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Cheer Up Zelda, The Switch Is Out Soon

Raquel Cornejo is an illustrator and concept artist who works at MercurySteam, the Spanish studio responsible for the recent Castlevania reboots. You can see more of Raquel’s work at her 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…

Track: Utopia | Artist: King Woman | Album: Created in the Image of Suffering  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Ghost In The Shell Movie Has Some Very Expensive Statues

Weta, of Lord of the Rings and Mad Max fame, have done some work for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell movie. They’re also handling merchandise duties for the movie, and have released these two very expensive statues. There’s a robot Geisha, which has an interchangable head, and a triumphant Major which does not (though…

It’s 2017, Let’s Laugh At This Grand Theft Auto News Story [Update]

We’re a few years past laughing at media’s reporting on video games, partly because we just don’t care anymore, partly because they’ve (for the most part) improved their game. This hilarious story from Australia’s Channel 7, though, is just too good/terrible to ignore. To get an idea of what we’re dealing with here, while they…

A 17-Hour Video Of A Guy Clicking His Mouse One Million Times

In case you were feeling somehow short on online content to consume today, here is a video of Tocenclicking a mouse one million times. It took him 17.5 hours to do, and he filmed the whole thing. En…joy? Via Boing Boing

Stop Me If You’ve Heard The One About The Three Vikings And The Bear

Leroy Steinmann is a freelance concept artist based in Switzerland. You can see more of Leroy’s work at his personal site and 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 game artists, showcasing the…

Rogue One Cosplay Is One With The Force

Chirrut Îmwe, aka Donnie Yen’s blind guy from Rogue One, is a cool character! So it’s weird that this is the first time anyone has sent us any cosplay for it. Good job they did, though, because it’s awesome. This is Doccane Cosplay, with photos by Edwin Fabian

The Gardens Between Looks Just Lovely

The Gardens Between is “an adventure puzzle game about friendship, what it means to grow up, what must be let go what should never be left behind”. It’ll be out on PC and Mac later this year.

Civilization VI x Breaking Bad

Rambawith the cute Civ VI jokes.

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Turns 75 Today

One of the oldest running diversions on the planet, the New York Times crossword puzzle, turns 75 today. It’s been through a lot! Having “begun as a way to give readers a distraction from war news” in 1942 (after calling them “a primitive sort of mental exercise” in 1924), it’s endured people beingcaught stealing its…

How People Actually Fought With Swords

From Gladiator to Braveheart, most historical fiction about fighting with swords is kinda wrong, influenced more by performance art than how people actually fought each other with blades. Back to the Source, a documentary about Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), is looking to show people how it was actually done. This piece originally appeared 10/26/15.…

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Mark Chang is an artist based in Taiwan who has recently done work for The Mill, a VFX studio. You can see more of Mark’s work at his personal site and 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…

“…two months before we shipped Half-Life 1, we lost the whole history; our VSS exploded”, Valve’s Erik Johnson told Gamasutra last week. “And so we had to put that all together off people’s machines. So yeah, we don’t have the history going back to the very start. We have the snapshot from that month.”

Japanese Company Made Consoles For Girls, And Also Cute Toys

Epoch is a Japanese video game company, which in the 80s and 90s made a number of consoles and handhelds. They’re also the guys responsible for the disgustingly cute Sylvanian Families (or Calico Critters) toy line. The company, founded in 1958, is a bit like Nintendo, in that it made its name not just in…

Look At This Little Overwatch Action Figure

My chief complaint with Overwatch since the beta has been the lack of Overwatch action figures. And while Nendoroids aren’t quite what I had in mind, they are certainly better than nothing. Good Smile Company announced the deal today, and while they’ll be making a whole line of figures, the only one shown—and the first…

Tips For Playing Civilization VI

Civilization VI is a very good video game! It’s also got some weird complexities and systems that aren’t explained properly, as well as some neat little headen features, so here are some tips for getting the most out of it. ARMIES In Civ V, cities could defend themselves, so you could concentrate on building improvements.…

Borderlands Cosplay Is A Living Cartoon

This Borderlands outfit is so good that it won a prize at last year’s Starcon in St Petersburg, one of the best cosplay shows on Earth. We see a lot of Borderlands cosplay, and a lot of it is very good, but this is something else. The hair in particular, with the cel-shading running all…

I Hope Nobody Killed This John Wick Cosplayer’s Dog

TheIdeaFix is one of the best cosplayers on the planet. He doesn’t just dress up as a character, he becomes them, as he’s done for everything from The Hobbit to The Avengers to, in this case, John Wick. I just…the outfit, the hair, the beard, the make-up, the facial expressions…it’s almost perfect. Photos by Haji-san

Doom: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review

I never thought we’d get a faithful board game adaptation of Doom, of all things, but here we are: Fantasy Flight’s latest dungeon crawler plays just like the heavy metal first-person shooter, only without all the blood. It’s actually not the first time the company have tried this: in 2004 Fantasy Flight released a board…

New ‘Humble Freedom Bundle’ Donates Money To Civil Rights Groups, For Obvious Reasons

Right now, you can spend $30 and receive $600 worth of video games, books and comics in return, with 100% of the money going to organisations cleaning up the mess left after President Trump’s (stalled) attempt at immigration bans. Available for a week, the “Humble Freedom Bundle” sees 100% of the money spent on games…