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A Spoiler-Packed Chat About Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Excellent Story

Three Kotaku staffers have finished the new PlayStation 4 game Horizon Zero Dawn, so it feels like time to talk it all. Join me, Kirk, and Patricia for some SPOILERY talk about Aloy’s wild robot adventures. Jason Schreier: Alright, let’s talk about Horizon Zero Dawn. Now that the game has been out for nearly two…

Track: Ong Ong | Artist: Blur | Album: The Magic Whip  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This is Spellbound, a cosplay video by Gerwalkthat features boudoir versions of some magical female characters. And a cat. 

Osaka’s Cosplay Scene Is Stealing Hearts

Osaka’s Nipponbashi Street Festival was held earlier this month, and there was a lot of fantastic cosplay to be found as part of the fun. Because I am unhealthily obsessed with Persona 5 at the momentmy favourite is this killer Ann/Panther, but there’s a lot of other great stuff captured in this vid by Rescue…

Dallas, Your Cosplay Is Very Good

From March 31 to April 2, Fan Expo Dallas was held in Texas, and there was some fantastic cosplay on show, from some tiny Lannisters to a giant Godzilla. Mineralblu was there taking some photos and shooting a vid, which you can see below. If you want to see more, you can check out more…

Damnit Jaal I’m Trying To Work

Today on Highlight Reel we have exploding cars, surprise kills, bottle flips, an incredibly depressing Nier clip, 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!…

Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino

Launching this week at Starbucks locations across the country, the Unicorn Frappuccino is a unique blend of oddly-purple mango and all the sour in the entire world. Nothing screams “unicorn” like those two things. Except maybe a man being murdered by a unicorn. Before we begin, in the interest of full disclosure I must point…

Track: Up Jumped Spring | Artist: Freddie Hubbard | Album: Backlash  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The ‘Fairy Trick’ In Wind Waker HD Shows The Brutal Role RNG Can Play In Speedrunning

Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours. Now, less than a week later, it’s been cut in half, thanks in part to one super lucky fairy. The records for running Wind Waker HD first began collapsing thanks to the Barrier Skip, an…

The Week In Games: Telltale Thanos

Some weeks are deader than others. Before the modern age of Marvel, whose recent gaming outings are monopolized mostly by Disney Infinity (RIP!)and the Lego series, there was Marvel Super Heroes, a Capcom fighter that came out a year before the first Marvel vs. Capcom. The Infinity Gauntlet arc’s only real game adaptation, Thanos finally…

Track: Chemical Plant Zone Acapella | Artist: Smooth McGroove | Album: Sonic 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sunday Comics: Roommate Interviews

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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 10. Read more…

Track: On the Level | Artist: Mac DeMarco | Album: This Old Dog  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Police Mistake Fallout Cosplay For Bomb

We’ve all been there. Your Fallout costume just isn’t sitting right. It needs alterations. So you head to the nearest tailor looking like a poor-man’s storm trooper only to get hounded by the police who think you’re carrying a bomb on your back. That’s what happened to one cosplayer in Grande Prairie, Canada last Tuesday.…

This Week In The Business: Classic Nintendo

QUOTE | “Throughout April, NOA territories will receive the last shipments of Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition systems for this year.” – A Nintendo representative confirms the discontinuation of the NES Classic, just two months after Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima apologized for shortages and pledged to ramp up production QUOTE | “In terms of…

The Sexy Brutale Is A Game About Stopping Murders With Time Travel

Everything about The Sexy Brutale is great. Well, aside from maybe its name. The game centers around a pocketwatch that lets you travel back to the beginning of the same day at will. You’re tasked with preventing a series of gruesome murders carried out by the staff of a ritzy casino mansion called… The Sexy…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? 

The weekend is for having a friend stay with you and debating between actually cleaning the house/buying food or just kicking your dirty laundry under the bed/ordering pizza. Also, video games. I have an upcoming game to play, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time for more Witcher 3. I’ve definitely been taking my time…

How Deus Ex Predicted the Future

Warning: If you haven’t played Deus Ex, but have maybe bought it in a Steam Sale as something you’re absolutely going to play one day, this article will drive a twelve-car train of spoilers through that dream like you’re Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception This post originally appeared 8/5/14 on Kotaku UK A piece of driftwood…

Toy Time Takes The Fate Of The Furious Into Its Own Hands

In honor of today’s release of the eighth installment of The Fast and the Furious, Toy Time launches Ludacris, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson from the hoods of Mattel’s Stunt Stars vehicles. I’ve not seen many of the Fast and the Furious films, but I am a huge fan of Vin Diesel and people riding…

Track: Xtal | Artist: Aphex Twin | Album: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.