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A Web Series About An Awkward Anime Convention

2 Kawaii 4 Comfort is a web series about a group of friends who decide to attend an anime con. It’s a very good show about a bad trip that just gets worse the longer you watch. Beginning earlier this year, you can watch the entire first season below. It gets a bit dark and…

Modder Turns Counter-Strike Into Chicken-Based Tekken Parody

Pop quiz! Is Counter-Strike: A) a squad-based tactical shooter that pits terrorists against counter-terrorists or B) a fighting game about chickens whose eyes are alight with Kentucky fried fury? Like most questions in article ledes, that one was entirely rhetorical. Thanks to mods, either option is correct. Chikken is a CSGO mod where two chickens…

From Human To Titan, No Violence Required

Here’s the always-incredible Alyson Tabbitha with an Attack on Titan outfit that was as simple to put together as it is impressive. “I made a bodysuit with a dance leotard and leggings and sewed them together, padded it to add more muscle mass & shape, then painted it with cheap 1$ acrylic paint from Walmart!”…

Track: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Live) | Artist: Spiritualized | Album: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Widowmaker Cosplay Has You In Its Sights

This Widowmaker shoot is a collaboration between cosplayer Lady Nikoru, Henchmen Studios and photographer Paul Hillier. It’s one of the best pieces of Overwatch cosplay I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. The shoot took 12 hours to complete, taking place in four different locations across the day, and involved taking not just a bunch…

Track: Flow | Artist: Crooked Colours | Album: Vera Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Oh Bother

Piotr Forkasiewicz is an artist from Poland who specialises in the kind of aircraft illustrations you see on stuff like model kits and history magazines. It’s absolutely incredible stuff. Fighters, tanks, bombers, battleships, there’s a lot of WW2 going on here. You can see more of it on Piotr’s ArtStation page To see the images…

This Ain’t Rocket League, Son

Today on Highlight Reel we have Murphy’s Law, car crashes, Rainbow 6 surprises, 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! Ghost Recon: Wildlands –…

Rocket League’s Tiny Toy Cars Are So Cute

Looking to capture the thrill of a heated round of Rocket League on your desk? Zag Toys’ collectible pull-back racers won’t do that, but they’re so damn adorable. Announced back in February, Zag Toys’ Rocket League racersare slowly starting to show up at Target and GameStop stores throughout the country. Blind-packaged in spherical plastic containers…

Dungeons & Dragons Wouldn’t Be What It Is Today Without These Women

Almost every copy of the first Dungeons & Dragons adventure written by a woman is buried in a landfill in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Those copies, published in 1980, were the masterwork of a game designer named Jean Wells, who worked for D&D’s first publisher, TSR. Wells designed Palace of the Silver Princess to her tastes,…

The Week In Games: Back To The Wild

Did you hear? The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is getting its first DLC this week, in case you already didn’t have enough to catch up on in that game. Last week I lamented how few releases there were. This week there are a ton more, although I can’t say I’ve ever heard…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Arms And The Helix

Earlier this week, two of our writers discussed the merits of ARMS’ most controversial character, Helix. They both made some good points, but I think the only way to settle this once and for all is with a proper ‘Shop Contest. Nintendo’s little goo boy just can’t seem to catch a break. Misunderstood and, in…

So Beating Prey In Under Seven Minutes Is A Thing Now

The world record for beating Prey is now 6:59 without load times, making Arkane Studios’ sci-fi thriller one of the shortest games of the year. A one-game speedrunning machine, Seeker doesn’t hold records outside of Prey, focusing instead on bending its world and zipping through it thanks to the game’s GLOO Cannon. Speedrunners have been…

Track: Jump Up, Super Star! (8-bit Remix) | Artist: Bulby | Album: Super Mario Odyssey Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Podcast: How Spider-Man PS4 Came Together

Insomniac CEO Ted Price joins us on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen to talk about virtual reality, what it’s like to be a CEO at E3, and how the Spider-Man PS4 game came together. First we talk about some of the games we’ve been playing, like Nier: Automata (3:53), StarCraft II (8:15), and Wolfenstein. Then it’s time…

Sunday Comics: Anything But Rabbids 

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 June 24. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 19. Read more…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Little Mario In All Of Us, Winners!

The ‘Shop Contest is back, and the first one in a few months is now complete. Unfortunately, the results have shattered my confidence in Super Mario Odyssey unless it gets some standalone DLC devoted to just how weird Mario and Cappy can get. But congrats to this week’s winner: Pleasance13. Maybe if Mario finally possessed…

Track: Propagation | Artist: Com Truise | Album: Iteration Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This Week In The Business: Sony Says Indies Are So 2014

QUOTE | “It was just good to talk about in 2013/2014. It is less relevant now. We have VR to talk about now, for example.” – Sony’s global head of sales and marketing Jim Ryan explains why the company’s E3 press conference lacked the indie presence the company had previously made a selling point of…

Skull & Bones’ Pirate Art Is Excellent

Ubisoft’s Skull & Boneslooked good at E3, but boy, this concept art for the game is looking real good. These pieces are all by Kobe Sek, a Ubisoft artist whose pirate work (on Black Flag) we’ve featured previously on the site You can see more of Kobe’s work at his ArtStation page To see the…