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  New League Of Legends Champion Revealed

  Meet Braum, the Heart of the Freljord. This giant-shield-wielding strongman is the newest champion in League of Legends: The frozen peaks of the Freljord have for centuries punished the weak. But as these feared glacial lands host the graves of the frail, for the mighty, the land is a cradle, a place that elevates mere…

  By John Struan Published April 23, 2014
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  Injustice: Gods Among Us Mobile Multiplayer Trailer

  As the trailer below shows, multiplayer gameplay is coming to iOS game Injustice: Gods Among Us. I had forgotten how much fun the alternate costumes and special move animations were: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  Time For Some Laser Guns & Dinosaurs

  Just in case you forgot how coolSuper TIME Force looks, here are some screens. Some of them have dinosaurs in them. The game’s out on Xbox 360 and Xbox One…sometime this year. Maybe. We said “sometime this year” last year and it never showed up, so…who knows!

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  Cosplay So Amazing It Doesn’t Even Need Clothes

  A traditional definition of cosplay, if such a thing even existed, would probably include some requirement to wear a costume. But you can sometimes achieve the same end result with nothing but make-up. MadeYewLook is a pro when it comes to make-up, so much so that she can transform herself into characters like Alice, the…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  Video Game Creators Are Going To Be Killed By A Real UFC Fighter

  Ten of the guys who work on EVE Online, along with some “special guests”, are going to fight Iceland’s Gunnar “Gunni” Nelson next month. Gunnar is a UFC fighter with twelve wins (and two blackbelts) to his name. They are all going to die. It might be fair if it was 10 vs 1, but…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  This Ocarina Of Time Glitch Is Insane

  So it’s apparently possible to get into jabu jabu’s belly as adult Link, but it takes five full minutes of backflips, searching for frames, dropping bombs, and other weird little glitches. Really fascinating to watch. (Starts at 40:41) via Reddit

  By Steve Marinconz Published April 22, 2014
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  The Best New DC Comics Covers

  A wounded Wonder Woman leads off this collection of the best newly-revealed DC Comics covers: Wonder Woman #33 cover by Cliff Chiang. Batman Eternal #13 cover by Dustin Nguyen. Harley Quinn Invades Comic-Con International: San Diego #1 cover by Amanda Conner. Batgirl #33 cover by Alex Garner. Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #2 cover…

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  Blade Runner, Is That You?

  Saul Espinosa is a concept artist and matte painter who has worked on everything from video games to tabletop RPGs. You can see more of Saul’s art at his personal site and ArtStation page. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  Tomb Raider #1 Convention Exclusive Cover

  Tomb Raider #1 variant cover by Andy Park for C2E2 in Chicago this weekend. Below, see another of his Lara Croft illustrations: Via CBR Previously: Tomb Raider wallpaper You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  Nintendo Blinks, Offers First DLC “Season Pass”

  Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed are the kind of games with season passes. Offers where you pay a lot up front then get access to all that game’s DLC down the line. It doesn’t sound like a very Nintendo thing to do, does it? Oh, but it is. Nintendo is now offering a season…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  3D-Printed Spaceship From Faster Than Light

  This is a 3D-printed Kestrel from FTL: Faster Than Light, and you can buy your own: The project was posted by Redditor TheLobstersClaw. Here are making of photos: You can order your own at Shapeways You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  After 32 Years, Jenga Has Been Improved

  All you need is a chess clock. With that simple addition to the game, you can turn Jenga into a thrilling duel where time is your worst enemy. Which is to say, with a chess clock, you can make Jenga way, way better. Tom Scott here shows us how a typical game might go down—I’m…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published April 22, 2014
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  New Numenera Card Set

  Monte Cook unveiled the Numenera Cypher Chest, a new collection of cards for the Numenera role playing game: The Cypher Chest will be a boxed set in a 8-1/2″ x11″ rigid box containing 250 non-random, full-color, double-sided cards, for $29.99. It will be out in July. The Cypher Deck allows GMs and players to randomly…

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  Dark Souls Tribute

  Dark Souls Tribute by Kilian Eng You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

  By John Struan Published April 22, 2014
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  Assassin’s Creed Wall-Climbing Can Actually Be Done

  OK, so he doesn’t have a heavy cloak and half-a-dozen weapons weighing him down, and he’s not being chased by the local constabulary, but this guy still does a damn good impression of Assassin’s Creed’s trademark climbing. I’d always figured the game’s creators took a few liberties when it came to the speed with which…

  By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2014
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  ​Octodad: Dadliest Catch: The Kotaku Review

  Poor Octodad. He’s just trying to do his best. He wants to be a good father to his kids and a loving husband to his wife. He wants to grill hamburgers and mow the lawn, to weed the garden and go to the grocery store and do all the other things ordinary dads do. But…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 22, 2014
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  What’s In 100 Battlefield 4 Battlepacks?

  JackFrags plays a lot of Battlefield 4. As a result, he’s got a lot of Battlepacks to open. So here are the results of what was contained within 100 Battlepacks. You can watch the entire video yourself below, but here are his results: 25% XP boost: 69 50% XP boost: 40 100% XP boost: 3…

  By Steve Marinconz Published April 22, 2014
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  Someone Beat Super Mario 64 In Record Time

  120 stars, all collected in under two hours—1:43:54, to be exact. The time is a new world record, and you can watch speedrunner Siglemic collect it with a mesmerizing efficiency here. Siglemic is playing the Japanese version of the game because it “has a 2.7 second advantage,” according his Twitch page. And in case you’re…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published April 22, 2014
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  The Hearthstone Soundtrack Is So Good

  The first thing that struck me about Hearthstone wasn’t the lovely art or the goofy writing; it was the music. That killer music. I’d been waiting to play the game until it came out on iPad, and finally dove in last weekend. The more I played, the more I liked playing. (To the point where,…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 22, 2014
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  I Don’t Get Cats, And Neither Does Science

  Dogs are big, dumb, infinitely lovable obedience machines. Cats—love ’em, hate ’em, or spend half your day giggleweeping to Internet videos of them—are anything but. Why are they so willfully difficult? What’s going on in their heads? The short version: we don’t really know. Cats are weird. My cat has done everything from comfort me…

  By Nathan Grayson Published April 22, 2014