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Man Builds Real ED-209, Has Twenty Seconds To Impress

Shawn Thorsson, master props builder and costume maker, has outdone himself this time with a life-size, movie-quality replica of RoboCop’s ED-209. Fulfilling a life-long dream of actually owning an ED-209, the behemoth only took around 3 months to build (albeit three months of very hard work), and while originally intended to be just a static…

Well, At Least The 2DS Continues To Look Nice

As useless as the 2DS is for most people in most circumstances, you’ve got to hand it to Nintendo when it comes to the system’s colour choices. I actually bought one earlier this year (before swiftly returning it), partly because the white+red colour scheme looked so much better than the standard 3DS options. The same…

Kids Reacting To Old Computers Hurts My Heart So Much

Kids today, with their graphical user interfaces and high DPI mice. Why, when I was their age I was getting kicked out of Radio Shack for making the computers spew out endless streams of curse words. 10 Print “Sadness”; 20 Goto 10. If anything, this latest “Kids React” video from The Fine Bros makes me…

This Insane Contraption Adds A Bit Of Portal To Minecraft

Sethblingmakes some crazy things in Minecraft, but I never would’ve thought something like this was possible. With a mere thousands of command blocks and redstone, he made a nether portal that lets you see the other side. Click the video for the full explanation, but the crazy thing about this build is that it actually…

Relive Your Mass Effect Romance With 21 Inches Of Hot Garrus Statue

Garrus Vakarian was a humble C-Sec investigator until you set him free. In turn, he set your heart free with his gentle, somewhat chitinous touch. Now Gaming Heads is offering you a chance to hold him in your arms once more, with the first in its new line of 1/4 scale Mass Effect statues. There’s…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let’s Mario Kart Everywhere

One of the most highly anticipated Wii U titles ever, Mario Kart 8 is going to be all over the place once Nintendo releases it on May 30. I bet the Photoshop-savvy readers of Kotaku can beat them to the punch. The only Mario Kart I’ve ever loved goes wide this Friday, giving the Wii…

The Vanishing Modem And Other Surprising Game Boy Advance Trivia

Now that we’ve learned 13 things you might not have known about the original Game Boy, Did You Know Gaming takes us into the next generation of Nintendo handhelds, the Game Boy Advance. Did you know it was supposed to have a modem? Or at least some sort of cell phone connectivity, which was a…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Somewhere A Place For Kinect: The Winners!

Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to help Microsoft come up for a use for all of the Xbox One Kinects they aren’t going to sell once the system is available without it. Ladies and gentlemen, we have several winners. First and foremost among the winners, both in terms of comment stars and making…

For A More Comic-Accurate X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Play The Game

While movie-goers flock to theaters to see a re-imagined version of one of the X-Men’s greatest stories, iOS gamers can now play through the original comic book storyline in Glitchsoft’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat — this is a $2.99 game with no in-app…

The Minecraft Halo Mash-Up Pack Visits Familiar Places

The upcoming Halo Mash-Up pack for Minecraft isn’t just about 40 character skins, a texture pack and music from Microsoft’s popular first-person shooter series. It’s also got an entire pre-made world, packed with iconic Halo haunts. Recognize this place? Why, it’s Blood Gulch, perhaps the best-known Halo multiplayer map of them all, thanks to it…

The X-Men: Days Of Future Past Spoiler Post

Have you seen X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to talk about it without worrying about spoiling who dies at the end for everyone else? This is your spoiler-police free safe haven. Just in case the headline and intro weren’t clear: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS EVERYWHERE. I cannot stress this enough. Well, I suppose I…

The Next Game From The Maker Of Papers, Please Is A 1-Bit Mystery

After winning many awards his 2013 indie masterpiece Papers, Please, Lucas Pope takes old school to the next level in Return of the Obra Dinn, a first-person 3D adventure rendered in the 1-bit style of ancient Mac games. Pope announced the new project this morning on The Independent Gaming Source forums. My next project will…

The Maker Of Papers, Please Announced His New Game

Lucas Pope, designer of the award-winning Paper, Please, announced his new game. It’s a 3D 1st person mystery featuring 1-bit rendering. Setup In 1802, the merchant ship “Obra Dinn” set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn’t met its rendezvous point at the Cape…

Five Years Of Tokyo Game Show’s Digital Poster Ladies

Back in 2010, the organizers of the annual Tokyo Game Show tapped illustrator Ippei Gyoubu to design the show’s main visual. Yesterday Gyoubu and TGS revealed this year’s poster and theme: the transformation of fun. Explains the butterfly motif. According to the official announcement, Gyoubu’s 2014 effort is based off of the idea of emergence.…

Here Is The Wasteland 2 Opening Cinema

Wasteland 2’s general release creeps closer and closer. Here is the opening live-action movie introducing the game’s heroic desert rangers: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Saturday Morning Stream will return next weekend. Fahey is currently battling strep throat and doesn’t want to risk infecting you all through Twitch. This also means he won’t be making the Games Journalism panel at Momocon in Atlanta today. As an apology, he offers this tiny GIF he found of a doggy on Reddit.

Here’s a Fresh Batch of Deals from Amazon’s Digital Game Mayhem Event

Amazon has added a handful of intriguing deals to their Mayhem digital game blowout. Some of these are flash sales, indicated by an expiration date, so act fast if you want to grab them. Don’t forget, Amazon has over 1000 other digital game deals available, so if none of these strike your fancy, be sure…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 19

Happy long weekend, everyone. Come join us online over at Kotaku Selects to catch up on this week’s best content, as curated by me. This realistic sketch of Mega Man is by geeshin, found by Xombiedirge. Enjoy! And in full! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter…

It Will Be Possible To Complete The New Torment Without Fighting

Plenty of RPGs profess to let you play your way, only to occasionally punish you by placing your weak but charismatic character in unavoidable battles. (I’m looking at you, KOTOR I and II. ) Now comes news that Torment: Tides of Numenera will allow you to complete the game without fighting at all: Because the…

This Video Shows Off All The Characters In Super Time Force

Dinosaurs, dolpins, and 14 more characters in this Super Time Force video. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.