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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Re-entering The Gecko • BioShock Infinite Lives, Lived, Will Live Up To (Most Of) Its Hype • State of Video Games 2014 [Expanded] • NotGoodForReview – Splinter Cell: Blacklist TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

No Man’s Sky Won’t End When You Reach the Center of the Universe

There’ll be more to do when you get to the nexus of the cosmos in No Man’s Sky. This video on Hello Games’ hotly anticipated sci-fi game tells the story of how No Man’s Sky was born and what the dev studio wants to achieve with their ambitious procedurally generated galaxy.

Artist Flavio Bolla did a pretty neat paint of Kalm and its mini-reactor, which is the first town we visit in Final Fantasy VII, once leaving Midgar. This was the town where nothing really happened besides gearing up and watching Cloud’s extra-long, 30-minute flashback. Final Fantasy VII – Kalm by flaviobolla [DeviantART, via TheCyberWolf] Dayshot…

The first wave of beta invites for Warlords of Draenor, World of Warcraft‘s next expansion are going out today and according to an official e-mail from Blizzard, the closed beta begins today as well, at 2PM PDT. Time to go back to the orcs’ homeworld and establish those garrisons! To contact the author of this…

Ash From Pokémon Has The Body Of A Greek God

Seems like running around the Kanto Region paid off or Ash simply knows the secret of the perfect six-pack. I hope he’s not on some special Pokémon diet. This is the figurine in question that goes into Pokémon territory where no trainer has been before. via TheRandomInMyHead [Tumblr] To contact the author of this post,…

Hollywood Directors Gush Awkwardly Over A Metal Gear Trailer

Metal Gear Solid has always been famous for its sprawling, cinematic trailers. That’s been the case for as long as I can remember. It’s almost as famous for its sprawling, cinematic trailers as it is for its sprawling, cinematic cut-scenes. Now this sort of content tends to irritate certain gamers, but Hideo Kojima’s film making…

Never Has An Internet Quiz Been So Useful

How long will you survive in The Chamber? Can you evade the Sightless Finder? Can you really? And what will you do when confronted by The Swarm That Is One Mind? Take this quiz to find out! I only survived for two hours. I think it was the siren song of insanity that pulled my…

Plush Fallout Vault Boy For Sale

Gaming Heads is selling an authorized plush Vault Boy. The notes say it comes with an internal skeleton to allow posing (although none of the photos show a different pose) You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

There’s Always Room For Another Pretty Adventure Game

The Journey Down is one of the best-looking games around, thanks to its exquisite hand-crafted visuals. The first chapter of the point-and-click adventure has been available for ages, but the second chapter is finally on the way, and it looks great. It’ll be out sometime this Summer. The Journey Down [Site]

Download These Far Cry 4 Wallpapers

I featured Game Informer’s gorgeous Far Cry 4 issue earlier this month. Here are two wallpaper-sized versions of the image. Visit the Meduzarts site for more art from the best looking recent video game teasers, including Mortal Kombat X and Elder Scrolls Online. Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…

Good News: Rockstar has fixed the annoying Social Club bug that was making the PC version of Max Payne 3 such a nuisance to play. Because hey man, some of us still like to play Max Payne 3.

Download This Shovel Knight Paper Toy

Shovel Knight paper toy available for free download You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

1980s Game Of Thrones Has The Best Music (And Credits)

You may have seen this video (by hunterlsanders) before. You may have heard this song (by Steve Duzz) before. But put them together and boy, you’ve got something special.

Why Spam Emails Are So Weird

You’ve been there before. A spam email pops up in your inbox and it’s utter nonsense. A rancid word jambalaya of “Hello dears,” a bunch of names you never even knew could be names, and sentences not of this world. Why? Why does anyone do that? Let me explain. With the help of Harry Potter…

YouTube Is Getting 60 FPS Support. FINALLY.

YouTube videos are about to get a significant upgrade: Per the YouTube Creators Twitter feed, support for 48 and 60fps YouTube videos is coming soon. Higher frame-rates will be a boon to anyone who wants to post footage of video games in action, particularly PC games, as many of them run at frame rates above…

Pacific Rim 2 Announced For 2017

Guillermo del Toro is getting his kaiju on once again, and we’ll see the results in a few years—Pacific Rim 2 is coming in 2017. April 7, 2017, to be specific. Del Toro is also working on an animated Pacific Rim series to be released before then. “The characters I love will return,” del Toro…

Behold, A Fleshlight Case…For Your iPad?

Watching this ad for Fleshlight Launchpad—a real iPad case that Fleshlight has been working on for a couple of years—I couldn’t decide if I was more amazed/baffled at the dupstep, or at the fact this probably wouldn’t work so well on a Skype call at all. Not without the entire thing becoming somewhat, err, turbulent…

Rust Is Getting Scrapped For A New Rust

If you didn’t like the way things were panning out in survival sim/trouserless apocalypse Rust, that’s cool. The developers are chucking it in the bin and starting over. Garry Newman, boss of developers Facepunch (and creator of Garry’s Mod), tells PCGamesN that Rust was actually built atop the code of a different game the team…

​This Is How Good Watch Dogs Can Look On PC

Just weeks after the game came out, the PC version of Watch Dogs can already look a lot better than it did at release. That’s thanks largely to TheWorse Mod, which unlocks additional graphics options for the game. We’ve seen plenty of videos of the mod in action, but these new shots from the screenshot…

How I Got My Sex Game On iTunes

“That stick… the one going down the center of the screen? I mean, if you ask me, it looks a lot like a penis,” Ryan said, referring to the video game I made. Ryan is an App Store employee with whom I recently discussed sex for about a half hour. I should back up. I…