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Building A Star Citizen Fighter, Both Inside And Out

Matthew Johns is an artist who has been working in the video game business for six years now, on games like Star Citizen and Traveller’s Tales’ series of LEGO games. What you’re going to see below is The Gladiator, a fighter from the upcoming space shooter that Johns worked on. Hopefully you’ll appreciate, by looking…

Artist: Gidge | Track: I Fell In Love | Album: Autumn Bells Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Ark: Survival Evolved Player Creates Murderous Dodo Bird Army

Ark: Survival Evolved is the third most popular game on all of Steam right now, and there’s an obvious reason for that: dinosaur-annihilating dodo bird armies. Jessa of NerdHunk took advantage of Ark’s best feature—the ability to tame Jurassic beasts and have them do your bidding—to create an army of seemingly harmless dodo birds. Then…

You can play DOTA 2 Reborn right now. Valve just launched the beta for the Source 2-powered DOTA 2 relaunch, which totally overhauls the game’s engine and interface, and puts custom game types front-and-center. It looks super hot. Go play.

A Cosplay Experiment

Earlier this month, Colossalcon was held in Sandusky, Ohio. And it was there that a team of five photographers, two videographers and a cosplayer decided to try something different. Normally, at a nerd con, you’ll see two types of cosplay photo emerge: ones taken quickly on the convention floor, and others taken at arranged photoshoots…

*Checks Watch* OK Tree Joke Time

Phew. Let’s take a break from E3 for a minute and enjoy a pun about video games and trees. Lip Comarella is an artist at Salon Alpin, a a visual production studio that does everything from illustration to graphic design to animation to film. They’ve recently done some stuff with StarCraft 2 for the WCS,…

Grand Theft Auto V is not $20 on Steam right now. Despite multiple misleading listings on GTA’s Steam franchise page (they’re for cash card bundles), it’s still at regular price. Suddenly last week’s GTA price shenanigans look less benign. [Update: The issue has been resolved. Valve says it was a “technical error.”] GTA V’s price…

Remembering Fallout 3’s Fantastic Concept Art

There are lots of people to thank for the distinctive look of the Fallout series, across multiple studios and decades, but in more recent times Craig Mullins should be top of your list. Mullins, who has worked as an artist on everything from Assassin’s Creed to the Matrix movies to Halo to Jurassic Park, was…

Samus vs Harley Quinn

Oh, hi there. Beat Down Boogie was at Momocon in Atlanta earlier this month, and they shot this great video of the con. It’s basically just six minutes of cosplayers impressing the hell out of you.

The Week In Games: Look At This Chipmunk

I was trying to imagine the nicest way possible to say “There ain’t shit coming out this week.” I think I went a bit too far afield. But it’s a nice bit of field. With chipmunks. At least we’re not skipping a Payday for E3. Plus an open week gives the big publishers plenty of…

Sunday Comics: You Monster!

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published June 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 8. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: Paris Hilton’s Just Not Worth It

QUOTE | “It’s not worth paying for Paris Hilton.” – EA Mobile’s general manager Bill Mooney, explaining why not all celebrity brands are worth licensing for mobile games Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Lacking any kind of momentum in this multi-screen ecosystem future are Sony and Nintendo. I expect both…

Witcher Horse Gets Swole As Hell

On today’s episode of Highlight Reel we have roundabout rockets, car dismounts, DOTA 2 bromances, horses doing push-ups, and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Call of Duty: Ghosts…

The Truth Behind The Steam Summer Sale Controversy

Raising your prices right before Steam’s big summer sale and then “discounting” them back to where they’d been for months sure sounds scummy, right? A handful of games have been accused of it, but the truth of the matter isn’t so black-and-white. It all began with a series of angrily lobbed accusations on Reddit, stemming…

Track: Main Event | Artist: RuPaul | Album: Champion Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Peeing In A Coffee Can, And Other Gaming Marathon Stories

This week I asked all you fine, potentially troubled Kotaku readers what your most impressive (most disturbing?) gaming marathon story is. And, well, yeah… I’m…worried about most of you. Here are 15 interesting tales of perseverance in the name of gaming. Peeing In Coffee Cans (via Killer_WaLrUs) My senior year of high school, I decided…

Dario—who has been cosplaying for twenty years now!—nails Diablo III’s Demon Hunter, even going so far as to do some make-up work that’s not quite cel-shaded, but certainly makes him look “flatter”, more like a video game character. You can see more of Dario’s cosplay at his Facebook page

Hurry Up Already, Cyberpunk Future

Sergey Zabelin is an artist based in the Ukraine who works for a mobile gaming company. Not that you’d know this from this portfolio. You can see more of Sergey’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…

Too Bad Steam’s Summer Sale Game Is Kinda Broken

This year’s Steam Summer Sale comes with a twist: an entire game you can play to unlock new deals, trading cards, and the like. There’s just one problem: it’s not really doing the whole “working” thing at the moment. Monster Game, as it’s known, is playable in your browser. It’s kinda like once-you-pop-the-fun-don’t-stop-infesting-your-life-like-a-flesh-devouring-bacteria sensation Clicker…

Track: Veins | Artist: Keyes | Album: Veins Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.