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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,…

Glitched Half-Life Speedrun Teleports Through The Game In Under Seven Minutes

A team of speedrunners have annihilated Half-Life, crafting a speedrun that uses a strange teleportation glitch to finish the game in a little over six minutes. The run was performed by members of the SourceRuns community, which is dedicated to hosting speedruns for games that use the GoldSrc (called “Gold Source”) or Source engine. It…

The PS1 Strategy Game That Nails Robotic Destruction

In Front Mission 3’s 18th battle, I’m on a naval base facing down two giant walking artillery cannons, four Gundam-like mechs, and an apache helicopter. It isn’t the most challenging tactical role-playing game from the PS1 era, but like lots of games from that era it’s prone to the occasional difficulty spike. Unlike many other…

The Week In Games: Sonic And Chicken Assassins

It feels like we’re right in the middle of summer, but lucky for you there are a lot of games to sink your teeth and time into coming out this week. If you’re the kind of person who likes a retro romp, you might enjoy the revamped stylings of Sonic Mania Plus, an even-more-stuff edition…

Track: Corona | Artist: The Minutemen | Album: Introducing The Minutemen Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Palpatine Deserves To Be Everywhere

Dice have decided that Emperor Palpatine is too powerful, so they have removed him from the game until he can be brought down to normal human power levels. That dude’s a Sith lord, though, so he should be powerful. And he should also be everywhere. I have a lot of love in my heart for…

Listen To Us Talk About Octopath Traveler

Tim Rogers and I have both played a lot of Octopath Traveler, the next big role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch, and you can hear us talk about it on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen Kirk’s off this week, but Tim’s around to help me dissect what’s good and bad about Octopath Traveler. We both love…

Sunday Comics: Scary Cuddle

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 July 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 12. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Track: Baby Don’t Go | Artist: Katie Von Schleicher | Album: Bleaksploitation Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Create More Fortnite Mysteries, Winners!

Fornite keeps upping the ante with its strange world developments from season to season, and last week’s ‘Shop Contest was all about adding even more mysteries to the pile. I’ve had a chance to play in the altered, post-anchor world of Fortnite since last weekend, and I have to say that the game would be…

This Week In The Business: Struggles on Steam

QUOTE | “If they upped the cost of Steam Direct to something like $500 or even $1,000, that’s not going to deter a small developer who’s put years of work into a passion project – but it is going to make asset flipping and bottom-of-the-barrel games much less profitable.” – At Develop:Brighton, Tomas Rawlings of…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for making the heck out of this slow cooker peach cobbler from our excellent sister site The Takeout. Using the slow cooker means you can bake and play video games at the same time! I really need to make more progress in Hollow Knight, even though I am wretched at boss battles. I…

Track: Slow Blues | Artist: John Coltrane | Album: The Lost Album Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.