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The Art Of Injustice 2

Injustice is back to pit DC’s heroes (and villains) against each other in overblown 2D combat. It also put a ton of artists to work designing their own takes on the costumes, characters and environments of the comic empire’s properties. Below you’ll find a showcase of the art that went into making the game, featuring…

Jason Isn’t The Only Killer In Friday The 13th

Today on Highlight Reel we have ace Cities: Skylines pilots, rude vampires, Mario Kart 8, 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! Final Fantasy…

Podcast: The Best Animes

From Kids on the Slope to Your Name, we’re talking about the best animez on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen. Also: Overwatch, ARMS, and why the Final Fantasy VII remake will never come out. Kirk and I start the show with some gambling and wedding talk before we jump into ARMS (11:54) and Star Trek Bridge Crew…

Lego’s Rocking Two New Thor: Ragnarok Sets

While moviegoers have to wait until November to watch the Hulk and Thor battle for Jeff Goldblum’s amusement, Lego fans can get in on the action starting this month with a new pair of Thor: Ragnarok playsets—Arena Clash and The Ultimate Battle For Asgard. How ultimate is it? Eh, middlin’. Available alongside the Arena Clash…

Track: Wall of Glass | Artist: Liam Gallagher | Album: As You Were  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Watch (Part Of) A Mario Anime That’s Been Lost For Almost 20 Years

While most of Mario’s adventures through 1980s animation have been preserved on YouTube, not everything has managed to find its way online. Like 1989’s Super Mario Traffic Safety, which for the first time we’re now able to watch (well, at least some of it). Produced by Toei as an instructional safety video for Japanese schoolkids,…

London Put On A Very Good Cosplay Show

MCM London Comic Con was held in the UK over the weekend, and photographer Carlos Adama was kind enough to send us in some shots he took of the cosplayers attending the show.

Battlegrounds Player Pretends To Be An Army Man, Crushes It

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, squads live and die on effective communication and, when all else fails, gutsy bravado. There are worse things you can do, then, than pretend to be an over-the-top military commander. In a video posted over the weekend, StoneMountain64 dropped into a random matchmaking squad and immediately began acting like an absurdist pastiche…

Lightning Strikes Once

Gabriel Beauvais is a character sculptor who has worked on movies like Edge of Tomorrow, Alien: Covenant, Fantastic Beasts and Jupiter Ascending You can see more of Gabriel’s work at his personal site. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

Track: Waltz For Debby | Artist: Bill Evans | Album: [Live Performance] Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Lara Croft Cosplayer Poses With Actual, Giant Bear

I once did a cosplay photoshoot where I had to pose partially submerged in water in the middle of winter. I thought that was dedication. I was wrong — this Russian cosplayer has diced with the giant, furry jaws of death itself to get the perfect photo, shooting her Lara Croft cosplay with an actual,…

Track: Tadano Tomodachi | Artist: salyu × salyu | Album: s(o)un(d)beams Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Incredible Lucio Cosplay Sounds As Good As It Looks

Here’s Neverending Dreamz with the best damn Lucio cosplay you’ve ever seen (or heard). That music you hear in the video below isn’t coming from the con; it’s coming from the gun, which is an 8-inch subwoofer with two 4-inch speakers on either side. It plays music from his phone, and both the gun and…

A Rare Video Tour Of Peak Sega

The Innoventions pavilion at Epcot is still around, but it’s a bit blergh in 2017. In 1994, though, it was the future, and a big part of that was getting to enjoy Sega in its prime. Which we can all do now, thanks to this video. It was shot by iretrogamer’s dad during a vacation…

Today is Memorial Day. I invite you to celebrate it however you see fit, which for me includes grilling up some fine meats and witnessing M3nt’s latest world record speedrun achieved earlier today in the original Lethal Weapon game for NES. 26:30 deserves a sax solo

Track: Somebody To Love | Artist: Queen | Album: A Night at the Opera Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

How To Cosplay When Your Guns Are Banned

There was a potentially serious event at the Phoenix Comicon over the weekend that saw prop weapons banned from the showroom floor. Which would wreck your cosplay plans if, like these guys, you couldn’t improvise. Up top is Amorongand her husband thedocdorlooking great as D.Va and Soldier 76 from Overwatch. That cardboard might not look…

The Art Of Blizzard’s Heroes Of The Storm

Blizzard’s MOBA throws all the company’s famous properties into the one game, which means the artists tasked with imagining Heroes of the Storm’s look got to have some fun smashing everything together. Below you’ll find a selection of art that went into the game’s production, from characters to skins to environments, along with links to…

It Cosplay. Sweet Dreams.

Here’s Stooshwith something you don’t see every day: clown cosplay. Specifically, Pennywise from Stephen King’s It It’s the new Pennywise, not Tim Curry’s immortal version, which I’m kinda glad for, because the 1990 clown with this photography might have been a bit too much. We’ve featured Stoosh here before for his awesome, reimagined Mega Man…

The Week In Games: Tokyo Vice

Tokyo 42, Star Trek: Bridge Crew (for real this time), and a bunch of other stuff comes out this week. As Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, it’s only fitting that release schedule starts winding down as well. The last few months still feel like a blur though, so I’ll be taking this…