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Piranha Plant Recycling Dumpster

JRYU JRYU turned a dumpster into a Piranha Plant for Global Inheritance’s upcoming art show at Coachella. It’s still functional—bottles can be thrown into the plant’s mouth. Below, see prior exhibits by Global Inheritance, including human-powered slot cars and the Recyclosaurus Rex. Recyclosaurus Rex from Coachella 2013. Human-powered slot cars from Solar Decathalon 2013. Wall-E…

A Sniper Rifle Has Never Been So Romantic

Forget about the items you’ve found inside Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. supply crates—there’s no way those items are as sweet as the stuff inside this real-life Mann Co. crate. That’s because this is a special crate, created by MrHackworth when he wanted to ask his sweetheart’s hand in marriage. “After four amazing years, I…

Free Walking Dead #1, B2G1 Free Games, Playstation Plus [Deals]

Target has the $450 Xbox One Titanfall Bundle with a free year of Xbox LIVE thrown in, effectively bringing the price down to $390. This is the best deal on the Xbox One so far. This deal also applies to the “standard” Forza 5 Xbox One Bundle. Update: It’s over. The Hobbit: The Desolation of…

30 Minutes Of Being Trapped In A Nightmare

What happens when your crazy backwards music game is a commercial failure? For Matt Gilgenbach, the answer was depression and nightmares. So like any good game developer, he made it into a game, which put us in a series of situations inspired by his nightmares. Neverending Nightmares is an adventure game with no HUD, no…

True Detective‘s Rusty Cohle Is Just The Worst

As much as I enjoyed True Detective, I couldn’t spend more than a couple of minutes in the company of Matthew McConaughey’s Rustin Cohle without going completely insane. Pete Holmes demonstrates why.

Scrabble For Cheaters Fundraiser Featuring Peter Dinklage

It’s time to sign up support a team in the Seventh Annual Scrabble for Cheaters fundraiser to benefit 826NYC. As always the list of cheats you can buy to use in the tournament are fun: On Saturday, May 3rd, join Peter Dinklage and Jonathan Marc Sherman for Scrabble for Cheaters 2014, an elimination Scrabble tournament,…

Doraemon Meets Akira In This Bleak Vision of the Future

Japan has selected the adorable robot cat Doraemon as its special ambassador for its 2020 Olympic bid. And as we all know, Akira predicted the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. That can mean only one thing… From animator Aleix Pitarch comes a brief glimpse into the horrible, inevitable dystopia that will surely envelop Neo-Tokyo in a few…

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Mario Kart 8

“Nintendo, man,” my friend Jeremy said to me. “You’ll fall in love with them. But then they’ll break your heart.” I had just shown up at his apartment to lend him my Wii U for the week or so I was going to be in California last month. Watching as I opened my bag and…

​Microsoft’s Big Plans for Xbox TV

Remember the Xbox One reveal? There was a lot of talk about TV, wasn’t there? Now Microsoft’s new console is out and all that TV-centric chatter has died down. But there’s a lot of work happening to produce and deliver original shows directly to Xbox users. Microsoft clearly wants Xbox Live to become the next…

The Vault Boy Of The Month T-Shirt Is Cyborg

This month’s limited edition Fallout tee celebrates the cyborg perk: On sale in Bethesda’s Fallout shop You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

AirMech Arena is Like DOTA For People Who Love Robots

If you’ve always wanted to have more automatons in your DOTA experience, then I may have just the thing for you. AirMech Arena is a fast-paced free-to-play MOBA that puts you control of giant killer mechs that can transform into vehicles like a military jet or helicopter. And it’s coming out for the Xbox 360…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Ani-TAY: Buddy Complex Review and Discussion • My Time Gender Bending in MMOs • The Ultimate Guide to Fishing in Elder Scrolls Online • Multiplayer Unlocks Really Suck, Don’t They? • Why I’m Bored with Adventure and Art Games TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…

Putting Video Game Trade-Ins To The Test

Remember that time you walked into a big chain store with a shopping bag full of games, thinking you were going to cash out big time, only to leave with a gift card housing barely enough credit to grab even one new game? Of course you do; we’ve all been there. GameStop used to be…

Happy Meals Will Feature Boys And Girls Spider-Man Toys

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be featured next in McDonald’s Happy Meals. Above, you can see the toys for boys. Girls will be getting a different selection of Spider-Man toys: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Iconic Album Covers, Recreated in… GTA V

It’s a really great way to prove how big and popular GTA V is, when someone uses it to recreate some classic album covers. Here’s PizzaBagels‘ gallery, with Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon on top and Blondie, The Beatles and The Ramones below. No Skrillex this time—must be the effect of the…

It’s Looking Bad For Peter Parker In The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Game

As if three movie villains weren’t enough, Electro and the Green Goblin are are joined by the ugliest Kingpin ever, bad-hair-lighting Black Cat and… is that Carnage? Yeah, Parker is screwed. Activision tried to sneak a little Carnage into the trailer, but I can smell a Cleetus a mile away. It helps that I was…

To celebrate the start of Game of Thrones‘ fourth season, DeviantART artist Betteo made an excellent stylization of the show’s characters. Despite the minimalistic style you can still recognize all of them easily. Tiny (but funny) spoilers and more characters in the full piece: Play the game by Betteo [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature…

Shrek Mod for Goat Simulator Breaks the Game Even More

Goat Simulator might be one of those games that don’t need any fan-made mods, being already glitchy enough—in a good way of course. Modder Dafini thought otherwise and added an angry, rampaging version of poor Shrek to the game. Who’s no longer bipedal… Here’s a quick demonstration by MattShea369. It will test your faith in…

Budapest’s New Subway Totally Looks Like Quake

With its monumental, raw design and lighting, Budapest’s new, fourth metro line undeniably has a lot in common with old-school FPS games. Quake II in this particular case. The mock-up pictures, made by Tumblr user Neveletlen speak for themselves, though hopefully no one will rocket jump through these concrete walls: Pics via Neveletlen [Tumblr] To…