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Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games

Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…

The Epic Rap Battle Between Superman And Goku Is Too Close To Call

The Epic Rap Battles generally present me with a simple choice — Mozart Vs. Skrillex, Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso —but when the Man of Steel goes up against Dragon Ball‘s Kakarrot, I just don’t know. Goku’s rapping skills are clearly more advanced than Superman’s, and he does go Super Saiyan all over the underwearing…

This Is The Cover Of The First Wasteland 2 Novella

Here is the cover to The Earth Transformed, a novel by Mike Stackpole and Nathan Long, available this week as a reward to kickstarter backers You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

You Can Play As Snoop Dogg In League of Legends

If you play as Nasus in League of Legends, good news: you can wear a skin that turns that character into Snoop Dogg. And naturally, he can do the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” dance, as well as perform weed-related moves. You can see him in action in the video above, by ThePentaT. Heck, you…

Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. But before my prayers can be answered, it has to finish that whole crowdfunding campaign thing successfully. So if you’re also interested in…

Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft

Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come

Princess Peach Swings In Like A Wrecking Ball

Chomping Ball tee by Kenny Wheeler on sale at Threadless. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Oh Yeah, The Second Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Has Everything

If Bradley Cooper’s take on Guardians of the Galaxy‘s psychopathic raccoon doesn’t sell you on Marvel’s next big comic book movie, then wait until you hear Vin Diesel utter his first “I am Groot.” Whether or not this tale of Marvel’s team of intergalactic “heroes” captures the imagination of the general public is moot at…

You Can Watch Sailor Moon Again Starting Today

Starting today, uncut and remastered episodes of Sailor Moon will be released weekly on Hulu. Already, they have four subtitled episodes up—and more will be released every Monday. You can watch the first two episodes here if you’d like. I already started, and they look great. Lesson learned: fuck jewelry. Also: sleeping instead of doing…

Watch Dogs, Sony Gold Wireless Headset, Pandemic, Reaper of Souls

Watch Dogs is finally coming out on the 27th. Don’t miss your chance to save by pre-ordering, not to mention the bonuses. Watch Dogs pre-order with $15 Xbox Gift Card | One/360 Watch Dogs pre-order with $12 credit | PC Watch Dogs Deluxe pre-order with $14 credit | PC The Sony Gold Wireless Headset is…

Nintendo Characters Celebrate Gay Marriage

Mario and Link are pretty psyched about Nintendo’s promise to be more “inclusive” in future games. Last night’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discussed Nintendo’s recent apology for not including gay marriage in the upcoming 3DS game Tomodachi Life. “We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series,” Nintendo wrote,…

Super Monkey Ball Gets In On Some Of That Hot Peggle Action

Everybody loves Popcap’s Peggle. Everybody loves monkeys. Sega does the math and gets Super Monkey Ball Bounce, or as I’m going to call it — Seggle. Coming this summer to iOS and Android, Seggle takes its inspiration from the classic arcade game of pachinko, and not Peggle at all. See? Bananas. Peggle doesn’t have bananas.…

Go To Google.Com Now To Play With a Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s cube was first invented by Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik in 1974. Google is commemorating this achievement with one of its trademark Doodles that lets you play with the legendary toy in the comfort of your own web browser. Head over to Google.com to give it a whirl. But be warned: as the New…

What Nintendo Is Doing Right

The conventional wisdom is that Nintendo has screwed up. They’ve lost the plot. Dropped the ball. Somehow sunk their own battleship. But they’re actually doing a bunch of things right, too. Let’s not focus on the very real storm clouds, for once, and focus on four bright spots that might change how you think about…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Mario Kart 8: The TAY Review • TAY’s Top Ten Super Nintendo Games! [Update] • The Megas’ “History Repeating: Red” • Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles 01: The TAY Review Follow them here.

LEGO Pokémon Rock Pretty Damn Hard

These aren’t official but by God they should be. This set of models are the work of Dan McCormack who seems to be trying to build them all with his rapidly expanding collection. They don’t look like casual builds either, with Paras consisting of around 400 parts and up for voting on the LEGO Ideas…

Posters Remind Us Of A More Peaceful Era In Gaming

Before the Oculus Rift and the Kinect, there was a time when the 3-button wheel mouse and NES Zappers ruled the earth. It was a much simpler time. These paintings by artist Heather Martinez are just perfect to take us back a few decades. These are all part of POPzilla‘s video game art show. Prints…

Make Shadow Of Mordor‘s Combat Even More Brutal With Runes

The most savage Lord of the Rings game adds an additional layer of violence with its Rune System, a method of upgrading weapons and generating retailer-specific preorder bonuses. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor‘s vaguely heroic Talion comes equipped with a bow, a longsword and a dagger. That’s a fine arsenal for fantasy combat, but where are…

Hey, look! A superb, modern-day Minecraft city that totally looks like one of the older Sim City games. I just love all the unique buildings in Theamazingquinn‘s map, and it makes me want to reinstall Sim City 2000 again. Minecraft city by Theamazingquinn [imgur, via r/minecraft] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning,…

These May Just Be China’s “Hottest” Pro-Gamers, Says Chinese Game Site

In some parts of the world, professional gamers garner just as much respect and adoration as the likes of Lionel Messi. In China, some of them are revered online like rock stars, and now Chinese game site SGamer.Com is asking which professional gamer is the most handsome. Let’s a take a gander at some of…