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Leap of Fate popped up in Steam’s “popular new releases” section this week, so I decided to give it a shot on a whim. Surprise: it’s rad. Think Binding of Isaac in an occult-tinged cyberpunk setting, with a really cool structure, and you’re there. OK, that’s kind of… a lot. Maybe it would be better…
Miitomo, Nintendo’s Mii-driven social network, is tearing up the app store charts right now with millions of new users on day one. The app’s explosive popularity is simple to explain: it’s hilarious to use. Folks on social media are sharing all sorts of images created with Miitomo, from jokes to memes and everything in-between. Here…
Privisa is an upcoming animated feature film made in Poland, which is all about a kid who just does not want to grow up. From the creators: It tells the story of Wilkan, son of the great hunter Borzymir who is about to get his first haircut. He finds out that the elders of the…
Counter-Strike is not exactly a sport where North American teams dominate. North American Counter-Strike is something of a joke in the CSGO community, known more for drama and sloppy team play than stunning site takes or bodacious bomb defusals. But that might be changing. In a stunning upset against the best CSGO team on this,…
Oliver Fetscher is a freelance artist from Sweden. If you ever needed help picturing what Ryan Gosling could/would look like in the new Blade Runner movie, here you go. You can see more of Oliver’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so…
Nevermind. Ferhod used Valve’s Source Filmmaker to recreate a moment most every Fallout player has experienced. Alternative titles include “NOPE” and “There’s not enough mini nukes in the world.”
Remember RUSE? It was a Ubisoft-published strategy game about espionage and subterfuge that came out in 2010. Critical consensus pegged it as decent, but not amazing. Despite that, it’s maintained a consistent, occasionally growing Steam player base for six years. Unfortunately, it appears that admittedly itsy bitsy slice of the player pie (a few hundred…
Track: Theme of Payon | Artist: soundTeMP | Album: Ragnarok Online Original Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Track: Sentient | Artist: Perturbator | Album: The Uncanny Valley
WonderCon, one of the bigger cosplay events of the year, went down over the weekend in San Diego. Photographer Martin Wong was there taking pics of some of the best of them Below are some highlights, but you can see the full gallery on Martin’s Facebook page Note: if you know/are any of the cosplayers…
Remember Steven K Smith’slife-size Orc build we featured a while back? It’s now finished, and holy shit. It could literally crush a human. The scale. The detail. The fur. This could have walked onto the set of the WarCraft movie and nobody would have batted an eye. You can see more of Steve’s amazing work…
Inka Shu is an artist based in China who works for Tencent. You can see more of Inka’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art…
One of the highlights of this year’s Sakura Con was this trio of Overwatch cosplayers. Note, just in case someone wants to take up arms, that these pics were snapped before the whole butt pose thing blew up, so this is just a homage to what was at the time a victory pose, not cosplay-as-commentary.…
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on the Nintendo 64 was the first game that made me feel like I was really soaring through a Star Wars movie, my X-Wing buoyed by glorious trumpets and gentle flecks of Bantha poodoo. Now it’s on Steam. The arcade-y flight game, originally released on Nintendo 64 and PC back in…
Watch Paint Dry is a 45-second-long game about watching paint dry. It was made by a 16 year-old guy who’s not even a game developer. Despite not going through Greenlight or otherwise receiving Valve’s holy lambda of approval, it got onto the Steam store. This might sound like the beginning of a horror story—an odious…
Counter-Strike’s Zeus taser is a very particular weapon. It’ll down anybody in a single shot, but it’s for use at extremely close ranges, and it can only fire once. In a moment of apparent mania, one team, Selfless, purchased only Zeuses in a round of a pro match. They won. It was the second game…
Track: BaDeDum (High Orchestra) | Artist: Guy Whitmore | Album: No One Lives Forever Original Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Track: Into the Wasteland | Artist: Zun | Album: Burial Sunrise
The Biker Scout Helmet Project is a Lucasfilm-blessed charity event which has asked special effects, props and cosplay experts from around the world to design and build custom Scout Trooper helmets. Like this one. It was made by Julian Checkley from Order 66 Creatures & Effects, and his idea—to bring a little Batman to the…
The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, or C2E2, ran from March 18-20. Was there good cosplay? You bet your fancy pants there was good cosplay. Photographer Long Thai, aka Mineralblu, was there to take snaps over the weekend, and below you’ll find some of his best shots. There are more at his Facebook page
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