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Bringing The Legend Of Zelda To Life Through Cosplay

Layze Michelle is a Brazilian cosplayer and big Zelda fan who has made a habit of creating some incredible cosplay based on Nintendo’s series. Not only has she cosplayed as several iterations of Princess Zelda herself, but also—be still my heart—the real star of Wind Waker, Medli the Rito. You can see more of Layze’s…

The Week In Games: Heads Up

There are weeks during the summer where I struggle to choose a game to pin the weekly release post around. Headlander, everybody. Double Fine’s weird head game is one of the few games this week that isn’t a re-release or repackaging, so it gets to be at the head of the post. We Happy Few’s…

Podcast: What Makes A Classic JRPG?

Just what makes games like Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger so special? What sort of attributes would a game like I Am Setsuna need in order to live up to JRPG classics? Let’s discuss! Originally published 7/22/2016 Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk and I dig into all the elements that comprise a classic JRPG:…

Sunday Comics: An Excellent Adventure

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 July 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: Don’t Worry

QUOTE | “Worry is the gun to your head. It changes how you make decisions.” – Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart on surviving 13 years in AAA development and how “I thought we would have been purchased by now.” Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “[VR] kind of scares me as…

Do We Have To Do This Here?

Edward Delandre is a concept artist from Lyon, France. You can see more of Edward’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 video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Necropolis, a Souls-inspired dungeon romp that I didn’t love, is getting overhauled. In the next couple weeks, the developers plan to make the game more intuitive, and in the coming months they’re gonna add more enemy and level variety and make the game more challenging. Fingers crossed that the game becomes, you know, good!

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s the weekend! If you live in the U.S., it’s probably gonna be a hot one. What better excuse to stay inside and play video games? I’m back at my desk and ready to PLAY SOME GAMES, man. This weekend I’ll be playing Kentucky Route Zero act IV, which actually means I’ll be replaying all…

Meet The Proud Creator Of The Worst Game On Steam

On Steam, Bad Rats is infamous. It’s a janky physics puzzle game that people gift to their enemies. Earning all of its achievements is considered a masochistic badge of honor. It’s the butt of joke after joke. And yet, seven years after the release of the original, it just got a sequel I’ve always wondered:…

Overwatch Game Interrupted By Wild Flock Of Mercys

Today on Highlight Reel we pessimistic horses, confusing skull clubs, wild Mercys, Battlefield plays, 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! Rainbow 6 Siege…

Track: Howl | Artist: Rival Consoles | Album: Howl Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Oh, This Is Some Excellent Cosplay

Andreas Krupa, aka eosAndy, is a cosplay photographer from Germany. His work is fantastic Not that the cosplay here isn’t incredible by itself! Some of the world’s best, like Maul, are pictured here doing their thing in costumes that look like they walked right out of a video game. It’s just that on top of…

What Happens After An Indie Game Fails On Steam

Brigador took five years to create. It’s a mech game with a great retro-chic look, a standout soundtrack, and fully desctructible everything. The developers jokingly call it a “Kool-Aid Man simulator.” On Steam, it has a 94 percent positive rating. Despite all that, it flopped. In the wake of a small handful of reviews and…

The Wild Things That Can Happen In RimWorld, Steam’s Latest Hit

I watched a man tearfully avenge his dear old dog, freshly murdered by a dastardly raider, and then cook and eat it immediately afterward. What the fuck, RimWorld? What the fuck? RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim with dashes of Dwarf Fortress, Firefly, and The Sims, but that description doesn’t really do it justice. It’s…

TK-421, Why Are You Posting Stupid Cat Videos?

Thelast time we featured Grafit Studio on Fine Art, I said “you may not have heard of many of the game’s they’ve worked on”. How time changes things. In the five years since they’ve worked with companies like Capcom, Square Enix, Guerilla Games, Ubisoft, Microsoft, CD Projekt and Paradox. You can see more of Grafit’s…

Track: Never Say Never | Artist: That Dog | Album: Retreat From The Sun Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Fungus Among Us

Been a while since we had some good Last of Us cosplay here, so let’s fix that with this terrifying clicker outfit by jaydubtog I like how the single eye hole is both practical and scary as fuck

Cosplaying Overwatch play of the game animations? This is new. That’s Qpaxas Mei. David Gibson, meanwhile, was an animator on the game, whose Overwatch work we’ve featured on Fine Art

Embrace Tranquility. And Also This Overwatch Cosplay.

Shellshocked’s choice of Overwatch cosplay needed a little more work than most other characters, but it was all very much worth it. We actually featured this costume in our “Best of” roundup, but I figured it was worth its own showcase here given how impressive it is (and the chance to show some more shots…

Snacktaku Eats Limited Edition Blueberry Pie Oreos

Roses are red, violets are blue. Both are technically edible. Blueberry Pie Oreos are a sort of a pale violet that looks nothing like something that should make its way to your stomach. That’s not to say you shouldn’t send several of these on their way to your body’s grimy processing plant. You just might…