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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.…

One of the coolest things in Hyrule Warriors, the upcoming Zelda spin-off for the Wii U, will be definitely the new look of Impa, Princess Zelda’s bodyguard. While she typcally appeared as an old lady in most of the previous games, this new warrior design is just completely awesome. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

What If Pac-Man Is About A Man Having A Pschotic Break?

A drug-using man believes he’s being chased by ghostly tormenters? A fresh take on Pac-Man by Ian Wilding. Desktop wallpaper-sized image below: He has prints onsale here. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here Is The Trailer For Fables: The Wolf Among Us Episode 4

Magical doorways, mysterious symbols, and Bloody Mary star in the trailer for Fables: The Wolf Among Us Episode 4: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Wolfenstein, Described In 29 Screenshots

A lot of times, when I’m playing a game that I’m going to write about, I take notes. For Wolfenstein, though, I tried something different. I took a ton of screenshots instead. Think of them as postcards from my playthrough. Why? Because so much of what I loved about this game was in the moment.…

The Indie Gaming Bubble Might Be About To Burst

Veteran indie dev Jeff Vogel puts into words that niggling doubt in the pit of your stomach. That quote is part of a post Vogel has written on his blog that ties into some stuff we’ve been talking about over the past week. Namely, that there are too many indie games being made, and it’s…

How To Make Peggle A Lot Worse [Update]

There used to be a cool Peggle game on the New Zealand App Store. The same Peggle you could get everywhere else in the world. That game is now gone. In its place is a new Peggle game that is just the worst. Yes, the old Peggle – the one you paid money for then…

The Problem With Far Cry 4‘s Box Art

Far Cry 4‘s box art depicts a man wearing a lavish pink suit using what might be a religious statue as a throne. He has blonde hair and fair skin and his hand rests on the head of a man of color who kneels, passively, clutching a grenade in his hands. It’s caused quite a…

Your Childhood Coloring Books, Now With Nightmares

You can mutilate any innocent coloring book, with the right artistic inspiration. r/coloringcorruptions is a community dedicated to coloring books that they’ve taken and transformed into disturbing scenes with a few alterations. According to The Daily Dot, the inspiration came from one Redditor named CrayonsForBrains, who had a particularly deranged-looking coloring book. CrayonsForBrains couldn’t help…

Japan’s Left 4 Dead Characters Include Schoolgirl, Bartender

Left 4 Dead is being released as an arcade game in Japan. None of the eight existing characters, however, are making the trip (despite featuring in the local releases of the console titles). Instead, publishers Taito have swapped in an all-new cast. We saw (and heard) them in action in some grainy footage from last…

Amplitude Pulls Off Mighty Kickstarter Comeback

For a while there, it looked like the Kickstarter campaign to revive Harmonix’s much-loved music game Amplitude wasn’t gonna make it to its $775,000 goal. But with a ton of Twitter shouting, a telethon, and some very generous backers, they’ve passed the mark with just 21 hours to go. Yesterday, the campaign was still more…

Multiplayer Watch Dogs Looks Like GTA Online Plus Hackers

Ubisoft recently had a press event for Watch Dogs and invited YouTubers to get hands on the game. The “Capture the File” multiplayer mode looks like it mixes all the madness of a GTA Online deathmatch with magic hacking superpowers. Check out the video above to see the game in action. It looks like a…

Former Games Journo Writing New Star Wars Movie

Disney aren’t just going to squeeze millions from a new trilogy of Star Wars movies. They’re going to make stand-alone flicks too, and the first of those is due for release in December 2016. There are no details on what it actually is, but we do now know who’s behind it. Directing will be Gareth…

Space 2.0: The initially promising-looking but unfortunately flawed space sim X Rebirth gets a sizable update this week that developer Egosoft claims will address a lot of the game’s issues. This video touts a few of those improvements, and you can download a PDF of all the changes here

People Used To Think Chess Would Ruin Everything

You know how it goes: something new comes along, and catches everyone’s attention. Immediately, people think the new thing will corrupt society and make everything worse: this has been true for everything from books to video games. And yes, it also holds true for chess. Chess! A thing we largely consider to be an intellectual…

1980’s Newscasters Struggled To Explain How Pac-Man Works

Pac-Man turns 34 today. It’s exciting to see that the little yellow guy has survived into middle age. But before the Pac became the dot-eating legend we know him as today, he had to do the same thing every celebrity does: make a name for himself. To commemorate Pac-Man’s birthday, popular video game personality Patrick…

​Jennifer Aniston’s Greatest Gaming Moment

Remember the 1990s? It was a wonderful time, a time when Microsoft would pay Jennifer Aniston to beat a child actor at video games, all in the service of helping explain how to use Windows 95. We’ve actually written about this video before, in which Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, high on Friends fame, signed…

Wolfenstein Has A Cool Little Fallout Easter Egg

While there isn’t any official news about Fallout 4 just yet, Bethesda-published Wolfenstein: The New Order does give a quick nod to everyone’s favorite vault-dwelling franchise. Obviously, if you’d rather not have the location of the easter egg spoiled, you probably shouldn’t watch this video by xReignMan40x! Vault 101 is, as some of you might…

Everything Is Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman

There are a lot of things wrong with Snow White & The Huntsman — like how Kristen Stewart is imprisoned for years and then suddenly armors up and leads a battle — but the greatest sin is probably wasting an appearance by Nick Frost. Everything Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman [CinemaSins]

Here’s The Censored Version of The New Wolfenstein

The German version of Wolfenstein is a little different from the version of Wolfenstein most of us will get to play. The shooty bits will remain the same for everyone, of course, as you can see in this Eurogamer video. But Nazi imagery and mentions have been replaced with other stuff, if not outright removed.…