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Track: Big Jet Plane (The Original Memphis Recordings) | Artist: Primal Scream | Album: Give Out But Don’t Give Up – The Original Memphis Recordings Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

B-Boy Recreates Smash Bros. & Overwatch Moves

This is Martin Cochingco, a man able to take a bunch of ridiculously exaggerated video game animations and somehow recreate them in real life. Here he is recreating some select Smash Bros. victory animations, from Bayonetta to Sonic to Captain Falcon to Green Mario. And here he is with some friends doing some Overwatch animations:…

Tree Queen

Toraji is an artist based in Tokyo. You can see more of Toraji’s work at her ArtStation and Instagram pages.

It Takes Two To Cosplay As Doctor Strange

This is wrussell9 cosplaying as Doctor Strange, getting more than a little help from the Cloak of Levitation, aka his sister elliebabygurl

Track: Heart Station | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Heart Station Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

It’s one of the biggest, prettiest games of the year, so it’s a treat tonight to be able to share some of the work that went into the creation of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Below you’ll find a ton of art from Odyssey’s production, from characters to environments to 3D to animation to promotional. It’s not…

How A Twitch-Owned Wiki May Be Inflating Streamers’ Views

Twitch streamer Chris “Bognogus” Steinert was live on camera, reading an article about space exploration game No Man’s Sky on Gamepedia, online gaming’s equivalent of Wikipedia, when he discovered his own livestream playing at the very bottom of the page. Steinert was streaming his galactic wanderings to an audience of 3,183 viewers. One of them,…

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Gets Review Bombed For Going On Sale So Soon

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is, to hear people (including Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo) tell it, pretty good, despite some questionable narrative decisions. Last week, however, it committed a crime that some Steam users decided couldn’t be forgiven: a 34 percent off sale. Cue the review bombs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider came out on September…

Other Player’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Photos Inspire Me To See Its World

I’m really loving Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, even if it took me a while to get to it. One of the features that is unexpectedly enhancing the game for me is being able to see all the pictures other people are taking with photo mode. When it comes to game, I usually know what I don’t…

The Week In Games: Cowboy Throne

This week delivers a Disgaea port, a comedic kart racer, and the cowboy game that everyone’s been hollering about. I know that you’re probably getting super excited about the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 this week, but the truth is that there’s all sorts of things to be enthused about this week. If you’re…

Track: Maggie May (Live) | Artist: Rod Stewart | Album: Every Picture Tells a Story Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Welcome To The Thunder Dome, Overwatch

Yan Liang is an artist from China who has given some of Overwatch’s stars a makeover. You can see more Yan’s work at his ArtStation page OTHER WORK

Some Perfect Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Cosplay

Here’s cosplayer Skunk absolutely becoming Odyssey’s Kassandra. Not only has she nailed the costume, but some of her shots even went so far as to include a huge, actual eagle. UPDATE: I’m told it’s actually a Harris Hawk, thanks @wingbeaten! The costume itself does not scimp on the detail; the chest is made of thick…

‘Shop Contest: Luigi Is Scared

We know that the ghost hunter Luigi is a spineless worm, so for this Halloween season I need you to show me what that big ole scaredy-cat is so afraid of. Look, I have some amount of respect for Luigi. After all, it takes a brave soul to enter a haunted house to fight ghosts.…

Sunday Comics: Recruitment Decision

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 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published October 18. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

There’s a new I Am Bread speedrun world record. Runner YaroKarozuno has completed the game in a flat six minutes, beating last week’s world record run by twelve seconds. The community has also began subtracting load times from final times, meaning that YaroKarozuno has a 4:23 run.

‘Shop Contest: Expanded Ops, Winners!

We’re living in the world of Black Ops 4 now, and last week I asked you to ‘shop up some new kinds of ops to include in the game. The standard set of game modes in a given Call of Duty game are fairly limited. Team deathmatch, free for all, and point capture modes are…

This Week In The Business: Buncha Crunch

QUOTE | “That was shit. This was the hardest.” – Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2 development set a new difficulty bar for the studio, in the same feature where he said “we were working 100-hour weeks” several times this year to finish the game. QUOTE | “No one, senior or junior,…

Track: Electric Fires | Artist: Black Peaks | Album: All That Divides Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend’s STI Diagnosis Has Me Questioning Everything

Hello all you death spores on the flesh of the Internet, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the dating advice column that helps you respec for the action RPG of love. This week, we’re talking about some tough questions. When your relationship hits a crisis point, do you trust your partner, or do you go…