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Fan art of the newly revealed Street Fighter character Decapre

Custom Bioshock Infinite gift box

Photos of the movie-style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have leaked. Raphael looks pretty good.

The Sequel To The Best Solitaire/Golf Crossover Is Coming April 3

Big Fish Games’ Fairway Solitaire — an odd mix of the classic card game and golf — took us by surprise back in 2012. We won’t make the same mistake with the sequel, Fairway Solitaire Blast, coming to iOS and Android April 3. I can feel those eye rolls, you know. I realize presenting you…

Call Of Duty Ghosts: Custom Action Figures

Call of Duty: Ghosts custom action figures by Stronox: Juggernaut Logan T. Riley Simon “Ghost” Riley Female Ghost Operative With Wolf Companion Maniac You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Is Back, And Fans Aren’t Happy

Atari announced today that they plan to revive RollerCoaster Tycoon, a series of video games in which you invite people to a theme park and figure out how to properly murder them. But RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, as it will be called, isn’t the proper PC game that fans might have expected. Instead it will…

The Closest Thing To An HD Remake of Super Mario 64

The original Super Mario 64 was made 18 years ago. But if it was being developed today? It might look a bit like this. The footage above, which shows a more realistic, modern take on Super Mario 64, is actually a fan-made remake of the original. The project is being developed by aryoksini in the…

The Famous “Wall Of Death” Stunt Looks Just As Crazy In GTA V

Sometimes people question if GTA has broken physics that allow some of the crazy stunts we see, but this stunt has actually been done in real life. If you aren’t familiar, the “Wall of Death” is a real circus stunt done with actual cars and motorcycles. There’s no custom-built pit in Los Santos, so you…

Why New Video Games Still Cost $60

Call of Duty vs. Battlefield. Disney Infinity vs. Skylanders. Every year, intense marketing battles happen over which games will dominate certain categories. Why don’t publishers like EA or Activision do what marketplace competitors do in other areas do and simply undercut the price? The long answer is complicated and a little bit shady. The short…

Star Trek: TNG, Firefly Graphic Novels, Watch Dogs, Titanfall [Deals]

Time to boldly pay less than any man one has paid before. The first five remastered seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation on blu-ray are all discounted today, hitting some of their lowest prices so far. It’s going to be a long long time before these sets ever become what we consider cheap, so…

New poster for The Maze Runner via IMP

If Your Coworkers Were Actually Zombies, How Would You Survive?

Working an office job can make one feel like a zombie. Corporate Lifestyle Simulator takes the metaphor and runs with it, making you an average cube dweller faced with an office full of zombie coworkers. It’s an expansion to a game from last year called Zombies, that adds new levels, weapons, boss fights, music, and…

Milkshakes and Lego at the Alien Isolation team breakfast.

We’re Sending a Cartoonist To Cover Game Developers Conference 2014

We’ve got some reporters on the scene at this week’s big Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, but we’re also trying something new: we’ve got a cartoonist covering the show for us. Writer/artist Elizabeth Simins will be hanging out at GDC all week, filing comic strips each day to chronicle her adventures at the show.…

Forget Titanfall, Garden Warfare Is Getting Free DLC Tomorrow

You’re really pretty, Titanfall, and you know I’ll be coming back to you eventually. It’s just I’ve got this date with a free new map and game mode for a game where I don’t feel like a complete ass for getting a low kill count. I’m still playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare weeks after…

Introducing Two New Kotaku Subsites, For Admirers Of Cool Stuff

I’ve got two new Kotaku offshoots to tell you about today, two new subsites for people who enjoy to look at the spectacular. First, take a look at cosplay.kotaku.com, a new cosplay-centric blog helmed by tireless Kotaku staffer Luke Plunkett. Luke has somehow found time to spin off his weekly “fancy pants” cosplay round-ups into…

Retro-styled indie horror game Home is coming to PS4 and PS Vita this year. Released in June 2012 for PC, Home has got numerous updates and lots of new content since then—all of which will be part of the game’s console versions. Check out the creator’s post over at the PlayStation Blog for more details.

Beloved Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi Leaves Konami

Koji Igarashi, a veteran game producer best known for his work on the Castlevania series, has left Konami. His last day at the Tokyo-based game company was March 15. Igarashi joined Konami in 1990, and wrote the hit game Tokimeki Memorial before moving on to Castlevania with the classic Symphony of the Night. With his…

Former THQ Boss Dishes On The Games They Left Behind

The company that used to publish the blockbuster Company of Heroes and Metro franchises imploded in rapid and spectacular fashion in late 2012, getting its assets sold off in early 2013. Some of its holdings, like the WWE and Saints Row games, found homes. But the fate of other members of the former THQ family…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Pros and Cons of Diablo III’s New Skill Progression System • That Other Game With ‘Dark’ In The Title • Heading Back To Skyrim TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.