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You Should Really Listen To The Full Mario Kart 8 Soundtrack

We still have to wait a few more weeks to play Mario Kart 8, but here’s something to help tide us all over until the game finally launches at the end of May. If you go over to Nintendo’s main Mario Kart 8 website, you can spend the rest of your Friday listening to the…

​The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Kotaku Movie Review

The great thing about this Peter Parker is that you believe it when he cries. WARNING: Mild spoilers follow for the plot of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 I wasn’t a fan of the first Amazing Spider-Man film when it came out two years ago. Director Marc Webb’s initial take on Marvel Comics’ renowned superhero didn’t…

I’m Already In Love With This Indie Sky Pirate Game

This is 20,000 Leagues Above the Clouds, an upcoming indie game that looks like Sid Meier’s Pirates! in the sky, and if you thought of Skies of Arcadia, rest assured you’re not alone. It looks incredible. Check out the teaser trailer: A three-person team of Swedish indie developers is working on 20,000 Leagues, which will…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Stepson Plays Video Games On “Easy” • What Video Game Features Would Improve Your Everyday Life? • Short Experiences in Terraria, Hotline Miami, and The Lone Survivor TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

EVE Valkyrie Is The Closest We May Ever Get To Real Space Dogfighting

Fun, beautiful and stunningly immersive, EVE Valkyrie could be virtual reality’s Wii Sports moment. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK EVE Valkyrie—or EVE-VR, as it was known this time last year, when it was just a tech demo made for developer CCP’s annual gathering of internet spaceship pilots, EVE Fanfest—has come a long way…

MDugarchomp is an appropriation artist from Boston with a penchant for Pokémon and modernist painter Charley Harper Her latest big project, a trio of posters, depicts the Generation I starter Pokémon and their evolutions. If you wanna see more, check out the rest of her stuff at Tumblr, Etsy and/or deviantART Appoképriation [Etsy, via r/pokemon]…

This is Codemancer, AKA Programming 101: The Game. Basically, it’s a turn-based fantasy game designed to teach how programming works to kids or, well, pretty much anyone, with a combat system based on writing simple programs. It’s on Kickstarter, but it’s already funded, so expect to see it on PC in July next year.

DayZ Standalone has sold two million copies as of last night. This is notable because A) it’s still in alpha, B) it only came out mid-December, and C) it was never part of a sale. Very, very impressive.

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Is Real, Here’s The Debut Trailer

Because Modern Warfare isn’t modern enough any more. The next Call of Duty game is called Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Here’s the game’s first trailer. If you thought the second Black Ops game took some technical liberties, hoo boy. This one is going full-blown science-fiction. Note that the game doesn’t just star the vocal…

New Vans Star Wars Sneakers And Apparel

Coming to a store (and then reseller) near you, Vans unveiled a new collection of limited edition shoes, tees, hats, and bags combining vintage Vans patterns with a dash of Star Wars: Here’s the details on availability: The Vault by Vans x Star Wars Collection is available in a limited production in the U.S at…

Portal Cupcakes

Portal cupcakes made by Redditor double0nothing You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Giant Titanfall Action Figure Dropping On Your Wallet

threeA is one of the best toy companies on the planet. threeA has the license to make big, expensive Titanfall figures. This will only end well. You can see the first Titan/pilot pairing here. The Atlas stands an enormous 20.5″ tall, with a 6″ pilot scaled to accompany it. The pilot is unpainted in these…

The Sadness Of The New Tony Hawk Game

Oh, Tony. Your name was once synonymous with good games and even better soundtracks. Seeing your brand reduced to this, even after all the recent heartbreak, is just…sigh. Below is a clip of Tony Hawk’s Shred Session being played by, well, Tony Hawk himself. It’s a free-to-play mobile game. That’s an endless runner. Well. Skater.…

Elder Scrolls Online’s Grind Begins Before You Even Start The Game

Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi – never a bastion of serious business – has a sticker for The Elder Scrolls Online that is as funny as it is foreboding. And yes, Americans, that $88 pricetag is correct. That works out to be USD$81.50 by today’s conversion. Josh Whittington [Twitter]

The Next Call Of Duty Stars…Kevin Spacey?

UPDATE – Looks like Spacey is actually in the game. Way more here. There was a bunch of Call of Duty stuff teased earlier today that, yawn, was about as interesting as watching people complaining about Call of Duty. This little trailer, though, is interesting If there’s one thing that could revive my interest in…

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Ars Technica writes about the best strategy to use in RPS…well, assuming you’re playing best out of three, and assuming your opponent hasn’t also read the same article.

Blu-Ray Is Dying

It was once the future! A shiny (sort of) new physical media that would let us store so many gigabytes of data on our discs that we wouldn’t know what to do with it all! So it may surprise you to learn that Blu-Ray is already on the downward slide. Sony’s latest financial results are…

If Michael Bay Designed Yoshi

We haven’t been too impressed with how the Ninja Turtles look in the upcoming Michael Bay-produced movie. We aren’t the only ones, either — illustrator Shmorky tried to imagine what Yoshi would look like if Michael Bay redesigned him. via Shmorky To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Community Manager Fired After Calling Donald Sterling ‘A Victim’ [UPDATE]

Game studio Turtle Rock (Left 4 Dead, Evolve) has let go of their community manager following a controversial tweet in which he called disgraced L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling “a victim” who “has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home.” Sterling, who has owned the…

Looks Like No One Lives Forever Is Finally Getting A Re-Release

And lo, the clouds parted, and the sun shone down, and a game studio known for re-releasing classic PC games filed for a trademark on one of the great lost video game series of our age. As spotted by Siliconera, an outfit called Night Dive Studios has filed trademark applications for No One Lives Forever,…