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The First Tree looks like Journey: Fox Edition. It’s about the intertwining stories of a fox searching for her missing family and a young couple dealing with tragedy. According to its creator, it will be short, but bittersweet. It’s on Steam Greenlight right now and will be out early next year.

Battlefield 1 Grenade Blows Up A Lotta Dudes

Today on Highlight Reel we have tons of Battlefield 1, legendary medics, Overwatch clowning 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! RIGS: Mechanized Combat…

My Summer Car, As Told By Steam Reviews

My Summer Car might sound like a game about the fine art of crafting jank-ass automobiles, and to an extent, it is. But it’s also an open-world conduit for stories. Many of those stories involve beer and pee. My Summer Car is far more than just a car game. As I discovered while playing it…

Podcast: We’re Psyched For Nintendo Switch

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I tackle the biggest gaming question of the next five months: What happened to that dude’s dog in the Nintendo Switch commercial? We also theorize about the Switch more generally, answer some reader mail, and talk Civilization VI, Battlefield 1, Mafia 3, and the worrying learning capabilities of…

Track: The Big Ship | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Another Green World  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Couple Can’t Get Married Because They Cosplay Too Much

So, we have a web series! All about cosplay! And in this episode, we catch up with Becka Noel and her fiancee Dhareza Maramis, who fell in love, cosplay together, then found they do it so much they’re having trouble actually getting married. Whoops.· Behind The Mask is presented by Bandai Namco.

Dozens Of Sega Mods Suddenly Removed From Steam Workshop  [UPDATE]

Earlier this year, Sega opened the floodgates on mods of its classic games, enabling Steam Workshop support for Sega Genesis & Mega Drive Classics. This week, dozens of those mods made like the cast of Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) and vanished. As PC Gamer points out, some mods were uploads of entire games like NBA…

Track: The Route | Artist: Chet Baker and Art Pepper | Album: The Route Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Get Me Cosplay Pictures Of Spider-Man!

This is TrevRay Cosplay, hitting the streets of New York to get some very authentic-looking shots of Spider-Man in action. Before you ask, no, we did not pay $300 for them. All photos by Jason Laboy. You can see more shots at Jason’s site

22 Life Lessons I Learned From A Permadeath Car Game

Surprise Steam global top seller My Summer Car bills itself as “the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance, AND permadeath life survival simulator.” It’s taught me a lot. Find your center My Summer Car really is an open-world survival game. Sure, my goal is to take the shell of an old junker and fill…

Gotta Catch ‘Em All

Shawn Lin is an artist from Taiwan who has done work for companies like Capcom and Microsoft. You can see more of Shawn’s work 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…

Track: Talk of the Town | Artist: The Pretenders | Album: Pretenders II Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Stitch Fought With Your Father In The Clone Wars

Adam Murphy is an artist based in Australia who over the past 25 years has worked as an animator and storyboard artist for studios like Disney and Lucasfilm. In that time he’s drawn for series like Aladdin, The Lion King and Lilo & Stitch, while he has also been involved in the production of the…

You Did Some Good Cosplay, New York

Earlier this month, New York’s finest hit the streets for some cosplay. And they did a damn fine job of it. While we’vehad a New York Comic Con gallery previously, that was from the showroom floor. These pics are from a shoot put up by Mineralblu, so he could take a little more time for…

The Real Reinhardt Meets A Giant Reinhardt

The opening moments of this video star Darin De Paul, the voice actor behind Overwatch’s Reinhardt. Standing in front of a giant Reinhardt cosplay outfit, screaming Reinhardt quotes into a megaphone. It’s awesome. The cosplay is by Thomas DePetrillo of Extreme Costumes, while the video was shot by Mineralblu at the New York Comic Con…

Battlefield 1 Player Snipes Dude Falling Off Zeppelin

Today on Highlight Reel we have falling shots, tank rolls, pigeon grenades, broken belts, denied ultimates 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! FIFA…

Cities Skylines Player Spends Hundreds Of Hours Building A Near-Perfect San Francisco

A Cities Skylines player just debuted his crowning achievement: a spot-on 1:1 recreation of San Francisco. It’s just like the real thing, all the way down to individual neighborhood and building placements. There’s just one teensy little problem: massive death tolls. The ambitious build’s creator, radiativeDoctor, estimates that it took him 200-250 hours to get…

Drum & bass producer SleepingEggs sampled the dulcet tones of Hyper Light Drifter for this wicked EDM track:

Track: Kokuhaku | Artist: My Hair Is Bad | Album: Woman’s  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

It’s Time To Kick Ass And Cosplay As Duke Nukem

Here’s Leobane Cosplay chanelling both Duke Nukem and, perhaps, a touch of Johnny Bravo as well. Photo by Benoit Rugraff