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Watch People Break Classic RPGs

Last week in Utah, a group called RPG Limit Break got together to break a bunch of role-playing games, raising $111,000 in the process. RPG Limit Break, an annual RPG speedrunning marathon that raises money for mental health, is full of entertaining runs of classic games. You can find them all here, or watch a…

Take A Closer Look At The Backgrounds In Star Wars

Nick Hiatt is a concept artist and matte painter who has got to work on some of the biggest and best stuff of the last few years, from Force Awakens to Destiny (and Destiny 2) to Game of Thrones to Doom That’s why there are a lot of screencaps of Star Wars: Episode VII here,…

Track: Lovers In Japan | Artist: Coldplay | Album: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Our Only Master | Artist: Dunsmuir | Album: Dunsmuir Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Surprise Counter-Strike Update Adds New Operation With Wacky Game Modes

In recent times, official in-game Counter-Strike events—Operations, as they’re known—have grown rare. Valve only created/curated one in all of 2016. Today, though, without any real warning, they’ve kicked off a new one. It’s called Operation Hydra. Operation Hydra is set to run for 18 weeks. It adds new community-created maps, an Operation pass with a…

Hi Ramona

Here’s Russian cosplayer Anastasia, aka Komori, with a 1:1 depiction of Scott Pilgrim’s Ramona Flowers.

Blasphemous Is Basically A 2D Dark Souls

'Blasphemous is an action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game'

There’s Never Enough Fire Emblem Cosplay

Here’s a very good Tharja (from Fire Emblem) by Aussie cosplayer Beke. Photos by Beethy

Cyberpunk Cityscape In Need Of Urgent Cleaning

Gary Sanchez is an artist who has worked at studios like Quantic Dream, Cloud Imperium and Ubisoft. You can see more of Gary’s 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…

Hasbro Convention Tickets Are Now On Sale And They Are Not Cheap

Last year the company responsible for D&D, Magic: The Gathering, My Little Pony and Transformers announced Hascon, a three-day fan celebration of the stuff it makes. Tickets for the Providence, Rhode Island show are now on sale, with adult three-day passes ranging from $165 to $600. Wow. Now I’ve been to semi-official (read: not official,…

Track: It Gets Easier | Artist: Willie Nelson | Album: God’s Problem Child Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

3855 Artists Imagine What Lost Civilizations Could Have Looked Like

Some of the best artists working in video games, TV and film have taken part in a massive competition, judged by folks responsible for the look of series like Halo and Assassin’s Creed Called Ancient Civilizations: Lost & Found, the competition was held over at industry site ArtStation, and featured almost 4000 entries from professionals…

New Steam Game Has Over 4,000 Achievements 

Most Steam games come with somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-50 unlockable achievements. Running Through Russia has 4,096. Let me be upfront with you: Running Through Russia, which I found out about thanks to PC Gamer, is not good. It’s actually many unique flavors of bad—like a rainbow shaved ice, except all the flavors are…

For Honor Player Picks Perfect Time To Gloat

Today on Highlight Reel we have perfectly positioned Rocket League goals, very old games, force chokes, brake checks 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…

The City Never Sleeps

Rob Watkins is an artist who has worked on games likeHalo Wars 2 (where he was Lead Concept Artist), Fable 3 and Fable Legends You can see more of Watkins’ 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…

Track: The Only One I Know | Artist: The Charlatans | Album: Some Friendly Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Primordial Wound | Artist: Inter Arma | Album: Paradise Gallows Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Every single assassin you see here is either Rick Boer or his wife Dominique

SpongeBob Speedrunner Won’t Rest Until Battle For Bikini Bottom Gets The Respect It Deserves

You’ve probably never given any of the SpongeBob games a second thought, but one speedrunner is playing thousands of hours of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in order to change that. Released in 2003, the game arrived a year after the first Ratchet and Clank and was several more removed from the glory days…