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Track: The Emergency (Radio Edit) | Artist: BT | Album: These Hopeful Machines Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Mint In Box

Artur Mukhametov is a Russian concept artist who has been working in the games business since 2013. You can see more of Artur’s work at his ArtStation page

Track: Ringleader | Artist: Public Memory | Album: Wuthering Drum  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Fallout 76 Exploration Committee 

Fallout 76 is Bethesda’s upcoming multiplayer wasteland domination experience, and there’s going to be a number of great things to discover in it. Your task is to depict those things. We all have memories of great experiences in games. I have nearly perfect sense memory of where I was when I crested the first hill…

We All Sometimes Struggle With Work-Life Balance

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about crunch, a complicated issue that affects us all in a lot of ways. Work-life balance can be a tricky thing for many people working in all sorts of fields, including video games. Kirk has spent the past week doing nothing but playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for his…

Sunday Comics: Candy Bag

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published October 25. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Track: Soak | Artist: Zola Jesus | Album: Okovi Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Luigi Is Scared, Winners!

Luigi is often frightened, and now we know why. Last week I asked you to show me, exactly, why Luigi was so scared. You did, with many scares and an extreme amount of frightens, and now I am here to deliver a winner and lots of honorable mentions. After all, Luigi is someone who is…

This Week In The Business: Do AAA Games Require Crunch?

QUOTE | “Rockstar is a good company to work for. When it’s not crunch, it’s not a bad place at all. The money’s alright, there’s a bonus at the end of the year. It’s just that crunch practically kills people.” – A former Rockstar Lincoln QA tester believes a good company to work for will,…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for starting Red Dead Redemption 2 because you fell asleep before it launched last night, because you are an old man. I never played the first Red Dead because I didn’t own a console, but I always wanted to. I read about the game a whole lot—highfalutin academic papers weren’t quite the…

My Red Dead Redemption 2 Playthrough Has Already Gone Way Off The Rails

I’m about to go away for a week, vacationing far from my PS4. I’ve been trying to use the last few days to get the most out of the early copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. I think I’m doing it “wrong,” but having a great time along the way. Lately I’ve stopped advancing the…

Track: Kenshi Yonezu | Artist: Flamingo | Album: TEENAGE RIOT Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

An Apple A Day…

Sasha Tudvaseva is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Sasha’s work at her ArtStation page.

Red Dead Revolver, The 2004 Game Where It All Began

Back in the year 2000, Angel Studios in San Diego began development on a video game Western. They were making it for Capcom, the Japanese publisher of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil, and I think it’s safe to assume not a single person involved could have predicted what would happen next. An action…

Twitch Streamer Locks Himself In A Cage For 30 Days [UPDATE]

It began with a joke. Twitch streamer Johnny_now resolved to make a mad dash toward his fitness goals ahead of his 30th birthday, but he kept stumbling. He got into a good exercise routine, but couldn’t quit overeating. Then he injured his back and fell headlong back into his vices. “I joked around,” he told…

The “All Your Base” Game Had 32 Secret Japanese Endings

Zero Wing, an old shooter most famous for its “All your base are belong to us” intro, was presumed (at least among Westerners) to have 3-4 different endings. Turns out only the English language version has three; the Japanese one has 35, most of which are absolute nonsense. Legends of Localization dug into the game…

Check Out This Fantastic Fallout Cosplay

At DragonCon earlier this year, there were enough Fallout cosplayers around for photographer So Say We All to run a little themed shoot for the series. You can see the results below. I’m still not sure that Tunnel Snake didn’t just walk right out of the game.

My Quest To Be Gay In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Ancient Greece

Ever since it was revealed that you could have same sex romances in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I’ve been chomping at the bit to be gay in ancient Greece. It’s turned out to be harder than I thought. In the fifth grade, my school went whole hog on ancient Greece. In our overstuffed school, we called…

The Vermin Tide

Patrik Rosander is an artist at Fatshark, where he’s worked on games like Warhammer Vermintide II You can see more of Patrik’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Acts Like An RPG, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough

The other day, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hit me with a real slobberknocker: It told me that a family I’d decided to save from impending slaughter earlier in the game was carrying a disease that ended up spreading to a whole island. My character, Kassandra, was immediately distraught. “We can go back anytime you want,” another…