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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…

Atrocitus Vomits His Way Onto DC’s Free Game Infinite Crisis

The rage-filled Atrocitus will become a playable character in Infinite Crisis June 11. Check out a video showing off his moves below: Via IC You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Watch Dogs, As Told By Steam Reviews

Even though Watch Dogs hasn’t been out for very long, many folks have taken to Steam to give everyone their two cents on the game. Many reviews are, admittedly, rather negative—that’s not too surprising, given the connectivity issues that Watch Dogs has experienced during launch. There’s also the feeling that some people are disappointed after…

Deep Castlevania Discounts, SteelSeries Gaming Gear, Huge PSN Update

Amazon’s Mayhem digital game sale continues, and today’s highlight deal is Castelvania: Lords of Shadow 2 for just $20. Of course, there are still over 1000 other games available, so be sure to browse the catalog for anything else you need to add to your collection. [Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 , $20] 360 and…

Tickets for PAX Prime are now on sale. Go get’em before they sell out in ten minutes.

State of Decay‘s New DLC Is Out This Week

Let’s see if combat boots and camouflage make surviving a zombie apocalypse any easier. Already previewed back in April, State of Decay‘s Lifeline expansion hits on May 30th, bringing with it a new location, character and objectives. It’ll cost $6.99.

Here’s the first bit of artwork from the next Hitman game. Sadly that’s all we’re gonna get for a while since developer IO Interactive also said that it won’t be showing the game at E3 next month. For the time being, read more about upcoming Hitman news here.

How You’re Going To Build Houses In The Sims 4

Another day, another reason to get excited (or terrified) for The Sims 4. This morning, Electronic Arts released a new trailer for the highly anticipated life simulating-video game that spells out how the house-building mechanics work: Basically, it sounds like they work the same way that the character-creation system does. That is to say, it…

You’ll Be Able To Play Dragon Quest VIII On iOS Soon

My old PlayStation 2 just became a casualty of apartment cleaning, so it’s delightful to see Dragon Quest VIII—one of the PS2’s best role-playing games—on the iTunes Store in New Zealand today. The New Zealand iTunes Store is typically used as a testbed for game releases on iPad and iPhone, and although the eighth DQ…

Nvidia Launches Its Most Powerful (And Expensive) Video Card Yet

Packed with the power of two GK110 GTX Titan Black graphics processing units and all the all the CUDA cores a CUDA core lover could ever want, Nvidia’s 4K Ultra HD-killing Titan Z is ready to upgrade your computer to the tune of $3,000. It’s been a couple of months since Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang…

Angry Birds Star Wars II invaded by clones. The iOS version of Rovio’s second Star Wars themed bird-flinger just updated with 40 free new levels, taking us even deeper into the second trilogy than we wanted to go. Other platforms shall update soon. Over at the Angry Birds blogthey’ve posted some awesome macro Telepod toy…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Transistor’s Soundtrack Reminds Me Why I Love Video Game Music • Game Of The Week—Robotic Limbs And Some Dude Named Cloud • Next Generation: Blurring the Lines Between Flash and Substance TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Bethesda’s Newest Game Is Like Team Fortress Without Guns

Today Bethesda announced the first new title to come from their fairly new studio: Battlecry in development by…Battlecry. Battlecry is a free-to-play, third-person, 32-player team action combat game for PC. It plays and reads a lot like Team Fortress, but without the gunpowder. During a presentation in Los Angeles two weeks ago, Bethesda’s Pete Hines…

The Ghost In The Shell Movie We Never Had

I’m not sure a live action Ghost in the Shell adaptation would be a good idea, but an homage to the opening of Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime with real-life characters can’t hurt. Director Ash Thorpe and his Project 2501 team recreated the title sequence, Motoko Kusanagi’s birth, in a real-life environment, with a bit of…

Learn How To Apply Ronda Rousey’s Armbar In EA Sports UFC

Applying submission moves in EA Sports UFC will be like playing a series of quick time events, accelerated based on your character’s skill and exhaustion levels. See how it works in this video of a fight between Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate: Via EA You are now looking at Screenburn , a Kotaku blog dedicated…

8-Bit Donnie Darko Is Every Bit As Twisted As The Film

I remember my first viewing of Richard Kelly’s cult classic, Donnie Darko, as if it were late last night in a quiet, somewhat creepy house, silence pierced only by faint wwhistle of a rapidly descending jet engine. It went’s something like this (spoilers!). The 8-bit movie translators over at CineFix did an amazing job with…

Fan Animation Turns Link Pikmin-Sized

Some just can’t wait till a new, HD Zelda arrives and start working on their own fan-projects. This superb gif is from animator PencilTest ‘s upcoming fan-movie, which—if it’ll have the same overall quality as this teaser—will be quite ambitious. Zelda gifs by PencilTest [Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

Leaked Battlefield: Hardline Trailer Shows Multiplayer, Single-Player

Well, the existence of a new cops-vs-robbers Battlefield game got leaked yesterday. Today, an in-depth trailer showing gameplay, plot and multiplayer details for Battlefield: Hardline has surfaced. EA later confirmed the existence of Hardline by unveiling an official website late yesterday but this trailer—first spotted on NeoGAF —looks like it runs down many of the…

If Valve Made A Smash Bros. Game

This fan-trailer-slash-intro-remake convinced me that it’s an excellent idea. Even if half of it would be hats. Upon pondering what a Smash Bros. game with an all-Valve cast would look like, YouTuber crazyhalo took matters into their own hands to create Super Smash Bros. Source, a shot-by-shot remake of the intro to Super Smash Bros.…