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Please Help Me Assemble This Star Wars: Rogue One Model Kit

Inspired by the space battles of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I’ve decided to take a stab at model building. And though Bandai Hobby’s Red Squadron X-Wing Starfighter set is a simple snap and sticker affair, I’m really worried about screwing it up. Got any pointers? The folks at Bluefin started bringing over Bandai…

What We Didn’t Like–And Really Didn’t Like–About The Assassin’s Creed Movie

Two of us saw Ubisoft’s attempt at transmedia franchising, and we did not care for it. Not one bit. Gita Jackson: Here’s a good place to start, I think: was there anything you liked about this movie? Mike Fahey: I’d heard you were a tough interviewer, but I didn’t think you’d hit me with such…

The Art Of Weta Workshop: Mad Max, The Hobbit & More

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop is probably most famous for their work on the Lord of the Rings series, but in the years since they’ve also been involved on stuff like Mad Max, District 9 and the upcoming Ghost in the Shell Weta’s design studio is the starting point for much of the company’s work, where…

Track: RAT | Artist: Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs | Album: ゼロコンマ、色とりどりの世界 歌詞 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sorry, Steam Award Nominations Don’t Involve Half-Life 3

Last month, Valve revealed its first-ever Steam Awards. They came with a twist: a final category to be plucked from user submissions, many of which ended up being tongue-in-cheek. Now Valve’s revealed their selections, and sorry, but no: none of them acknowledge fans’ many write-ins of “the game most in need of a sequel.” Despite…

Our Thoughts On Overwatch‘s Tracer Being Gay

With the release of Overwatch’s holiday comic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of us here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fansite, took time to sit down and reflect on how Blizzard has treated the topic of diversity in our favorite team based shooter. Update—5:40 p.m.: Shortly after publication, Blizzard sent Kotaku…

Cards Against Humanity’s Never-Ending Fight Against Copycats

There’s a reason why Crabs Adjust Humidity, Humanity Hates Trump and Cards & Punishment might sound familiar. Their cards might look familiar, too—so familiar that the popular card game Cards Against Humanity has been forced to buckle down on those and several other lookalikes. Cards Against Humanity doesn’t own the rights to black and white…

What We Liked And Didn’t Like About Watch Dogs 2

Three of us on staff have been playing Watch Dogs 2. Two of us have finished it. We figured it was a good time to chat about the good and bad of the game. There was a lot to consider! Bonus: We may accidentally wandered into a discussion about why one of us is very,…

Track: 2015 | Artist: Weekend Nachos| Album: Apology Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Best Cosplay Of 2016

There’s been a lot of incredible cosplay over on our dedicated cosplay site throughout 2016, but this is the time of year when we sit down and work out which of it was the best Considering there’s a new post there almost every day, that was a lot of cosplay to go through, but we’re…

Merry Christmas, Overwatch Cosplay

As The Year Of Overwatch Cosplay winds down, it’s only fitting that Sombra and Tracer round things out with some festive cheer.

Plush Pokémon Should Not Be $80 And Make Me Cry

I offer a picture of me during happier times, before my new best friend Popplio and I took a trip to the Toys’R’Us price scanner. We first met at the toy store on Saturday evening, as I was hunting for Christmas gifts that could survive more than an hour of play with two five-year-olds without…

The Elder Scrolls: Bottle Flip

Today on Highlight Reel we have Skyrim flips, unnatural intervals, kiss physics, photo opportunities, serious slapping, 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! Skyrim:…

This is the DC Icons Blue Beetle and Booster Gold two pack. It’s hitting stores in June/July. It comes with leis, boat drinks, a wad of cash, Skeets and a pair of smiling heads. Everything about it is perfect.

Ask Dr. Nerdlove: Am I Not Enough Of A ‘Real Man’?

Hello, all you electric love treats. Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that can help you wrangle your chocobos and canoodle your moogles. Let’s get right to it. Hi Doc. I don’t have a dating question per se, but I know you like to touch on toxic masculinity a lot, and I…

Final Fantasy XV, Now 30% Dreamier

Final Fantasy XV, a game about cute boys driving around, is now even cuter thanks to the animated treatment given to the game’s cast by artist David Adhinarya Lojaya. We featured David’s Final Fantasy art last year, but now that XV is out he’s returned to the series to draw the new game’s cast in…

What We Liked And Loved About Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

The Star Wars universe expanded in a whole new way with the release of Rogue One, the first in a series of live-action films exploring the bits between the main episodes. We assembled a ragtag band of Kotaku writers to talk about this very different sort of Star Wars movie. Set between the events of…

The Art Of 1313, A Star Wars Game We Never Got To Play

Star Wars 1313 was a big-money game in development at Lucasarts, scrapped after the publisher’s demise and seemingly never to return. We may never get to play the game, but we can look at its concept art and dream. It gives us a real good look at the design and feel of Coruscant’s seedy underbelly.…

Russia’s Cosplay Is Fantastic

Russia doesn’t just have some of the best cosplayers on the planet, but some of the best cosplay photographers as well. One of those is KIRA, someone whose photosI’ve featureda bit here recently, so I figured it was time for a showcase entirely of her work. You can see a lot more of KIRA’s photos…

The Week In Games: We Dream Of Half-Genie

The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, which means there are hardly any games left to come out. A few still remain, however. We searched long and hard, and managed to scrape together something resembling a list of games coming out this week. Fortunately, the rest of the year was filled with so many…