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A Browser Extension That Makes Video Game News Much Funnier

Video game developers and reporters are fond of the term “IP.” So-and-so revealed a new IP, so-and-so really wants their IPs to penetrate new markets, and which company has the best new IP? The abbreviation stands for “intellectual property.” But what if it stood for…something else? The whole thing started with a joke. A stupid,…

Indie’s Take On Skyrim Delayed Until…The Future

Frontiers, an indie take on a Skyrim-like experience, is looking very promising. It was also meant to be out this year. Sadly, it now won’t be When will it be out? The developers have decided on an “it’s ready when it’s ready” approach, which will please some looking for a polished and complete experience, but…

Too Many PC Games Are A Pain To Get Running

When setting up a new PC, it’s fun to go back and play older games and see how much better they run on your new hardware. Just install them and fire them up. Easy, right? If only. Over the past week, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get some of my Steam…

Wolfenstein: The New Order was as surprising as it was excellent. Mostly because nobody actually expected it to be so excellent. Giant Bomb has a great interview with the game’s creative director that explains how they tackled franchise fatigue, got away with death camps and reinvigorated a franchise.

I Ship It: Resogun has a new ship editor, and people are making lots of cool things with it—everything from Flappy Bird to Mario. And yes, there are of course penis-shaped ships. Because of course there are.

How League of Legends’ Summoner’s Rift Map Is Getting Better

You’ve probably heard that Riot is changing League of Legend’s most popular map. While they’ve mentioned some of the rationale behind the tweaks before, today Riot took the time to really break down what the improvements are. In five minutes, Riot explains how the changes improve clarity (they want you to be able to focus…

Miyamoto Ponders Nintendo Making Games That Run On Handheld And Console

Could you imagine Nintendo making games that play on both their console and their handheld? Nintendo’s top game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, can. He told me he sees that as a challenge but also an “area of opportunity.” We talked about this kind of thing during the tail end of our very fruitful conversation at E3…

Watch People Play Far Cry 4 Live, Right Here

A couple of lucky streamers have the chance to play Far Cry 4 before the game is actually out. Hopefully this doesn’t make you feel too jealous, because we all have a chance to watch them play it live on Twitch. What sorts of hijinks will they get into? I’m hoping it involves elephants and…

I Hate The PlayStation iOS App

More than week ago, I got codes for the PlayStation Now beta and the Destiny Alpha. So, I opened up the PlayStation app on my iPhone to redeem them, only to be quickly reminded how bad the app is. It may sound weird but code redemption is the main reason I installed the PlayStation iOS…

Meet Dragon Ball’s Mysterious New Character

Dragon Ball Z fans won’t just get to play as iconic characters in the upcoming Dragon Ball Xenoverse game—they’ll also get to play as a new character introduced by Bandai Namco. In fact, you’re looking at him right now. While Bandai isn’t releasing too many details about the new character, they do say he might…

A Mario Kart Takedown Crueler Than The Blue Shell

You think Mario Kart’s blue shell is bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet. This is how a true jerk dishes it out to their opponents in Mario Kart Granted, you might notice that the character getting punked in this video by Maple LeafSA is none other than Luigi, the kind of shade in Mario Kart…

​UFC Glitch Breaks Gravity Instead of Bones

This is why they call it ultimate fighting, right? Spotted on YouTube, this glitch in EA’s latest MMA title is hilarious in how it surprises you. Guy on the ground looks out of it and like no threat at all, right? Then, all of a sudden, he springs upwards in very broken fashion. His poor…

Destiny’s Robots Have Some Moves

Fact: The Exos of Destiny know how to groove better than any sentient creature in the galaxy, and they’ll cut a rug against anyone who says otherwise. Watch as the bots of Destiny jack their funk matrix into the groovisphere and deliver 20 ccs of syncopated moon wizard magic. Aw yeahhhh. It’s enough to make…

Ten Moves You Should Never Teach Your Pokémon

Every Pokémon only has four move slots—and those slots are precious. You shouldn’t waste your slots with useless moves. Especially not these moves. TheJWittz teams up with competitive battler Shofu here to give you a top ten list of awful moves you should avoid at all costs. While you’ll have to watch the video to…

Steam Summer Sale Day 5, Buy 2 Wii U Games and Get 2 Free, FTL

With the long-awaited release of Mario Kart 8, it’s a great time to get a Wii U. Luckily, Target is running a nice promotion to flesh out your library. Just buy two select games, and you’ll get a third free. Plus, Nintendo is still running a promotion to get a free game when you buy…

Before It Was Revealed, No Man’s Sky Had Some Skeptics

During the first year of No Man’s Sky‘s development, not even half of the Hello Games studio knew what a team of their four developers were working on. I spoke to Sean Murray, managing director and Hello Games founder, in an interview at E3 in Los Angeles two weeks ago when he told me this…

Alternate Monopoly Cards

Alternate Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards. Via Bruce Sterling You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Magic: The Gathering Cards Designed By Star Video Game Designers

Wizards of the Coast enlisted the creative minds behind Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, World of Warcraft and more groundbreaking games to create cards for the upcoming Magic 2015 set. See all 14 of the cards below: Aggressive Mining by Markus “Notch” Persson (Minecraft). Avarice Amulet by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade). Ob Nixlis,…

How To Share Miis In Tomodachi Life

Making Miis and watching them grow is the best part of Tomodachi Life. So why not share some of that joy with the rest of the world? What’s that you say…because doing so is unnecessarily confusing? Well, I’m here to help you out. Like some other recent Nintendo games, the newly minted 3DS sim game…

​That Is Some Gorgeous Video Game Sand

Look close and you might be able to guess what game some of the creators of Vane used to work on. Hint: it’s one a lot of people have been waiting on for a long time. If you guessed that Vane shares some artistic talent with near-mythical PlayStation game The Last Guardian, then you’re right…