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Track: Candy | Artist: Iggy Pop | Album: Brick by Brick Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: On the Boom | Artist: Tricot | Album: Potage Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Final Space, The Frontier

Devin “DVO” Roth is the art director on the animated series Final Space, and he’s also worked on shows like Bob’s Burgers and Duck Tales You can see more of Roth’s work at his personal site and Instagram page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS WOMAN

Frozone cosplay by ApoIIoCreed

Oh Boy This Warhammer 40K Cosplay

Here’s Russian cosplayer Polina Vishnevskaya with some absolutely incredible Warhammer 40K work. She’s cosplaying as Saint Celestine, and if you’re wondering what the writing is on her wings, it’s just her Instagram account name serving as a living watermark (probably to help out when 1,000,000 Facebook and Twitter accounts rip the video below). You can…

16 Studios Removing Alleged Spyware From PC Games After Fan Outcry [UPDATE]

In Mario Kart, red shells target your nearest rival and ruthlessly stop them in their tracks. Everybody hates them. Marketing company Red Shell, meanwhile, helps video game companies more accurately target potential customers with their ads. This fact has not sat well with some players who have recently discovered the software in a veritable kartload…

All The Podcasts We Did At E3

At E3 in Los Angeles last week, we recorded a lot of episodes of Kotaku Splitscreen. For your convenience, here’s a roundup of all of them. Of course, you don’t need a roundup if you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your other favorite podcast feed. Which I assume you do. But…

Track: High and Dry | Artist: Radiohead | Album: The Bends Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Doom Cosplay Is The Real Deal

Yes, that’s cosplay. This is Aussie cosplayerScrap Shop Props with a 1:1 Doom Space Marine, which just won best in show at the Supanova expo in Sydney. If that’s not enough, he’s also responsible for one of the biggest and best Reinhardts I’ve ever seen, that comes complete with a jet engine effect at the…

What Fallout Might Look Like Set In The Middle East

An essential part of Fallout’s visual identity is that it’s heavily based on Americana, but concept artist Fernanders Sam wanted to explore what other parts of Bethesda’s nuke-blasted world would look like. So he’s done a number of images imagining what Islamic architecture might look like amongst the radioactive wastes. There are similar themes as…

No, PUBG Is Not An ‘Asset Flip’

On Steam, “asset flip” refers to a game that’s haphazardly assembled from pre-purchased environments, objects, and sound effects for the purpose of making a quick buck. Or at least that’s what it’s supposed to refer to. Over time, the definition of “asset flip” seems to have devolved into “anything that ever uses a pre-made asset,”…

Metro Exodus Leaves The Train Tunnels For A Dangerous Open Russia

Our train slowly chugged to a halt. Something was apparently blocking the road up ahead, possibly put there by a rival band of survivors. The captain sent my character out to investigate. Moments later, I was killed by a giant floating orb of static. Post-nuclear Russia is not a place to explore blindly. But explore…

Splatoon 2 Producer Explains Nintendo’s Approach To Deleting Shitposts

Splatoon 2’s face is all inky rainbows and cutesy cephalopods. It would be an adorable, idyllic wonderland, if not for the fact that controlling all of those snuggable urchins are real-life humans, who are often bad. If you’ve tromped around Splatoon 2 for more than a few hours, you might have stumbled upon a few…

At E3, SoulCalibur‘s Objectified Women Felt Like A Relic Of The Past

In SoulCalibur 6, Ivy Valentine will be as she always was: wrapped in stringy cloth, balloon-breasted, mostly naked. She wields a snake sword that extends into a whip, a dominatrix’s weapon that’s helped land her in innumerable knock-off porn videos and pin-up images. As one the Soul series’ most recognizable fighters, Ivy has always looked…

The Director Of Deus Ex And Epic Mickey Has Plenty More Wild Video Game Ideas

After his time producing and directing immersive simulators like System Shock and Deus Ex, legendary designer Warren Spector made waves when he announced Epic Mickey, a game about a certain famous mouse. What other ideas does Spector have rattling around his brain? On Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. Last week at E3 in Los Angeles, I sat…

All The Games Ethan Played At E3 2018

I managed to survive E3 2018, my first one in fact, and I can even remember most of the games I saw and played. There’s too many to name them all, but below are the most notable ones I got a chance to check out. I’ve written about some of them already on Kotaku, but…

Ghost Of Tsushima‘s Director On The Risks Of Making Something New

In an room in need of air conditioning in the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, game developer Nate Fox held out his left hand, palm down, paused and then slapped the top of it with his right. “Do you know—[slap]—that?” he asked. He wasn’t sure the name of the playground game he was referencing,…

Why Cyberpunk 2077 Is Taking So Long

Developer CD Projekt Red first teased Cyberpunk 2077 five years ago, but we hadn’t heard another word about the game until this past E3. Why’d it take so long? One of the studio’s top executives joins Kotaku Splitscreento explain. Marcin Iwiński, co-founder and co-CEO of CD Projekt Red, sat down with me in Los Angeles…

The Week In Games: Grab That Racket 

Mario Tennis Aces week is upon us. Like many, I want to see my favorite Mushroom Kingdom friends absolutely annihilate a world tour of tennis players. But it’s not the only great thing coming out. The time after E3 is always strange, and this year is no different. We’re getting some interesting releases like The…

Track: God Help Us All (Demo) | Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Album: It’s A Beautiful World Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.