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Track: Sealab | Artist: Calamine | “Theme Song From The Adult Swim Show Sealab 2021“ –Sorry. This is now stuck in your head for the next few hours. Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Happy 10 Years Stephen

This month marks Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo’s 10th anniversary at Kotaku. A whole decade! Wow! In honor of this milestone, let’s take a look back at one of his most famous photos and see what fun we can have with it! Your challenge this week: Have some fun with my boss! The portable Wii U is…

‘Shop Contest: Star Wars X Sonic, Winners!

Last weekend was filled with Sonic and Star Wars news. So I asked you, the wonderful readers of Kotaku, to mash up these two franchises in our latest contest. Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who seems to hate us. Why else would this person ruin our lives with this monstrosity? You win,…

Bewear Will Crush You To Death With Its Hugs

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Bewear! Bewear Details Type: Normal/Fighting Average Height: 6‘11“ Average Weight: 297.6 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Bears in…

Hiding Outside With Your Wii U While Your Family Yells About Politics

Hello! Today we watch Sonic tap his foot, cheer on a mini-Shrek, crash some Xbox consoles, skin some nuggets and ignore the yelling. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Contest From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here are a few of my favorites! I always love that moment…

Twitch Star Ninja Is Turning Off His Camera While Eating Throughout Ramadan

Streamers, like other humans who for some reason choose to not spend most of their day on camera, have to eat. Most streamers casually snack or have meals while streaming, which adds to the feeling that viewers are watching a regular person go about their daily routine. However, for Twitch’s headband-wearing money king Tyler “Ninja”…

Mordhau Players Are Using Bots To Play The Lute Better

There are many ways to be good at popular medieval combat game Mordhau. You can sling cold steel with the best of them. You can fire arrows from afar. You can build fortifications that help your buddies. But the only way to truly win, if you ask me, is to become the greatest lute player…

The First Video Game Convention Hosted Entirely On Steam

Video game conventions have their upsides; you get to play all the latest games and meet people who are interested in the same stuff as you. But big conventions are also a reminder that human beings are loud meat megaphones that constantly emit a dying bouquet of foul odors. Playing video game demos while overstimulated…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for taking up running again, or at least plodding around the park cursing myself for saying “I’ll just start again when it’s warm out” last winter. It’s also for video games. The Long Dark got a cool-sounding update this week, which reminded me how long it’s been since I’ve spent time with…

Dota 2‘s New Battle Pass Has Some Unwelcome Changes

I’m playing Dota 2 again following the release of the game’s 2019 battle pass. There are new treasures to collect. Big tournaments are just around the corner. And I’ve spent another $10 on that battle pass. I can’t tell if this game is actually exciting again or if I just feel compelled to play because…

Track: Satisfy My Soul | Artist: Bob Marley & The Wailers | Album: The Complete Bob Marley & The Wailers 1967 To 1972 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Most Beautiful Tank In The World

Daniel Joustra is an artist at Guerrilla Games, the developers of Killzone and Horizon Zero Dawn. He’s also worked on games like Star Citizen You can see more of Daniel’s art at his personal site and ArtStation page

Track: Genesis | Artist: Devin Townsend | Album: Empath Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Barotrauma is a game where up to 16 players cooperatively pilot a submarine—in space. You play as a captain, engineer, mechanic, medic, or security officer to help your teammates survive or, ominously, “make sure no one does.” Along the way, you’ll explore alien ruins and the darkest corners of the deep space-sea. There’s a Sunless…

Taiwanese Game With Art Insulting China’s President That Was Pulled In February Is Still MIA

Back in February, the makers of the P.T.-inspired Steam horror game Devotion experienced a haunted house horror story of their own. The game came out, and at first, everything seemed to be going all right—great, even. Reviews were unanimously positive. Sales were good. Then players discovered a piece of in-game art that seemed to disparage…

Both Democrats And Republicans Agree: Loot Boxes Bad

Earlier this week, Republican senator Josh Hawley announced a bill that would regulate the use of loot boxes and microtransactions in “games played by minors.” But aren’t Republicans typically against any type of regulation on the free market? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we talk about the idea of politicians seeking out the gamer vote,…

The Sims Changed How I Think About Moving Apartments

My brain is so poisoned by video games, that while I was recently moving my furniture into my new apartment all I could think about was The Sims My move, from one New York City apartment to another, was expensive and complicated ordeal. I’m so, so close to finally being finished with it. I’ve got…

Track: My Body (Louie Vega Expansions NYC Remix) | Artist: Luther Vandross | Album: My Body (Louie Vega Remixes) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Our Favorite Cosplay From PAX East 2019

PAX East was a few weeks back now, but we’ve just got all our footage and pics together to run this gallery of what was an amazing cosplay showcase. All video and photos were shot by Dave Yang, while the clip below was edited by Mineralblu. You’ll find each cosplayer’s credit, site link and the…

The Witcher 3’s Creators Have Imagined Geralt As A Samurai

CD Projekt Red have opened a new online store, and while that’s not usually something we’d pay much notice to, there’s one item launching alongside it that caught my attention: a very fancy statue of Geralt that was designed by some of the artists who worked on The Witcher 3 Because of that direct involvement,…