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Eight Dudes Just Fall Out Of This Assassin’s Creed Horse

Today on Highlight Reel we have surprise horse breeding, boomerang hatchets, easy Skyrim gold 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…

Battlegrounds‘ New Kill Cam Needs Some Work

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the kill-or-be-killed game where you often come away with only the vaguest notion of how you died, is finally getting a kill cam. That’s good news! PUBG, though, is a colossal cauldron of explosive strangeness, and the new kill cam is having trouble keeping up. The kill cam is live alongside a host…

There’s An Amiibo On Every Box Of Super Mario Cereal

Nintendo’s back in the game cereal game. Rumored for days and now confirmed, Super Mario Cereal becomes part of this nutritious breakfast in December. Every box is an Amiibo, unlocking gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey. In stores in North America as soon as December 11, Kellogg’s Super Mario Cereal is a mixed…

Track: The Outdoor Type | Artist: Smudge | Album: Mo Poontang Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Persona 5 Cosplay Is On The Case

Here’s a Kotaku.com cosplay rule: if there’s good Persona 5 cosplay, it goes on the website. And this, here, is some very good Persona 5 cosplay. Ann is being cosplayed by Shirogane-sama, while photos are by pollypwnz

The Art Of A Bunch Of (Former) Telltale Artists

When adventure game studio Telltale laid off around 90 employees earlier this month, the company’s art team took a hit. Here’s a selection of amazing work produced by those affected, covering games/series like The Walking Dead, Batman, Minecraft and Tales From The Borderlands You can see more of each artist’s work at their portfolios, linked…

Track: Minneapolis | Artist: That Dog | Album: Retreat from the Sun Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This is Waypoint’s excellent documentary on Angela “Overkill” Hill, the MMA fighter who is also an avid cosplayer

A Very Good Read, That

Ken Niimura is a comics artist based in Japan, one of the co-creators of the excellent I Kill Giants His latest work, Umami, about an unlikely duo of chefs, is available now through Panel Syndicate You can see more of Ken’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click…

New Evidence Suggests Super Meat Boy Speedrunners Cheated

Super Meat Boy’s challenging platforming and hidden secrets have turned it into a popular game for speedrunning. A new method for detecting cheaters now suggests that some famous runs might not be what they appear to be. There are two kinds of Super Meat Boy speedruns: real-time attacks, which show the entire game without interruption,…

Nazi Death Dog Is Having Some Stomach Issues

Today on Highlight Reel we have robot stomach issues, Napoleonic headshots, psychedelic Battlefront II loot boxes, 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…

Track: Gigantic (Live) | Artist: Pixies | Album: Surfer Rosa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Drink Up This “Soda Pup” Meme

How about a nice bottle of soda pup? This internet meme shows how dogs can look like carbonated beverages. All you need is a drink label and a bottle cap! (Be careful that your four legged friend doesn’t chew on or eat the damn cap.)  Photos of “dog cola” started appearing on social media sites…

Here Is Excellent Dragon Ball Cosplay

With their green skin and antennae, Nameks are not easy characters to bring to life. Cosplayer Takatsuki, however, makes doing so look effortless. Her Dende cosplay is on point. Wonderful! Takatsuki also posted a few making-of photos on Twitter, including a green make up test. If you like Dragon Ball, you can follow Takatsuki on…

This is Molza, from Cyprus, with some excellent Ramona Flowers cosplay.

Track: カルマの犬 | Artist: Paranoid Void | Album: Literary Math Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Adelaide Has Some Pretty Amazing Cosplayers

The Australian convention season has been farewelled with one last hurrah — Supanova Expo in Adelaide. Yes, the year is essentially over for cosplayers, who will now finally clean up all the worbla scraps and abandoned wigs lying around their houses. Before we’re done, however, we’ve got a gallery of some pretty top notch cosplay…

Kiki’s Priority Courier Service

Rayner Alencar is a freelance artist and illustrator from Brazil. You can see more of Rayner’s art at his personal site and 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…

Battlegrounds Cheat Makers Are Advertising Their Hacks In-Game

The era of the door-to-door salesman might be over, but purveyors of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds cheats are happy to bring their wares directly to you for a personal demonstration. Which occasionally involves owning the crap out of you. Players selling PUBG cheats and hacks have popped up in the game itself in recent months, demonstrating their…

The Week In Games: Xenoblade Strikes Back 

Xeno is Greek for “foreigner,” though Xenoblade Chronicles 2 hardly seems like a stranger at this point. A cult classic in the PS1 era with Xenogears, a lackluster trilogy of vague prequels with the PS2’s Xenosaga, and then a series stumbling toward renewed JRPG greatness across three different Nintendo platforms in the modern era. Clearly…