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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Star Wars The Next Generation: The Winners!
Seven days ago on a website right about here somewhere, our Photoshop-savvy readers were tasked with bringing together new Star Wars actors and classic Star Wars settings (more or less). While the brave waxinmyhead claims the prize, there are about 20 others. This was a really close one, folks. I spent a couple of hours…
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UncategorizedSee What The New Harmonix Mobile Game Does To Your Music
Developed by the music game masters at Harmonix and SuperVillain Studios, Record Run takes the music on your iDevice and turns it into a quirky little running game. Here are two choice selections from my MP3 library, gamified. First up is that modern classic, “Space Unicorn” by Nerf Herder front man Parry Gripp. This is…
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UncategorizedIf You’re A Geek In Atlanta, You Should Visit Battle & Brew
On no less than two separate occasions have I ventured to the Atlanta’s Battle & Brew game bar, with the intention of writing a feature on the popular hangout for fans of video games, e-sports, anime and everything else under the brilliant geek sun. Now that they’ve made their own promotional video, I don’t have…
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UncategorizedCats Playing Candy Crush Saga, Ladies And Gentlemen
If we take away one positive thing from the world’s once fiery-hot obsession with Candy Crush Saga, let it be this compilation of feline feet flailing against expensive electronics. YouTube’s Fabulous Mr. Pug (via Tastefully Offensive) compiled this collection of gaming cat videos from around the world, and while some of them may be playing…
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I Designed The Most Hideous Xbox One Controller
The custom controller masters over at The Controller Shop have built a photo-realistic lab for their website, where customers can create and save their dream creations. As you can see, this is not always the best idea. Blue sparkly directional pad? Check. Candy red buttons? Check. Pink and black metallic tiger striped face? Yup. Green…
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Enjoy This Week’s Gaming Wallpapers
Dark Souls 2 by K-putt leads off this week’s selection of over a dozen gaming wallpapers, including Child of Light, Broforce, and Amazing Spider-Man 2: Dark Souls 2 by Seyavesh The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by WordsintheWater The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by HolyFridge Broforce by littlegrasshopper Infamous Second Son by c4implosive Infamous Second Son by PsihoPerihelion…
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UncategorizedThis Vine Shows Why Developing Games For Android Is So Hard
Kotaku has featured Bounden before. It’s an upcoming game that relies on two people using an iPhone to work together to dance (or just end up tied in knots). It’s supposed to be released May 21 for iOS and Android, but that’s easier said than done: As the Vine above illustrates, it’s difficult to impossible…
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UncategorizedWatch An Actress Be Transformed Into Alien: Isolation’s Ripley
Amanda Ripley and the rest of the cast in Alien: Isolation are based on real actors. Check out the process of turning the actors into digital characters in the new developer’s diary below: Via A:I You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.
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UncategorizedThe Ultimate Version Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song
Every Saturday, Scott Bradlee and his slow jam crew deliver a sexy slow jam version of a classic cartoon theme. This week they’ve completely outdone themselves. Pokemon, Duck Tales and Chip and Dale — those were just warm-ups for the main event. Every time I see a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on a screen of…
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The Return Of The Worst Pokémon Trainer Ever
After more than a year on standby, Dorkly recently returned to continuing saga of Rusty, the Pokémon trainer who kept a dozen Bidoofs in a single ball, killed Snorlax with a Toyota Camry and drowned his Zubat trying to teach it Surf. As Rusty enters a Ghost Pokémon tower, past mistakes return to haunt him.
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The Saturday Morning Stream: Bound By Flame (All Done!)
In this week’s exciting episode of The Saturday Morning Stream, I play a challenging fantasy action-adventure game that just sort of showed up this week — Bound by Flame. I love it when a game sneaks up on me. It hardly ever happens in my line of work. When it does, it generally means one…
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3D-Printed Banner Saga And Dishonored Character Sculptures
Ubin from The Banner Saga sculpted by James Cain and 3D-printed by i.materialise. See his other busts based on Dishonored (which you can download and print yourself) and The Banner Saga below: You can download the Dishonored files to print your own bust here You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to…
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The Best of Kotaku, The Week of May 5
I don’t know about you guys, but I sure am grateful that this week is over. So let’s celebrate by reading all our best content right here. And if you want a t-shirt of the above Atari dig commemoration by pacalin found on Gamefreaks, here you go To contact the author of this post, write…
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Video Game E.T. Paper Toy
To celebrate the discovery of the buried Atari E.T. video game cartridges, Tubbypaws made this paper toy based on E.T.’s look in the game: You can download the E.T. paper toy here. Also, available: Doge Via GI You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs…
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Uncategorized276-Hit Combo In Street Fighter IV
Above is the culmination of a 276-hit, 1076-damage combo in Street Fighter. Watch video of the combo below: Chun Li’s infinites are a perfect place to start but there’s one major problem. As they only work against crouching characters, after the opponent is stunned (and they reset into standing) you won’t be able to use…
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