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Track: The Boy Who Destroyed The World | Artist: AFI | Album: All Hallows EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Pet Distribution

Fortnite broke all the rules by giving everyone cute and fun pets this week, so we need to even the score: I need you to put pets in every game. Listen, I don’t care how you do it, but no one is going to buy any game without pets in it in the foreseeable future.…

Podcast: Telltale, PS4 Cross-Play, And The Nintendo Fandom

We covered a lot of ground on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, from studio closures to cross-console play to laughably large mousepads. Jason Schreier is off for one more week, so my Kotaku colleague Maddy Myers once again filled in for him. We spent the first part of the show talking about what the Telltale games…

Sunday Comics: Competitive Classics

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 September 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

The preliminary list of games for Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 has been released. The list is not final and will certainly change before a final schedule is made, but there are a lot of games to get excited about. The charity speedrunning event will happen in January 2019.

‘Shop Contest: Make Sense Of Death Stranding, Winners!

Last week we got to see some new stuff from the upcoming Death Stranding, but it was confusing. So I asked you to ‘shop up some explanations for me, and you did a great job. Hideo Kojima, one of the key talents behind Death Stranding, has always leaned pretty hard on questions of “who the…

This Week In The Business: The Walking Dead

QUOTE | “We’re currently still working to find a way to hand off production of episodes 3 and 4 so that the season can be completed.” – Telltale Games reassures fans that it is still trying to finish the final season of The Walking Dead QUOTE | “By keeping the Company open in some capacity,…

Track: Made An America | Artist: The Fever 333 | Album: Made An America EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for finally getting some alone time after weeks of travel and house guests, which means drinking whiskey in the bath while watching Anthony Bourdain episodes. Also, video games. I bought the Fortnite battle pass for the first time yesterdayso I could write about the dog (it’s a good dog). I’m stressed out…

Nintendo’s New Mobile RPG Is A Slick Version Of The Same Old Thing

Nintendo and Cygames’ Dragalia Lost is a very pretty mobile game. The characters are lovely, the music is gorgeous, and its overall presentation is quite charming. One could almost forget it’s just another generic character collecting mobile action RPG under all of that polish. Almost. Nintendo’s done some pretty innovative things since moving into the…

Track: Here Comes The Sun | Artist: Nina Simone | Album: Here Comes The Sun Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Timofey Stepanov is an artist from Russia who has worked on games like Zera You can see more of Timofey’s work at his ArtStation page

TowerFall May Be A Party Game, But It’s Also Fun Solo

TowerFall is out on the Switch today, just over five years after it originally released on the ill-fated Ouya. It was one of the best party games then and has continued to be one of the all-time best since. It’s still great on Switch, but more than anything I can’t get over is how much…

Track: If You See Her Say Hello (Take 1) | Artist: Bob Dylan | Album: Vol. 14, More Blood, More Tracks Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Telltale Games

The closure of Telltale this week brings an end to over a decade of adventure game development that touched on everything from Back to the Future to Bone to Monkey Island to Batman to Game of Thrones I thought tonight, then, we could look back at a bunch of the art that went into some…

Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Oz Comic-Con

Photographer Prasanna Welangoda, who we last saw covering the Sri Lanka Comic Con, has been in Australia recently, and was able to get some shots from Oz Comic-Con’s Brisbane show last weekend. I’d love to add as many credits here as possible, so if you know (or are!) any of the cosplayers below, get in…

What We Liked (And What Bewildered Us) About Nic Cage’s New Movie, Mandy

Some movies just make sense. Mandy, starring a near-feral Nicolas Cage, is not one of them. It begins as a glacially-paced exercise in psych-horror scene-setting before abruptly transforming into a drugged-out, neon-drenched revenge flick. Gita Jackson and I sat down to try to make sense of it all. Nathan Grayson: Hey, Gita! So, we have…

Curry I Ate In Japan, Ranked

If you know anything about me, it’s that I love Japanese curry. At a party at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, a friend introduced me to someone by way of pointing out that if you Google, in Japanese, “the foreigner who loves curry,” an article I wrote in 2008 was the top hit. He then…

Track: Future Pop | Artist: Perfume | Album: Future Pop Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Nearly 200,000 Steam users play PC games with SNES controllers. That’s the most surprising factoid from Valve’s data about controllers. Xbox 360 controllers are most used (27.2 million), while Xbox One and PS4 are nearly neck-and-neck (11.5 million and 12.2 million). The Steam controller, at 1.5 million, remains niche.