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The Week In Games: Infinite Cross-Over Appeal 

Fall starts later this week. The kids are back at school. And you can once again find Captain America shield-bashing the little tin knight from Ghosts ‘n Goblins I’ll never stop pining for a return to the animated 2D fighters Capcom nailed in the late 90s, but a new Marvel vs. Capcom is better than…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bad Dudes Revival 

The ‘Shop Contest returns this week with a blast from the past as we celebrate a long tradition of really lazy Bad Dudes entries. “You have some pretty bad dudes on the other side,” the President said earlier this week in his latest attempt to “both sides” white nationalism and Nazis. It’s not even the…

Sunday Comics: Flavor Of The Month 

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 September 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 11. Read more…

The Iris Cutscene From Mega Man X4 Is Somehow Even Better When It’s Skipping 

Speedrunner Calebhart42 was playing Mega Man X4 at the 2017 Smash The Record event when he got to one of the game’s more infamous cutscenes and it started to skip. Like at Awesome Games Done Quick, Smash The Record runs have donation thresholds that unlock special audience requests when met (the money raised is for…

Track: Fast Driving Rave Up | Artist: ESPRIT 空想 | Album: 200% Electronica Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This Week In The Business: Tackling Toxic Communities

QUOTE | “If you are a bad person doing bad things in Overwatch, we just don’t want you in Overwatch. We don’t want to create areas for you where just the bad people are. We just don’t want those people in Overwatch.” – Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan says the company has disciplined more than 400,000 Overwatch…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to parcel out a book you’re really enjoying so you don’t finish it too soon and have nothing to read on the subway. Also, video games. I’ll be playing Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, which we started today on Kotaku’s Facebook page. (Spoilers: guys get mad when you jump on…

Smash Players Thought They Were Friends With A Reclusive ‘God’ Developer, But Now Suspect She Duped Them

Over the course of three years, an impostor convinced the Smash community—as well as her friends, housemates and girlfriend—that she was a reclusive and revered programmer behind the famous Smash mod, Project M, several sources close to the issue say. The supposed impostor, who goes by many names and who we’ll call Katy for clarity,…

Track: Sale of the Century | Artist: Sleeper | Album: The It Girl  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

 Nathan Fillion Has His Own Destiny Gun

Impact Props is to thank for this Ace of Spades hand cannon, part of a gift from Bungie for actor Nathan Fillion, the man behind Destiny’s Cayde-6 The company also hired Impact to make commemorative props for some other actors, like Lance Reddick (Zavala)… …and Bill Nighy (The Speaker). You can see more of Impact’s…

Fantastic Landing, Guardian

Today on Highlight Reel we have sick flips, hitchhikers, Rainbow Six bait, 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 all the…

15 Hours In, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is Brilliant

I’m fighting a losing battle. Again. One of the last steps between me and freedom from a magical prison island, a weird flesh-obsessed magister named Kniles the Flenser, has me woefully outgunned. Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s combat ruthlessly punishes the unprepared, and I basically went into the game blind. After 15 hours of play, I…

Track: Lift | Artist: Radiohead | Album: OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Shirtless Mario Leads To Widespread Pandemonium

"everyone was so horny to play as naked link they didn't consider the consequences. now we have naked mario. i hope you're happy."

Track: Sorato | Artist: sakanaction | Album: Sorato single Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Coca-Cola Coffee Released In Japan

It’s called Coca-Cola Coffee Plus, and it has fifty percent more caffeine and fifty percent fewer calories. According to Shin-Shouhin (via Get News), Coca-Cola Coffee Plus is a vending machine exclusive in Japan. Each 190ml can has 34mg of caffeine and only 42 calories. The coffee comes in the form of extract powder. This kind…

Warhammer 40K Battles Are Never Subtle

Lie Setiawan is an artist from Indonesia who has done work for companies like Privateer Press and Games Workshop. The last thing he worked on you can play is the mobile Warhammer game Doomwheel You can see more of Lie’s art at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Dark Souls vs Star Wars

Solaire approaches a battle against a lightsaber the same way he approaches a battle against anyone else. This is from a video D Piddy made at Saboten Con earlier this month. If you’re wondering why he does this for seven minutes, it’s about showing off the other cosplayers in the shot, not grinding the joke…

Military Shooter Expansion Shows You The Toll Your Battles Take

Playing as a young man, I run up verdant hills to a church. I’m told of this person’s disdain for local conflict-heavy politics and his love for his community. Then I step on a mine and die. No respawn. That was just the game’s opening. Laws of War, a mini-expansion for military sim Arma III…

New Battlegrounds Patch Makes It Harder To Earn In-Game Currency By Doing Nothing

If you ask many PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players (or PlayersUnknown, if you want to use the grammatically correct plural form) what their biggest problem with the game is, they’ll probably say AFK farmers. Now, after weeks of complaints, PUBG’s developers have made it much harder to sit around and earn currency. As part of the game’s…