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Life-Sized Statue Of The Agent From CounterSpy

Life-sized statute of Agent Chevalier from Dynamight’s CounterSpy You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

A Breakdown of The New Smash Bros. Mode

Based on what we’ve seen of Smash Run, the recently-revealed multiplayer mode in Super Smash Bros. where players traverse dungeon-like levels and collect power-ups, it looks like the 3DS-specific mode could be a blast. The smaller details hidden in the Smash Run footage—which GameXplain break down in the video above—only solidify that notion. Here is…

Indie RPG Channels Old-School Ys

Meet Chasm, an upcoming indie 2D dungeon-crawler inspired by the likes of Ys III: Wanderers From Ys and other old-school RPG-slash-platformers from the 16-bit days. Chasm is out for PC this fall. We played it at PAX East this past weekend. Hands-on video impressions above.

Child of Light continues to look gorgeous as heck. Ubisoft’s new RPG will be out April 30 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U. New trailer above.

The Big Thing You Might’ve Missed During Last Night’s Game of Thrones

They say the devil is in the details—that’s certainly the case in Game of Thrones, at least. If you haven’t watched the latest two episodes of Game of Thrones, and if you don’t mind discussion of what will probably become a big plot point in future episodes, you should stop reading now: this article contains…

A Closer Look At One Of The Prettiest Dungeon Crawlers Out There

Straight out of PAX East 2014, here’s Below, a serene dungeon crawler from Capy, the company behind Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery. It’s hard to capture just how pretty this game really is, but we did what we could.

​Dark Souls Erotic Fanfiction is Actually Really Funny

Rule 34 at work again: YouTube user Protag has written some pretty funny Dark Souls erotic fiction, then recorded a reading of it for the Internet in a variety of pleasing British accents. It’s called The Legend of the Twin Humanities. It includes the phrase “He was balls deep in sorrowful lamentation,” and also very…

After Eight Years In Development, World Of Darkness Is No More

In 2006, Icelandic EVE Online developer CCP Games merged with White Wolf Publishing, announcing a massively multiplayer role-playing game based on the latter’s popular World of Darkness supernatural role-playing setting. Today that project has been cancelled. According to an official message posted on CCP’s website and distributed to the press via email, the cancellation marks…

2DS with Pokemon X for $100, 3DS XLs On Sale, 840 EVO 1TB, South Park

Whether you want a 2DS or 3DS XL, today is a good day to get one. The highlight here is the 2DS bundled with Pokemon X for $100, which is an extremely low barrier to entry to get yourself into that portable game ecosystem. Target is also throwing in a $40 gift card with the…

The Ten Plagues, Ranked

1. Slaying of the firstborn 2. Boils 3. Locusts 4. Water turned into blood 5. Diseased livestock 6. Darkness 7. Lice 8. Flies 9. Thunder/hail 10. Frogs Happy Passover, friends Top image via Wiki Commons

Someone Wrote A Book About Street Fighter‘s Greatest Match

It’s been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there’s a book about it. The myriad low-res videos that capture their…

New Threadless Tee Honors Classic Atari Box Art

Nostalgia Mathiole on sale at Threadless Previously: Gaming’s Feminist Illuminati tee You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

I Think I Found My New Favorite Titanfall Move

Instead of calling in your Titan just as the match is ending to unload on the enemy dropship, what if you saved your Titan? Just for a bit longer? At the end of this episode of DefendTheHouse’s latest Mythbusters show they call in their Titan just as the dropship’s health is nearing its end. The…

Voice Of Planet Earth Making A Nature Documentary For The Oculus Rift

David Attenborough, the journalist behind many beloved nature documentaries including the Planet Earth series, is going fully next-gen for one of his upcoming projects. It’s a movie called Conquest of the Skies, and unlike any of Attenborough’s previous work, it’s being made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, director John Morris told the website…

​New Game from the Creators of Guacamelee Looks Wickedly Twisted

This is Severed, a game where the heroine has to put herself back together. Literally. Drinkbox Studios—makers of last year’s well-loved luchadore action-platformer Guacamelee—just revealed their next game via the very flashy trailer above. It looks like it’s headed to touchscreen devices, based on the gestural input prompts seen in the clip. Here’s how Drinkbox…

Kotaku UK Is Officially Live

If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK’s own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today. If you have any questions about what this means for you as a reader, the lovely Keza MacDonald—the UK site’s editor—has all the answers To…

The Vita Gets A Sweet-Looking New Action Game

Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies Looks…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Made It Great, The Community Made It Better • Tales of Vesperia: Thoughts and Feelings • A Day at PAX East 2014 • Why Brütal Legend is Actually A Super Amazing Game TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

New HBO Show Makes A Pretty Good Joke About Mass Effect‘s Ending

The characters on HBO’s new show Silicon Valley work in tech, and they clearly know a thing or two about video games. So when it comes time to articulate the pointlessness of one of their peers, they’ve got a pretty solid frame of reference to work with. In this scene from last night’s episode, the…

Enjoy Logging Into Your Workstation With These Gaming Wallpapers

An Animus workstation screen is one of today’s dozen gaming wallpapers: Battlefield 4 by Timu Battlefield 3 by Leibniz Project Cars by R8TEDM3 Skyrim by Unreal Dishonored by Blinck The Banner Saga by RK9039 Bioshock Infinite by Thorgal Batman: Arkham Origins by Thorgal Remember Me by Alastor Castlevania Lord of Shadows by Auto-Reply DMC by…