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DC Super Hero Girls Sets Make The Most Of Lego’s Friends Line

Lego’s girl-focused Friends line, which replaces the traditional minifigures with something closer to tiny plastic dolls, can rub certain collectors the wrong way. Making the tiny plastic dolls DC Comics characters, as Lego is doing with six new DC Super Hero Girls sets, certainly helps. I’m a big fan of the DC Super Hero Girls…

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Here’s AlyCat Cosplay showing Hotel Transylvania’s Mavis some love. Pics by Chiseled Light Photography

A Cosplay Wedding Proposal

Kona Cosplay was doing her thing at DragonCon the other week, filming this nice video with AKIOBOY, when she was suddenly interrupted. By her boyfriend. Cosplaying as himself, he dropped to one knee and proposed right there, to a woman dressed as Nidalee from League of Legends Kona said yes. Congratulations guys! If you want…

How Can Love Be Wrong If It Feels So Right?

Some cosplayers just want to see the world burn. Leia is Galacticat, Riker is her boyfriend. Photo by Alexandra Lee Studios

The People Fighting To Keep Crappy Games Off Steam

The Digital Homicides are a Steam group with a goal that seems admirable: to keep poorly-made, sketchy, and downright scammy games off Steam. How they go about achieving that goal, however, is far more murky and controversial. The group is cheekily named after notorious Steam shovelware developer/lawsuit lobber Digital Homicide. The Digital Homicides describe themselves…

Mortal Kombat X‘s PC Version Is Finally Good

At the start of this year, Warner Bros and NetherRealm abandoned the PC version of Mortal Kombat X, a port that wasn’t super hot to begin with. While the console versions would continue to receive updates and DLC, PC players were left with the one thing worse than pulverized ribs or a spine used as…

Vulcan Mind Meld Goes Too Far

Today on Highlight Reel we have helpful Rainbow 6 Siege players, WW1 Dukes of Hazzard, giant Fallout babies 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…

Speedrunner Claims New Super Mario Bros. World Record By .05 Seconds

Super Mario Bros. speedrunner Kosmic seems to have shaved the record time for completing the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System classic by three frames, based on a video and Tweet he posted early this morning. Kosmic said on Friday that he beat the Super Mario Bros. world record held by ace player Darbian by a single frame.…

Pew Pew Pew

André Mealha is an art director at Crush, a visual development studio that has worked on projects like Pacific Rim and Godzilla, and with games companies like EA, Bethesda, Square Enix and Microsoft. You can see more of André’s art at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the…

Track: Should I Stay or Should I Go (Live) | Artist: The Clash | Album: Combat Rock Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Feather Beader | Artist: Långfinger | Album: Crossyears Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

When Disney Meets Pokémon

Krista Staggs is an artist who hasn’t just done a ton of video game work, but has also done childrens books and stuff for Disney theme parks as well. You can see more of Krista’s work at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the…

Unofficial League Of Legends Game Coming To Steam

League Of Guessing is a game about League Of Legends characters that uses League Of Legends settings and assets. Riot is not in any way involved. Surprisingly, it’s coming to Steam. In addition to being a game with a bad name and worse acronym, LOG is a multiplayer League-themed trivia game where the objective is…

Stardew Valley’s 1.1 update, the first big one since launch, is now live. Highlights include new marriage options (Shane and Emily), divorce, new farm maps, new areas, new building types, magical construction. See all that stuff in action above.

Digital Homicide Drops $18 Million Lawsuit Against Steam Users, Says Their Company’s Been ‘Destroyed’

A couple weeks ago, notorious developer of crappy Steam games Digital Homicide made waves by suing 100 anonymous Steam users, who they deemed a “hate and harassment group,” for $18 million. Now, however, the suit’s been dismissed. In a motion to dismiss filed last week, Digital Homicide said that their business had been “destroyed,” rendering…

Massive Overwatch Cosplay Steals Show At TwitchCon

There was a cosplay competition at TwitchCon last week, and it was won by this enormous Reinhardt getup that just gets better the closer you look. I mean, yes, it’s huge! Impressive scale. But there’s so much more to it. It moves, for one, as you can see when Chad from Hoku Props goes to…

Track: Rings | Artist: Tycho | Album: Epoch Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

World Record For Super Mario Bros. Broken By A Single Frame [UPDATE]

UPDATE – 10/2 8:30pm: After Kosmic’s speed-run was reviewed further, it was discovered that his time was actually off by exactly one frame. His actual speed-run was 4:57.244, the same as Darbian’s, with whom Kosmic now shares the world record In a follow-up, Kosmic explained where the original recorded time was incorrect, “Basically we know…

The Week In Games: Don’t Drink The Paint

The Paper Mario series got started fifteen years ago on the N64. In light of the fact that Super Mario RPG never received a proper sequel, it was welcome compromise. Even if the series seemed to have lost its way during the Wii era and more recently with Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the 3DS,…