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A Dragon Riding A Dinosaur

Cindy Avelino is a concept artist and illustrator based in Brazil. You can see more of Cindy’s stuff at her Behanceand ArtStationpages.

One Man’s Quest To Collect Every Classic PC Game In Existence

They’ve been outdated since the arrival of Windows 95, and aren’t always easy to get running on a modern PC. But MS-DOS games—those designed to launch from Microsoft’s old text-based operating system—are still very much worth preserving. One man is on a quest to archive every single one of them, from the biggest project down…

Name’s Johnny, Johnny Silverhand

Ajsen Savvinov, aka Aisendraw, is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Savvinov’s stuffat his ArtStation page

Adidas’ New Pokémon Sneakers Are An Improvement [Update]

Adidas’ pop culture tie-in sneaker releases have been unrelenting this year, from Game of Thrones to Star Wars, and if there’s been one thing they’ve all had in common, it’s that they’ve been a little underwhelming. This was also the case with the company’s first two shoes in a new Pokémon collaboration, but these new…

Pipeline: The Kotaku Review

Pipeline is a board game about buying cheap crude, pushing it through loads of pipes then selling it for cash. It’s clean, it’s stressful, and I’m still not 100% sure whether I like it or not. It’s a Euro-style game, which means that it’s abstracted to an extent from its subject matter and interested more…

The Next-Gen Xbox Is Called Xbox Series X

The next Xbox console is called the Xbox Series X. It has a weird new shape, a practically identical controller, loads of backwards compatibility, and it’s out in the 2020 holiday season. Here’s the debut trailer: I…really like that box. And the fact the controller looks identical, because really, Xbox controllers have been pretty much…

To go with the already-released Stormtrooper, Fortnite has got some extra Star Wars stuff in the form of skins for Rey, Finn and a Sith Trooper. They’re available now in the game’s item shop.

Microsoft Cancels Streamer’s Partnership After ‘Sex Offender’ Tweet

Harrison “HarrisonJr” Patrick Stewart had, until last week, been a verified streamer and partner on Microsoft’s Mixer platform. His deal has since been cancelled after he tweeted an image of himself alongside the text “Come watch a registered sex offender plays Fortnite with 10 year olds!!” As The Hollywood Reporter…reports, Stewart—who had around 80,000 followers—posted…

Baby Yoda Can Be Bought In The Sims 4

Because EA owns The Sims, and because EA also has the rights to Star Wars video games, we finally have a digital tie-in with the new live-action Mandalorian series. It’s not a Carl Weathers outfit. It’s not a “Bounty Hunter” job for your Sim. It’s a Baby Yoda statue you can buy and put in…

Would You Like To See My Space Guns

Takayuki Satou is an artist from Japan. You can see more of Satou’s stuff at his ArtStation page

EA Lost Command & Conquer Announcer’s Voice Tapes, So She’s Re-Recording Them

In putting together the HD remake of Command & Conquer, EA went to get the old recordings of the game’s announcer, EVA, and couldn’t find them. No big deal, they just went got the original voice actor to re-record everything. Kia Huntzinger, a former employee at Westwood (the creators of C&C, RIP) was responsible for…

Everyone, Say Hi To Resident Evil’s Martin Sandwich

This is Martin. He’s “a skilled engineer and mechanic” who can “create traps to slow down or stun enemies” in Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil Resistance. So if you ever play the game and see a trap slow down or stun an enemy, make sure you remember to thank Martin. Martin Sandwich.

The 8Bit Deck is a regular ol’ deck of playing cards, only with some very nice pixel art replacing the traditional styling. The cards were made by artist Michael Myers (who you might rememberdid our old social media banners), and are available to purchase here

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a photo mode later this week. Here’s a short video showing the mode in action

Dig The New Cloak, Link My Man

Teguh Rinaldi is a freelance artist from Indonesia You can see more of Teguh’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Grand Theft Auto V Is Getting A New Radio Station

Six years after its release, Rockstar is still fine-tuning Grand Theft Auto V’s radio lineup, with December 12 seeing the arrival of a new station hosted by Danny Brown called iFruit Radio. Artists featured include Travis Scott, Young Thug and Brown himself, while the highlights are probably: And: The station will be running on both…

Choose Your Own Adventure’s Owners Are Going After Some Indie Games

Chooseco, the company that owns the rights to the trademarked title Choose Your Own Adventure, has begun issuing takedown notices to indie games hosted on itch.io that have been using the term. While it’s understandable that folks could be thinking that Choose Your Own Adventure is more of a genre than a title, and/or that…

PlayStation’s Baseball Studio Is Releasing Games On Rival Systems

MLB The Show, a long-running exclusive to PlayStation systems that is developed by a Sony studio, will now be appearing on other consoles as part of the series’ new licensing deal with Major League Baseball. The deal means that while the series will continue to appear on Sony systems, it will also be released on…

A Frosty Encounter

Damian Żukowski is an artist at Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind games like the new Blair Witch You can see more of Damian’s stuff athis ArtStation page

Oh Hell Yeah Vanquish Is Getting Remastered (And Bayonetta Too)

Sega will next year be remastering two of PlatinumGames’ best releases—Bayonetta and Vanquish—and bringing them to the PS4 and Xbox One. Bayonetta, cool, we all know Bayonetta, but fuck yeah Vanquish is back! The cult classic shooter kinda split opinions at release in 2010, but as its 2017 release on PC showed, its slippy-slidey gunplay,…