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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.

Pokémon’s Beefiest Misty Cosplay

Kind of looks like Misty has been working out, huh? This hunk-tastic rendition of Misty comes from cosplayer “Zee ‘JiNxXx’ Kotwal,” photographed above by Beethy. Kotwal can deadlift 484 lbs, making him possibly the brawniest Misty cosplayer out there. And yes, there are more pictures: (E Photography) You can check out more of Kotwal’s cosplay…

Let’s Watch Insane Speedruns All Night

Good evening, Kotaku! Are you watching Summer Games Done Quick? If not, time to fix that. We’re nearing the end of the marathon—which has been running strong for the past week—and the folks behind it have raised over half a million dollars for Doctors Without Borders so far. Right now they’re doing Zelda: Link to…

The Honest Modern Warfare Trailer, Now With More Underage Racists

I’ve been waiting for Smosh to do an Honest Game Trailer for Call of Duty‘s Modern Warfare trilogy, and they do not disappoint. “Suit up for the least realistic war franchise since Contra.” My favorite moment comes during the multiplayer montage, when everything goes a little crazy. It’s the most accurate representation of the feeling…

The New Super Smash Bros. Theme On Eight Kazoos

Delightful childhood memories, or your brain being devoured by incredibly dramatic bees? The theme music for Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS on kazoo delivers a different gift to every listener. Having already recreated the Isaac battle theme from Golden Sun and “Big Blue” from F-Zero on the kazoo, YouTube artist Tsuko G. sets…

This Is Definitely A Live-Action Fatal Frame Movie Trailer

To the non-Japanese reader/speaker, the teaser trailer for this fall’s live-action Fatal Frame film is almost indistinguishable from any other Japanese horror film, until you get to the Camera Obscura bit. It’s not a Fatal Frame game until we start capturing spirits with a special camera, a rule that works for the movies as well.…

The Saturday Morning Stream: Rise Of The Dark Spark (All Are Done)

When is a movie tie-in not a movie tie-in? When Activision and developer Edge of Reality mix movie machines with Cybertronian ones. Let’s see how that worked out for them. Yesterday my colleague Yannick posted a story titled “Leave Michael Bay Alone, Transformers is Awesome.” I have no point to make here, I am just…

6/23/2014: This Is How You Game

Welcome to your weekend! I hope it’s filled with video games, particularly games you can play with a keyboard and mouse, particularly a mouse you can put on your squishy pug. Just like Calumon‘s brother. In other news, it’s the weekend. So head over to Kotaku Selects for a roundup of all our best stuff…

The Best Smash Bros. Mod Around Just Keeps Getting Better

Six years after its release, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is kept alive by hardcore fans that mod the game. In particular, fan-made Project M continues to add stuff that keeps the aging game feeling fresh. Here’s a trailer for Project M’s new upcoming “All Star” mode, which allows you to switch characters every time you…

The Best Violent Moments In Video Games

There’s really no getting around it: many, many games are about violence, and sometimes it can be a bit much. Kill this, kill that, kill this until it all feels the same, like mowing a lawn or stomping an anthill. We’ve written a ton about it. But violence can also be incredibly powerful and interesting.…

One of the best iOS games ever made is finally out for Android. The 1.1 update of Eliss Infinity—the evolution of beautiful/tough/artsy rapid-fire movement puzzle Eliss—debuts on the Google Play storefront today. The 1.1 is up on the Apple App Store, too. A rundown of the changes can be found here and Gamasutra‘s got an…

The Most Unlucky Mario Kart Player

This, folks, is the very essence of “get wrecked.” Watch as Daisy is completely unable to catch a break in this video by HowBoutGaming: I think my favorite part is at the end, when she clearly just stops trying to move forward. I don’t blame you, Daisy. Confession: I have an absolutely irrational and intense…

Watch The Folks Behind Sunset Overdrive Make A New Game

If people can livestream playing games, why can’t they livestream making games? Insomniac, the independent studio behind Sunset Overdrive and the Resistance series, among other games, just launched a new Twitch experiment: live video game development. They’ll be working on a small game called Slow Down, Bull and streaming every Friday afternoon, starting today at…

Soul Blazer, An RPG Where You Play God’s Servant

Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here Earlier this month I spent a whole bunch of time playing Soul Blazer, a video game about mermaids and talking plants. Hopefully you did too. Soul Blazer is the first…

Itching for a New Dungeon Crawler? Try This One

Indie developers are always on the lookout for people to give them feedback, so it’s not uncommon for them to release a public alpha. All the better for you! In the video above, I play the alpha for a dungeon crawler called Vagante by Nuke Nine games. It’s still being worked on, but even in…

​The Shovel Knight Soundtrack Is So Good

Shovel Knight, the game, is really good. Shovel Knight, the soundtrack, is even better. Composed by Jake ‘Virt’ Kaufman along with contributions from Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae, the Shovel Knight OST is a collection of anthemic chiptune compositions that, like the game it’s attached to, both recalls the classic games of the past and…

The long-awaited sequel to The Longest Journey isn’t going to be one big game anymore. Dreamfall Chapters will now be coming out as a series of episodic releases—with the first one hitting this fall—according to an update on the crowdfunded game’s Kickstarter page.

Steam Summer Sale Day 9, Discount Plus and LIVE Subs, Pokemon X

Day 9 of the Steam Sale is here and with it comes discounts on Transistor, Octodad and not much else worth writing home about. As with every other day so far, several of the prices are currently wrong on the homepage. The Alan Wake Franchise is actually $6, which is a good deal for those…

​A Cheat Sheet For Everything Wrong with Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs has some things going for it. It can look pretty. It handles aiming and shooting pretty well. But the story in Ubisoft’s open-world action game is not one of its strengths. Now we’ve got a hilarious movie script breakdown points out all the ludicrous stuff in Watch Dogs. Spoilers Ahead. Over at Playthroughline—a…

Leave Michael Bay Alone, Transformers Is Awesome

I love Transformers. I don’t mean the toys, the cartoons, the comics, any of that stuff. I mean the new Transformers, the Michael Bay Transformers I know this is an unpopular opinion. But is far as I’m concerned, Transformers first came to life in Michael Bay’s series. And it is therefore the best Transformers until…