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Looks Totally Fine, Not Haunted At All, Let’s Go

Friedemann Allmenroeder is a freelance artist from Germany working in the video game business. You can see more of Friedemann’s art 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…

A Working Version Of Mercy’s Staff From Overwatch

I mean “working” in that it actually spins around while you’re walking with it, not that some cosplayers have made a pioneering breakthrough in medical science. This staff, built by Engineer_Corwin, is just incredible. Taking some existing 3D print models made by Jill Cope, he’s crammed a motor and complex set of gears in there…

The Brothers Grim

Nelson Tai is an artist specialising in weapons, mechs and vehicles. You can see more of Nelson’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…

Look At This God Damn Final Fantasy Fork

This is being given away as part of a promo for Final Fantasy x Cup Noodles in Japan, meaning you’ll (probably) never get one, so for now just gaze upon the possibility of eating a cup of noodles with a God damn Final Fantasy sword. Why are they showing the GIANT FORK (FWORD? SWORK?) eating…

Full Metroid Prequel Created By Fans

If Nintendo isn’t going to make more Metroid games then it’s up to fans to keep the series going with games like Metroid: Rogue Dawn, an unofficial prequel to the original NES Metroid that’s been over two years in the making and which is now finished. It’s a ROM hack which transforms the original into…

Forget pro skaters and their grassroots campaigns. Forget EA’s own community reps tweeting #skate4 and getting people’s hopes up. The publisher just said on an earnings call that it is “not presently making Skate 4″.

Oh, Have Mercy

Irakli Nadar is an illustrator from Georgia. The country, not the state. You can see more of Nadar’s work here 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 best of both their…

Insomniac Condemns President Trump’s Immigration Ban As “Deplorable”

While some in the video game business are pussy-footing around the subject, Insomniac—creators of games like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance—have issued this video statement strongly condemning President Trump’s immigration shitshow “Is this the American way?”, company CEO Ted Price asks in the clip. “Is discriminating based on religious faith and national origin American? Absolutely…

Pirates Of The Caribbean Cosplay Gets It 100% Right

I promise you, this is an image of a cosplayer, not a promo shot from the 2003 movie. This is cosplayer Filipe Sabino, with photos by Eleán’Art And just so you don’t walk away thinking “well, it’s just that one angle where he looks 1:1″, here’s more. Absolutely incredible work. When people cosplay as Captain…

New Conan Game Sure Has Dicks In It

Most video games are shy about showing a dong. Conan Exiles is not one of them. WARNING: NSFW CONTENT AHEAD The open-world survival game is now out on Early Access, and PC Gamer’s Chris Livingstonwent ahead and built a character. Conan Exiles: Sure gotta lotta dicks in it. UPDATE: Mike Fahey has been playing the…

A Star Wars Cosplay Hustle From 1977

In 1977, as Star Wars was first blowing up, Lucasfilm were famously ill-equipped to get enough merch out to satisfy fans. While some people waited patiently into 1978 for stuff like action figures, one kid went out and started making his own Darth Vader masks. And made a ton of cash in the process. Today,…

New York’s Finest

Nikolai Lockertsen is an artist based in Norway who has worked on movies like Dead Snow and Troll Hunter You can see more of Nikolai’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…

Track: Down Rodeo | Artist: Rage Against The Machine | Album: Evil Empire Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Maybe THIS Will Be A Good Aliens Shooter

For a movie so famous for its frantic gunplay, we haven’t had a good shooter based on Aliens in a long time. So hey, if professional game studios can’t get the job done, maybe this upcoming mod can. Aliens: Legacy is a new project born out of a partnership between two existing Doom mods, with…

Valve Cracking Down On Team Fortress 2 Gambling

Last year, Valve started dropping a hammer on gambling sites selling Counter-Strike items. This week, the same process has begun for Team Fortress 2 In a short statement released online, Valve say that following the ban on CS stuff in 2016, “some gambling web sites [have] started leveraging TF2 items. Today we began the process…

Overwatch’s Widowmaker Takes A Day Off

Amazingly, this is the second cosplay we’ve seen from the same gallery of fan art, which depicted a bunch of Overwatch characters hanging out in their street clothes. There was a great Pharah outfit at Blizzcon last year, and now there’s this Widowmaker shoot from Chinese cosplayer NightyQueen Photos by Ashen. For reference, here’s the…

When D.Va Is All Grown Up

Artist Antoine Collignon wanted to “create a more mature version of D.Va”, and came up with this image of the Korean in her 30s, still fighting, albeit with an improved (and beat to hell) mech. Collignon is based in Belgium, and has worked in both video games and film. You can see more of his…

RIP Xbox One Snap Mode

Snap Mode, that gimmick on the Xbox One that let you “snap” something else onto the side of your screen while you were watching a movie or playing a game, is no more. Microsoft is ditching the feature to make the console’s dash run faster. The Xbox One’s dash has always been a tad sluggish…

Look At This Damn Star Wars Cosplay

We see a lot of Star Wars cosplay around these parts. Rarely do we see it done with such artistry and attention to detail. This is JediMandawith her 1:1 Queen Amidala outfit that looks like something a team of professionals would have spent thousands on, and gone and made for the actual movie. Instead, it’s a…

Resident Evil 7’s Secret Sneaker Fetish

If an artist is going to model a single shoe to fill a game’s drawers and dark corners with, they may as well make it a good one. lordtrapula opened up a drawer in Resident Evil 7 and found it full of musty shoes. They’re not some random design, though, or jumbled collection of leather…