Pets Will Hate This Cheeky Dino Robot

It’ll be hard to be a pet in a household where one of these smart, remote-controlled baby dino robots can run around freely. While the one in the clip is just an early prototype, Spin Master’s robot dino will be able to perform a lot of cool tricks when it arrives sometime this fall. It…

Sloth Quest Looks Stupid, But I Still Wanna Play It

Or I want to watch people play it, at least. Looks like a perfect game to get keyboard-smashingly frustrated over. Sloth Quest is a somewhat QWOP-esque platformer about being a sloth. Swinging from vine to vine, dressing up in costumes, dodging… alligators and tree-dwelling leopards. Actually, go ahead and read the developer’s description. Like the…

How I Wooed a Virtual Girl in Just 74 Days

Last week I asked your help in deciding which of the three possible romantic foils in Japanese dating sim New Love Plus+ I should try dating. The winner by a landside was fighting gamer Rinko Kobayakawa. But before I could get to the dating part of the game, I had to first successfully woo her.…

It’s a Lot of Fun Watching a Little Girl Take over the World

World Conquest Zvezda Plot is an anime with a quirky premise: Watch as a little girl and her evil generals try to take over modern day Japan. It’s exactly as fun as it sounds. Good – Team Rocket Protagonists In classic superhero anime, there is always some kind of evil organization trying to take over…

A Kick-Ass 2 Game Is Still Coming And Here Is The Trailer

Freedom Factory Studios, which previously made the poorly reviewed game Young Justice Legacy, released this trailer for a Kick-Ass 2 game. The trailer simply says “coming soon.” Via CBR You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

New Super-Articulated Solid Snake Action Figure

Solid Snake leads of the new slightly smaller line of super-articulated figures by Kaiyodo. Revol Mini Snake will be 4.25″ tall and sell for around $25 this July. He’ll be joined in the new line of figures by Kinnikuman: Via Tomopop and TAG Hobby You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to…

Splinter Cell: Echoes Cover

Cover by Marc Laming for Splinter Cell: Echoes #1. From the publisher: Splinter Cell Echoes takes place between the events of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction® and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist™. The comic book series bridges the gap between the two games with a realistic, original story that sets the tone for the opening…

A Street Fighter Series That Might Not Suck

Aside from a few decent anime movies, Street Fighter’s theatrical history is one to forget. Good thing this isn’t a movie, then. Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist is an upcoming webseries that’ll run on Machinima, which is a “coming of age” story about Ryu and Ken. Sure, there’s a certain degree of corny you can’t escape…

Kung-Fu Garden

Jason Scheier is an artist who has worked at Double Helix Games (Silent Hill) and, more recently, Dreamworks. It’s a shame my three year-old can’t read this. If she knew we were featuring an artist who worked on the Monsters v Aliens short Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space – for some reason, her favourite movie…

For Zis Adventure Game, Zee War Isn’t Over

One of the first video games I ever played was 1986’s The Great Escape. It’s nice to see a more modern return to the idea. Obviously inspired by the same tale/movie, The Breakout is an upcoming adventure game that has you trying to escape from a German POW camp in the Second World War. What…

How To Be An Oculus Rift Jerk

This guy, in the black? This guy right here is a pranking asshole. Look at what happens when the guy on the left adds a little oomph to the roller coaster Oculus Rift game someone else is trying out—skip to about a minute in, if you don’t want to wait too long: Granted, the reaction…

“Brotaku: The Bro’s Guide.” As spotted by Wilfrid d’Anjou in Infamous: Second Son‘s Paper Trail DLC. It’s an in-game ad for the fictional MMO Heaven’s Hellfire, which is also enthusiastically endorsed by Brotaku sister site Snarftaku: