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You Can Now Play Portal And Half-Life 2 On The Go

Last month Nvidia teased the upcoming release of the original Portal for its Tegra 4-powered Shield gaming portable. Good news — Portal is available on Google Play today. Better news — so is Half-Life 2. While the Shield is capable of streaming from a Nvidia-powered PC to the handheld screen, that’s not what these releases…

Ever wanted to learn how to draw a Pikachu? Nintendo’s got the video game for you. Pokémon Art Academy—the Pokémon-themed art game that was announced for Japan last month—will be out in the U.S. for 3DS this fall.

Diablo III Comes To PS4 And Xbox One This August

The third Diablo game will finally hit current-gen consoles (minus Wii U) this summer. Blizzard announced today that the Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition—which includes both the base game and the recently-released expansion, Reaper of Souls—will be out on August 19. In addition to PS4 and Xbox One, the Ultimate Evil Edition (what a name!)…

What An Odd Wolfenstein: The New Order Fan Film

Clinton Jones, AKA YouTube’s Pwnisher, spent five months putting together the Wolfenstein: The New Order fan film “The Liberation of London.” As shown in the image above, the film takes several very strange turns. From the teaser trailer released back on May 8, I was expecting some sort of gritty espionage thriller. The film’s description…

Hot Toys’ New The Winter Soldier Falcon Figure

Enjoy this photo gallery of the new 1/6 scale Falcon figure by Hot Toys—it’s like adding a tiny Anthony Mackie to your desk: Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier has been topping box offices around the world since it was released in theaters! With his distinctive mechanical wings and great performance by Anthony Mackie,…

The Powerpuff Girls have changed… Looks like Professor Utonium went batsh*t insane in this alternate universe of the cartoon, and instead of sugar and spice, he added cyborg bodysuits to his concoction. The Powerpuff Girls by Rickyryan [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Minecraft Prison Map Available For Download

PI Creative Team’s Minecraft server map looks like the setting for countless horror movies: You can download it here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Portal Meets Avatar In A Story About My Uncle

Starting May 28, you can use a grappling hook to explore a fantastic world in A Story About My Uncle: A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. Take help of your…

Famous Video Game Lines, As Voiced By Gilbert Gottfried

Those lines from Fallout that gave us goose bumps back then sure sound different with comedian Gilbert Gottfried‘s voice. That’s right, the voice of Iago, the annoying parrot from Aladdin, takes on famous video game lines from Super Mario 64, Final Fantasy VII and a lot more in this Game Informer video. I was hoping…

The Akira Live Action Film We Deserve

While we have to wait a few more years to see the full scope Hollywood translation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, a group of fans couldn’t wait any longer. As part of a crowd-sourced Indiegogo project, they’ve made a trailer with some of the most iconic scenes from the anime. It’s rather faithful to the original.…

A Year-Old Game Rules the Japanese Sales Charts

Sales charts are, as a rule, somewhat dull. That is, except when they are interesting. Funny that, no? And the most recent Japanese sales charts do have one intriguing factoid. The biggest selling game in Japan for the week between April 28 to May 5 is Yokai Watch for the 3DS. According to Famitsu, it…

3D-Printed Marker From Dead Space

3D-printed Marker from Dead Space You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

CGHub Rising From The Ashes

Last month, the digital art community was shocked when CGHub, long the biggest and best online community/resource for aspiring (and established) artists, disappeared off the face of the internet. Despite being managed by a capable and passionate team, the domain was owned by an external party, who with almost no warning had decided to pull…

Russia’s Government Wants To Hide The Kids From Gay Sims

The Sims series is general fare in most places, as popular with teenagers as it is with older folks. Oh, except in Russia, where fear of the gays and their gay propoganda has the game restricted. Russia being Russia, there’s a law – which has made international headlines over the last year – that considers…

We’re About To Lose Support For Some Of The Best PC Games Ever Made

As of June 30, a number of games – some of them among the best of all time – will have their online components cease to be supported. Among the casualties will be Battlefield 1942 (PC), C&C Generals (PC), Crysis (PC), Master of Orion III (PC), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC), the original Neverwinter…

Meet The Star Wars Actors Behind The Masks (And Under The Helmets)

Who were the stars of Star Wars? The obvious answers are Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, but they got to spend three movies with their faces visible. What about the people who played Stormtrooper #17, background Imperial Officer or Greedo? Practically nobody knows who they are, which is where Elstree 1976 comes in.…

I’m Completely Smitten By This Simple Little Physics Puzzler

I’d never heard of the game Kiwanuka prior to my regular Thursday afternoon App Store shopping spree this past week. Now I can’t stop talking about it. That I even dropped the $1.99 asking price on CMA Megacorp’s physics puzzler is strange — normally I pick up the games I’ve heard of, download anything new…

Elizabeth In Paris

Bioshock Infinite’s Elizabeth by Anthony Tan. Check out his take on Bloody Mary from The Wolf Among Us below: Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Happy Mother’s Day From Samus

Happy Mother’s Day by Gonzalo Ordonez Arias You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Games My Mother Played

(Originally published May 11, 2008) May 1st 1980 I came home from school to find my mother waiting there for me, a giddy smile on her lips. She always loved birthdays. Back then we were living in an apartment, my younger sister and I sharing one room, my older brother and sister sometimes sharing another,…