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Hannah Solo, Captain Of The Millennium Falcon

Genderbent Han Solo cosplay by tinywings5678

The Witcher 3 Riddle That Players Couldn’t Quite Solve

Gaunter O’Dimm, one of the stars of The Witcher 3’s expansion Hearts of Stone, is a mysterious dude. Turns out he’s also a sneaky one, hidden so well in the background of the game that even its biggest fans couldn’t find him. In October, developers CD Projekt Red ran a competition asking fans to “find…

Never Forget

It’s OK to get excited about next week. Just…be real about it.

Jessica Jones Cosplay Needs A Good Drink/Fight

The Northeast Comic Con went down in Wilmington, Massachussets over the weekend, and reader Eric Joslin was there to take some pics. Jessica Jones is Alias Cosplay, Killgrave is Zirroand Luke Cage is Kurt Bertrand. If anyone knows any of the cosplayers in these shots, get in touch so I can add a credit! Rey…

Dishonored Was Such A Beautiful Video Game

Cedric Peyravernay is a French artist who has worked on games like Dishonored (indeed, we featured some of his paintings from that game a few years back). Most of the images below are Peyravernay’s character work on that game, though fans of Ulysses 31 should get to the bottom for a rad surprise. You can…

Why A Street Fighter “Butt Slap” Was Removed

Last month, observant fans noticed that some changes had been made to Street Fighter V character R. Mika. Namely, that her ass-smacking celebration—first shown off in August—had since been toned down to keep the slapping out of view. Here’s the before-and-after: While some cried CENSORSHIP, and everyone else got on with their lives, there remained…

Track: Bridgeburner | Artist: Mutoid Man | Album: Bleeder Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Cosplay From…A David Attenborough Documentary

Remember the BBC’s incredible documentary series Planet Earth? And how one of the stars was the footage of the Superb Bird of Paradise, and his Big Happy Face dance? That, of all things, is what Jaime Margary decided to dress as this Halloween Much like the bird itself, it’s equal parts hilarious and slightly creepy.…

The Vive, Valve and HTC’s VR headset collaboration, will be out in April 2016. Like, for consumers to actually buy. Here’s the statement from HTC’s blog, since the site is having trouble staying up: In an effort to clear up speculation and misinformation surrounding the launch of HTC Vive this month we are excited to…

If Fallout 4 Looked Like Fallout 1

While messing around with a save game trying to take some nice screenshots, yttriumtyclief stumbled upon a perspective that looked…familiar. Having accidentally recreated the camera view from the first two Fallout games, he went and took a series of screenshots that have me thinking maybe I should try and play Fallout 4 like this from…

Link Grows Up, Can Now Actually Carry All That Stuff

Even Amundsen used to work at VOLTA, a studio whose current and former members we’ve showcased here on Fine Art many, many, many, manytimes before. He know works at Blizzard and, well, you know the deal with Blizzard. You can see more of Even’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the…

A Damn Good Concept For Animal Crossing Wii U

For whatever reason, there hasn’t been a proper Animal Crossing game on the Wii U yet. If there was, though, it could look a lot worse than this effort by TheBitBlock. Be sure to skip past the intro; this is a lot more involved than some guy talking into a camera about his hopes and…

Witcher 3 Mod Replaces All Combat With Gwent Games

Hearts of Card is a mod for The Witcher 3. When active, it lets you walk up to an enemy, draw your sword and…the second someone takes damage, physical combat is replaced by an impromptu game of gwent against the opponent. Here’s a sped-up video showing the mod in action: While still fairly early in…

I’m Lovin’ It!

Kenn Yap is a freelance artist from Singapore who specialises in environment design. You can see more of Kenn’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page 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…

Track: Kitchenware & Candybars | Artist: Stone Temple Pilots | Album: Purple Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

In The Future, We’ll Do Bad Jobs For Fun

What’s left for humanity once robots take all our jobs? Well, in this game we simulate jobs, do them them real bad and call it “fun”. This is Job Simulator, announced over the weekend at the PlayStation Experience. Built for PlayStation VR (and the way it can use to PlayStation Move controllers to simulate “hands”),…

The Race Car Of The Future Is A Work Of Art

Remember earlier this year, when artist Nathan Dearsley tipped a sci-fi hat to one of the greatest race cars in the history of F1, the 1991 McLaren Honda? Well, McLaren saw it, then went and got him to do something more official. The result of their collaboration is the McLaren MP4-X. It’s a wish list…

Game Studio Shocked That Fans Don’t Like Their Pre-Order DLC

Creative Assembly, the guys behind the Total War series—some of my favourite games—have along with publisher Sega tried something slightly different for their next release’s DLC. And it hasn’t gone down too well. In October, Creative Assembly announced that Total War: Warhammer was going to have some pre-order DLC (reminder: don’t pre-order) that involved locking…

From Lady To GTA V’s Trevor In Three Minutes

Sammy from Fossa Beauty does make-up. She also, from time-to-time, transforms herself from a human woman into a male video game monster.

Explore Chernobyl From The Safety Of Your Couch

Polish game studio The Farm 51—who are in possession of some very exciting graphics tech—are working on a virtual reality experience that will let users explore the ruined nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, along with the abandoned, nearby town of Pripyat. Having scanned huge swathes of the area and recreated them in a 3D space,…