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Global Warming Could Give Us A Future Straight Out Of A Video Game
Earth has seen much better days, and science says it’s largely humanity’s fault. This week, the antarctic ice sheet’s eventual collapse was declared “unstoppable” by research teams. How might we survive unprecedented rises in sea level? No one’s sure, but games like BioShock and Brink may have the right idea. Scientists are estimating a 10…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 16, 2014 -
Witchmarsh Is A Lovecraftian Detective Thriller
Just added to Kickstarter, Witchmarsh is a co-op RPG featuring detectives exploring the supernatural in 1920’s Massachusetts: It’s the Roaring Twenties! Join an unlikely team of detectives as they charge headlong into the darkest corners of rural America. Their mission: find and return the missing ‘Witchmarsh Twelve’ who vanished under mysterious circumstances. A handsome reward…
By John Struan Published May 16, 2014 -
Shadow of The Colossus Headlines This New Kaiju Art Jam
Ian Wilding’s Shadow of the Colossus print headlines The Big Ass Monster art show. See more highlights below: Ian Wilding Tessa Morrison Lee Nakama Tony Rotwang See more at Streets of Beige You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published May 16, 2014 -
Lamborghini Covered By A Hologram Vinyl Wrap
This is a Lamborghini covered with a hologram vinyl wrap. Learn more about the car in the video below: Via R/WD You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
By John Struan Published May 16, 2014 -
Porting a game from PS3 to PS4 is no simple task. Sure, one might imagine that you just bump up the resolution and put it on a new disc, but…no. As The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann puts it in this new EDGE feature, “We expected it to be Hell, and it was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 16, 2014 -
Sailor Moon Is Back
Here’s the trailer for the uncut and remastered Sailor Moon, which Viz Media will be airing every Monday on Hulu starting on the 19th of this month. Get hype! Watch the legendary anime series, Sailor Moon from the very beginning. New episodes every Monday featuring uncut and remastered footage! All 200 episodes coming, including the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014 -
Sesame Street Says Take Off Your Oculus Rift And Go Outside
In this video from Mashable, the Sesame Street crew, along with Zachary Levi sing about the wonders of putting down your technology and going outdoors on a sunny day. Maybe they just haven’t bought into our all virtual reality future. Here are the lyrics, and the clip with Grover and the Oculus is at 1:31.…
By Steve Marinconz Published May 16, 2014 -
Your New Game Console Is Eating More Energy Than Ever
Even if you’re not actively using your consoles, they’re still using electricity—and the amount of energy consoles consume has increased from last generation consoles. The Natural Resources Defense Council finds that on a yearly basis, new consoles cost America $1 billion in electricity bills—and that most of that energy is consumed when the consoles are…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014 -
Report: Halos 1-4 Coming To Xbox One This Year In HD
We may not be getting Halo 5 until 2015, but the games’ developers were careful to say that the Halo “journey” will continue this year some way or another. According to a new report at Engadget, that’s because this fall, the Xbox One will get remastered versions of the first four main Halo games. Citing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 16, 2014 -
Nobody Knows What These Mysterious YouTube Videos Are
Thousands and thousands of videos, uploaded nearly every day. Each one is the same, structure-wise: 10 slides of shapes, shown over 11 seconds, over various random tones. Nobody has a clue what the videos are supposed to be, much less who is uploading them or why. Just today, the channel has uploaded over a dozen…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014 -
Apple Won’t Allow Masturbation Game On App Store
HappyPlayTime, a game that aims to teach women how to masturbate, was recently rejected from the app store according to the developers. “The reason given was that ‘the concept was not something that Apple wants to go forward with,'” Tina Gong, designer behind the project, wrote on a blog post. “I knew I was taking…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014 -
What It’s Like To Spend $50 On Hearthstone Cards
I finally bit the bullet and started playing Hearthstone when it was released on iPad, and I’ve been staring at that buy button for weeks now. So let’s figure out if there’s anything worth buying in 40 packs of Hearthstone cards. Jason Schreier has been playing more than me, so he sat in to go…
By Steve Marinconz Published May 16, 2014 -
Reminder: On PC, Games Only Look Better With Age
When you start up a retro game on an old-school console, what you play will typically look antiquated. But boot up a decade-old game on a PC, and with the right mod, the game in question might look right at home with games released this year. That’s part of the beauty of PC gaming. So…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 16, 2014 -
The Best JRPGs For Beginners
Okay. You’ve never played a JRPG before. You have no idea what a chocobo is. You’ve always thought Final Fantasy was the name of a metal band. This is going to be the place for you. As Kotaku‘s JRPG columnist, I get a lot of messages from people who are kind of interested in the…
By Jason Schreier Published May 16, 2014 -
A Game About Plants Is One Of The Prettiest Things On iPad
Every time I tell people to play Botanicula, they make the same joke: “Sounds like Bunnicula.” And I shake my head and wish that this lovely game had a different name. If people would just get around the silly title and play the game, they’d find one of the most charming games of the last…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 16, 2014
