When Street Fighter II hit the big time in the early 1990s, it spawned a lot of competition. Some of these rivals emerged as beloved fighting game series in their own right, and would live on for years. Others, like World Heroes, couldn’t quite escape the crush of the bandwagon. Developed by Japanese studio Alpha…
Now that the movie is out, the artists who worked on Alien: Covenant are free to share their stuff. And regardless of your thoughts on the movie itself, it’s all very pretty. Note that this isn’t everything from the vault, nor is it encompassing the work of every single artist who contributed to the movie.…
Here are two Chinese cosplayers—Omiya(2B) and Ichinosehikaru(9S)—going absolutely nuts with their Nier: Automata cosplay partnership. Before you say it, yes, these are heavily edited images. But hey, if you’re going to photoshop your cosplay images, you may as well go hard. And even if you’re the type to recoil at the thought of effects and…
This is the world we live in now. Where even fan-made, multiplayer-only Halo games get four-minute cinematic trailers. This clip is for Installation 01, a back-to-basics Halo fan game for the PC that we first took a look at last year Looks like things are coming along nicely. Installation 01 is an attempt to get…
Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, hid a bunch of video game tributes and influences throughout the movie so well that nobody noticed. So he’s now pointing them out. Some of the homages made it into the finished film: And some stuff didn’t: If you were going to ask “well why isn’t this guy…
This is one of the nicest video game surprises I’ve had in a long time. Stoic, creators of the excellent Banner Saga, dropped a game on Steam this week out of almost nowhere. And it’s pretty good! Killers & Thieves is a game made by Stoic co-founder Alex Thomas, and is all about the daily…
Announced earlier this year, here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s animated Castlevania series. There are whips and skulls, so it’s got that going for it. The series is due on July 7.
Nick Hiatt is a concept artist and matte painter who has got to work on some of the biggest and best stuff of the last few years, from Force Awakens to Destiny (and Destiny 2) to Game of Thrones to Doom That’s why there are a lot of screencaps of Star Wars: Episode VII here,…
Track: Our Only Master | Artist: Dunsmuir | Album: Dunsmuir Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
As we’ve discussed, Steam’s implementation of third-party curation has been a bit of a mess. So it’ll be interesting to see how Sony fares now that they’re trying something similar. Launching today, The Creators is an attempt by Sony to get curation on the PlayStation store, only instead of turning to “influencers”, they’ve asked people…
Here’s Russian cosplayer Anastasia, aka Komori, with a 1:1 depiction of Scott Pilgrim’s Ramona Flowers.
'Blasphemous is an action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game'
Here’s a very good Tharja (from Fire Emblem) by Aussie cosplayer Beke. Photos by Beethy
Gary Sanchez is an artist who has worked at studios like Quantic Dream, Cloud Imperium and Ubisoft. You can see more of Gary’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…
Some of the best artists working in video games, TV and film have taken part in a massive competition, judged by folks responsible for the look of series like Halo and Assassin’s Creed Called Ancient Civilizations: Lost & Found, the competition was held over at industry site ArtStation, and featured almost 4000 entries from professionals…
A modder has brought a little Overwatch to the excellent Invisible Inc., adding two new agents—Sombra and Widowmaker—to the stealth title’s roster of thieves, hackers and spies. The mod, made by Saltrain, may as well be an official and blessed addition. Both agents look great, having had their designs modified to fit Invisible Inc’s art…
There have been a lot of 4X games set in space lately, from Stellaris to the Master of Orion reboot. Some of them have been good! None, however, have been as good as Endless Space 2 A lot of 4X games, and I’m especially talking about ones set in space, often struggle on two fronts:…
Rob Watkins is an artist who has worked on games likeHalo Wars 2 (where he was Lead Concept Artist), Fable 3 and Fable Legends You can see more of Watkins’ work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…
Track: Primordial Wound | Artist: Inter Arma | Album: Paradise Gallows Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Every single assassin you see here is either Rick Boer or his wife Dominique
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