Culture

Dark Souls 3 Glitch Lets Speedrunners Completely Break The Game

It’s been a few months since Dark Souls 3 came out, and speedrunners have greatly reduced their times due to a glitch that lets them cut through huge parts of the game. This run took only 36 minutes and 43 seconds! I’ve written about Dark Souls 3 speedrunner Distortion2 in the past, one of the…

A Weapon For Every Look

Emanuele Arnaldi is a freelance artist from Italy. You can see more of Arnaldi’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 professional…

A New World Record For Beating Super Mario World While Blindfolded

Watch in wonder as a Super Mario World player defeats Bowser without ever setting eyes on him. Earlier this year, きらめきでどーだい made headlines after figuring out how to beat the original Super Mario Bros. blindfolded in a blazing 14:46. Today he is back with a new record: Super Mario World, defeated blindfolded in a whopping…

Track: Fickle Sun (iii) I’m Set Free | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: The Ship Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Who You Gonna Call?

Cosplayers Alodia Gosiengfiao, Leny Ming, Daph Cortes and Izabel Cortez all put their spin on Ghostbusters. While this is part of the film’s marketing push, they all did make some nice costumes and Jionor Verona did snap some nice photos. This Ghostbusters Jeepney is pretty great, too.

Official Kirby Food Is Coming To Japan

And is it ever cute. Starting this August, several Kirby Cafes will open across the country. Here are some of the dishes that will be served. Via Kai-You, you can see some very cute Kirby eats and drinks. The cafe will also have limited edition goodies for sale. The Kirby Cafe opens August 5 at…

It’s Called A Hustle, Sweetheart

More Zootopia cosplay! Nick Wilde is Jannet “Incosplay” Vinogradova, Judy Hopps is Angela Bermudez. Photos by Andrés Herrera.

Harley Quinn cosplay by Shermie-Cosplay. Photo by Chibi Lilie Photography

Track: Dopethrone | Artist: Electric Wizard | Album: Dopethrone Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

 Video Game Character Gracefully Avoids Speeding Ticket

Today on Highlight Reel we have a high speed escape, Nathan Drake shenanigans, a fanciful horse, 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! Lawbreakers…

Some More Practical Pokémon Go Warning Screens

OK, we get it, we won’t walk off a bridge into a Gyarados’ mouth. Given the repetitive nature of that single screen and its message maybe it’s time to freshen those Pokémon Go warnings up a little with some more specific advice. These ideas for replacement boot screens are by Polish artist Magdalena Proszowska, who…

A Different Kind Of Sexy Metal Gear Cosplay

Real talk: Metal Gear Solid V’s Quiet is a very sexy video game character, one (reportedly) designed specifically to encourage cosplay. Well, ask and ye shall receive, Mr. Kojima. Most of the Quiet cosplay we’ve seen over the past couple of years has been pretty straight-up. So well played, Patrick Kennedy, for switching things up…

Who Needs Michael Fassbender When You’ve Got Cosplay

The movie isn’t even out yet, but that’s not stopping master Assassin’s Creed cosplayer Rick Boer from taking a swing at Aguilar’s (aka Michael Fassbender) outfit. Interestingly, he says that while the overall design is very similar to Altair’s original robes from the games, the film’s costume is a lot more detailed (beads, little flourishes,…

Track: Hourglass | Artist: S U R V I V E | Album: S U R V I V E Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

RimWorld Steam Key Deal Spoiled By Fraudsters

The developer of RimWorld, Steam’s new hotness (and a Dwarf-Fortress-ish game with dashes of Firefly that I’m really digging; full impressions soon), was running a pretty cool deal for the game’s Early Access launch. Then fraudsters decided to get involved. When RimWorld first released on Steam last week, developer Tynan Sylvester made a request: “If…

The Slow Disappearance Of The Video Game Manual

Collector F. M. da Costa has an amazing Flickr page where he opens up his games, showing everything that came in the box. It’s very pretty just to look at, but it’s also a timelapse, showing the slow and steady decline in the number of pieces of paper that shipped alongside a video game. This…

Kick Ass, Take Names, Lose An Arm

Richard Lyons is a concept artist at Naughty Dog, developers of The Last Of Us and the Uncharted series. We actually featured some of Lyons’ work on UC4 in our big round-up of the game’s concept art, but you can see more of his stuff below and at his ArtStation page To see the images…

Toy Time Transforms MakeToys’ Pandinus, $400 Worth Of Third-Party Scorponok

In 1987 Hasbro released a stocky green and purple robot that transformed into a mechanical scorpion and a Decepticon Fortress. Nearly 30 years later, third-party Transformers crafters MakeToys releases a much cooler take on Scorponok. First off I must thank my friends over at Toy Dojo for lending me their production sample of MakeToys CityBot…

Track: Birthday | Artist: The Sugarcubes | Album: Life’s Too Good Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

All These Witcher 3 Monsters Are By The Same Cosplayer

Elena Samko, specialist in gross creature cosplay (who we’ve featured a few times before), has done a ton of Witcher 3 stuff recently, dressing up as all kinds of monsters and enemies from the game. Look at all this stuff! Spoon-collecting Wights, Noonwraiths, a Botchling, Skellige Succubi, the Dark Souls-y Caretaker from Heart of Stone,…