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Nintendo Blinks, Offers First DLC “Season Pass”

Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed are the kind of games with season passes. Offers where you pay a lot up front then get access to all that game’s DLC down the line. It doesn’t sound like a very Nintendo thing to do, does it? Oh, but it is. Nintendo is now offering a season…

3D-Printed Spaceship From Faster Than Light

This is a 3D-printed Kestrel from FTL: Faster Than Light, and you can buy your own: The project was posted by Redditor TheLobstersClaw. Here are making of photos: You can order your own at Shapeways You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

After 32 Years, Jenga Has Been Improved

All you need is a chess clock. With that simple addition to the game, you can turn Jenga into a thrilling duel where time is your worst enemy. Which is to say, with a chess clock, you can make Jenga way, way better. Tom Scott here shows us how a typical game might go down—I’m…

New Numenera Card Set

Monte Cook unveiled the Numenera Cypher Chest, a new collection of cards for the Numenera role playing game: The Cypher Chest will be a boxed set in a 8-1/2″ x11″ rigid box containing 250 non-random, full-color, double-sided cards, for $29.99. It will be out in July. The Cypher Deck allows GMs and players to randomly…

Dark Souls Tribute

Dark Souls Tribute by Kilian Eng You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Assassin’s Creed Wall-Climbing Can Actually Be Done

OK, so he doesn’t have a heavy cloak and half-a-dozen weapons weighing him down, and he’s not being chased by the local constabulary, but this guy still does a damn good impression of Assassin’s Creed’s trademark climbing. I’d always figured the game’s creators took a few liberties when it came to the speed with which…

What’s In 100 Battlefield 4 Battlepacks?

JackFrags plays a lot of Battlefield 4. As a result, he’s got a lot of Battlepacks to open. So here are the results of what was contained within 100 Battlepacks. You can watch the entire video yourself below, but here are his results: 25% XP boost: 69 50% XP boost: 40 100% XP boost: 3…

The Hearthstone Soundtrack Is So Good

The first thing that struck me about Hearthstone wasn’t the lovely art or the goofy writing; it was the music. That killer music. I’d been waiting to play the game until it came out on iPad, and finally dove in last weekend. The more I played, the more I liked playing. (To the point where,…

I Don’t Get Cats, And Neither Does Science

Dogs are big, dumb, infinitely lovable obedience machines. Cats—love ’em, hate ’em, or spend half your day giggleweeping to Internet videos of them—are anything but. Why are they so willfully difficult? What’s going on in their heads? The short version: we don’t really know. Cats are weird. My cat has done everything from comfort me…

Real PS4 Screenshots Justify All That ‘Next-Gen’ Hype

Back when the PS4 and Xbox One were announced, “next-gen” meant a lot of things to a lot of people. Smarter games, bigger games, different games, more ways to play with your friends. But it also meant that games would look a whole lot better. It could sometimes be hard to tell just what that…

Frozen’s ‘Let It Go,’ Done Grand Theft Auto Style

Things would have happened a little differently had Frozen taken place in Liberty City. Things might’ve been a bit more…violent. Okay, yes, Anna doesn’t actually sing the song in the movie, even though this video by boblester122 still pairs her with the tune. But hey, if you wanna play as Elsa the Snow Queen instead,…

Minecraft Makes An Incredible Beatbox

YouTuber Minkks pulled out all the sound effects from Minecraft and turned them into a series of songs made from only those sound effects. The results are fantastic. You can watch the whole playlist of videos here, and if you want to learn to do your own, Minkks even put together a tutorial here! Minecraft…

Blizzcon 2014 is officially taking place on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, Blizzard just announced in a press release. The convention will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California. Find out more about this year’s festivities and get yourself some tickets here.

The Elder Scrolls Online At Its Silliest

No MMO can exist without a handful of emotes and idle animations, and The Elder Scrolls Online is also no exception. IGN shared a short clip where the play around with the available ones. Some of these, like dancing, might feel bit overused in previous MMOs, but hurling buckets? Doing pushups? Those look awesome! Elder…

Everything Wrong With Spider-Man In 11 Minutes

I didn’t mind the first Spider-Man movie, but every superhero flick has plenty of crazy continuity errors and ridiculous tropes. Spider-Man‘s tally? 115 in 11 minutes. There are a lot of common sins here, but the one I never would’ve caught is a two-column newspaper blurb that copies text from the first column to fill…

Clone Wars Collector’s Edition, Titanfall for $37, Minecraft LEGO

Today at WBShop, you can pick up the collector’s edition box sets of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Blu-ray or DVD for some seriously great prices. The box comes complete with tons of special features, and a limited edition art book as well. May the deals be with you. Star Wars: The Clone Wars:…

Dark Souls II’s Backstory, Explained In A Minute

Like in every game in the series, the lore of Dark Souls II is cryptic and obscured. Lucky for us, the Lore in a Minute guys have our back. Some spoilers ahead. Lore in a Minute teamed up with Dark Souls fan and video creator VaatiVidya to break down the basic events that lead to…

A Behind-The Scenes Look At Kotaku

Have you ever wanted to watch Kotaku talk about Kotaku? “Hell yes!” you say? “I want nothing more in this world,” you say? Excellent. Here’s a video recording of our panel from PAX East earlier this month. We talk about games, new consoles, and what it’s like to work for everyone’s favorite video game website.…

How Much It Costs To Mortgage An Xbox One And PS4

Video games are an expensive habit. And few things are pricier than being an early adopter for a next-gen console like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. So if you’re really itching to dive into some quality PS4 or Xbox One games, are you better off renting one system or the other and paying it…

The First Player To Unlock All 2,057 Of World of Warcraft‘s Achievements

No, it wasn’t one of the Blizzard devs, but a rather enthusiastic Russian player, Хируко, who managed to unlock every single achievement in World of Warcraft (that’s 2057 at the moment) and an extra 205 of the ~300 Feats of Strengths unlocked. Technically this means he has nothing left to do (collect missing mounts, maybe?)…