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You Can Download a Mercedes Benz in Mario Kart 8

This summer, Mercedes Benz is coming to Mario Kart 8 in Japan. No word yet whether or not the car will be available in the West. The Mercedes Benz GLA, which a sorta hunky Mario drives in a new Japanese ad, will be available as free DLC. Info is scant, but Nintendo promises more details.…

Tangiers is described as a “dark and uneasy” stealth game. Well, its new trailer is exactly that. The Thief-inspired, somewhat recently Kickstarted PC stealth-em-up is nearing its beta development phase, and is expected to get a release date within a couple weeks.

Legend Of Zelda Art Jam

Today’s Sketch Daily theme was The Legend of Zelda, and dozens of artists participated. Check out some highlights below, including heavily-armored Link, vampire Link, and much more. Marek Jarocki Codi Bear Mingjue Helen Chen Kekai Kotaki Nate Voss Yingjue Chen Bill Robinson Krishna Sadasivam Lisa Villella Steve LeCouilliard Phillip Light M.S. Corley Ashlyn Anstee Rubin…

THQ’s Crap Is Still There, Gathering Dust

THQ closed down for good over a year ago, but the company’s old corporate HQ remains, and in that time nobody has moved in to clean out all their old stuff. Games, posters, E3 prizes, the works, it’s all just sitting there. Redditor Soulessgingr works for a company that recently moved into the same building,…

AMD Calls Nvidia Program “A Clear And Present Threat To Gamers”

AMD and Nvidia have for years been locked in a struggle for dominance in the graphics card market, but this week that competition spilled over into something a lot nastier. Instead of competing over specs and release dates, AMD’s Robert Hallock has told Forbes that Nvidia’s Gameworks program – which lets developers implement a range…

The Best Way To Explain A Silly Reboot

Wolfenstein is a game I like very much, a game that in spite of its rough edges and occasional tonal missteps is so full of charm and character that you can’t help but put your arm around its shoulder and ruffle its hair every time you see it. That charm doesn’t come from the time…

Looks Like Harmonix’s Shooter Is Going Back To The Drawing Board

Harmonix, of Rock Band fame, turned some heads recently when they announced a musical…first-person shooter. That game, Chroma, has already been through some early alpha testing, and it doesn’t sound like things went that great. An email being sent out by Harmonix to testers thanks them for their input, and says that “Based on the…

Vintage Metroid Fusion Advertisement

Vinatge Metroid Fusion advertisement. Via VGJunk You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

New Movie is About Satanic, Killer RPGs

Are you ready to RPG? ARE YOU READY TO RPG? RPG! RPG! RPG! *does a keg stand while rolling a few D20s* No but seriously though: I can’t help but laugh at this trailer for Dark Dungeons, a film based on a 1984 comic made by a Christian fundamentalist. The comic was about students who…

The Windows In Watch Dogs Look Into An Alternate Reality

There’s a secret world hidden behind the windows of Chicago in Watch Dogs In future Chicago, one computer program controls everything in the city, from the power grid to rocking horse rides. There are other strange things about the city as well, like how every window reflects some mysterious bizarro city made almost entirely of…

Vintage-Style Box Art For Modern Mobile Games

Flappy Birds, Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga and more get misleading classic-style box art in this gallery at Dorkly You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

There’s A Great Game Beneath Monster Monpiece‘s Awkward Anime Stroking

Update 5/28/2014: Monster Monpiece is finally out in North America (Europe gets it next week), and the sentiment in this Japanese preview still holds: It’s a great game, but damn that embarrassing girl-stroking mechanic. In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until…

My God, It’s Full Of Emoji

Sometimes in our workaday life, we get dragged down by the little things in life — the humdrum of it all. We often forget that there’s a sublime universe of limitless icons out there. So here’s something that might help: Step 1: open up Emoji.Zone. Blow it up to full screen. Step 2: Play some…

Battlefield 3 Is Free On PC Right Now

Get it while it lasts. You can download the game for free on EA’s Origin until June 3. (This is part of EA’s Origin “On The House” program, which offers free PC games every month.)

That leaked Battlefield: Hardline video is six months old and was for an internal company meeting, says EA exec Steve Papoutsis. The man in charge of Visceral Games also says that Hardline will be coming out this fall. More to come at E3.

I Bought This Game Two Weeks Ago, And I Still Can’t Play It

The video game industry is no stranger to fizzled hype. But for all the controversies about delays, unstable launches, or games that are just plain terrible, until recently I’ve never had to stop and wonder whether or not a game actually exists. Then I went in search of a mysterious fighting game named Death Cargo…

​Video Game Artwork That’s Just Happy to See You

When is a gun not just a gun? When it lives between a character’s legs and not in a holster, as seen in artwork from more than just a few video games. There’s a growing collection of not-so-subtle imagery over at Phallic Videogamery that shows how some video game artwork over the decades has fashioned…

Mortal Kombat 10 Teaser Poster?

Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon teased Mortal Kombat X a few days ago: And now this poster has surfaced You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

What Today’s Biggest Mobile Games Need Is Ugly ’80s Box Art

Back in the ’80s, hardcore gamers loved the sort of simplistic fare that mobile gamers thrive on today. So why can’t the hardcore embrace popular mobile games? I’m guessing it’s the lack of almost completely unrelated painted cover art. Gaming humor palace Dorkly imagines a world where mobile games get the half-assed fantasy art they…

You Can Watch Sony’s E3 Conference In… A Movie Theater

Perhaps hoping to match last year’s crazy E3 drama, Sony is taking their 2014 presser to the silver screen. You’ll be able to watch the PlayStation press conference in movie theaters across the country. Yep, movie theaters. The presser, which will be on Monday, June 9 at 6pm Pacific, will be aired in 40-50 theaters…