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Track: Moanin’ (Live) | Artist: Lee Morgan with Oscar Peterson, Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown | Album: Moanin’ (Original Version) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Tokyo’s Best Souvenir Snack Just Got Better

When people who know go to Tokyo, they buy one souvenir. Make that, the best souvenir. They buy Tokyo Banana. And that snack just got better because it’s getting a Kit Kat version. Or maybe Japanese Kit Kats just got better because they’re getting a Tokyo Banana flavor. Whichever. The point is, Tokyo Banana are…

The Art Of Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Oh boy. If there’s one thing I missed last year on Fine Artit was the lack of an Assassin’s Creed feature, since they’re always made up of some of the most beautiful video game art you’ll see in the business. So it’s great to have the series back in 2017 with Origins Below you’ll find…

Guy Dressed As A Grisly Nintendo Switch For Halloween

Reader Matt didn’t dress up as a Nintendo character for Halloween. He dressed up as a Nintendo console, complete with bloody Halloween twist. Having Arms lit up on the front of the screen was a nice touch, considering the horrific surprise awaiting anyone who tried to disconnect the Joy-Con. You can see some shots of…

Explicit Sex Games Keep Getting Onto Steam

If at any given moment you visit the Steam store’s front page, there’s a strong chance you’ll get an eyeful of exposed skin from some lewd adventure or action game’s listing. Steam doesn’t allow pornographic games, but in the Steam Direct era, they keep appearing on Valve’s service anyway—until they’re taken down, that is. Warning:…

Assassin’s Creed Character Melts Into Nightmare

Today on Highlight Reel we have desynchronization, Mario runs, exploding Nazis 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 the episodes…

The First 10 Things To Do When Your PC Can’t Run A New Game

You just got a new PC game! Hoo buddy, you are excited. You’ve been looking forward to this one for years. You load it up and… oh, hell. Something’s off. Your frame-rate is bucking wildly. The mouse input is all wrong. The introductory sequence hangs for a second or two every time someone talks. When…

The Art Of Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 is one of the prettiest movies you’ll ever see, so it’s a pleasure to share some of the concept art that went into the film’s creation. I know, we normally do video game stuff here, but we did Ghost in the Shell(and Blade Runner’s animated prequel), so indulge me. And besides, it’s…

Bastion Cosplay Was A Halloween Treat 

Jiovanie Velazquez’s 10 year-old son wanted a Bastion costume for Halloween, and since you can’t exactly walk into a store and buy one, he decided to make one for him. The suit was made of EVA Foam, had LED lighting in the helmet and also voice-activated lighting in the chest. Velazquez even went to the…

Popular Battlegrounds Streamer Pulls Off Miraculous Headshot, Wins $100

“Doc, I’ll give you $100 if you hit this shot,” ex-CSGO pro and popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds streamer Shroud said to fellow PUBG streaming superstar and mustache-with-a-soul Dr Disrespect. “Headshot,” Shroud added. “Has to be a headshot.” The shot was preposterous. The person Dr Disrespect was aiming at was so far away that they weren’t even…

Track: Always Ascending | Artist: Franz Ferdinand | Album: Always Ascending Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

A Future Porsche That Doesn’t Need A Driver

Andrian Luchian is a concept artist and illustrator based in Germany. You can see more of Andrian’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing…

It’s October 2017, And Spintires Is Back On Steam’s Best-Sellers

Wolfenstein. Assassin’s Creed. Call of Duty. The biggest names in the video game business are being unleashed upon a highly suspecting populace, and Steam’s sales charts reflect that. With one exception. Right now, here’s what Steam’s top sellers list looks like: All the big names, but then, toward the middle, is humble Spintires: Mudrunner. It’s…

The Most Expensive Things You Can Buy On Steam

Allow me to posit for you a hypothetical scenario: you’ve just come into a large sum of money, perhaps because a wealthy relative passed away, or maybe because there was a great societal upheaval, and you ate a rich person. Regardless, you can afford to splurge a little. Here are some options. The single most…

Mario.exe Has Stopped Working

Today on Highlight Reel we have Assassin’s Creed glitches, Mario jumps, The Last Of Us advice 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…

We Tried A Dungeon-Themed Escape Room

With Halloween finally upon us, I get to live out my dream of being a camera guy on a ghost hunter TV show walking down dark corridors, crawling through secret passages, and tripping over chains. Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra and Alex Bedder take a trip to Brooklyn Escape Room to see if they have what it…

Lovecraftian Terror, Sculpted For A Video Game

Frogwares are working on a Lovecraftian adventure game calledThe Sinking City, and as part of the monster/character design process artist Marina Orlova sculpted these terrifying little guys out of clay. Actual clay, not a 3D render that simply looks like it. We don’t get to feature tangible, real-world stuff on Fine Art very often, so…

Nintendo’s First Electronic Toy Was Very, Very Cool

We all know Nintendo is a company with a long history. In over 100 years they’ve made everything from playing cards to LEGO sets to video games. But as important as some of those products were (or still are!), few are as important as the Nintendo Companion. Why? Because it marks Nintendo’s first foray into…

Assassin’s Creed Cosplay May As Well Be A Screenshot

Here’s cosplay superstar Leon Chiro as Bayek from Assassin’s Creed Origins, on a shoot that took him to an actual desert in Kuwait. The costume was a collaboration between Chiro himself and Cosplay Annart. There are some more shots—some of them actually taken outside on the sand—below:

What We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Stranger Things Season Two

Stranger Things came back this weekend with a second season. Staff writer Gita Jackson sat down today with Compete’s Maddy Myers and Kotaku social media manager Alex Bedder to chat about Ghostbuster Halloween costumes, punk rockers and the perfection that is Joyce Byers. Gita Jackson: This weekend heralded the return of Netflix’s hit show Stranger…