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Sunday Comics: Suspend Your Disbelief 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 31. Read more…

This Week In The Business: Bungie Vs. Crunch

QUOTE | “The Halo 2 crunch almost killed Bungie as a company. It is the most I’ve ever seen humans work in a year and a half. It was brutal. It almost killed us, and those of us that were left basically vowed, ‘never again.’ Never again can we put ourselves through that.” – Bungie…

I Ate My Parents In A ‘Scientifically Accurate’ Dinosaur Survival Game

I opened my “eyes.” I was a baby dakotaraptor striding behind my parents with my siblings, like a flock of ducks. My parents would hunt and provide for me, I thought. Nurture me until I was strong enough to fend for myself. Maybe even love me, in their own simplistic dinosaur way. About a minute…

Battlegrounds Skirt Going For Nearly $500 On The Steam Marketplace

In the year 2017, games either die in obscurity, or they live long enough to see players spending $486.93 on a purple mini-skirt. This week, the wildly popular online shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds added a handful of paid cosmetic items as a “test” of a key and crate system that’ll be added to the game when…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for a second try at meal prep, since your first try last week wasn’t so hot. Also, video games. I finished the first episode of The Long Dark’s story mode last night, so this weekend I’m on to the second episode and to check out more of the changes to the sandbox…

Stick A Jet Engine In A Train, What Could Go Wrong

Miloš Belanec is a 3D artist from Slovakia. You can see more of Miloš’ 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…

Dream Daddy’s Mini Games Are Awful

Dream Daddy is a cute game about cute dads that’s marred by some really uncute mini games. Gita Jackson: I’m here with Chloe Spencer, Kotaku’s summer intern, to talk about Dream Daddy—more specifically, the horrible, awful, no good mini games. Chloe, you’re a big fan of the game, right? Chloe Spencer: Big fan, yeah! Damien…

Track: One | Artist: Mary J. Blige, U2 | Album: The Breakthrough Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

You don’t see much Darksiders cosplay these days, so here’s Uriel by Eylerwain. Photo by aKami777.

Battlegrounds Trolls Are Using Car Horns To Annoy Popular Streamers

“There’s nothing worse than getting stream sniped,” streamers said a mere week ago. Oh, how naive they were. The latest major update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds added, among many other things, car horns. Suddenly, as though exposed to a moon stone, stream sniping—the practice of watching somebody’s stream of a game and using it to gain…

Rainbow 6 Replay Really Rubs It In

Today on Highlight Reel we have surprise sticky grenades, twitch-controlled kills, rude replays, 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! Fortnite –I couldn’t resist…

Rash’s Smash Hits Will Leave ‘Em Cold

Sam Chester is a character artist at Rare, where he’s currently working on Sea of Thieves You can see more of Sam’s work at his personal site 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…

Adam Ruins Everything (Except Our Podcast)

Adam Conover, creator and star of the excellent show Adam Ruins Everything, joins us on this week’s very special episode of Kotaku Splitscreen First Kirk and I talk about Pyre, Battlegrounds, and Dream Daddy before jumping into this week’s news (29:07) on GameStop’s Thanksgiving hours, Unsung Story’s Kickstarter disaster, and a gamer cruise that lost…

Track: Last Nite (The Modern Age EP Ver.) | Artist: The Strokes | Album: The Modern Age EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Dhalsim Cosplay Is Suitably Serene

You don’t see much Dhalsim cosplay. Let’s fix that, with this killer effort from Nein & Hex as the character’s Street Fighter V incarnation. Vid by Eighty Sixed

Track: Seizure & Desist | Artist: Dead Cross | Album: Dead Cross Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

If Game Of Thrones Was A Cartoon

Game artist Ramón Nuñez actually had his work featured on Fine Art earlier this year, but this new round of Game of Thrones caricatures was too good to pass up sharing. You can see more of Ramón’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Comedy Game Will Let A Live Audience Heckle Your Bad Jokes

Stand-up comedy can be a fraught profession. If you’re not knocking the audience dead after a minute or two, you’re dying up there. Sometimes, you even get hecklers. If, however, you think you’re funny enough to do stand-up on the internet, where everyone’s a heckler, Comedy Night might be up your alley. Comedy Night is…

Purrblind as P5’s protagonist, photo by Con Mom

Track: Captain Vegetable | Artist: Captain Vegetable with Eddie and Andy | Album: Sesame Street: Songs from the Street, Vol. 3