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Turning School Into An RPG Where You Level Up By Studying

I thought we all agreed gamification was deeply uncool and never to be mentioned again? That hasn’t stopped Classcraft’s RPG-based program for schools spreading to 25 countries and planning to go freemium. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK According to Venture Beat (via Technobob) there are 7,000 kids over 25 countries currently levelling up…

Star Citizen Is Now Letting Spaceships Shoot At Other Spaceships

Having had little to do for months but walk around their hangars, backers of Star Citizen are finally getting their hands on some dogfighting with the rollout of the game’s Arena Commander simulation mode.

The June Xbox One update – which brings stuff like external storage, free games and the option to use your real name – has begun rolling out

Gaming garter belt for a bride You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Mario Kart 8 Luigi by Dirk Erik Schulz You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Luigi’s Death Stare Makes TV News

This is Luigi’s Mario Kart 8 death stare. On New York’s Fox 5 TV news.

Being a Next-Gen Video Game Hero Means Having Glowing Blue Eyes

Batman’s armored look and glowing blue eyes in Arkham Knight seems fresh…until you realize that seemingly every next-gen sci-fi hero is sporting the same look: Arkham Knight, Shadow of Mordor, Mortal Kombat, and Halo V are all pushing heroes with glowing blue eyes Via Mike McWhertor and Adam Saltsman. You are now looking at Screenburn,…

The Existential Horror Of Disney Infinity 2.0

Debugging Disney Infinity 2.0 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Creepypasta Wiki Issues Statement Saying Slender Man Isn’t Real

The tragic events in Waukesha, in which two young girls are accused of stabbing a friend, have brought internet myth Slender Man into the mainstream spotlight. So much so that the Creepypasta wiki, unofficial home to stories involving the character (and others like him), has had to issue a statement confirming that he is not…

Study The New Batmobile At The Arkham Knight Official Site

The Batman: Arkham Knight official site now has a new mini-site allowing you to study the Batmobile from all angles: You’ll need a forum login to access the mini-site You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Lego Titanfall Mech made by a young fan You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

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One Of Gaming’s Greatest Questions Has Finally Been Answered

Some Twitter jokes are elaborately patient affairs. Others are a little more accidental. The account belongs to FIFA Youtuber Duaineml0, who I guess set up a Twitter account in 2009, forgot all about it then joined for real a year later with a new account that he actually uses. Only to later remember that he’d…

​How To Record Videos On A PS4

There’s nothing quite like seeing a once-in-a-lifetime moment in a video game and realizing it’s too late to go back and get a video of it. It’s over and gone, lost forever. Womp, womp. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One promised to help gamers avoid that scenario by including hardware that’s constantly recording a…

See How Much Faster Your Wii U Gets You Into A Game

The latest update to the Wii U adds a Quick Start menu, which lets you select a recently used game or app to load before the console even boots up. Take a look at how it works with Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo. Note that the feature doesn’t actually make games load faster, it just saves…

The Forest, As Told By Steam Reviews

While The Forest hasn’t been in early access for very long, players already have lots to say about the hot new survival horror game that’s tearing up the Steam charts. Turns out, despite the mystery and occasional gruesomeness, there’s also a lot of hilarity to be found in The Forest. While Steam reviews might not…

The Game That Saved Me From Driving Drunk

It had been the worst day in a string of very, very bad days. I was desperate and angry and sad and getting drunker by the second. I hugged a bottle of vodka like a safety blanket, but it gave me nothing in return. No sympathy, no warmth. “Maybe I’ll just go for a drive,”…

Mario Kart Has A New Controversial Technique Called ‘Fire Hopping’

Discussions around Mario Kart 8 are getting heated as the moment, as players have discovered a new technique some are calling “Fire Hopping.” While you can see Fire Hopping in action in the footage below by MK8 Records, basically, it’s something that allows players to maintain a speed boost via hopping. Fire Hopping is possible…

Goat Simulator’s Patch Notes Are The Best

A whole bunch of stuff, like hats and multiplayer, gets added to Goat Simulator today—all for free. While that’s cool, you’ve gotta read how the developers, Coffee Stain Studios, are describing the update. From Goat Simulator’s patch notes over at Steam: Added local splitscreen multiplayer Added a new map, try it out in the “custom…

The Legend Of Zelda Didn’t Make The LEGO Ideas’ Cut

Fans of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda franchise and LEGO toys breathlessly waiting for the results of the LEGO Ideas Winter 2014 review results can exhale now — the results are in, and Link won’t be appearing in plastic brick form. Wes Talbott’s submission to the LEGO Ideas (once CUUSOO) program did Zelda fans proud.…