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Setting The Mood For Assassins Creed: Origins

Raphael Lacoste, senior art director at Ubisoft, needed to set the scene for the series’ shift to Egypt for Origins when development began a few years back. So he came up with these. These are from around 2014, and aren’t necessarily indicative of specific locations or scenes from the game. They’re just reference for the…

Fed Up With Janky Steam Games, Guy Clones One In 12 Minutes

In his Steam review of a game called Glitch Simulator 2018, user IAmPattyJack claimed that “anyone can make it in roughly 25 minutes.” But as it turned out, he was wrong. It only took him 12 minutes and 18 seconds. Glitch Simulator 2018, from the esteemed creators of hits like ISIS Simulator and Suicide Simulator,…

Everyone Has A Crush On This Concept Art For Overwatch‘s Mercy

Overwatch fandom can’t stop talking about, and drawing, this radically different Mercy concept art. Over the weekend, at the Overwatch exhibit in Gallery Nucleus in Portland, Oregon, Blizzard had copies of their upcoming Overwatch artbook. An enterprising fan, twitter user Adulture, took a few pictures of the concept art for the game from the book.…

Collaborative Mirror’s Edge Speedrun Is A Thing Of Beauty

Mirror’s Edge is a 2008 game all about hardcore parkour and fluid movement. A new collaborative speedrun shows off exactly what happens when you toss expert players behind the wheel. The Mirror’s Edge speedrunning community released a segmented speedrun today, showcasing the game’s freerunning and some neat out of bounds glitches. A segmented speedrun takes…

Who Is The Best Wife In Stardew Valley?

Stardew Valley has finally arrived on the Switch and instead of exchanging the best farming tips or fishing techniques, we ask the real question on all of our minds: Who is the the game’s best romantic interest? I sat down with Seung Park and Gita Jackson to let them debate who they think is the…

Track: Never Let Me Down Again | Artist: Depeche Mode | Album: Music for the Masses Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Sailor Moon Cosplay Is All Grown Up

An all-star lineup of cosplayers, photographers and videographers have teamed up to imagine what it would look like if the stars of Sailor Moon had a more adult photoshoot. It was a reunion of sorts for CineCosu Studios’ Dominique Zamora, who assembled much of the same team we featured earlier in the year for a…

John Cena Meets His Greatest Foe: A Couch

Today on Highlight Reel we have football headshots, leg locks, inappropriate Nier driving 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 all…

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The Best Cosplay From New York Comic Con

The New York Comic Con has gotten so big over the years that it’s now one of the biggest nerd shows on the planet. And where there’s big nerd shows, there’s A+ cosplay. If you weren’t at this year’s event (or at our party), where attendance was pushing 200,000 people, below you’ll find a gallery…

The Art Of Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II is a great strategy game. In no small part because it looks amazing I don’t just mean technically, I mean in terms of taking Games Workshop’s property and bringing it into video games in as bold and colourful a way as possible, as you’ll see in the gallery below. This isn’t…

Light-Up StarCraft Cosplay Is On A Whole Other Level

This Nova outfit (technically Heroes of the Storm cosplay, since this is a skin from that game for the StarCraft character), by Kamui, doesn’t just look good as is. It also lights up like a Blizzard-themed Christmas tree, with some of the most impressive cosplay engineering work I’ve ever seen. Here’s a shot of the…

I Drank Pikachu Soda, And It Was Good

Taiwanese soda company Ocean Bomb has a huge range of Pokemon-themed drinks out at the moment. This one, with Pikachu’s face and the word “cider” on it, convinced me it was the one to try. Now, where I’m from in Australia, “cider” is an alcoholic beverage you drink in the summertime. I get that for…

The Week In Games: Going Down To South Park 

A new South Park game awaits just over the horizon, along with WWE 2K18 and another Gran Turismo-lite. But while these games will no doubt dominate most people’s conversations (except for the Nintendo kids who will once again see some of their favorite characters crammed into a hack’n slash blender), I’ve got my eyes on…

Rogue Flying Fish Cancels Super Mario Bros. World Record 

Darbian is one of the premier Super Mario Bros. speedrunners, and this is him getting wrecked by a Cheep Cheep. Currently tied with Kosmic for first place in the game with a shared world record of 4:56:878, Darbian was on his way to make history having already shaved off another .3 seconds during world 8-3.…

Why Loot Boxes Make People So Angry

It’s the 100th episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, and to celebrate, we’re… talking about video games, loot boxes, and much more. First, Kirk and I reminisce a bit about 2+ years of Splitscreen. Then we get into news talk (19:09) about loot boxes, Oculus Go, and Valve’s Orange Box turning 10. Then we talk South Park,…

Sunday Comics: Legendary Punchline 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 14. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 9. Read more…