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These Dark Souls Bowls Are Going To Stack Themselves

Today on Highlight Reel we have self-stacking bowls, A Way Out glitches, Vampyr confusion, 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! Catch up on…

Mutant Year Zero Marries XCOM With Talking Animals 

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is pretty long name for a game with a straightforward pitch: what if XCOM but with animorphs? While it’s based off of a pen and paper role-playing game popular in Sweden during the 80s, developer The Bearded Ladies have made it their own by injecting the inspiration’s DNA into…

The 2018 Steam Summer Sale Is Now Live

Do you love video games and hate having money? Are you ambivalent on the idea of ever getting around to actually playing those video games? Well, GOOD NEWS: it’s Steam summer sale time. The sale just went live and is, as usual, overflowing with discounts large and small. It’s alien-themed this time and includes a…

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The Best Cosplay From A-Kon 2018

A-Kon is the longest-running anime convention in North America, and this year over 30,000 fans came through the doors between June 7-10 at the Fort Worth Convention Centre. There was loads of cosplay on display over the weekend, and Mineralblu was there taking these shots and video of the event for us. Here’s a 13-minute clip…

Hello, Yes, This Appears Out Of The Ordinary

Roanna Peroz is a concept artist and illustrator currently based in Singapore. You can see more of Roanna’s work at her 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 video game artists, showcasing the best…

Canadian Cosplay Show Knows How To Party

In addition to being a cosplay con, it’s also one hell of a cosplay party

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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…