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It appears that a bug allows traps to work through walls in Fortnite currently. A video posted by Reddit user mynameisdiehard is pretty conclusive, and multiple other users in the thread confirm it as well. Be careful while you’re sneaking around! 

‘Shop Contest: Who Did The Warcraft Bad Thing? Winners

Sylvanas destroyed Teldrassil last week in a controversial moment in World of Warcraft’s geopolitics, and I asked you to find me a new culprit for this video game bad thing It’s hard to believe that this war that’s been running for more than a decade is getting stale, but here we are, and it seems…

The Week In Games: Urban Fantasy Football

This week’s offering of games puts Dead Cells on some new platforms, delivers the joy of Slam Land, and ports Monster Hunter to the PC. There are also some anticipated sequels this week, with Overcooked! 2 and a new Madden game smashing into consoles and the PC. It’s a good week if you like to…

Uncharted 4 In First Person Is Bonkers

Uncharted 4 obviously features Nathan Drake getting pulled back into the adventuring lifestyle (that’s, uh, the game), but the opening is a smattering of domestic moments with his wife Elena that sell that game’s emotional beats. It’s even better in first person. Modder thekempy has altered the emotional cutscene away from the limited 3rd person…

Modder Turns Dark Souls Into A Bright Fantasy World

Dark Souls has a reputation as a dark fantasy game where women fused to demons, cannibal executioners, and zombified humans make their home. But it looks a little more like a fun place if you pump the brightness and change some of the lighting effects. The video spoils the entire game of Dark Souls. The…

Windjammers is coming to the Switch sometime in 2018. It’s a fun video game. There’s no release date yet.

‘Shop Contest: Who Did The Warcraft Bad Thing?

World of Warcraft is a game that is absolutely full to the brim with characters who are decent people and then turn very bad. This week saw Sylvanas Windrunner, the leader of the Horde faction, burn down a major in-game location. Or did she? This week is all about finding new culprits for World of…

Sunday Comics: The Title Guy

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 30. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Track: Quiet Man | Artist: John Prine | Album: John Prine Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

City Planner Caught Using Cities: Skylines Screenshot In Proposal

Cities: Skylines is a great city-building video game, and fans all over the world know it. It is not a hardcore city-planning simulator, but that didn’t stop one town development firm from using a screenshot in their brochure for a potential new town outside of Norfolk in the United Kingdom. In a wonderful article for…

Fortnite Player Wins $86,000, Gets Supportive Dad Speech

Fortnite streamer Reverse2k won big in last night’s Summer Skirmish, a weekly tournament that Epic is running all summer, but the real prize was an emotional call from a dad. The clip shows it all: Reverse2k is talking to his dad, who opens up the convo with an exclamation of “Eighty six fucking thousand dollars?…

The PC port of Chrono Trigger has received a “final major update” that adds key binding, an extras section featuring bonus illustrations and an ending viewer, and a number of other adjustments. Read the official patch notes here 

‘Shop Contest: It’s Their Sky Now, Winners!

Last week was all about the changes in someone’s sky, and I asked you to show me some horrors that someone might, maybe, get to see in the giant procedural universe of No Man’s Sky. I was not disappointed. While I think No Man’s Sky is interesting, I’m just not that scared of the batbirds…

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth has a trailer and a Japanese release date of November 29, 2018. It will be for the Nintendo 3DS. There’s no information yet about a potential US release. Learn more on the official website.

The Week In Games: Witness The Revolution

This week has a lot of games coming to platforms where they were not before. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday makes many leaps, Forsaken gets a remaster, and Yakuza 0 comes to PC. This is yet another week when Switch releases outnumber all other platforms, but there’s a wide range of games offered on all platforms,…

Track: The Great Beyond | Artist: R.E.M. | Album: Man On The Moon OST Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Remembering Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4‘s Most Bogus Mission

Before the twitch-restarting of Super Meat Boy or weird hacks of Super Mario Bros. built for maximum frustration there was the San Francisco level of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. It was here that this manual-gap-manual combo reduced me to a broken teen. I’ve recently set up a “game room” in part of my office…

Stained Glass Inspired By Magic: The Gathering Is Extremely Good

I like Magic: The Gathering, and I have extreme respect for stained glass as an art form, so this stained glass rendition of the elder dragon Nicol Bolas is something I am way into. In a Reddit thread about the piece, poster Alexm920 explains that the piece is made with their significant other who “got…

Fan Recreates The Most Emotional Moment In Cinema History In Fortnite Tribute

Reddit user WintrrShadow has memorialized the the recent map and gear changes in Fortnite by editing a video to the style and tone of the final scene of Furious 7  The ending of Furious 7 is, as far as I am concerned, the most emotional moment in cinema history. Actor Paul Walker tragically died while…

‘Shop Contest: It’s Their Sky Now

No Man’s Sky’s NEXT update dropped this week, and people are owning the sky. They’re commanding freighters and scooting ships around the galaxy. But deeper evils exist, and this week’s ‘Shop Contest is about finding them. I want you to ‘shop me up some cosmic terror. The core of movies like Alien is that the…