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Track: Anxiety Reducer | Album: Gigantoid | Artist: Fu Manchu Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Shaq-Fu 2 Is Happening

The original was a game that even Electronic Arts admits was an “abomination”. This game’s crowdfunding campaign was, let’s be honest, a little weird. But whatever! A second Shaq-Fu game looks like it’s actually happening. The project passed its funding goal earlier today, developers Big Deez confirming that work is underway on both consoles and…

Who Knew Video Game Creators Could Also Be In Super Corny Rock Bands

Permaband is a band made up of members of EVE Online’s development team. This clip for a song of theirs is a lot better than you’re probably expecting. Like, for what’s essentially a joke band, these guys can be good! Then corny. Then good! Then corny! Then funny! Then corny! Then good again. Confusing, but…

Forget Those Big Space Games For A Moment

While big projects like Star Citizen an Elite: Dangerous are getting all the money (and press attention), they aren’t the only space games you should be keeping an eye on. There’s also Enemy Starfighter, which for months has been looking very, very cool. I’ve been playing a very early build of the game for the…

Jon Snow’s Sword Remade, Goes On A Smashing Rampage

This is a weird one from master swordsmith Man At Arms, because he’s normally making real versions of swords that don’t actually exist. But Game of Thrones being what it is, there already is a version of Jon Snow’s Longclaw. It’s the one he uses in the show. But hey, whatever, the world needs more…

VOLUS COSPLAY

YES. THIS. YES. Volus is Jerry LaRussa, while his Salarian buddy is Rebel Among The Stars. Pics are by Thomas Spanos, taken at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.

The Last Of Us Sequel Idea Isn’t Real, But Maybe It Should Be

You could call this beautiful image of Ellie “fan art”, but that would be a weird definition, since the artist actually worked on The Last Of Us. That artist was the exceptionally-talented Marek Okon, whose work we’ve featured here a few times before. While unrelated to any actual TLoU work going on at Naughty Dog,…

Kings Landing: Nice Place To Visit, Wouldn’t Want To Live There

Charles Lee is an artist who has worked with companies like Nike, EA, Sony, Obsidian and Motorola. Some games he’s worked on include Lost Planet 3, Firefall and the cancelled Aliens RPG. You can see more of Charles’ work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory…

300-Foot Water Slide Looked Like The Perfect Sunday

Hey, remember how back in March artist Luke Jerram was raising money to build a 300-foot water slide down a busy street in Bristol, England? He actually got it done. The slide’s barriers were built using hundreds of hay bales, and dishwashing liquid was used on the tarps to make things a little more slippery.…

My Friend Just Bought A PS3, And I Am Very Jealous

Last month, a friend of mine – whose only other gaming systems were a PS2 and a Wii, neither of which he’d touched in years – went out and bought a PS3. Knowing I had a decent collection of games, he came over to borrow some. I thought I was helping him out. I didn’t…

Florida Man Wants To Marry His “Porn Filled Apple Computer”

Chris Sevier, “a former Judge Advocate and combat veteran”, has elbowed his way into a gay marriage lawsuit in Florida, claiming that if gays in the state might be allowed to get married, then he can marry his…laptop. That’s full of porn. Sevier reckons that if gay residents “have the right to marry their object…

$500 Aluminum Nintendo Console Is A Thing Of Beauty

This is the Analogue NT. It’s a console that’ll play both NES and Famicom cartridges. Think of it as an unofficial Nintendo console for design-conscious, affluent grown-ups. And I do mean affluent. It’s priced at $499. For that, you’re getting a machine made from a single solid piece of aluminium, and one which – unlike…

Someone Has To Design All Those Video Game Menus And Computers

Eric Bellefeuille works at BioWare as a UX (user experience) artist. That means he works on stuff that you actually interact with, from heads-up displays to computer menus. It also means designing the stuff that characters use inside the game, so we’re not just talking a main menu, we’re talking the computers people like Commander…

Star Wars Invades American Airbase

Some scenes from Return of the Jedi were filmed around El Centro, California. So it’s only fitting that, for May 4, the 501st Legion descended on the local airbase to take a bunch of awesome photos.

Umbrella soldier cosplay by TonySpawn. Photo by Lumal

There’s already been a Persona 4 animated series. Now there’s another one, adding in the extra content seen only in the Vita re-release of the game.

EVE Online’s Real-World Monument Has Already Been Vandalised

The real, physical monument to EVE Online players hasn’t even been open for a week, but already it’s been vandalised. A player tweeted over the weekend that they’d visited the monument and scratched a player’s name off the landmark. That player is Xenuria, someone with a…controversial past in the game. While well-known (and a well-known…

Steam’s Store Is A Hot Mess

Steam is great for so many things. Online play, copy-protection, update management, silly sale prices. You know what Steam’s not great at? Being a store. I’m not talking about knowing knowing what game you want to buy, opening up Steam and buying it. That’s easy, and not even Steam’s gross design and cluttered UI can…

This Is What The Internet Sounds Like

The “cloud” isn’t some silent, nebulous power. The computing power necessary to run everything from Steam to Xbox Live to your phone’s email comes from data centres, and while they lookcool, they sound like the internet is built on steam pipes and diesel. British sound artist Matt Parker took a trip to a data centre…

Meet The Guy Who Says He Buried The E.T. Cartridges

Last month, thousands of copies of ET (along with other Atari games) were found buried beneath the New Mexico desert. James Heller was the man responsible for that. In an interview with KBOI2, the former Atari employee says that the rumours about the dumping being some secretive, midnight affair are untrue. With 750,000 unwanted game…