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Marvel Stuntmen Recreate Super Smash Bros.

Filmmaker Legend of Micah has teamed up with a range of professional stunt performers, who have worked on stuff like Avengers: Endgame, Avengers Infinity War and The Walking Dead, to pay tribute to Super Smash Bros I’m getting tired just watching these guys.

Overwatch Winter Update Brings Festive, Furry Skins, But Little Else

Overwatch’s annual Winter Wonderland event is back, which means snowball fights, festive cheer, and yetis or whatever, but mostly skins. This year, everyone is a furry, except for Mercy, who’s a World of Warcraft elf Here’s everybody in their new holiday duds: Personally, I’m a pretty big fan of Junkrat’s Krampus look, but everything else…

Atari’s Much-Hated E.T. Is A (Slightly) Better Game If You Read The Manual

Welcome back to Complete In Box, our video series that looks back at classic games through the lens of their boxes, manuals, and other cool stuff that came packaged with them. Today, we look at what is often called the “worst game ever”: Atari’s E.T. Listen, I don’t think E.T. is the worst game ever.…

Stupidity Escalates Exquisitely In Earth Defense Force 5

Just in time to help us mindlessly while away the winter holidays, Earth Defense Force 5 for the PS4 brings players back to the stupidest version of our planet possible. The giant insects no one calls insects are back, and this time they’ve brought 20 foot tall frogs that look “just like us.” I’m face-palming, but…

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Japan’s Most Delicious Convenience Store Chicken Nuggets Get A Robot

Japanese convenience store chain Lawson makes some truly yummy chicken nuggets it calls “Kara-age Kun.” Now store staff has a helper to make the fried food. Meet Kara-age Kun Robo Currently in trials in Tokyo, the robot has turned the Kara-age Kun cooking from six minutes to one. According to IT Media, the robot can…

Might As Well Jump

Michael Shinde is an artist at Turtle Rock who has also worked on games like Mass Effect Andromeda and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. You can see more of Michael’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Portal Easter Egg In Counter-Strike Isn’t Teasing A New Game, Valve Says

Christmas came early for Counter-Strike players in the form of a new battle royale mode with its own fun (albeit compact) map. Thanks to an Easter egg on that map, Portal fans think their Christmas might be coming, too. To this, Valve responded that no, there is no Santa Claus. One room in a compound…

Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Anime NYC 2018

Even though it’s only in its second year, Anime NYC is already the #1 show in the area outside NYCC, with almost 40,000 people coming through the gates of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center between November 16-18. Below you’ll find some cosplay photos and images taken by Mineralblu from the weekend, while each cosplayer’s…

Ashen Is A Dreamier Dark Souls

I’m a voracious Souls player. From multiple playthroughs of the Dark Souls trilogy to games like The Surge and Nioh, I can’t get enough of moody exploration and tough boss fights. Ashen, a new Souls-like published by Annapurna Interactive, released last week on the Epic store and Xbox One, and while it doesn’t reinvent the…

The Internet Reacts To The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Poster

The poster for the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie had been released, and I just wanna say, “LMAO what the fuck?” What’s up with Sonic’s jacked, humanoid legs? What’s up with his strangely delicate fingers? Why does he look like he’s posing nude? This poster has certainly piqued my curiosity, along with the rest of…

The Week In Games: Kingdom Force

We’re spinning into the end of the year, but there’s still Earth Defense Force, Kingdom Two Crowns, and a Night Trap port coming down the pipe. We’re in the winter months now. What video games are there to play? We’ve lived through the last two months of constant rush, and now the video games have…

Lookin’ Sharp, Aloy

Luc de Haan is a character and concept artist at Guerrilla, the studio behind Horizon: Zero Dawn and Killzone We’ve featured some of his stuff before, but that was a long time ago, so I figured we were due for a refresher. You can see more of Luc’s work at his ArtStation page

‘Shop Contest: Katamari Rolls Everywhere

Katamari Damacy Rerolled is out in the world, gracing your Switches, and we need to figure out where that damn ball is going to go next. I’m a big fan of the Prince and his little ball. It collects all the things. You direct that little fella around and his ball just gets bigger and…

Sunday Comics: Santa Dialogue

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 6. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

This Week In The Business: Epic vs. Valve

QUOTE | “In our analysis, stores charging 30% are marking up their costs by 300% to 400%. But with developers receiving 88% of revenue and Epic receiving 12%, this store will be a profitable business for us.” – Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney explains the thinking behind the newly launched Epic Games Store while throwing a…

Steam Is Banning Sex Games With Young-Looking Characters [Update]

These days, anything goes on Steam, but not anything anything. If games are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” Valve says it’ll send them packing. In the past, that’s meant low-effort games with titles like Big Dick and MILF, achievement spam, and certain sex games Now, according to some developers, Valve is going after games that…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for having been invited to a potluck/Christmas decoration party, which is so wholesome it’s kind of freaking me out. It’s also for playing video games. In my determination to get nowhere in Red Dead Redemption 2 I haven’t had a chance to check out so many recent games, so hopefully I’ll do…

Help, I Accidentally Bought Mario Party Instead Of Smash

After last night’s announcement that Persona 5’s Joker is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I finally decided I was going to buy the damn game. Then I bought Super Mario Party I don’t know how I made this mistake. Maybe I was just being hasty. Maybe after so many hours of Game Awards my…

Avengers 4 Is Titled Avengers: Endgame And Here Is The Debut Trailer

Finally, the wait is over. This is the trailer for the next Avengers film. It’s titled Avengers: Endgame and will be out next April Well, what do you think?