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Help The Creator Of Spaceteam Make More Free Games, Please

Spaceteam is a really fun game that was successful partially because it was free. So Captain Spaceteam is trying to fund more free games with the “Spaceteam Admiral’s Club” Henry Smith didn’t get rich by creating Spaceteam, and isn’t looking to get rich with his next two games, Blabyrinth and Shipshape. He wants to keep…

It’d Take 32 Hours To Read Every Book In The Elder Scrolls Online

Bethesda just threw up this fun infographic for The Elder Scrolls Online, which officially launches tomorrow for PC and Mac. (It’ll be out on PS4/Xbox One in June.) My favorite stat: since May 2011, the development team has had 162,784 cups of coffee. How did they measure that? Did Zenimax Online force every staff member…

You Can Fly In The Transformers MOBA

The Transformers have seen some changes over the years. You might even say transformations (sorry). The once classic cartoon in which Decepticons battled Autobots on both earth and Cyberton has now become the most eardrum-bursting film franchise currently in existence. It’s also spawned several video games over the years, which have acted as both fan-driven…

Bioshock cats are creepy. via Reddit

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Skyward Sword is The Best Zelda • Ignorance is Bliss: The Immersion Factor in Video Games • TPS versus FPS: The Battle of The Islands • Why is Innovation Not Selling Games? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

One Year Ago Today, Disney Shut Down LucasArts

On April 3, 2013, the executives of Lucasfilm gathered the staff of LucasArts in a big room and dropped a bomb: Disney had decided to shut down the iconic video game studio The news came six months after Disney purchased Lucasfilm and enacted a hiring freeze at LucasArts, leading to a strange period of stasis…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the first expansion to Blizzard’s action-RPG, has sold 2.7 million copies on PC since its last week launch. According to Blizzard, the expansion’s final boss has been slain 1.5 million times so far—a small number, considering you get to kill him over and over in Adventure Mode

Okay. Maybe The Wii U’s Selling Point Will Be Graphics.

Behold new screenshots of Mario Kart 8, the best-looking screenshots I’ve seen from Nintendo in a long time. They’re an 11-image argument that, okay, maybe seeing classic Nintendo franchises with HD graphics is worth the price of admission for Nintendo’s newish Wii U console. UPDATE: Trailer added. It’s not that Nintendo hasn’t made great-looking games…

Elsa’s Palace From Frozen Made In Minecraft

Elsa’s Ice Palace from Frozen made in Minecraft: Made by RedditorCMStephens You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Super Nintendo Commercial Featuring A Young Paul Rudd

Watch a young Paul Rudd play Sim City and a Link to the Past in this Super Nintendo commercial. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here’s Pikachu conjuring a legit thunderstorm in the Wii U version of the next Super Smash Bros. As director Masahiro Sakurai put it, “Foes can dodge, of course, so the attack won’t hit consistently, but when it does, it sure feels good!” Looking at the badass visuals, I can certainly believe that. Pic of the…

“Free-to-play is the way that gamers should want their MMOs to be. If we don’t do a really good job, we don’t make a dime… it’s entirely our responsibility to make sure you’re entertained.” Everquest Next director David Georgeson explains to IGN why he considers free-to-play superior to other, pay-up-front models.

Daylight, the procedurally generated horror game, has a new release date—April 29 The date was revealed in the above trailer, released by Atlus yesterday. Hope that phone’s got one of those extended batteries. In any case, nota bene, horror fans: Daylight, PS4, PC, April 29.

New Journey Print By JC Richard

Journey print by JC Richard going on sale tomorrow at iam8bit

A Look At The Bloom From Torment: Numenera

Posted today, this is a sketch by Daniel Kim of The Bloom, an area in Torment: Numenera. Below you can see an in-engine blockout of the area: And speaking of Numenera, everything is 42% off today at the Monte Cook shop with the code Everything42 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…

Nova, Dominion Ghost, And More Heroes From Heroes Of The Storm

Nova, Dominion Ghost, is one of the characters in Blizzard’s upcoming Heroes of the Storm. Below, you’ll find wallpaper-sized images of a dozen more heroes, including the Queen of Blades. From the official site: Heroes of the Storm™ is a raucous online team brawler starring your favorite Blizzard characters. Build and customize heroes from across…

A Halo Movie Is Getting Made (Sort Of)

Microsoft just announced a Halo “digital feature project”. Ridley Scott and David Zucker (Naked Gun, Scary Movie) are involved as executive producers, while Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (who has directed some episodes of Heroes and Battlestar) will direct. This isn’t a BIG movie, in the sense that this won’t go to theatres in the summer and cost…

Riot Broke League Of Legends, And Fans Love It

Riot’s April Fools’ joke for League of Legends was to implement a temporary new mode called URF, or Ultra-Rapid Fire. It’s essentially a mode where the balance of the game is thrown out the window, with players able to cast explosive spells whenever the hell they wanted. Cooldowns are dramatically reduced, there are no spell…

New Album Disguised As Old PS2 Game

I’m a sucker for gimmick record packaging, and it doesn’t get more gimmicky (and awesome) as Cex’s latest album, which comes packed inside an old PS2 case and features GameFaqs-style print-outs for liner notes. Shipping in recycled GameStop PS2 pre-owned cases, the notes are the real highlight, as they nail old-school GameFaqs guides, right down…

​Guy Skypes In For Job Interview, Gets Mercilessly Pranked

It’s awkward enough doing a job interview over Skype. So it’s gotta be about 500% worse when it turns out whole thing is an elaborate prank. This latest joke, from Black Box TV, is awfully tricky—they’re lucky the patsy didn’t get more violent at the end, because I know I would’ve. (via VVV)