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New Sea Green 2DS

The Sea Green 2DS will be available in stores June 6. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Super Mario World-Inspired Paintings

Super Mario World’s Bowser—one in as series of paintings by Ronan Lynam: These are available as prints at Society6 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Legend Of Zelda-Themed Bottle Opener

It’s dangerous to go alone. Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Could’ve Been Much Harder. In a lengthy and fascinating post-mortem, designer Peter Howell goes over the game’s design process, noting many areas where developers The Chinese Room differed from series creators Frictional Games It’s a great read, check it out.

A Machine For Pigs Designer Regrets Giving The Game To PewDiePie

Game commentator PewDiePie has 27 million subscribers on Youtube and almost 3 million Youtube subscribers. But one designer on Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs laments giving him an advanced copy of the game to promote: Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs received a largely positive review from Kotaku (I found it tedious and forgettable), but managed…

​The Live-Action Street Fighter Series Is Out. Watch It Here.

It’s been almost two years since the live-action web series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist was first announced. Today, you can watch all the episodes online. The whole thing is on Machinima‘s YouTube channel, or you can watch it all right here, if you’d prefer. Here are all the episodes, in order:

​Three Minutes Of New Gameplay From The Order: 1886

Sony just streamed a short preview of their upcoming steampunk shooter on Twitch. It sure looks impressive. In the clip above, you’ll get a sense of how some of the game’s weapons and environments look, as well as a taste of an early gunfight. The Order: 1866 is scheduled to hit PS4 later this year.

Minecraft Still Makes Great Music

YouTuber Minkks has put together another song made from Minecraft sound effects, using sheep, skeletons and fireworks this time around. Minecraft: Sound Beat #12 [Minkks]

The Summer Of Old JRPGs

It’s time we try something different, folks. Something old This summer on Random Encounters, we’re going to go on an adventure through old-school role-playing games. Let’s call it The Summer of Old JRPGs Over the next few weeks and months, I’m going to go back and revisit some old favorites, from the iconic (Final Fantasy…

New Star Wars Space Combat Game Already Cancelled

Just revealed late last year, the free-to-play Star Wars: Attack Squadrons browser game has already been cancelled. The game’s beta was shut down today: On the game’s Facebook page, the response has been mixed. Some were pro shutdown: Had potential. But it was a let down from the get go. It’s space combat, we should’ve…

Here Is Watch Dogs’ Map

Watch Dogs releases next week, but you don’t have to wait until then to see how big its digital version of Chicago is. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on this, you should probably stop reading now! The good folks over at PlayStation Access not only show us Watch Dog’s map in this…

Try As I Might, I Can’t Convince My Friends To Get The Wii U

Ever since the new season of Game of Thrones started, I’ve gathered with a group of friends each Sunday night to play video games for a few hours before the new episode airs. We sometimes call it pre-gaming Game of Thrones, because we’re huge dorks. This past Sunday was different, however. We began planning for…

Marvel Blu-ray Collection, Neo-Geo X, Even More Amazon App Credit

Today on Amazon, add ten Marvel Blu-rays to your collection for just $65. This set has been selling for $180 until now, and a few of the films also include a digital copy. [Marvel Bundle, $65] Amazon is giving away free digital copies of Injustice: Gods Among Us Issue 1. Even if you don’t own…

A History Of X-Men Time Travel, In One Chart

Here’s a thought: Maybe the reason homo sapiens hates and fears homo superior is because they’re always messing the spacetime continuum. Because, man, the X-Men sure do a whole lot of alternate reality time travel. How much? Take a look. Just in time for this weekend’s premiere of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Derrick Sanskrit…

Watch Evolve‘s New Playable Characters In Action

Yesterday I said that Evolve, one of my most anticipated titles this year, plays differently every time I get my hands on it. You can read all about why that is, but you can also just see it in action right here instead. Chris and I chat about our experiences in the video above, which…

​World War I Game Is… Pretty

Used to be that we’d get loads of war games based on World War II. Despite being an ugly conflict full of large-scale action and human drama, World War I never got as much consideration from video game creators. Valiant Hearts is going there, and it’s going to look damned pretty in doing so. We…

Memories Of My 16-Year Career In Video Games

After 16 years covering the game industry, playing hundreds of games and interviewing thousands of people, I’ve slowly developed a catalog of life events tied around memories of games. If I’m trying to recall a time when something happened, my mind quickly jumps to what I was playing, where I was sitting when playing it,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Experiences with Titillating Games • The Dark Souls 2 PC Name Censor – How To Avoid and Disable It • Over the Gaming Hill? • Mugen Souls Z: The TAY Review Follow them here.

World’s First Watch Dogs Review Comes From The Last Place You’d Expect

One of the most hyped, anticipated releases of the year. A talk show host who’s notoriously terrible at video games. Get the popcorn. Conan O’Brien’s latest Clueless Gamer segment tackles the hack-happy, open-world mayhem in Watch Dogs. But does he show us the power of Aiden Pierce’s mighty smartphone? Use clever code controlling to end…

It’s About Time To Get Rid Of Magneto

After firing almost everyone from the X-Men, Pete Holmes aka. Professor X finally sits down with his arch nemesis Magneto in his office for a little talk. This video is the exact opposite of all those bromance videos we’ve seen recently with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, the original Charles Xavier and Magneto movie characters.…