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Dedicated DayZ Player Spends Hours Swimming To Mysterious Island

Eleven kilometers off the coast of Chernarus, the map zombie-and-player-killing simulator DayZ takes place on, lies “Debug Island.” Also known as “Schadenfreude Island,” this abandoned and barren little piece of land has gone unexplored in the standalone version of DayZ… until now. Before he took off on his four hour plus trip, redditor Gews had…

The Steam Summer Sale Made Over 8 Million People Log In At Once

For reference that’s about the same number of people as the population of Switzerland, although probably a lot less neutral. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The info was picked up on Steam’s stat page (via NeoGAF/Polygon) and saw the service hit 8,020,834 concurrent users at around 7pm UK time (midday America o’clock) on…

Grand Theft Auto President Buys A Church Because Why Not

St. Stephens Church in Edinburgh is nearly 200 years old, and until recently was in danger of being sold off and turned into “private flats or a bar-
restaurant complex”. Enter Leslie Benzies, president of Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar North. A resident of the Stockbridge area where the church is located, it’s thought Benzies paid…

A Virtual Nightmare For Sonic Fans

This Oculus Rift experience is like Tron. Only instead of being stuck inside an arcade game you’re stuck inside the mind of a Sonic fan (or Sonic meme artist). I’m probably most impressed with the amount of research that went into building all these models. It’s like a zoo for Sanic and running fast. If…

Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Fight With Dildos

Seeing as gun control is such a hot-button topic in the US, the most successful arguments (from either side) often have to be the most subtle. And this might be the first time the use of duelling dildos has ever been seen as…subtle? So, yeah, keep your weapons of war locked up and away from…

Humans Are Paying Real Money To Help Rock Simulator

To most folks, Rock Simulator 2014 is an internet joke. To some, though, it’s an opportunity to throw some cash at the way of the game’s “development team”. An IndieGoGo campaign for the project/joke set itself a rather modest target of $500, and has already gone past it. That doesn’t sound like much when compared…

Special Edition Ouya Added To Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Rewards

The revival of Reading Rainbow is now one of the top 5 Kickstarter campaigns ever, and to celebrate the other four with that distinction are partnering with RR for special things. And Ouya is one of that select group. First off is new backer rewards that involve that “butterfly-in-the-sky” blue microconsole up there, of which…

Let’s Remember The Vuvuzela Mod For Doom 2

It’s a slow news day, presumably because of some combination of the summer being a slow news season and that we’re all watching World Cup games (come on, Costa Rica, jeez UPDATE: CON-CA-CAF CON-CA-CAF) instead of normal summer Sunday activities. There are no vuvuzelas at this World Cup in Brazil, but at the 2010 South…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: That Wizard Came From The Moon: The Winners!

Last week our image manipulation savvy readers were tasked with visualizing “That wizard came from the moon”, a line of dialogue spoken poorly by Peter Dinklage in the beta for Bungie’s Destiny. I had no idea the phrase could be taken so many ways. For instance, depending on where the emphasis is placed in the…

DriveClub Is 30FPS For The Same Reason Other Games Are, Director Says

Evolution Studios’ PS4-exclusive DriveClub will run at 1080p and a regular-ass 30 frames per second. We’ve known this for a long time, but people keep asking them about it. So here’s another explanation for why it’s 30 instead of 60. It all comes down to, of course, prettiness. It always does, every time. But anyway…

Somebody Is Making a ‘Real’ Dubstep Gun From Saints Row IV

DeviantArtist KazeXenami has built/is building a dubstep gun that should someday look like the one from Saints Row IV, and it appears that it could be kinda/sorta/theoretically partially functional, even. This dubstep gun does have speakers that are intended to work, but it’s difficult for my elderly eyes to figure out if it might cause…

EA CEO Wilson: Dungeon Keeper Mobile Was ‘A Shame’

EA’s recent attempt to reboot Dungeon Keeper as a free-to-play mobile thing didn’t go so well, at least in terms of public perception, as the game carries a 42 on Metacritic and is generally considered to be the end of gaming. And when Eurogamer asked new EA CEO Andrew Wilson about it, the man owned…

All The Info There is About The Original Doom In One Video

The good people at Did You Know Gaming have put together a new video all about the original Doom, that contains literally (not actually literally) 100 percent of everything there is to know about the classic shooter. Now’s a good time for this, especially if you’re going to QuakeCon next month and want to impress…

Why Professing Your Love On a Game Box May Not Be A Good Idea

This might happen: via imgur

Sniper Elite 3 Steam Codes Stolen, Resold To Innocent Buyers, Revoked

Developer Rebellion has admitted that some bad people have stolen a batch of Sniper Elite 3 Steam keys from a third-party vendor and then resold them on the cheap, and Steam has revoked all the stolen keys, to the chagrin of many burned buyers The PC market is a bit wild, and as a result…

Game About Being A Jerk Cat Reaches Kickstarter Goal, Of Course

Catlateral Damage, also known informally around these parts as Jerk Cat Simulator as it has you play as a cat who knocks things over, has achieved its $40,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with 12 days to spare, and is now setting its sights on a PS4 version in addition to the PC and Ouya editions.…

No new Photoshop contest this week. Awwww. Fahey was struck by a surprise move this week, and thus has no time for your photo manipulation chicanery. Look for the results of last week’s contest later today.

Phil Asks: What Games Do You Like That No One Else Does?

Hello, everyone! Phil Owen here, stepping in for Mike on this here Sunday. And I’ve got a question for all of you who are hanging around today. What games do you really, really like, secretly or not, that few other people enjoy? Being a contrarian of sorts, I have a whole list of these: Dragon…

Punch-Out Screens Plus Real Mike Tyson Quotes

Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! plus authentic dialog: You’ll find more disturbing examples here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

RPG Dice Shaming

Here’s hoping dice shaming catches on. Via Cory Doctorow You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.