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One Of The Best Games At PAX Isn’t A Video Game

If you went to a college where people were running around with water guns, you’ve probably heard of the folk game Assassin PAX provides another perfect place to play the game, with over 60,000 people in attendance. The idea of the game is simple, and can be played anywhere there’s a big group of people…

Destiny, New Humble Bundle, Tomb Raider, Logitech G930, Frozen

Whatever platform you plan to play Destiny on, you can snag $10 Newegg credit by pre-ordering today. | PS4 | One | PS3 | 360 Frozen | $13! The Logitech G930 Wireless 7.1 is your runner-up for Best Gaming Headset, and since your winner was the Astro A50, the G930 is the best affordable option…

Lids Baseball Cap Features An LCD Screen For Changeable Logos

This seems to be a real product you can preorder right now—LiveLids baseball hat, featuring an LCD screen for swappable images: You can preorder one now: Made from the finest materials and craftsmanship Ultra thin high resolution 2.8″ LCD Holds up to 100 logos and images Seamlessly integrated controls under the brim of the cap…

Alternative Box Art For PS Vita Games

Box art for PS Vita game Severed. One of several new alternative PS Vita box art images posted today by Renpatsu: Renpatsu has posted links to many more alternative cover designs here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

We’ve Already Found The Best Video Game Mod Of 2014 [UPDATE]

UPDATE (3:30pm): What we first thought was a bug is actually an intentional fan project, according to Telltale, the company behind The Wolf Among Us. “This is actually a fan made modification using existing game animation assets from a previous episode,” a Telltale rep tells us. (The episode in question.) Kotaku‘s headline has been changed…

A Delightful Look At The Opening Of The First Legoland In 1968

The Legoland amusement part in Billund, Denmark is holy ground for fans of the colorful plastic bricks. Back in 1968, when the park first opened, it was an opportunity for charmingly British narrators to say things like “sprawling landscape land of make-believe.” “But for the children, everything they see here is real. After all, they’ve…

Facehugger Egg Cake To Promote Alien: Isolation

This facehugger egg is cake and chocolate: Made by Choccywoccydoodah for the Alien: Isolation team Previously: Alien: Isolation posters You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Dark Souls II Players Have Collectively Lost 13,051,713,397,869 Souls

That. That is a big number. I had to turn my phone sideways and everything to work that out. I don’t even know how to say it. The staggering figure is the combined souls lost across both 360 and PS3, and the result of some 252, 163, 804 deaths overall. Suddenly that 20K lost in…

Genius And His Lego Robot Take Cheating To A New Level

Uli Kilian once set a world record by solving 100 Rubik’s Cubes while running a marathon at the same time. So he’s smart. And fit. But the smartest thing he’s done might have been building a robot to tap his iPad screen in the middle of the night so that he wakes up to a…

Monument Valley Prints Available…Soon

Monument Valley prints are coming “soon“: Previously: A look at the Monument Valley sketchbook You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

1981 Smartwatch With A Floppy Drive And Full Keyboard

The April 1981 “Future Computers” cover of Byte magazine featured a smartwatch with a floppy drive and Qwerty keyboard. Yes, the April 1, 1981, issue: The cover illustration was by Robert Tinney and you can buy a print at his site. You can also read the entire issue at the Internet Archive. Via Time and…

The Insides Of Video Game Hardware Make For Pretty Good Artwork

Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In spite of that, most gadgets aren’t exactly things that you could imagine hanging up on your wall to impress new guests. BRS Innovations, a small startup from Ottawa, Canada, wants to change that. It recently launched a Kickstarter…

Riot Police Training In A Fake Town In England

James Rawlings photographed riot police training at the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Center in Gravesend, Kent: He describes the project: Architecture of Conflict is an ongoing project documenting environments affected by human conflict in various forms. Control looks into an environment created with the sole purpose of training the Metropolitan Police in all forms of…

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Evolve Is One Of The Best Games We Saw At PAX

At PAX East last weekend, Team Kotaku went and played Evolve, the upcoming co-op shooter that pits a group of four hunters against one vicious monster. Yesterday, we talked about it. Here’s that conversation. Jason S. Hello, Team Kotaku. We are here to talk about Evolve, the upcoming game from Turtle Rock Studios (the Left…

The Plants Vs. Zombies War Goes West With More Free DLC

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare just keeps getting better and better. Today EA drops the free Western-themed “Zomboss Down” game pack, adding two maps, eight new characters and tons of new customization items. They’re also raising the level cap for all characters from 20 to 30, which means ten more levels’ worth of challenges to…

Professor Layton Would Be The Perfect Mastermind In Grand Theft Auto

Professor Layton is getting a proper crossover game this year, but the talented animators at Polaris have let their imagination run wild and put the archeologist gentleman and some puzzles into Grand Theft Auto V If you think about it, the professor’s calm, passive-aggressive behavior fits into a world full of mad criminals after all.…

Princess Peach Gets Her Own Damn Wii Remote Plus

I’ve managed to resist picking up the Mario and Luigi themed Wii remotes thus far, but the addition of a Princess Peach motion controller at the end of the month has the game paraphernalia collector in me twitching. Dammit, Nintendo. Showing up in stores later this month, the Peach Pink Wii remote isn’t just a…

Realistic Pokémon Snap Would Give Me Nightmares

Hey that’s not the Mewtwo and the Cerulean Cave I remember from the Pokémon games. This—otherwise amazing—redesign by DeviantART artist arvalis is way more creepy. It reminds me of those combat-free horror games (Outlast, anyone?), mixed with the N64 classic, Pokémon Snap I don’t want Pokémon to be real anymore. What Lies in the Cerulean…

Video Shows Off Indie Platformer’s Really Cool Puzzles

It’s full of those little moments that make you go “ooooh.” Like that one up there, when the little guy jumps over. Ooooh. The game is Four Sided Fantasy, a platformer currently happily chipping away at a $35,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. It’s not doing all that well, which really sucks, ’cause the game looks…