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Rare Album Sells For Over $40,000 (Minecraft’s Creator Bought It)

Earlier this month, fans of British electronic musician Aphex Twin got a treat, with an entire album’s worth of unreleased music salvaged and sent out following a successful Kickstarter campaign. The actual record, though, could only go to one person. And that person was life-long Aphex Twin fan Markus Persson. The Minecraft creator won an…

Zelda Ass-Kicker Gets Her Overdue Time In The Spotlight

Impa, one of the Zelda universe’s most under-appreciated badasses (at least in Sheikah form), is getting her due in the upcoming Hyrule Warriors Having only appeared in this guise in two Zelda games (Ocarina and Skyward Sword), she’s got some time to make up for. And by time, I mean killing.

Lego For Girls Makes The Best Mecha

Lisqr made great use of various Lego Friends pieces, creating a giant robot and flying scooter: You can see many more of Lisqr’s Lego creations at Flickr You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

​The Closest Thing To Walking Through Westeros

Have you ever wanted to travel to Castle Black, climb the wall, and look out over the frozen north? You’ll probably never be able to actually do that, but you do have options. The latest video from the people at Virtuix demonstrates their Omni VR treadmill, which has users put on slidey-shoes and slip around…

An App For Every Situation

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Few Things On Earth Are Prettier Than Super Famicom Box Art

Long-time readers will know I’m a sucker for good Japanese box art, but this story and gallery really helps drive home how awesome it is, and how awesome it’s always been. In very general terms, Japanese box art – and yes, I know this only really important to artists, collectors and very serious fans –…

Gamers Messed With The Steam Sale, Then Valve Changed The Rules

The best conspiracy theory in gaming this week just might be that Valve fixed the game they built around their infamous Steam Summer Sale. Or the community figured out how to rig it themselves. Or something. Something crazy. If you go to the Steam Summer Adventure 2014 portion of Steam’s forum, you’ll see thread after…

What A Call of Duty In Vietnam Could’ve Looked Like

Remember when rumors were swirling about a Call of Duty game set during the Vietnam War? In 2010, when it seemed like Activision was going to Southeast Asia, the publisher delivered the first Black Ops (which featured a handful of missions set in Vietnam) instead. That game was darkly paranoid but now-circulating concept art, spotted…

It’s kind of like XCOM, starring figures from the Revolutionary War. Upcoming sci-fi indie strategy game Outland 17 looks pretty interesting. The folks behind it are targeting a Q1 2015 release. More info on their website

The Sailor Moon Theme Song, As A Slow Jam

Not only is this R&B take on the Sailor Moon theme song sexier than the original, part of it is actually sung in Japanese. It’s kind of amazing. You can buy the track by ScottBradleeLovesYa on iTunes, along with other great songs we’ve featured before. Here’s the original theme song, for comparison’s sake:

​How Steam Sales Are Like Pokémon

Here in the midst of the Steam Summer Sale, it can be easy to lose sight of why we’re buying so many games. Is this really about actually playing things, or is it just about collecting ’em all? Dorkly‘s got another way of looking at things: Steam sales are just like Pokémon. A lot of…

Reminder: You Can Totally Dodge The Blue Shell In Mario Kart

Heck, thanks to the new video editor in Mario Kart 8, you can even dodge blue shells with extreme style now. See this epic moment captured by Thomas Puttick? That could be you. He’s using the good ‘ol “boost right before the blue shell hits you” trick, which has been available in a number of…

Only One Minute to Play. Only One Life.

If this was 1985, Sixty Second Shooter Prime would be draining quarters from players’ pockets all over the world. Thankfully, in 2014, you only have to pay for it once. After debuting as a browser game and then moving to PlayStation Mobile/Vita as Sixty Second Shooter Deluxe, the latest mutation of Happion Labs‘ abstract twin-stick…

Attention: 24 fans—No recap this week because I’m really angry at the show after what they pulled last night. (There will be spoilers in the comments here.) We’ll return next week. Maybe.

How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil

In the autumn of 2006 the game designer Brenda Romero suffered what she describes as a severe assault. In the weeks following the attack she lay numb in bed. (Warning: This story includes some brief references to sexual assault.) “I chain-watched Grey’s Anatomy because I couldn’t think,” she said during a talk titled ‘The Prototyping…

Games Are Way Better With Wrestling Commentary

What would happen if wrestling legend Jim Ross did commentary for all our favorite video games? Hilarity, that’s what. My favorite moment in this video by TheBlueOwlPlays is between the Battlefield levolution moment, or the Zelda bit. What about you? WWE Commentary (Jim Ross) on Video Games – Episode 2 [TheBlueOwlPlays]

Steam Summer Sale Day 6, Injustice Vol. 1, and a Really Cheap TV

The Steam Summer Sale goes on with deals on Brothers and… well, this isn’t the strongest day so far, but definitely pick up Brothers and Nidhogg. [Steam Summer Sale] Pick up your your choice for best gaming mouse, the Razer DeathAdder 2013 today, and Best Buy will pack in $50 of Steam credit with your…

The Game of Thrones Cast, Now In Pug Form

Game of Thrones is a wonderful, heartbreaking piece of television. But you know what would make it better? You guessed it — tiny, costumed, inbred dogs! Behold as some of your favorite Game of Thrones characters are transformed into tiny pugs. Do you think they ever hang out withBane Cat or that Dog in Batman…

Anti-Cheating Software Is Wrongfully Banning Battlefield 3 Players

Battlefield 3 players have been running into some renewed performance issues as of late, ones that are related to the 2011 shooter’s third-party anti-cheating software. Over the weekend, EA posted a message on its help website saying that PunkBuster, Battlefield 3’s anti-cheating program, was incorrectly marking some players and thus kicking them out of the…

Sources: Crytek Not Paying Staff On Time, Ryse Sequel Dropped

Crytek, the developer behind Crysis and Xbox One launch game Ryse, is having trouble paying employees, and the company has been bleeding staff since March, according to people who work there. In addition, from what I hear, the multi-national studio has had to cancel work on multiple games over the past few months, including some…