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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to make my apartment look super cool so my niece is really impressed when she and my sister come to visit next week. It’s also for playing video games Last weekend I played Fortnite with a friend of mine for the first time. We barricaded ourselves in a cave, built…

Track: You’re My Best Friend | Artist: Queen | Album: A Night At The Opera Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Shadow Of The Colossus Player Rips Through 16 Giants In 36 Minutes

Shadow of the Colossus battles are supposed be dangerous clashes against massive foes, but a new boss rush world record highlights some intense climbing tricks and AI foolery that turns the game’s iconic beasts into pushovers. The boss rush speedrun was completed by ChurchNEOH using the current-gen HD remake, but many of the techniques work…

Track: Boom Boom | Artist: John Lee Hooker | Album: Whiskey & Wimmen Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Mince Meat | Artist: Danger Doom | Album: The Mouse & The Mask Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

2018, Illustrated

Xenia Malikova is a concept artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Xenia’s work at her ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional or…

Clicker Game Ditches Microtransactions, Becomes Steam Best Seller

At first glance, Clicker Heroes 2 doesn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary. It’s a clicker game in which you incrementally build up a fantasy hero and watch numbers skyrocket to the point that perspective dies. You do this forever. What makes Clicker Heroes 2 different from other games in its genre is the…

The Unexpected Difficulty Of Choosing Who To Play As In Hunting Simulator

I’ve always been curious about hunting sims, mostly because I want to vicariously wander around the woods. I’m excited to check a recent one that just got ported to the Switch, but right now I can’t decide which character to pick. Hunting Simulator launched for consoles and PC last year and arrived on Switch last…

Track: Summer | Artist: Joe Hisaishi | Album: Kikujiro OST Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Where Are You Now? | Artist: Lady Leshurr | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

Bro, Relax

André Lima Araújo is a comics artist from Portugal who has worked on series like Black Panther and Generation Gone, which he co-created. You can see more of Araújo’s work at his personal site Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal…

What We Loved (And Really Loved) About Sorry To Bother You

Tim Rogers and Gita Jackson had a chance to see Sorry To Bother You, a movie so creative and wild watching feels like being transported briefly to new but familiar universe. We sat down to dissect every bit of this potent and hilarious movie. Spoilers abound. Gita Jackson: So, Tim, we both saw Sorry To…

Track: Can’t Stand Me Now | Artist: The Libertines | Album: The Libertines Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Brands Are Into Cosplay Now

Money has been finding its way into the cosplay community for years now, but usually it’s been in the form of sponsorships or paid appearances, not—as Arby’s has just done—directly joining in on the fun. The company—which specialises in fast food and nerd jokes on Twitter—worked with cosplay costume and props builder Volpin Props to construct…

Track: Voice Of Trespass | Artist: Between The Buried And Me | Album: Automata II Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Under A Porcelain Sun is a first-person adventure set in a surrealist colonial India. It’s about two thieves searching for the mythical city Kayamgadh. Along the way, they’ll encounter castles of glue, wax people, and other strangeness. It comes from a studio in India called Oleomingus and will be out this summer.

A World You Can Hold In The Palm Of Your Hand

Li-Yu Lin, originally from Taiwan but currently living in Denmark, is an artist and designer at LEGO. As a side project she builds these tiny little dioramas, which at first look like polygonal 3D models, but which are actually handmade papercraft, cut and folded with absolute precision. The pieces are for sale on her personal…

Fortnite Cart Does Sick Flip

Today on Highlight Reel we have big ships, skinless giants in Fortnite, cart tricks, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: I Can’t Stop Cheating With My Ex

Hello all you perfumed sex-beasts of the apocalypse, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column designed to help you get the party you want when you LFG. This week, we’re talking about making choices we know we’re going to regret. What does it mean when you love your partner… but you…

Nathan Fillion Tells Us How That Great Uncharted Fan Film Happened

How did Nathan Fillion wind up playing Nathan Drake in an Uncharted fan-film? And who really voiced Cayde-6 during that E3 trailer? On a bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. Speaking on Splitscreen this afternoon to promote the excellent Uncharted fan film he put out this morning, Fillion explained that he’d met the director,…