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Transistor Is Oh So Hot

The next game from the people behind Bastion comes out on Tuesday for PC and PlayStation 4. Here’s the launch trailer. Unsurprisingly, it’s totally rad. We’ll have a review of the game up for you next week.

Playstation 4, Free Amazon Coins, Far Cry 4, Twin Peaks, Such Humble

Frys has the first straight discount on the Playstation 4 today, $20 off, if you can get the site to load. In other Playstation 4 deals, you can pick up a pre-owned unit from CowBoom for whatever their lowest price is at the time, plus an additional $20 off with code 14599752. We’re definitely not…

Quickscope Simulator Is Everything That’s Horrible About Call of Duty

In Quickscope Simulator, there’s only you, Doritos, endless headshots, and weed. Just like our lord no-scope 360 would have wanted it. This game might make 0 sense to you if you’re never watched a stereotypical montage video—they’re basically Call of Duty videos full of obnoxious elements like dubstep and people screaming over every single kill…

Battlefield 4 Is Finally Getting Fixed

The Battlefield 4 disaster might finally be over. Seven months after EA first launched the controversial first-person shooter, it seems like they’ve finally gotten a handle on one of the biggest bugs that has plagued the game since it was released in November. Last week, on May 9th, DICE opened the Community Test Environment (CTE),…

Oblivion, Remade In Skyrim

You’ve probably seen Skywind, the ambitious fan project to re-create all of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim. Here’s a new trailer for Skyblivion, which, as you might have guessed, is the ambitious fan project to re-create all of Oblivion in Skyrim This is a totally different beast than the Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil project…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Equal Opportunity Psychopaths • This Isn’t Final Fantasy •Balancing Hype and Realistic Expectations • Word of the Day: Acquiesce TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Halo 5: Guardians Announced For 2015

Today Microsoft and 343 announced the next installment in the Halo universe. It’s called Halo 5: Guardians, it’s all about Master Chief’s journey in moving on from the events of Halo 4, and it’ll be out in the fall of 2015 on Xbox One. “Halo 5: Guardians is a bigger effort than Halo 4,” 343…

Video Magic Turns Little Kid Into Mario Kart Hero

DreamWorks animator Daniel Hashimoto has outdone himself again with the latest installment in his Action Movie Kid series, in which he enhances his kid’s life with professional-quality special effects. This one’s Mario Kart-themed. It’s tough to watch without bursting out laughing.

The story of Death Cargo, that mysterious horror-themed fighting game I first wrote about last week, gets stranger and stranger the more I look into it. Since I originally said that I was supposed to receive a working copy of the game two days ago, a lot of readers have been asking why I haven’t…

Watch Dogs Stunt Essentially Shows The Game With Photorealistic Graphics

What would Ubisoft’s late-May open-world hacking game look like in real life? This Watch Dogs video shows you. It’s in the vein of other real-world super-power stunt videos that’ll have you wondering if this is a genuine hoax (oxymoron!) using real people as patsies…or if everyone involved is an actor. Either way, the game’s fantasy…

Artist Gives The Cartoons We Grew Up With A Makeover

Jeffrey Cruz is an Australian artist who crafts unique makeovers of classic cartoons. His remakes mostly feature older Cartoon Network shows such as The Powerpuff Girls or Johnny Bravo or other 90s cartoons like Dragon Ball Z Here are some his highlights below. Check out his DeviantART page for more and for details on how…

PS4 Killzone Is Getting Four-Player Online Co-Op

Launch PS4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall will get a four-player online co-op mode called Killzone Intercept later this year, launching for free for the game’s season pass holders in June and as a standalone release later in 2014. The new mode puts players in the role of VSA assault, marksmen, medics and tacticians against computer-controlled…

Free Godzilla Movie Mobile Game

Godzilla Smash 3 is a free match three puzzle game: Unleash the power of Godzilla and pursue the dangerous MUTO monsters in this unique mix of jaw-dropping 3D action and challenging puzzles. Control each stomp, slash, and bite by matching – or SMASHING – puzzle tiles to drive Godzilla through 80 levels in cities across…

Bioshock Doesn’t Need To Be An FPS

Isometric RPGs will have an exciting year ahead. Just think about Pillars of Eternity or Torment: Tides of Numenera. Maybe this inspired Chris Bischoff—who’s also about to create his own isometric game—to do a mockup of the underwater world of the first Bioshock and his project, Stasis. I’d probably play an RPG like this with…

Bioshock And Bioshock Infinite As 2D Isometric RPGS

The Brotherhood is currently developing an isometric horror game called Stasis. In a clever bit of marketing, they created screenshots of how Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite would look in the same style. Check out the screenshots below, as well as teaser videos of their game Statis. Here is Bioshock Infinite: And here are screenshots and…

A Much Better Version Of Diablo III‘s Intro

Diablo III turned two yesterday, and in honor of this moment, the always superb folks at Carbot Animations remade the game’s original intro. Deckard Cain survives the meteor blast in this one too, but he’s just as hopeless. And he still can’t stop dropping his satchels… You can compare it to the original one: Diablol…

A Look At World Of Warcraft’s New Night Elf Model

The official site posted a look at the updated character model or World of Warcraft’s Night Elf. Scantily clad night elves below below: As with all of the updated character models, our goal is to keep everything the original model accomplished intact, while using the additional fidelity to realize characteristics that we weren’t able to…

Preorder Bonus Ultra Street Fighter IV Costumes

Check out the five exclusive costumes available as an Ultra Street Fighter IV preorder bonus: Via SF Facebook You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Best-Looking Dark Horse Comics You Can Read In August 2014

My favorite kaiju-fighting team, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, lead off these highlights from Dark Horse Comics’ solicitations for August 2014. Read on for an advance at Dragon Age, Conan, Star Wars, and…a Game of Thrones lunchbox. Dark Horse Presents #1 covers by Geoff Darrow. BPRD Hell on Earth #122 cover by…

Deathlok Versus The Marvel Universe

Marvel’s latest DVD is Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today: It’s the debut of an all-new, all-different Deathlok. Killer cyborgs have come from the future to kill the heroes of today, while Wolverine embarks on an international pub crawl with a certain recently reborn Sentinel of Liberty. Beer and bullets galore! Via Marvel You are…