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​Forget Magic Dragons. Let’s Watch Godzilla Rampage In Skyrim.

Godzilla is a giant lizard who breathes fire. That kinda makes him a dragon, right? No wonder he looks right at home in Skyrim. And that guy watching? Well, he’s the Dovahkaiju, of course. Modder Quechus13 takes the original version of the famous monster from the Toho flms and throws him into Tamriel, along with…

If Game of Thrones Were Set In Super Mario World

My favorite Thing On The Internet today is this reimagining of the Game of Thrones intro in Super Mario World, created by YouTuber NicksplosionFX The koopa kids send their regards.

The iMac Can’t Stop A WWII Anti-Tank Rifle

Everyone loves the go-to “let’s shoot electronics” .50 caliber rifle, the Barrett M82, but why not mix it up? That’s why RatedRR is using this WWII-era anti-tank rifle to destroy an old iMac. From the video: The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle used during the second world war. It had excellent accuracy,…

The Next Avengers Game Takes On Turn-Based Tactics

We may never get a proper, big budget action/adventure game based on the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, but the success of turn-based social RPG Marvel: Avengers Alliance suggests fans are willing to accept substitutes. Well, here comes Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics. A continuation of Avengers Alliance, Disney Interactive’s Avengers Alliance Tactics for Facebook looks to follow…

Game of Thrones Characters Would Break Hearthstone

These Hearthstone cards created by randomnate might not be real, but that doesn’t make them any less funny. Heck, witha bit of fine-tuning to make them more balanced, they could actually work inside the game, too. Here are a few standouts from this made-up Game of Thrones deck: And while this one is actually created…

Hyper-Violent Commercial For Disney’s New Darth Vader Cupcakes

Darth Vader slaughters every pastry in sight in this new commercial for Disney Hollywood Studio’s new Darth Vader cupcakes: Via Matt Stewart You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here’s The First Trailer For Titanfall DLC

Via EA UK, here’s the first trailer for Titanfall‘s “Expedition” downloadable content, which is slated for release this month on Xbox One and PC. (The 360 version won’t be out until June.) Expedition is a map pack containing three new stages: Swampland, Runoff, and War Games. You can see them all above.

​This Is What It Means To Go Insane Playing A Video Game

Over the weekend I had two gaming goals. Finish Dark Souls II and finish Trials Fusion. Lofty goals. Unbeknownst to me, as I was just about to finish the final obstacle on the final track of Trials Fusion, Kotaku Tech Man Ben White began filming me on his mobile phone. This is an insight into…

Decorate Your Monitor With These Adorable Pokemon

Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Pikachu by Bobby Chiu You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

It’s Hard To Believe Students Made These Clever Borderlands Short Films

The Academy of Art University in San Francisco got together with the folks at 2K to give students a chance to create animated short films set in the Borderlands universe. The result is three funny little bits of animation, suitable for stealth marketing. In the first short, Claptrap attempts to interrogate a psycho bandit using…

10 Things You Might Not Know About Skyrim

Skyrim is a such a behemoth of a game that, even if you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into it over the years, there’s still a chance you haven’t seen everything it has to offer—much less get a glimpse of the game’s fascinating development. Enter DYKGaming/Normal Boots with this great video full of Skyrim trivia, including:…

Homeworld Remastered CE, Titanfall, He-Man, Weeds, 2DS

Remember the one where He-Man rubs his hands over sand so fast it turns to glass, and then he uses the glass to create a cage, or what about the time he spun the sword around fast enough to create a tornado and then threw the tornado at someone? Get the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition…

Here Is The New Batmobile

Zack Snyder just teased the new Batmobile. I posted the wallpaper-sized version below. “Could be time to pull the tarp…Tomorrow?” You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

BioShock Infinite’s Health System Would Be Disgusting in Real Life

We all know how silly the video game trope of “restore health with food” is, but seeing someone try it in real life is even sillier. In Mega64’s latest video, they simulate Booker from Bioshock Infinite running around a public park searching for food to heal himself with after a fight. There are a lot…

The more I learn about Mousecraft, the more excited I get. Sony recently wrote a new blog postabout the cute-looking mashup of Lemmings and Tetris that gives some details about the game’s protagonist and token cat scientist named Schrödinger. Get it? The game comes out July 8th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC,…

Metal Gear Solid Remade With Team Fortress Characters

This superb Team Fortress version of the first Metal Gear Solid will probably make everyone a bit nostalgic really quickly. The talented animators of The Mystery Zone show that the spy from Team Fortress 2 would be an excellent replacement for Snake. Take a look: TF2 MGS: Deep Cover Operation [YouTube] To contact the author…

How Sega Planned To Crush Nintendo, 24 Years Ago

Blake J. Harris’ book Console Wars, out tomorrow, takes readers behind enemy lines to meet the men and women who created the exciting and exceptionally bitter rivalry between Sega and Nintendo. Below is an excerpt from the book, which details a pivotal meeting that took place in the fall of 1990 between Sega’s board of…

Disabled Gamer Plays Minecraft With His Eyebrows

Alexander Kostov, who has spinal muscular atrophy, can’t play video games using a keyboard or controller. Instead, he uses special equipment—voice controls, hand switches, and so forth. Now, thanks some help from the folks at the British charity organization Special Effect (which supports gamers with disabilities), Kostov can control Minecraft with his eyebrows They had…

Light-Up Bioshock Infinite Lighthouse Cake Topper

Bioshock Infinite lighthouse cake topper by phillysteak527: Everything was designed in Autodesk Inventor, cut on a Full Spectrum laser cutter, and printed on a Solidoodle 3…. Don’t buy a Solidoodle…. Learn from my mistake. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Farewell to Pokemon One a Day + Thank You Note for TAY • TAYnami – Ultimate Cliché Edition • Talk Time: A Show and a Game (How I Was Changed by Media) • NotGoodForReview – Brutal Doom TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…