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Track: Sons Of Salem | Artist: Orange Goblin | Album: The Wolf Bites Back Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Taxi!

I don’t get the chance to feature much low poly or pixel art work here on Fine Art, so let’s take care of both of those things in one feature. This is the work of Brendan Sullivan, an artist and animator from Sydney. You can see more of Brendan’s stuff at his Facebookand ArtStationpages. To…

Track: Just A Cloud (feat. Vilja Larjosto) | Artist: Lusine | Album: Sensorimotor Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Gex Makes For A Weird Speedrun

While we were all screaming about E3, a speedrunner by the name of Mysticore was setting the world record for completing Gex: Enter The Gecko for the Playstation in 48:51. Golly, that game is weird. I’ve always had a fascination with Gex. Despite only ever playing the Game Boy Color version of Enter The Gecko,…

‘Shop Contest: Even More Smash Bros.

The new Smash Bros. game has a lot of characters, but it doesn’t have every character ever created, so our ‘Shop Contest this week is all about cramming more weird stuff into this game. Look, I’ve never been a Smash fan. I think I must be missing something crucial that gets people hollerin’ about Peach…

How Rare Hopes To Keep Up With Demand For New Sea Of Thieves Stuff

At Microsoft’s E3 press conference on Sunday, Sea of Thieves studio Rare showed off some of the latest DLC coming to its piratey Xbox One/PC game. Later at the show, we talked with the game’s executive producer about how the studio plans to keep that pace up over the months to come. As part of…

Sunday Comics: Big Circle

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 June 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 14. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Track: Pretty In Pink | Artist: The Psychedelic Furs | Album: Pretty In Pink OST Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Your E3 Hopes And Dreams, Winners!

E3 was this week, and we saw many different things appear onstage. Last week I asked you to create some images of the things that you wanted to see at the show, and golly did you deliver. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is the place where we learn about new games, get excited about upcoming ones,…

This Week In The Business: Fortnite Has E3’s Number 

STAT | 125 million – Total number of Fortnite players since the game’s original launch less than a year ago. STAT | 2 million – The number of Switch users who downloaded Fortnite in its first 24 hours of availability.  STAT | 0 – The number of Fortnite accounts that had been attached to PlayStation…

The Surge 2 Doubles Down On Limb Severing 

I’ve never been a Dark Souls fanatic, but I appreciate the vibrant new mini-genre of Souls-likes it’s helped inspire. The Surge is one of those, and from what I saw at E3 2018, The Surge 2 looks like it’ll be a big improvement with some new ideas of its own. The Surge’s developer, Deck 13,…

We’ve been running special E3 episodes of Kotaku Splitscreen all week. Some have gotten their own Kotaku articles, and some haven’t yet. You can listen to them all on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or directly on our feed. We’ll be back to regular programming next week. Thanks for listening!

Track: Evaporate | Artist: Dance Gavin Dance | Album: Artificial Selection Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for doing all those things you didn’t have time to do during E3, like sleeping, cleaning the house, and calling your family. It’s also for playing some video games instead of hearing about ones you can’t play yet. I am finally going to check out Prey’s new expansion. The Long Dark got…

Valve Adds Limits To Steam Achievements To Fight Rise Of ‘Fake Games’

Last year, Valve put limitations on Steam trading cards to stop sketchy developers from makinge a living leeching money from the user-powered trading card economy. Now it’s doing something similar with Steam achievements. In a post in Steam’s private developer-focused Steamworks group, Valve announced that achievements—like trading cards—will now be subject to a “confidence metric”…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend’s Guy Friend Is Trying To Sabotage Our Relationship

Hello all you glorious Twitternet pervert herds, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to be ported to the Switch. This week, we’re air-dashing through dating dilemmas and charging your relationship’s recovery moves. What’s the polite way to handle the guy who keeps insulting your education in front of your girlfriend?…

Seeing The Resident Evil 2 Remake In Action Soothes My Skeptical Heart

When Resident Evil 2 released in 1998, it had to follow up on a game that defined a new genre of horror. Not only did it manage to improve the formula, it went on to be what many people consider the best game in the series. After a long stretch with no new information besides…

Castle Sieges Bring A New Level Of Strategy To For Honor‘s Multiplayer

For Honor is getting a free new mode on October 16 as part of the game’s Marching Fire update, and after getting a chance to try it at E3 it’s the only For Honor mode I want play. Inspired by games like Dota 2 and League of Legends, Breach is an asymmetrical siege mode with…

Every Super Mario Odyssey Transformation, Ranked

The core innovation of Super Mario Odyssey is Mario’s companion, Cappy. Cappy is a hat that can magically possess everything from non-living objects to living characters. Toss Cappy at an enemy, and the enemy will sprout a Mario moustache and a signature red hat. Mario gains full control over the creature’s movements and abilities. There…