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Piotr Foksowicz is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Poland. You can see more of Piotr’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Fallout 76’s Bobby Pins Are No Longer 60x Heavier Than Actual Bobby Pins

Amidst all of Fallout 76’s launch woes, one of the funnier stories was how its lock-picking bobby pins—normally a weightless commodity in Bethesda games—were now hilariously heavy, to the point where just 60 of them would weight as much as a mini-nuke. As part of a new update, that has now been rectified. You can…

Fans Create Short, Terrific Breath Of The Wild Animation

Since Nintendo hasn’t licensed an official Breath of the Wild animation, it’s up to fans to do the work. This amazing clip was made by Youyang Kong (with help from Qianya Yin), who has some other very cool animations on their YouTube page

Maybe Board Game Rules Can Suck Less Now

The best thing about playing board games is sitting around a table with some beers and playing board games. The worst part is having to learn the rules beforehand. Video: Shut Up & Sit Down Unnngh, even writing about rules makes my eyes roll over. A good rule book is as important a piece of…

Xbox Game Pass subscribers just got a nice surprise: in addition to the already-announced games being added to the service this month like Just Cause 3 and Life is Strange, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is also going to be made available.

PUBG Bans Pro Players, 30,000 Others For Cheating

Last month, a team at PUBG “conducted a global investigation on all the currently active professional PUBG players” to see if any of them were using a cheat that had until recently been very hard to detect. Turns out loads of them were, and they’ve now received lengthy bans from the game. The cheat in…

Eastshade, an open-world RPG where you’re a painter, will be out on PC on February 13.

Just A Couple Of WWE Stars Cosplaying As Team Rocket

Wrestling star Zelina Vega cosplays all the time, but here she’s joined up with Andrade Cien Almas for some fresh trouble. Make it double. The pair, who are usually a wrestler-manager couple but who also team up sometimes in the ring, are dressed up here out of it as Pokemon’s Team Rocket. If Nintendo and…

Civilization V’s Narrator Has Died

British actor William Morgan Sheppard, the voice of Firaxis’ Civilization V, has died. He was 86. Sheppard’s career spanned six decades, across TV, theatre, film and video games, and included appearances in everything from Doctor Who to Star Trek to Medal of Honor, whose earlier games he provided the briefings: But it’s his role as…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Has New Level Scaling

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has a weird approach to way its enemies level. Now there’s an option in the game to change this. To recap, here’s how the game approaches enemy levelling by default: Every region on Odyssey’s map has two numbers associated with it. Those numbers indicate, in part, how leveled up you need to…

Red Carpet Superstar

JungAh Lee is a senior concept artist at Blizzard, and has worked on stuff like Overwatch You can see more of Lee’s work at her ArtStation page

Who wore it better? 2013’s The Last Of Us (left), or 2018’s Some Movie Streaming On Netflix (right)? Thanks @robtrench!

Dead or Alive 6, originally due out on February 15, will now be released worldwide on March 1, publisher Koei Tecmo have announced. The delay is so the team can “further polish its balance, gameplay, and expressivity”.

GRIS Advertisement Rejected By Facebook For “Sexually Suggestive” Content

Only, there was nothing sexually suggestive about it. Earlier today Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS—one of our Games Of The Year—tweeted this: That scene is…not suggestive of sex. Especially once you see it moving, as part of the launch trailer the image is advertising: A Devolver representative tells Kotaku “this is stupid”. “We appealed…

Giant LEGO Mario Is Also A Giant Amiibo

Reader Cody got a nice surprise for Christmas: this enormous Mario, which his mum made out of 6000 Lego bricks. And just so nobody could tell her that her baby boy’s new gift wasn’t practical, Cody went and added a base and chip so that it could function as an Amiibo as well. Actually…swapping that…

Every Christmas, There’s A Cosplay Spectacular In Florida

Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December? Below you’ll find a selection of video and photos taken by Mineralblufrom the…

Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Eric Pfeiffer is a concept artist and illustrator based in Seattle. You can see more of Eric’s work at his ArtStation page

Everything Is Permitted With Assassin’s Creed Controllers

These Assassin’s Creed controllers were made by reader Devin Smith, and are inspired by the Ezio timeline of games. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a control pad with gauntlets before. In addition to the general prettiness going on, there are some cool features here: the accents are made from leather, the Xbox’s home…

Mod Turns Serious Military Shooter Into Giant Halo Game

Operation: TREBUCHET is a mod for military simulation ArmA III that transforms it from a realistic armed forces shooter into a massive Halo game. While it’s been in development for a few years now, there’s a new trailer for the project that looks fantastic: Named for the UNSC’s war against insurrectionists just before the Covenant…

2018’s Biggest Video Games, In Under Two Minutes

As he does every year, Malcolm Klock has put together a video running us through 2018’s best (and some of the worst!) video games in under two minutes. Blink and you might miss your favourite. Of course, some games get more screentime than others—it’s not every year we get a new Red Dead—but Yakuza is…