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Hideo Kojima Is Working With Sony On A PS4 Console Exclusive [Update]

Sony just made it official: former Konami superstar (and Metal Gear creator) Hideo Kojima has grown a beard. Oh, and formed a new studio, which is working with Sony on a PlayStation 4 exclusive. It’s not a Sony studio; it’s an independent team, which will be known as…Kojima Productions. The deal announces that Kojima Productions’…

Star Wars Kama Sutra Book Is Surprisingly SFW

Stores around the world are overflowing this week with official Star Wars merch. A new book, The Extremely Unofficial and Highly Unauthorized Star Wars Kama Sutra, is very much, well, they make its official status pretty clear in the title. The name says it all. This is a book on sex positions. But instead of…

2015’s Biggest Video Games, In Under Two Minutes

A lot of video games came out in 2015. Can they all fit into a two-minute video? (Most of) the best ones certainly can. Reader Malcolm Klock has been making these clips for the last few years (so they’re his picks for the best, not ours!), and 2015’s edition tries to cover as many bases…

In Memory of Ralph McQuarrie, the Artist who Designed Darth Vader & R2-D2

I run theFine Art feature on Kotaku because it’s an aspect of the creative process that I have a big interest in, and the utmost respect for. Indeed, there was a point in my life where I hit a fairly substantial crossroads, and if I hadn’t gone down the path that led me here, I’d…

Full Suit Of Titan Armor Looks Like It Fell Out Of Destiny

Frank Ippolito and his team were asked by Sony to build a contest winner a full set of Titan armour from Destiny. After five weeks of work, they delivered, and then some. Here’s a kinda-gross ad/video that you can skip through to get to the parts where they’re showing the build progress and the suit…

Tetsuya Nomura vs Smash Bros.

What happens when Square Enix and Final Fantasy legend Tetsuya Nomura sits down and draws some official Smash Bros. art? This happens.

After 2489 Days, Noby Noby Boy Has Been “Finished”

Keita Takahashi’s (Katamari Damacy) Noby Noby Boy was first released in February 2009. After 2489 days of players stretching across the Solar System, the game has now finally come to an end. It worked like this: anyone playing the game at home could stretch a little guy’s (his name was literally BOY) torso out like…

Beautiful Maps Of Fake Places

Robert Altbauer calls himself a “fantasy cartographer”. If maps of places that don’t actually exist are your fetish, then Robert is your man. Over the years Altbauer has created maps for video game publishers, RPG companies and authors, with some actual, historical map work thrown in for good measure. You can see more of Robert’s…

Here’s Mario Kart 8 Running On A PC

In October, the Cemu emulator—which allows Wii U games to be played on a PC—could barely boot Mario Kart 8’s menu. Now, just two months later, it’s doing an OK job of actually running the game. The video below shows how quickly progress is being made on the emulator. On the right is what Mario…

Track: Ten Crack Commandments | Artist: Notorious B.I.G. & Otaku Gang | Album: Life After Death Star Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Ciri’s Witcher 3 Sword, Forged In The Real World

Sword performer Alan Padziński doesn’t just fight with Witcher swords. He knows how to make them, too. Padzińskirecently built himself a replica of Ciri’s badass sword from The Witcher 3, and did the entire thing by hand, from forging the blade to carving the runes to the leather grip. It’s 1.3m long, and looks more…

The Giants Of Industry

Andrey Surnov is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Andrey’s work at his Facebookand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of…

Star Wars Actor Says He Was Fired From A “Terrible” Video Game

Oscar Isaac, star of Ex Machina and the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is a big movie star these days. A few years back, though, you could find him doing voice work on video games, like the “terrible” Dante’s Inferno. Or not. In an interview with Birth.Movies.Death. (via Dtoid), Isaac was asked about his…

Baby-Killing Game Is So Hot Right Now

Who’s Your Daddy is a video game that was a joke, then became a Kickstarter, and now it’s a thing. It’s also a game about a baby trying to kill itself. Creator Joe Williams based the idea for the game off a joke post, but in the months since has got serious—or as serious as…

Not Sure If Cosplayer Or Actual Elven King

TheldeaFix—who does an excellent Loki, btw—has transformed himself so thoroughly into Thranduil from The Hobbit that actor Lee Pace would probably look at these photos and get all confused. Photos by Pugoffka-sama and Haji-san

King Of Fighters Cosplay!

Always a pleasure to see someone cosplaying as a KoF character that isn’t Mai Shiranui. Cosplay by Azulette, photo by Peter Muñoz.

Independence Day 2’s First Trailer Is…Exactly What You’d Expect

Independence Day: Resurgence is the upcoming blockbuster sequel to a blockbuster movie that most definitely did not need a sequel. Here is its debut trailer. Brace for Goldblum. By Pullman’s Beard!

You Really Need To Play The Yakuza Games

The Yakuza series is one of the best in video games. Sad thing is, given their delayed localisation work and reputation for being a little…different, they’re also largely ignored by the wider gaming public. I’d love it if that could change. I’ve been playing Yakuza 5 this week, and I can totally understand why so…

Meet Some Box Art Specialists

Two Dots are a creative studio who specialise in promotional and cover art. Think book covers, box art, collector’s editions, posters, etc. Recently they’ve worked on games like Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Far Cry 4, Elite: Dangerous and Assassin’s Creed Unity They’ve also worked at a more conceptual stage on games like Watch Dogs. The Far…

Not All Multiplayer Shooters Are Abandoned After 12 Months

Some are abandoned and then picked up again years later, when everyone had forgotten all about them. There are a lot of things wrong with multiplayer shooters these days, but not all of them are guilty of costing $60 then dying a year later. I mean, look at Tribes Ascend, a game released in 2012.…