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Do You Smell Your Video Games?

Here’s a fun fact about me: I was born without a sense of smell. Here’s a fun fact I learned today: people like to smell their physical video games. Help me square these two facts, readers. While browsing reddit today, I came across a thread about someone surprising their wife with a video game. A…

Beating Dead Cells Fast Is Mostly About Running Away

Behold someone who has clearly played a ton of Dead Cells kicking the game’s ass in record time and making it look easy. Motion Twin’s side-scrolling rogue-lite came out just last month, but before that it spent a year in Early Access on Steam. That’s given a lot of players plenty of time to master…

Roadhog!

One of the coolest things from PAX West this year was shyaku_cosplay’s Roadhog cosplay, so it’s a treat to be able to showcase some close-ups of the costume. All photos below by Ashley Russell

New Tomb Raider Cosplay For A New Tomb Raider Game

With Shadow of the Tomb Raider out this week, a couple of cosplayers took to nature to pay tribute with their own takes on 2018’s version of Lara Croft. Cosplay by 2playergame | Photo by Flash Bang Cosplay Capture The cosplayers are kat.ofalltrades and 2playergame, while the photographer is Rex Yau, aka Flash Bang Cosplay…

It Appears Nobody Is Home

Kamila Szutenberg is a concept artist based in Germany who has worked for companies like Bethesda and Slitherine. You can see more of Kamila’s work at her ArtStation page

Steam Approves ‘100 Percent Uncensored’ Adult Game

Things were looking dicey for a little while, but it seems like Valve is set to start allowing uncensored adult games onto Steam. Well, some of them, anyway—starting with Dharker Studio’s lingerie-centric visual novel, Negligee: Love Stories. Today Dharker announced that the game—previously stuck in limbo while Valve sorted out tools that’d allow users to…

Track: Fuh You | Artist: Paul McCartney | Album: Egypt Station Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Oh I Love What You’ve Done With The Place

Alex Brock is an artist from Tucson who has worked on games like HEX: Shards of Fate. You can see more of Alex’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page

Hellblade: Senua’s Cosplay

You don’t see much Hellblade cosplay around, but this shoot by Anna “Ormeli” Moleva and photographer Aku more than makes up for a lack of quantity.

Track: Plato’s Tripartite | Artist: Protest The Hero | Album: Volition Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment

Monster Hunter Cosplay, Perfected

I know, we’ve already posted shots of this cosplay, but husband and wife team Kamui just took the costume out in the wild for the first time and I mean just look at this.

The Internet Reacts To Kanye West’s Bizarre New Video

Kanye West has a new song. It’s a lot. Kanye has been having a year. He’s dropped an album, said that slavery was a choice, said that he’d like to have sex with his sisters-in-law, was the creative director of the Pornhub Awards, and now has a video that’s taking the internet by storm. Let’s…

The Week In Games: Bastion Of Hockey

This week brings new games, from a new NBA 2k to the Switch port of Bastion Personally, I have a vested interested in NHL 19, which is part of a game series that I always look at from afar in awe and wonder. One of the previous games in that series allowed you to play…

Track: Tabun, Kaze | Artist: Sakanaction | Album: Sakanaquarium 2017 10th Anniversary DVD Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

When Marvel Meets My Hero Academia

Marvel: ‘Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history’. Cosplay: This unexpected coming together of two franchises comes courtesy of chriswithcamera (photographer) and cosplayers cutiepiesensei (Iron Bakugo), xkirakelly (Thordoroki) & myladygabriella (Captain Deku) The costumes were all designed by cutiepiesensei, but each cosplayer was responsible for building their own outfit. 

Cleared For Take-Off

Arnaud Caubel is a concept artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft. You can see more of Arnaud’s work at his ArtStation page

Track: Head Over Heels | Artist: Tears For Fears | Album: Songs From The Big Chair Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Make Hope County Weirder

Despite an influx of zombies and a trip to Mars, Far Cry 5‘s Hope County hasn’t changed all that much since the game released earlier this year. As we reported earlier this week, not a long is changing, even if it feels like it is. So it’s up to the ‘Shop Crew to fix this…

Why Destiny 2 Embraced Its Most Hardcore Players

Are games like Destiny better when they’re more complicated? Is appealing to the most hardcore players the best way to go? Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. First, Kirk and I talk about the brilliant new Spider-Man for PS4, one of my favorite games of the year. We talk about the combat, the web-slinging, the…

Sunday Comics: Amazing Fighting Strategy

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 3. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 6. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…