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Sims Speedrunners Compete Over How Fast Child Services Can Take Away Their Sims’ Kids

Neglecting babies in The Sims 4 doesn’t result in their death, your kids just get taken away by child protective services. While grim, activating CPS has become its own category of speedrun now. The current record holder, SimplySeze, managed this depressing task in about fifteen and a half minutes. The entire speedrun requires you to…

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Dragon Age Cosplay Takes To The Hills

This is Enaylaas Dragon Age’s Cullen Rutherford. No convention shots here: she figured if you’re going to do some Dragon Age cosplay, you’d best find some snowy fantasy landscapes to stand in front of.

It’s 2017 And The Witcher 3 Cosplay Keeps Coming

May it never cease. Here’s Prince Arias Blood & Wine’s Orianna, with the video by Milligan Vick

Noita is an action roguelite that claims to “physically simulate” every pixel. Basically, that means things burn, melt, and blow up Real Nice. You’ll craft your own spells to help traverse its procedurally generated caverns. Its developers have worked on games like The Swapper, Crayon Physics Deluxe, and Environmental Station Alpha. Definitely one to keep…

A Spartan And His Very Large Rocket Launcher

Luke Kopycinski is an artist who worked on Halo Wars 2. Specifically, he did a bunch of the game’s cards, the system used to build units in Blitz multiplayer mode You can see more of Luke’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in…

Glitched Hitman Guard Is Straight Out Of A Horror Game

Today on Highlight Reel we have Lynchian security guards, Destiny 2 beta footage, Battlegrounds nonsense, 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! Ghost Recon:…

Battlegrounds Motorcycle Disaster Turns Into Surprise Squad Kill

Vehicles in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are not your friends. They might seem like they’re on your side, but then you hit a bump in the road, and they soar and tumble with no regard for the safety of their frail, fleshy passengers. One squad, however, turned a vehicular nightmare into every PUBG player’s dream. Lynxzyyy and…

Game of Thrones Recap Podcast: Whose Advice Should Daenerys Follow?

By popular demand, we’re back with another bonus Game of Thrones episode of Kotaku Splitscreen Last week we asked if you wanted us to do shows for each episode this season, and you told us in no uncertain terms that, yes, you would be into that. So here we are. I even recorded some special…

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The Art Of Strike Vector EX

Strike Vector EX is a dogfighting game that’s fresh out on Steam (it was released on console last year). And it has some of the best art you’ll see on this feature in 2017. EX is actually a re-release of Strike Vector, a game we featured on Fine Art in 2013. This new version came…

The Week In Games: Come On Baby Light My Pyre

The creators of Bastion and Transistor are coming out with their latest and it shows how times have changed. We likened it last fall to a “mystical sports RPG.” Unlike Supergiant Games’ previous focus on story and exploration, Pyre shifts the focus to arena style-showdowns. Which I’m looking forward to, personally. An esport you play…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Sonic Crossover

Did you hear? Sonic the Hedgehog got picked up by comic book publisher IDW. That means it’s only a matter of time until the furry blue runner’s first really weird crossover. The new partnership was revealed last week after Sega announced Sonic comics would no longer be coming via Archie. Naturally, everyone’s wandering what this…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs, Winners!

One of the greatest video game openings of all time made somehow even better. Last week’s contest was to take the dancing hot dog and dump him into your favorite gaming locales. The enthusiasm seemed to be somewhat lacking and for a hot second I thought maybe I’d introduced one of the worst prompts in…

Sunday Comics: A Super Lasting Longer Than Four Hours

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 July 22. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 17. Read more…

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This Week In The Business: Miyamot…Oh No

QUOTE | “A while later, I was in the bathroom – and this is embarrassing – I was trying to pull down [Donkey Kong 64 designer] George Andreas’ trousers for a joke.” “I was on my knees and I looked up to see Miyamoto staring down at me. That was the last time I spoke…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for caving to the pressure and buying an air conditioner even though the thought of installing one is terrifying. Also, video games. I have a bunch of games I have to check out this weekend that you’ll hear about next week. I’m also finally going to make some time to check out…

Blizzard’s Official Doomfist Cosplay Is Incredible

Blizzard is at the San Diego Comic Con, and as part of their presence they’ve got some official cosplay of the newest Overwatch character, Doomfist. It is, even by Overwatch standards, absolutely fantastic. The company hired Henchmen Studios to create the costume, which took a team of 14 people six weeks to construct. It involved…