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Track: Alone On The Rope | Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Album: If Love Is The Law (single) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Get It | Artist: Nelson Dialect & Must Volkoff | Album: Magnetism Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Imagining The Star Of A Western Assassin’s Creed

Gislaine Avila is a character designer and illustrator from Brazil, who has some ideas about what a Western (the genre, not the hemisphere) Assassin’s Creed might look like. Below you’ll find a range of images depicting Delilah Graham, star of Assassin’s Creed: Gold Rush, a game that doesn’t exist, but which in my over the…

How Princess Peach’s Story Draws On 2000 Years Of Women In Peril

Nintendo’s Princess Peach is the quintessential damsel in distress. She’s such a damsel cliché that she’s more important as a plot device than as an actual character. Whether you know her as Peach or Toadstool, her name doesn’t matter so much as the “Princess” preceding it. Mario’s leading lady is such a damsel cliché that…

League Of Legends’ K-Pop Video Already Has Amazing Cosplay

It’s only been a matter of days since League of Legends released that incredible K-Pop music video, but we’ve already got some A+ cosplay to go with it. This is Danu (Akali), Peyton Riley (Kai’Sa), Glory Lamothe (Evelynn) and Valentina Kryp (Ahri). All photos are by Photographes Sans Frontieres

Let’s Go Are The Prettiest Pokémon Games Yet

The story is familiar and the players are the same, but the scenery has never looked so good. Gorgeous visuals abound in our latest trip through the Kanto region, making Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee the prettiest pocket monster games yet. Take a look! Before we begin our tour of the sights of the…

Fatal Call Of Duty Swatter Pleads Guilty To 51 Charges [UPDATE]

Swatter Tyler Barriss, 26, pled guilty yesterday to the crimes that led police to forcibly enter the home of Wichita resident Andrew Finch, who diedfrom an officer’s gunshot wound. Barriss originally pled not guilty to this fatal instance of swatting, which occurred over a dispute in Call of Duty in 2017. The Associated Press reportsthat…

Track: Gun To The Head | Artist: The Good, The Bad & The Queen | Album: Merrie Land Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Castlevania’s Netflix Series

With two seasons now under its belt, Castlevania’s animated series is looking cool as hell. Here’s a bit of a celebration of that, with a collection of art that went into the series’ production. There’s not only character and background/environment art, but some 3D stuff, logos, posters and even animation as well. You’ll find links…

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime Has Some Games He’d Like To Sell You

Reggie Fils-Aime is in hype mode. That is the main gear for the president of Nintendo of America the week before Black Friday as he sits in a 38th-floor Manhattan hotel suite full of Nintendo game and system boxes. “As we look forward to the next 45 days or so,” he says, “we’re excited that…

The Spyro Reignited Trilogy Preserves The Excellence Of A PlayStation Masterpiece

Back in 1998, Insomniac Games gave us a small purple dragon who’s a joy to control, colorful free-roaming playgrounds and backed with exquisite music. The Spyro Reignited Trilogy looks different, but it feels just as good. Released in 1998 for the original PlayStation and followed by a pair of sequels in 1999 and 2000, Spyro…

Track: That’s When I Feel It | Artist: Richard Ashcroft | Album: Natural Rebel Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Detective Pikachu Movie Version Of Mr. Mime Is Freaking People Out

In the Pokémon games and anime, Mr. Mime is slightly unsettling. But in the upcoming Hollywood movie, the character is freaky Don’t believe me? It doesn’t look out of place when compared with other horror characters. Goodness. This isn’t freaky per se, but it sure is odd! Okay, maybe it is. Maybe people are being…

Limited Edition Neo Geo Mini Just For The Holidays

This is the Neo Geo Mini Christmas Limited Edition, a special holiday version of SNK’s small-sized console. SNK hasn’t yet announced a release date other than saying it will be out “soon.” Pricing is also forthcoming. Here are the 48 titles that are included, which is more than the originally released version. The Neo Geo…

Void Bastards is a strategy-shooter inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2. In it, you guide a group of prisoners through “derelict spaceships and myriad dangers.” You plot a course, study ship layouts, infiltrate ships, and fight/sabotage/distract your way through them. Also, your distraction tool is a kitty. Oh, and if the aforementioned stew of…

Valve Pays $20,000 To Hacker Who Found Steam Bug That Generates Free Games

Somewhere deep inside Valve’s labyrinthine compound of Steam-sustaining tubes, wires, and pipes, somebody is thanking their lucky stars for Artem Moskowsky. The self-described “bug hunter” came across a glitch that allowed him to generate thousands of free keys for any game on Steam. A lesser person might have kept that knowledge to themselves. He reported…

“Realistic Pokémon” Artist Got A Job On The Detective Pikachu Movie

Six years ago, artist RJ Palmer started drawing Pokémon as though they were realistic dinosaurs. Those sketches, done for fun, led to him getting the job of a lifetime: working on the Detective Pikachu movie, which we got our first real look at today I mean that in the most literal sense; Palmer says that…

The Internet Reacts To The Detective Pikachu Trailer

The Detective Pikachu movie finally has a trailer and it’s some pretty wild stuff. There’s tons of hairy Pokémon, and also Ryan Reynolds. I don’t have many strong feelings about Pokémon, but I felt a strange chill come over me as I watched a hyper-realistic looking Pikachu speak with Deadpool’s voice. Okay, I thought, we’re…

Hitman’s Deadliest Weapon Is A Coin

Before leaving for missions in Hitman 2, you can choose to bring a handful of gadgets and gear. You have your trusty silenced pistol, remote controlled mines, and lockpicks. These dastardly tools of the trade pale in comparison to the game’s most deadly accessory: the humble and unassuming coin. Coins have been a part of…

The Week In Games: Stealth Fallout

This week it is all about the bald clone Hitman, Fallout 76‘s Wasteland, and Ticket To Ride for PS4. That’s right, I said dang Ticket To Ride on the PS4. The classic board game that asks you to become a train magnate covering the United States in iron rails is now something you can play…