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It’s FarmVille 2 Without All The Annoying Bits, And It’s Lovely

Somewhere behind the frustrating timers and social friend-bothering quests of FarmVille 2 there’s a lovely little farming and crafting simulator. Zynga brings out the best in the game with FarmVille 2: Country Escape for iOS and Android. Rather than porting FarmVille 2 over to mobile, bringing all of its baggage along, Zynga built FarmVille 2:…

Preorder Wolfenstein, Get Team Fortress 2 Armor And Hat

Wolfenstein: The New Order is now available for pre-purchase at Steam. Pre-purchasing unlocks the “Die Regime-Panzerung” and “Der Maschinensoldaten-Helm.” Or, Team Fortress 2 Heavy armor and hat. And speaking of Wolfenstein, the official site has four wallpapers available for download, including these: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best…

Keep it up Luigi, you don’t wanna fall behind. Here’s a superb animation from Slamschultz made for National Sibling Day, featuring the greatest brothers in video game history. Slamschultz [Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us…

They’re trying to put Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot on Steam. The pair of venerable MMORPGs, launched in 1997 and 2001, respectively, have recently come under the control of the newly-formed Broadsword Online Games, who took to Steam Greenlight in an effort to find a new audience for the two classics.

Minecraft Worlds, 3D-Printed. They’re Amazing.

Looking at these photos makes me want a 3D printer so bad. Printing figurines or other small items is one thing, but entire Minecraft worlds? Minecraft enthusiast Dave Russell used Mineways, an open source 3D printer program, to bring all these blocky builds to life. If you’re around Cambridge (Mass.), you can check these out…

Dust off your copy of Terraria, console gamers, ’cause the massive 1.2 update for the game’s Vita, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions lands today. The change notes for the free patch are here; it’s quite the read. This brings the console versions in line with Terraria’s PC version, which got the same update last October

Upcoming PS4 Update Introduces Beefy Video Editor, Pre-Loaded Games

Quality of life improvements for the avid video sharers and dedicated game pre-orderers of the PS4 community are on the way For video sharing, the upcoming 1.70 update will introduce SHAREfactory. The app lets you edit, combine, annotate or commentate recorded footage, giving you a clip which you can then share via the Share Screen…

The Fastest Way To Take Off A T-Shirt

All those years. All those years spent crossing my arms and pulling from the bottom, or yanking the back of the collar over my head, wasted. Imagine how much more time I’d have right now to watch instructional YouTube videos if I’d seen this instructional YouTube video when I was but a lad? With summer…

Watch Twelve Minutes Of Hitman Go Gameplay

The board game-like Hitman Go is now available at iTunes. In the twelve-minute no commentary video below, watch Agent 47 maneuver through several of the playset-like levels: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Old City, a game we first took a look at a few weeks ago, has a new trailer. It’s looking very, very cool.

LEGO Top Gun Should Be On The Front Page Of Every Newspaper

Ralph Savelsberg wanted to build a LEGO fighter jet, so he figured he may as well build one of the most iconic out there: not just an F-14 Tomcat, but Maverick’s F-14 Tomcat from 1986’s Top Gun. How LEGO builders conceptualise this stuff, just knowing what pieces will work where, never ceases to amaze me.…

The Top 100 Games On Steam Are (Probably) These Ones

Yesterday, Ars Technica published an exhaustive look at Steam sales figures. A day later and some slight adjustments have had to be made, thanks to some corrections to their data (it’s not a big deal), but something has been added to the report. A list of the top 100 games on Steam. Like the rest…

‘Attack on Titanfall‘ Would Be A Horrible Combination

Good thing Titanfall doesn’t have actual titans in it—that seems like a recipe for disaster. And by “real titans,” I mean the type of titans you’ll find in Attack On Titan. You know, the man-eating giant humanoids? Yeah, those. Those types of titans would be bad news, as this mash-up by happyhour shows. I think…

Boy’s Dying Wish Was For A Star Wars Funeral

Jack Robinson, from Portsmouth, England, was just four years old when he died earlier this month of an inoperable brain tumour. It’s the most tragic of passings, but if there’s any consolation to be had from such sadness, it’s that Jack’s dying wish (well, wishes) were granted. Jack’s parents, Terence and Marie, had helped him…

​If You Like Thief And Dishonored, Read This Book

Picture it: A beautiful, 18th-century city with a dark underbelly. The labyrinthine streets are faintly lit by alchemical light, and gangs of thieves and cutthroats roam the lower quarters and canal-ways. High above, Dukes and Dons attend gala society parties, far away from the plague-ridden quarters below. And somewhere, in the shadows, a master thief…

Male Smash Bros. Fighters With Samus’s New High Heels

As I’ve previously posted, Samus has high heels and a jiggle in Smash Bros. Former Adventure Time artist Natasha Allegri gave the male Smash Bros. characters the same heels. See Olimar, Link, and more below: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Ultimate Cosplay Hero

Cosplayers work hard to bring your favorite characters to life—but that doesn’t prevent things from going wrong come convention time. In fact, it’s not uncommon to experience small disasters when wearing a costume out in the wild. And that’s exactly where Captain Patch-It comes in. Discovered in Supanova Melbourne earlier this year, Captain Patch-It may…

​Which Gaming System Do You Use Most?

Here at Kotaku, we cover games for just about every major gaming system out there. PC, gaming consoles, handhelds, smartphones, web browsers… we’ve got it all. But it’s been a while since we asked you, our readers, what systems you use to play games. Today, I thought I would. For this poll, you can only…

People Are Playing Frogger On A Skyscraper

The comparison has been many many, many times by people trying to run and dodge through traffic: it feels just like playing Frogger. Except it’s terrifying, because you’re the frog. This is particularly troubling in developing countries still in need of a robust public infrastructure to regulate traffic. Spanish game studio Noobware is trying to…

Who Is The Other Marine In The Doom Box Art?

In the classic Doom box art, is the player character the marine in the foreground? Or the guy waving in the back? Or the guy watching the scene unfold in first person? Or the marines that die before the game starts? This is the manual, found at Wolfenstein goodies: Via R/Gaming Previously: Doom Myst poster…