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Magic: The Gathering Jumps Off Cards, Lands On Your Desk/Shelf

Magic: The Gathering has, over the years, lured some of the best fantasy artists on the planet to draw some of the coolest fantasy characters on the planet. So this line of action figures based on some of the best are a no-brainer. Amazingly, these will be the first official Magic figures in over a…

Transistor-Themed Nail Polish

Transistor-inspired nail art at Claw of Cthulhu You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Photographer and “light artist” Michael Bosanko used, well, lights and photography to capture this Pac-Man homage. Light Graffiti [Michael Bosanko, via Gamefreaks]

As Close To Hoverboarding As We’re Probably Going To Get

What do this original Kinect and Wii Balance Board have in common? Aside from a general irrelevance to video games in 2014, they’ve also come together to bring us the hoverboarding future that the real world has sadly failed to deliver. The two peripherals link up with an Oculus Rift headset to form the cornerstone…

Sniper Elite 3 Makes Me Excited To Shoot Nazi Faces

Sniper Elite v2 was disappointingly linear, but it looks like the next installment is shaping up to be much better. Oh, and yes, there are plenty more heads exploding in slow motion. I played about an hour of Sniper Elite 3, running through a campaign level and some co-op multiplayer. Overall, everything that I had…

Meet The Action Movie Bros Of Broforce

Luke and I are united in our love of Broforce, the action game that lets you play as a revolving cast of basically every bro (and lady-bro) who has ever kicked ass in an action movie. The game is currently playable via Steam Early Access, but if you haven’t yet seen all the bros, Trash…

Assassin’s Creed Comes To The World Of Ghost Recon Phantoms

Players of the free to play Ghost Recon Phantoms can now buy futuristic Assassin’s Creed-themed weapons and armor for their characters. I posted wallpapers and closeups of the designs below: Here’s a better look at the designs: And here’s two more wallpapers: You can download the wallpapers in additional resolutions at the official site You…

Cosplay Solves Pokémon’s Biggest Mystery

People have many theories as to what the bottom of a Diglett (and by extention, its evolution, Dugtrio) looks like. Maybe there’s a horrible nightmare monster buried down there. Maybe it just has some sort of feet. Maybe there’s nothing down there at all. My favorite theory? Dugtrio is actually a really burly humanoid: Which…

If Grand Theft Auto V Were Made In The 80s

It would still be awesome! Here’s an isometric, Commodore 64-style recreation of some Grand Theft Auto V action by the talented MajamiHiroz with some superb 8bit music added. Atari’s Paperboy would work well as a minigame in a game like this. Grand Theft Auto V (Commodore 64) [YouTube] To contact the author of this post,…

What Do You Want To See At E3 This Year?

We’re exactly two weeks away from E3 press conference day—Video Game Christmas—so why not spend some time fantasizing about what we’d like to see there? For example, a few days ago I got this fun e-mail from a colleague, Andrew. Here’s his fanfic wishlist for E3 2014: Sony Press Conference: It would start with all…

A Platformer Where You’re A Goddess, And The Levels Are Your Mind

Oh yeah, and you’ve got split personalities. Also it’s a really pretty-looking game. It’s called Red Goddess. An open-world side-scrolling action-adventure (or metroidvania, if you prefer) where you play a young goddess named Divine, taking her on a journey across a planet controlled by her subconscious. This translates to a dangerous but gorgeous alien landscape.…

Gears of War Is Still My Favorite Shooter

Francis is the closest thing to a hardcore gamer I have in my life. He’s the kind of guy that bought a DualShock 4 controller on a lunch break before the PlayStation 4 had come out just so he could hold it. Buying the PS4 over the Xbox One was a calculated decision he can…

“Lasertag With Swords” Means Pretend Jedi Can Finally Keep Score

As the tagline for the Kickstarter video says: “How is this not a thing yet?” This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Sabertron is a set of foam swords with built in scoring, adding a video game element to the age old pass time of ‘hitting people’.It’s now 150% funded with 19 days left.(Thanks Geekologie)…

Basketball Is Much Better With The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Casey Jones replaced his hockey stick with a pair of basketball shoes for this one, to join the Turtles and play basketball in this NBA 2K14 mod by MkEliteWorksX Maybe use them against Looney Tunes characters in a follow-up video, to create the coolest basketball match of all time. TMNT Ninja Turtles vs Villains in…

It Is Now OK To Wear White Pants

It’s Memorial Day in the U.S., which means you may now wear one of your seasonal wardrobe staples. Just like these folks. You can run over rooftops in white pants. (see above) Or you can run up walls…. You can beat up dudes while wearing white pants. Dressed in white pants, you may slay vampires.…

​At This Rate, He Should Just Play Soccer

Could a PlayStation Move wand even survive the landing after such bodacious move? Reading rumors about what a major video game company’s latest patent application could mean reminded me that Context-Free Patent Art exists. Well, existed. In the time since I last checked on it, the Tumblr filled with crazy drawings from intellectual property filings…

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Sin From Final Fantasy X Is Just As Ominous In Minecraft

Recreating Sin—the whale-like gargantuan final boss of Final Fantasy X—in Minecraft was probably a bit harder than usual since you can’t really build it pixel by pixel. Still, Pero‘s piece looks awesome, just like the original from the PS2 game. Here’s a few more shots, and a neat video: Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Sony is preparing to sell PlayStation consoles in China. As reported by Reuters, the company has set up joint ventures with Chinese company Shanghai Oriental Pearl to help set up shop in Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone

Game Gets Two Name Changes Before It’s Even Out

How to confuse the hell out of potential fans of an upcoming video game: change its name twice during development. There once was a game called Dirty Bomb, made by the people behind Brink. It later had its name changed to the thoroughly unremarkable Extraction. It’s now had its name changed again. It’s not even…