dragon to the ground with a rope. Amazing. Midna will be teaming up with Link (in his Wolf form, of course) for her appearance in Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, where she’ll be using some pretty neat transformation-based magic to kick some ass. I think I prefer this to…

Why Street Fighter Is More Than Just A Game

More Than A Game is a documentary that was a long time in the making. It chronicles the lead-up to (and events of) EVo 2011, and features interviews with some of the scene’s biggest names. It’s a good watch for fighting game fans, yeah, but also for anyone else, because it gets under the skin…

Broforce is one of the best games of 2014. It’s now a little better, a little Broier, after a weekend update added two new Bros and some other stuff.

There’s No Such Thing As A Nintendo

Blake J. Harris, author of the excellent Console Wars, tweeted a pic of this 1990 poster over the weekend. Remember, adults (especially retailers, which is who this seems targeted at), Nintendo is an adjective, not a noun.

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It’s Time To Get Serious About Fishing, PC Gamers

Fishing games have usually been more about abstract fun than fishing. A Dreamcast game with a plastic rod, for example, was never going to be an authentic simulation of the experience. But hey, now that the team behind Train Simulator are making one using Unreal Engine 4, maybe they’ll get a little more serious about…

Classic PC Shooter Finally Hits Steam, Five Years Later

Oh boy! Multiplayer shooter NeoTokyo, the classic Half-Life 2 mod that you’d be forgiven for thinking disappeared a long time ago, has just been released on Steam following a lengthy Greenlight campaign. Meaning, hopefully, a whole new crowd of people get to experience one of the slickest mods ever made Those who used to play…

The World’s Tallest Waterslide Is All Nope Nope Nope Too Fast

The Verrückt is the world’s tallest waterslide. We’re talking 168 feet of steel, plastic and sheer terror. It’s nearing completion, and as part of the process, some of the first humans have now put the slide through its paces (they initially tested with sandbags). This is video of them going down. Warning: don’t watch while…