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FIFA Defender Breaks Neck, Allows Goal

Today on Highlight Reel we have neck pain, MGO grenades, CS:GO clutches 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! Catch up on all the…

How To Throw Your Video Game Controller

Video games are a lot of fun, but they can also be frustrating. From time to time, you may even get frustrated enough that you want to throw something. Good news! Your controller is right there in your hand. I’ve often heard people refer to a game as “controller-throwingly difficult.” This is an evocative description,…

Track: Paid In Full | Artist: Eric B. & Rakim | Album: Paid In Full  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Giant Transformers Cosplay Crushes New York

There was a lot of quality cosplay at this year’s New York Comic Con, but perhaps the most impressive of all was this enormous Bumblebee outfit that despite its size was still able to walk its way across the showroom floor. It was made byThomas DePetrillo from Extreme Costumes. Here’s how it looks from the…

Divinity Original Sin 2 Player Collects Paintings Of Boss, Beats Him With Them

They say that pride goes before a fall. One Divinity: Original Sin 2 player decided to interpret the saying literally, killing jerk boss Bishop Alexander by having a plethora of paintings of himself—the surest sign of hubris—fall on his head until he died. In Original Sin 2, there are paintings of various characters scattered around…

Track: Love Corrida | Artist: Kavka Shishido | Album: Kavkanize Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Butcher Birds | Artist: Lo! | Album: Vestigal Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Setting The Mood For Assassins Creed: Origins

Raphael Lacoste, senior art director at Ubisoft, needed to set the scene for the series’ shift to Egypt for Origins when development began a few years back. So he came up with these. These are from around 2014, and aren’t necessarily indicative of specific locations or scenes from the game. They’re just reference for the…

Fed Up With Janky Steam Games, Guy Clones One In 12 Minutes

In his Steam review of a game called Glitch Simulator 2018, user IAmPattyJack claimed that “anyone can make it in roughly 25 minutes.” But as it turned out, he was wrong. It only took him 12 minutes and 18 seconds. Glitch Simulator 2018, from the esteemed creators of hits like ISIS Simulator and Suicide Simulator,…

Everyone Has A Crush On This Concept Art For Overwatch‘s Mercy

Overwatch fandom can’t stop talking about, and drawing, this radically different Mercy concept art. Over the weekend, at the Overwatch exhibit in Gallery Nucleus in Portland, Oregon, Blizzard had copies of their upcoming Overwatch artbook. An enterprising fan, twitter user Adulture, took a few pictures of the concept art for the game from the book.…

Collaborative Mirror’s Edge Speedrun Is A Thing Of Beauty

Mirror’s Edge is a 2008 game all about hardcore parkour and fluid movement. A new collaborative speedrun shows off exactly what happens when you toss expert players behind the wheel. The Mirror’s Edge speedrunning community released a segmented speedrun today, showcasing the game’s freerunning and some neat out of bounds glitches. A segmented speedrun takes…

Who Is The Best Wife In Stardew Valley?

Stardew Valley has finally arrived on the Switch and instead of exchanging the best farming tips or fishing techniques, we ask the real question on all of our minds: Who is the the game’s best romantic interest? I sat down with Seung Park and Gita Jackson to let them debate who they think is the…

Track: Never Let Me Down Again | Artist: Depeche Mode | Album: Music for the Masses Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: El Camino | Artist: Nocando | Album: Severed Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sailor Moon Cosplay Is All Grown Up

An all-star lineup of cosplayers, photographers and videographers have teamed up to imagine what it would look like if the stars of Sailor Moon had a more adult photoshoot. It was a reunion of sorts for CineCosu Studios’ Dominique Zamora, who assembled much of the same team we featured earlier in the year for a…

John Cena Meets His Greatest Foe: A Couch

Today on Highlight Reel we have football headshots, leg locks, inappropriate Nier driving 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! Catch up on all…

Track: Step Up Love | Artist: Daoko x Yasuyuki Okamura | Album: Step Up Love (single) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Best Cosplay From New York Comic Con

The New York Comic Con has gotten so big over the years that it’s now one of the biggest nerd shows on the planet. And where there’s big nerd shows, there’s A+ cosplay. If you weren’t at this year’s event (or at our party), where attendance was pushing 200,000 people, below you’ll find a gallery…

The Art Of Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II is a great strategy game. In no small part because it looks amazing I don’t just mean technically, I mean in terms of taking Games Workshop’s property and bringing it into video games in as bold and colourful a way as possible, as you’ll see in the gallery below. This isn’t…