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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.

Speedrunner Achieves ‘Impossible’ Super Mario Bros. Record Time

The original Super Mario Bros. is tightly optimized, as far as speedruns go. Runners have been shaving off milliseconds using highly-skilled play and glitches, all in the hopes of someday reaching a theoretically perfect run. Previously, this was only achievable using special programs, but last night, a runner did what some people thought impossible, matching…

Japanese Publishers Should Go Bigger At Tokyo Game Show

Another Tokyo Game Show has come and gone, and Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft and I were both there to see the sights, play some games, and score some merch. Now that it’s all over, we have some thoughts. Chris Kohler: Brian, we’ve just returned from our annual hangout at Tokyo Game Show—me to America, you to…

Once Upon A Time…

Gray Rogers used to be an artist at Telltale, where he worked on series like Game of Thrones, Batman and The Wolf Among Us You can see more of Gray’s work at his ArtStation page

Total War Game Gets Review Bombed On Steam Over Women Generals [Update]

Over the past 24 hours, strategy game Total War: Rome II has picked up over 350 new negative reviews, triggering Steam’s graph-based review bomb alert system. The reason? A controversy surrounding women generals that appears to be largely contrived. It began last month with a handful of Steam forum posts and reviews in which players…

The Internet Has Been Replaced By Bowser Wearing The Super Crown

A concept introduced in a single fan-made comic strip has absolutely destroyed the internet. In the port of New Super Mario Bros. Wii U for the Switch, called New Super Mario Bros. Wii U Deluxe, Toadette has an item called the Super Crown that turns her into a character called Peachette. That was two weeks…

If you read Stephen Totilo’s’s preview of Red Dead Redemption 2 but want to hear more about it, check out this bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen. Maddy Myers and I grill him about train robberies, horse balls, and plenty more. Splitscreen is also on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and other major podcast services.

The Week In Games: Strange Tactical Soccer

This week gives us a new Valkyria Chronicles, FIFA 19, and South Park on the Switch. This is a heavy week when it comes to games, and we’re slowly moving into an absolutely jam-packed fall of big, exciting games every single week. If you’re a soccer (or “football”) fan, then this is the big week…

Lindsay P is a cosplayer, make-up artist and props builder. You can see more of Lindsay’s work at her Behance page

Our Favorite Cosplay From Fandemic Houston 2018

Fandemic—a con that tours the country, and which has already visited Sacramento this year—was in Houston earlier this month, as was some fantastic cosplay from attendees. All photos below were taken by Mineralblu

Track: Ceremony | Artist: New Order | Album: Singles Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Make Sense Of Death Stranding

We’ve got some new Death Stranding footage, and it is just as confusing as ever. Your task this week is to make sense of the whole thing. When that guy whips off his golden mask in the footage, I thought, for just an instant, that something might become clear. I thought that there might be…

We’re Worried The New Tomb Raider Is Getting Overshadowed

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, we raided some tombs. Jason’s on vacation, so I was joined in his stead by my colleague Maddy Myers to talk about the PlayStation Classic, Nintendo’s new Switch Online service, the exciting Destiny 2 raid, and new safety concerns among professional streamers. Then Stephen Totilo came on to talk with…

Sunday Comics: True Name

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 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 20. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…