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How Do You Feel About Anime Fan Service?

When it comes to fan service, we all draw our lines differently. Where are yours? We want to hear from you. Do you seek it out? Avoid it? It’s almost impossible to wrap hard moral rules around anime consumption. And we all have our own ways of dealing with it. Bakemonogatari is one of my…

The Big, Beautiful Ships Of Star Wars

Ansel Hsiao is an artist who has worked on games like Halo 4. Today, though, we’re interested in his exquisite 3D Star Wars art. We actually featured some of his workback in 2011. It’s been five years since then, and just as technology and our expectations about 3D art has increased, so too has the…

Nurse Joy & Officer Jenny, Just Chillin’

This is Pokemon’s Nurse Joy (Aline) and Officer Jenny (Odinia). Photos by Pedro G Fuentes

Track: Nineteenth | Artist: Kudo | Album: Planting Seeds Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Spider-Gwen Cosplay Does Whatever A Spider-Gwen Can

Just as Spider-Gwen’s character design is some of the coolest in modern comics, so too is most of the cosplay based on her. In this case, it’s Hendotaking to the rooftops of LA for this awesome shoot by Vincenzo Spina, who by night is a photographer but by day is actually a Presentation Director at…

Battlefield Death Animation Is Mysteriously Smug

Today on Highlight Reel we have character animations, winks, face kicks, car trouble, 360 snipes 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! Hitman –…

Snacktaku Eats Oreo Candy Bars With Friends

Snackology is often referred to by completely real people as the loneliest of the sciences, but it doesn’t have to be. Join me and a host of Kotaku guest stars in our poorly-lit home office as we eat one of the best non-cookie Oreo products yet. Launched in North America as a limited release last…

Dungeons & Dragons’ Gradual Shift Away From Monster Boobs

Dungeons & Dragons has historically used attractive monsters, and especially of the female persuasion, to appeal to potential players. Busty demons and lithe wood maidens populated its source material, namely its Monster Manual, throughout the last 40 years. With recent editions and supplements, D&D has phased out its bare-breasted female monsters and included more sexy…

That Time A Player Claimed Final Fantasy VI‘s Gogo Was The Governor Of Illinois

The identity of Gogo, Final Fantasy VI’s secretive mime, is one of the game’s best kept secrets. Over the years players have surmised that Gogo was Daryl, the dashing airship pilot who crashed without a trace, or Emperor Gestahl, looking for redemption after Kefka destroyed the world. But there’s a wild theory, based on false…

DOTA 2 Update Forces Players To Re-Learn A Game That Took Hundreds Of Hours To Understand [UPDATE]

DOTA 2‘s biggest update yet is here, and players are coming to terms with the fact that a game they spent hundreds of hours barely wrapping their heads around just got turned upside-down. Ever since Valve took the reigns on DOTA with DOTA 2, the game’s received all sorts of updates over the years. While…

Drastic Renovations

Hugh Pindur is an artist who has worked on stuff like the RPG Pathfinder and Wil Wheaton’s Titansgrave You can see more of Hugh’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…

Track: Town Called Malice | Artist: The Jam | Album: The Gift Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Week In Games: Get In The Car And Drive

The year is almost over, but there are still a few games left to come out, including the trippy, mind-bending racer Drive!Drive!Drive! The premise is that you drive along multiple tracks at once, learning to feel the road beneath you, where it exists, on multiple levels at once. The Pittsburgh synth duo Zombi created the music…

From Regular Dude To Geralt Of Rivia

As we’ve established repeatedly over 2016, Maul is the King of Witcher cosplay. We normally only see him as Geralt, though; here’s a look at how he becomes Geralt. The shot tracks the beginning to the end of a session with make-up artist Maja Felicitas, who doesn’t just add blood and hair colour, but as…

Cosplay: Teen Titans Now Young Adult Titans 

Here is some excellent Raven, Robin and Frodo Baggins Beast Boy cosplay. Nearly all the costume work across all three characters was done by Ginger Armadillo, who is also cosplaying as Raven. “My goal, as it often is, was to introduce details, textures, and elements of realism to the costumes, while maintaining the visual integrity…

Unreleased Akira Game Found For The Game Boy

There has never been a good Akira game. There have been bad ones, however, and more interestingly, there have been cancelled ones like this Game Boy effort, the remains of which were recently bought by a video game collector and are somewhat playable. Patrick Scott Patterson managed to get his hands on not one but…

Speedrun’s Unique Idling Requirement Leads To Temporary Twitch Ban

The third day after embarking on a multi-week speedrun of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a streamer who goes by the name Baffan woke up to continue streaming his attempt only to learn that Twitch had temporarily suspended his account for “non-gaming content.” That’s because he had left the game idling all…

Sunday Comics: Get Back To The Mines

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ellie And Garfunkel, Winners!

Holy Clickers, Batman! Everyone really went above and beyond this week. You took the a not-obviously exciting ‘Shop proposition and turned out some really rad mash-ups. And a million and one props to people like Orionsangel and others who shared their much better cutouts with the crew. Also, Orionsangel won. Sorry! It was just too…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s the weekend! I’ve had a heck of a week and am looking forward to only emerging from my bed when I absolutely have to. Though I also just got an iPad, which means I could technically play FTL in bed, so leaving bed at all is up for grabs. I’m going to (finally) make…