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This Week In The Business: Dizzying Days For VR

STAT | $400 – The current asking price of an Oculus Rift and Touch Controllers bundle. As recently as March, it was $800. QUOTE | “We used to invest $100K, $200K, but we don’t have to do that so much anymore because those people can get paid out [from the install base].” – Oculus VP…

Toy Time Plays With Mattel’s 2017 SDCC Exclusives, Destiny And Otherwise

San Diego Comic-Con 2017 is right around the corner, and thousands will be standing in line for a chance to purchase exclusive toy goodness. This year Mattel’s hitting the show with stuff from the Justice League movie, DC Super Hero Girls, Spider-Man, Cars and some team-based shooter game. As with previous years, Mattel’s actually pretty…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for assembling IKEA furniture in your un-air conditioned apartment, but you live alone now, so at least you don’t have to wear clothes. Also, video games. I’ve recently gotten on a Spelunky kick, because it makes a nice break between unpacking boxes from my recent move. I wasn’t that good at it…

Track: All Around The World | Artist: Oasis | Album: Be Here Now Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: All Around The World | Artist: Mura Masa ft. Desiigner | Album: Mura Masa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Nice Place You Got Here

Daniel Romanovsky works at Form Language Studio, a company that specialises in art for games, TV and movies (like Kong: Skull Island). You can see more of Daniel’s work at his company site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art…

Yoshi Gets It Right In The Kisser

Today on Highlight Reel we have skyhooks, impressive plays, pool shots, dives, 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! Titanfall 2 – The Skyhook…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Can This Relationship Be Saved?

Hello all you post-Singularity orgasm-antelopes of the noosphere, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that helps you speedrun through your awkward dating years and get straight to the final level of relationship success. This week, we’re talking about how you fix things when you’ve just done screwed up. What does…

Battlegrounds Getting First-Person Only Servers

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, using the third-person camera to peek around corners while you remain comfortably out of harm’s way is key to survival. As a human being with eyeballs that spend most of their time firmly in their sockets, you might recognize this as unrealistic. If you want more realism from your game about 100…

Podcast: Vaan Really Sucks

“I just wish [Final Fantasy XII]’s main character weren’t this pretty boy shithead,” says Kirk on today’s big Q&A episode of Kotaku Splitscreen We start off the ep by talking Final Fantasy XII (6:20), Grand Theft Auto IV (20:12), and Red Dead Redemption (26:58) before opening up the mailbag (33:15) and answering your questions about…

Track: Try Me (Live at the Apollo) | Artist: James Brown | Album: Please Please Please Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Bleach Cosplay!

Here’s Bleach’s Yoruichi Shihōin by ChibiThot

Edgar Allen Poe Dameron

Love it. Cosplay by Beth Grimes, photo by mnbookgeek

Overwatch Characters Scrub Up Real Good

Remember how earlier this year a group of cosplayers did a thing called Underwatch, where they all—men and women alike—dressed like Overwatch characters in underwear? Many of the same cosplayers tried something similar for Anime Expo, only this time they went in the opposite direction. This is Formalwatch, a massive group cosplay project that took…

Steam’s Latest Hit Is A Wrestling Game That Already Has Nearly 2,000 Custom Characters

Fire Pro Wrestling World has been out on Steam for two days. Already, it’s got a roster that includes all the greats, from Shinsuke Nakamura to Andre The Giant to the consensus best wrestler of all time, A Bear. For the past couple days, Fire Pro Wrestling World, the latest entry in a decades-old retro-style…

New Trick Has Ocarina of Time Speedrunners Debating What A Glitch Actually Is

Ocarina of Time’s Glitchless speedrun category seeks to complete the game as quick as possible without using game-breaking cheats and glitches, but a newly discovered trick is forcing runners to consider what is or isn’t a glitch to begin with. Is something a glitch if it lets you explore somewhere early? Or is it only…

The Best Animated Superman Series Gets The Toys It Deserves

The DC Collectors folks have been giving a lot of love to Batman: The Animated Series lately, with a series of action figures celebrating artist Bruce Timm’s iconic designs. But what of its brighter, bolder follow-up, Superman: The Animated Series? It’s time has come. Shipping next month, the Superman and Lois Lane two-pack ($59.95) kicks…

Track: This Charming Man | Artist: The Smiths | Album: The Smiths Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Healing Through Death | Artist: Usnea | Album: Random Cosmic Violence Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Artist Brings Simon Stålenhag’s Robot Invasion To Life

Simon Stålenhag’s images of a robot-strewn Scandinavia have been big hits on the internet over the last few years. They’re very static, though, so 3D artist Wiktor Öhman has decided to make them a bit more animated. Öhman has worked on games like Far Cry 3. You can see more of his art at his…