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Wonder Woman Cosplay Is Here To Save The Day

This is Panteronaas the new DC’s cinematic take on Wonder Woman. Photos by GK Studios

The Week In Games: Back For Blood

They just don’t make first-person shooters like they used to. Except for Strafe I actually don’t really remember how they used to make video games. Firing laser beams at motherboards? The 90s are almost two decades old, so who knows what they were really like, but the uber-violent shooter-throwback Strafe seems like as good an…

Podcast: Should Nintendo Make Switch VR?

Should Nintendo make a VR peripheral for Switch? What would Kirk and I do if we were put in charge of Bungie? Get the answers to those questions and many more, on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen I just started Nier: Automata, so Kirk and I talk about that for a bit (7:17) before jumping into the…

Track: Four Seas 四海 | Artist: Howie Lee | Album: Homeless EP  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sunday Comics: Mario And Friends 

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 May 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 1. Read more…

Slime-san Is A Lo-Fi Platformer That Wants To Sweep You Off Your Feet

Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in. Filled with micro levels similar to Super Meat boy, the fourth project from the New York studio Fabraz takes the labyrinths of classic games like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country and condenses them down into a single screen…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for usually writing some funny thing here about your weekend and then also mentioning video games, but you’re playing Prey for review so that’s all you’ve got. I’m playing Prey. I streamed some of it earlier today and it was a lot of fun, though I wish the mimics would jump like…

Legendary Mario 64 Record For Collecting All The Stars Finally Broken

For years, speedrunners have been trying to collect 120 Mario 64 stars in under 1:40:00. People have come close, but nobody was able to break the barrier—until now. Allan “Cheese05″ Alvarez just earned his place in Mario 64 history by collecting all the stars in a record 1:39:57, as you can see below: To understand…

Watch Someone Speedrun Portal Without Using Any Portals

Speedrunner 097AceOfSpades beat Portal in 52 minutes using no portals and a lot of airboat cheats. Usually, Portal takes about three hours to complete. And, as the title implies, you complete it by using portals to solve the game’s tricky puzzle-based campaign mode. 097AceOfSpades relies on one main hack to get through the game sans…

Storm Collectibles’ Ryu And Scorpion Figures Are The Best Around

No one makes fighting action figures quite like Storm Collectibles. From real life warriors like Bruce Leeand Muhammad Ali to a pair of video game’s most famous martial artists, Storm’s kung fu is incredibly strong. I’d meant to showcase Storm’s renditions of Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion and Street Fighter’s Ryu much sooner, but the box they…

Track: Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri (Live) | Artist: Ringo Sheena | Album: Nagaku Mijikai Matsuri/Kamisama, Hotokesama Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Battlegrounds Will Add Loot Crates And Skins, But Not Until After Early Access

With over two million copies sold, I think it’s fair to say that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is doing alright, money-wise. The developers hopefully will not starve. They do, however, have plans to make more money off the game in the future. But not until it’s “done.” In an interview with Gamasutra, Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene said that…

Holy Crap, We Made 300 Episodes Of Highlight Reel

Today on the *drumroll* 300th episode of Highlight Reel we have a glitchy gay brothel, blue shell escapes, Romans, Nioh PvP, pan faces and much, 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.…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: The Sex Is Gone From My Marriage

Hello all you pervert people of the intertubes, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that’s syndicated on New Tuchanka. This week, it’s all about your willingness to take risks and expose yourself to hard truths. How do you break out of a self-reinforcing dating cycle that has you convinced you’re going…

March Of The Killer Babies

Rock D is a concept artist from China who works in the video game business. You can see more of Rock D’s work at his 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…

Tetris Speedruns Remain Hypnotizing 

The only thing more enjoyable than seeing the reactions of speedrunners KevinDDR and ApertureGrillz at the end of this new world record for Tetris: the Grandmaster 2 Plus is watching all of those pieces fall into just the right places. Please do watch this video, recorded earlier this week when they set the record. There’s…

Steam Users Are Concerned About Valve’s New Gift Policy

As part of a recent round of tweaks to Steam, Valve made some subtle quality-of-life changes to Steam’s gifting system. Users, however, pointed out that the consequences are farther-reaching than they initially seem. What the change is: First and foremost, gifting is now more straightforward. Instead of gifting games to a friend’s email address or…

Track: Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time | Artist: Jarvis Cocker | Album: Jarvis  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This is Acdramon with a custom-coloured Genji from Overwatch.

The Only Five Valve News Stories That You Ever Read

A wise person once defined insanity as “watching Valve do the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.” Once a quiet enigma, popping out an all-time classic video game once every handful of years, Valve now does a bunch of stuff—largely centered around hardware and updating Steam—announcing these efforts without much in the…