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August is going to be unbearably cute when Road Not Taken comes out on the 8th of the month. Click here for more about Spry Fox’s cartoony fable about life’s unexpected paths and saving lost children hits PS4 and PC.

Steam Summer Sale Day 7, PSN Update, GOG Summer Sale, Logitech Bundle

Steam Summer Sale Day 7 has rolled in with a set of fairly standard discounts, though $4 for Final Fantasy 7, while not unprecedented, stands out. The Banner Saga is also definitely worth its 50% discount. [Steam Summer Sale] Elsewhere, we’ll remind you again that GOG is having a Summer Sale of their own, and…

Poseable Street Fighter Plushies Have Some Epic Eyebrows

The lightest contact with Ryu’s eyebrows from Gaming Heads new line of poseable Street Fighter plushies can probably render a normal human unconscious. What hidden powers do Ken and Chun-Li possess? Rather than simply stuff some cloth with fluff, Gaming Heads fitted each of the new $19.99 plushies based on the legendary fighting game series…

Play Infinite Crisis As Lifeguard Aquaman And Party Catwoman

Forget the new Gotham TV series, I want a Baywatch/Justice League series. DC’s free to play Infinite Crisis unveiled its latest batch of new character costumes, and this time they’re all summer-themed. Check out Lifeguard Aquaman, Beach Party Catwoman, and Summer Laughs Joker Below: Lifeguard Aquaman: Beach Party Catwoman: Summer Laughs Joker: These new costumes…

Madness Is Watching The First Three Transformers Movies All At Once

Watching any one of Michael Bay’s Transformers films is enough to drive a person insane. In preparation for this weekend’s fourth movie, the brave men of Red Letter Media watched the first three simultaneously. They are probably all dead now. At least their assumed deaths were not in vain — we learn an awful lot…

​Legend of Korra Game Coming from Makers of Bayonetta

The hit animated series will be getting adapted to video games in a title being developed by Platinum Games. The Legend of Korra will be a third-person action game published by Activision for PC, current and last-generation consoles (except the Wii U), according to IGN. There’ll also be a strategy-centric 3DS game developed by Webfoot.…

Why AMD And Nvidia Are Fighting

AMD and Nvidia are at it again. The two reigning champs in the market for video game graphics have been fighting since late last month when some performance issues on the PC version of Watch Dogs kicked up a fresh controversy. And given that AMD is still talking about the issue publicly, it doesn’t look…

​The Real Life Version of Pixel Sword-Fighting

A cult fencing game deserves a cute, choreographed fan film, doesn’t it? Yes, it does. This Nidhogg tribute is pretty fun, especially because it’s got a bunch of guys in brightly colored bodysuits stabbing each other Apsis Motion Pictures’ cinematic interpretation of Mark Essen’s indie swordplay title works because it’s essentially a live-action cartoon, with…

Oculus Fires Back At ‘Silly, Money-Grabbing’ ZeniMax Lawsuit

Last month, ZeniMax officially dropped the lawsuit hammer on Oculus, accusing the virtual reality company of “illegally misappropriating” their trade secrets in an extensive legal complaint. In the suit, ZeniMax alleged that Oculus had infringed upon their copyrights and trademarks, and that id Software co-founder John Carmack had provided technology to Oculus before he joined…

Flyer for Nintendo’s 1984 arcade games Vs. Golf and Vs. Pinball, which featured Mario. See the game details below: Via AFM You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY Review: One Week Friends • Return To Alpha Centauri • Trying To Escape The Life Of A Shut-In • School Days HQ: The TAY Review • Nobunaga The Fool: The Ani-TAY Review • Family, Loss, And The Wii U’s Importance TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

No Man’s Sky fan art by Jon Robert Baker You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The beautiful strategy game The Banner Saga is coming out for the iPad and Android tablets this summer, publisher Versus Evil announced this morning. In other words: soon all you Game of Thrones fans who own iPads won’t have any more excuses for not trying this game out yet. via Polygon

Kill Bill Would Be Perfect As A 2D Hack’n’Slash Game

Of course the old-school SNES version of Tarantino’s Kill Bill would be a fast-paced hack ‘n’ slash with huge boss fights and little mini-games. CineFix summed up both movies—it wasn’t hard to include every scene though—in a 2-minute video as a game from the 90s. Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 – 8 Bit Cinema…

Sadly, “Hat_Dogs” is not an addon for Watch Dogs or Team Fortress 2, but an impressive piece of editing by STBlackST of TF2 characters hacking each other and teleporting bread. Gotta pause the clip a lot to catch all the puns. HAT_DOGS by STBlackST [YouTube] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

Gamers Hit with Criminal Charges for Cheating Online [Update]

In Japan, online game company Nexon is pressing charges against three gamers, ages 17 to 18, for obstruction of business. In short, the gamers were allegedly using in-game cheats for online FPS Sudden Attack. That, it seems, was hurting the game and Nexon. Update: According to Nexon, it’s the police who are pressing charges. Yomiuri…

In Which You Pilot A Steam-Powered Victorian Spaceship To Mars

Two Victorian gentlemen take to the stars in this interesting-looking puzzle-adventure called 39 Days To Mars The game, which popped up recently on Steam Greenlight and is slated for a 2015 release on Wii U and PC, features two 19th century explorers—”Sir Albert Wickes and The Right Honourable Clarence Baxter”—on their quest to reach planet…

Veteran actor Eli Wallach, who appeared in films like The Magnificent Seven and The Godfather Part III – but who is most famous for his role as Tuco in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – has passed away at the age of 98.

Should More Video Games Punish Players For Dying?

“You know what they should do in Alien Isolation?” Chris Jager, a Lifehacker Australia Journalist. Perhaps most famous on the internet for the time he created, then ate, a placenta pizza using his daughter’s actual placenta Chris Jager likes video games. He’s also a bit unhinged. Every so often he’ll say something crazy about video…

These Sand Sculptures Will Haunt Your Dreams

Professional sculptor Guy-Olivier Deveau’s latest intricate sand sculpture is a tribute to H.R. Giger. See it in its full nightmarish glory below, as well as more of Deveau’s work, including his tributes to NES classics and Warcraft. Inseminate (H.R. Giger tribute). I Am 8bit. Phasing. Fantasy Castle (inspired by Warcraft Blood Elves’ architecture). Trapped Ifrit.…