Well that GTA IV bowling session had an unexpected ending. Niko is lucky that veteran modder and YouTuber Helix_Snake, who can apparently mess up things in any game he wants, didn’t take him to play darts. This game is rigged [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

I Love Seeing the Persona 3 Characters All Grown Up

While it has “Persona 4” in the title, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is really a sequel to Persona 3 as much as Persona 4—especially as Ultimax now includes every member of the Persona 3 main cast we are likely to get. [Spoiler Note: All the information in this article and the included videos are from…

Lupin III Is Both a Terrible Adaptation and a Horrible Film

At the start of the new live-action Lupin III film, Fujiko, seeing one of her fellow thieves avoid a pressure-sensitive museum floor by using a rocket pack, utters, “You’ve got to be joking”—which is more than a little apt as it was exactly what I kept saying again and again over the next two hours…

G.I. Joe Actor Allegedly Extorted Over Sexy Talk

Two women were arrested this week in South Korea over an alleged attempt to extort five million dollars from G.I. Joe actor Lee Byung-hun. One of the women, it seems, is a K-pop singer. According to Sports Chosun and eNews Today (via tipster Sang), Lee met a model and K-pop singer Dahee Kim of the…

10-15 More Years, And Games Might Actually Look Like This

Silicon Studio from Japan are, as you might recall, known for working on the Bravely Default series, and for their rather incredible next-gen engine, which they demoed with a short clip back in April. Now, they’re back, with their tech looking better than ever. The premise seems to be the same as in the last…

The Persona 5 Protagonist Has a Very Appropriate Nickname

We don’t know the name of Persona 5‘s protagonist. In Japan, gamers are calling him either one of two things: “P5‘s main character” (P5の主人公) or “Potter” (ポッター). You know, as in Harry Potter. But they’re not the only ones calling him this. As seen on forums and sites like GameFAQs and Giant Bomb, the English-speaking…

Heavy Metal Baby Is Totally Throwin’ Up the Horns

Babies do funny things! Some of them are accidental. Other times, they have to be on purpose. “Where did you memorize that…” tweeted out new father Nao Hazuki, including a photo of his newborn daughter throwing the horns. This is not your typical Japanese papa as Hazuki is the vocalist for an Osaka deathrash metal…

Tiny Madden Player Is The Game’s Cutest Little Glitch

Scouts said he was too small for the NFL. Well, Titans LB Christian Kirksey sure showed them.

“Don’t Forget Your Jacket!”, Mother Robot Shouted

Lukas Fußhöller is a freelance concept artist from Germany. He has some cool ideas on what robots could look like. These “kitbash” designs are one of the few truly fresh takes on bipedal killing machines I’ve seen for a while. What they’re lacking in practicality (cleaning them must be a nightmare), they more than make…

Over 1000 Game Creators Call For An End To “Hateful, Harassing Speech”

Stating that everyone “has the right to play games, criticize games and make games without getting harassed or threatened”, some of the biggest names in gaming have put their names to an open letter addressing the community conflict that’s been so prominentonline over the past few weeks. That number includes developers from companies like EA,…

Homeworld’s Cutscenes Now In HD, Look…OK

Relic’s space strategy game Homeworld, one of the all-time greats, is getting a long-overdue remake so that it runs properly on modern PCs. Which means aside from prettier spaceships and asteroids, we’re also getting prettier cutscenes. Most of this clip below is marketing fluff designed as a PAX panel, but in the opening section you…

Madden Tiny Linebacker Glitch

Multiple users are reporting seeing Tennessee Titans linebacker Christian Kirksey as one foot, two inches tall in Madden 15 Ultimate Team. Tiny, but still capable of making plays: Kirksey endorses the glitch: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.