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Track: St. Thomas | Artist: Sonny Rollins | Album: Saxophone Colossus Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Test Pattern | Artist: Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt | Album: Accord/Dance Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Heck Yeah We’re Gonna Stab That Giant Weed

Kamil Murzyn is an artist at Platige Image, a creative studio that has worked on games like Prey, Watch Dogs 2 and the new Hitman You can see more of Kamil’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

Anime Expo’s Cosplay Was Fantastic

Los Angeles’ Anime Expo is one of the biggest cons on the calendar, with this year’s show drawing over 100,000 guests. So, yes, there was some very good cosplay there. Photographer Mineralbluwas there taking shots, and below you’ll find some of his best, including a video that shows most of these in action. You can…

The Best Speedruns From SGDQ 2016

Last week, a lot of people played through a lot of video games very, very quickly. Here are some of the best. I haven’t watched EVERY run from Summer Games Done Quick 2016, which ended late Saturday night after raising close to $1.3 million for Doctors Without Borders, but I’ve watched a lot, so I’ve…

Dead Century Is A Very Good-Looking Video Game

A few years back, I wrote about a game called Dead Century, which looked very cool. The bad news: its Kickstarter failed. The good news: it got made anyway, and is now looking even better. Dead Century is an RPG/adventure game in the vein of Telltale’s various series, and it’s out now on iOS (with…

Track: Yuko and Hiro | Artist: Blur | Album: The Great Escape Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Ciri Rides Into The Real World

There will come a day when I stop posting awesome Witcher 3 cosplay. But it is not this day. Cosplay by Weronika Starzyńska, photos by Aneta Pawska

Morning Men is a story-driven RPG set in a desert world full of intrigue, lies, and junk. While it might look like a riff on Mad-Max-style post-apocalyptica, its developers cite movies like The Fifth Element as their primary influences. It’s currently on Steam Greenlight, but it already looks and sounds great.

FIFA Players Nail Goal Celebration

Today on Highlight Reel we have perfect flips, dabbing scientists, someone named Brad, bomb juggles, 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! Halo 5:…

Rocket League Adding Crates, Skipping Steam Market Features To Avoid Gambling Issues

If you were a human with functional Internet access last week, you probably heard about the big Counter-Strike gambling scandal. Despite a secondary market’s potential to help bring in big bucks, Rocket League’s developers don’t want a slice of that increasingly tainted pie. In a post confirming that, yes, loot crates are coming to Soccer…

Valve Making Changes To Team Fortress 2‘s New Casual Mode After Widespread Criticism

Last week, Valve launched Team Fortress 2‘s big competitive mode update and, with it, a new casual mode that took the place of classic quick play. So far, people… don’t exactly love it. The new 12 vs 12 unranked matchmaking mode has players angrily spitting out their sandviches for quite a few reasons, most prominent…

Robot Samurai

Georgi Simeonov was one of the main artists responsible for the look of ADAM, that incredible short film that was put together recently on the Unity Engine In a blog post over on Unity’s site, Simeonov—who has worked on games like Brink and Batman: Arkham Origins—outlines the design work and processes that went into creating…

Speedrunner Crushes Super Mario World Without Using A Single Power-Up

There were some remarkable speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2016, but this might be the most impressive: Rezephos blazing through Super Mario World without getting a single mushroom, fire flower, cape, star, or Yoshi. You can watch the astounding run here (starts at 7:50): Those shell jumping tricks are just out of this world.…

Nobody Stop This Awesome Mask Cosplay

This is Simon Fontaine (The Mask) and Michele Paul (Tina) at the Montreal Comiccon, which went down in Canada over the weekend. We see a lot of guns and swords and rocket launchers in cosplay. What we don’t see is enough dancing, especially when it goes to the trouble of recreating the entire routine from…

Mad Max: Cosplay Road

Evan Ohl’s Mad Max outfit here pretty much nails Tom Hardy’s look in the movie. Photos by Rulison Photography

A Humble Final Fantasy Cosplay Request

Less Cloud cosplay, more Frans/Balthiers/Judges, please. Final Fantasy XII was the best. Cosplay by Giulietta Zawazdki, photo by Laughing Orc

Track: Urlo Negro | Artist: Mike Patton | Album: Mondo Cane Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Week In Games: Somewhat Afraid Of The Ghostbusters Game

Early reviews for the new Ghostbusters movies are pretty good! Early reviews for the new Ghostbusters game are pretty much nonexistent, which is scary. Did you know there was a new Ghostbusters game coming out this week? You might have missed the announcement trailer from two months ago due to no one really caring all…

Robot Finishes Super Mario Bros. 3 In Two Seconds

Yesterday’s tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) block at Summer Games Done Quick ended with a Super Mario Bros. 3 run that lasted barely longer than a blink. The ridiculously rapid run is the result of a newfound glitch discovered by TAS speddrunner ais523, which basically involves pressing buttons at an extremely fast rate—some 6,000 times a second.…