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I thought I was getting sick of ‘80s-inspired retro-future aesthetics, but then I saw Narita Boy. Yeah, it goes back to a well that’s been tapped countless times, but it does so with style, playful weirdness, and cool dimension-hopping mechanics. It’s currently on Kickstarter

Bring On The Horizon: Zero Dawn Cosplay

So, turns out Horizon: Zero Dawn, despite its stupid name, is a good video game. A very good video game. Which means we can expect 2017 to be a year full of Horizon: Zero Dawn cosplay. Fine by me. The game’s star, Aloy, looks great, with her mix of ancient hunting gear, sci-fi relics and…

One Player’s Three-Year Quest To Beat Every NES Game Is About To End

It took Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk 91 hours to beat Miracle Piano Teaching System, an NES game created to teach kids how to play the piano. (To pull it off, he had to teach himself how to play piano.) That was the longest. He’s also spent 39 hours with the billiards game Championship…

People Are Racing To See How Fast They Can Get Banned From Club Penguin

Kid-friendly browser game Club Penguin is famed for rapidly banning the use of foul language. Now that the game only has a little over a month to live, players have turned getting banned into a speedrunning challenge, with a current record time under 40 seconds. Getting banned for profanity in Club Penguin isn’t normally much…

Messi, You Looked Better Without The Beard

Sure, sometimes you can get Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale to sit still long enough to take photos for FIFA promos, but other times you can’t, and have to build eerily realistic 3D models of them instead. These images, done by Korean artist Byungmoon Kang, are all for FIFA Online, and as you can probably…

Track: I’m Outta Time | Artist: Oasis | Album: Dig Out Your Soul Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

I Can’t Abide Those Jawas. Disgusting Creatures.

Here’s Uncanny Megan and Dallas Nagata White as Jawas who are a little taller than the rest. And maybe a little less prepared for the desert conditions. Photos by Ed White

Take A Tour Of A Cosplay Convention

A lot of the best cosplay photos on this site come from conventions, but many of you will never have actually been to one. So here, let this guided tour of the grounds of the recent Katsucon by Felix Wong act as the next best thing.

Slain For Honor Player Mournfully Breakdances

Today on a very froggy episode of Highlight Reel we have dogs, Kolibri massacres, boneitis, fuze clears 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!…

Someone Has Beat Nioh In Under Two Hours, The Current World Record

Nioh is a massive game. Reviewing it took around 60 hours. Speedrunner Distortion2 puts myself and everyone to shame with his world record run, which clocks in just over an hour and a half. Distortion2 holds the third place world record in Dark Souls 3 and has been blasting his way through Resident Evil 7,…

2017 Is The Year Playmobile Escapes The Shadow Of The Lego Aisle

Invented by German Inventor Hans Beck in 1974, Playmobil has been a toy store mainstay for decades, yet it’s never reached the height of popularity enjoyed by the likes of Lego. That could change this year, as Playmobil gets into the licensing game with Ghostbusters and How To Train Your Dragon Even if you don’t…

My Favorite Images From Toy Fair 2017 Day Three

I’ve escaped from New York’s Javits Convention Center, but not before snapping some final shots of the wonders on display at the 2017 New York Toy Fair. Check out new stuff from Mass Effect Andromeda, Borderlands 2, Overwatch, Kingdom Hearts and whatever else caught my eye. Channeling Josephine Baker, DC Collectibles’ Vixen Bombshell statue is…

Homeworld: Deserts Of Kharak’s Creators Worked With NASA On A Cool Mars Project

Blackbird Interactive, developers of the excellent Deserts of Kharak, have teamed up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create an interactive tour of a concept Mars base. Not the most obvious thing to reading about, I grant you, but they’re a good fit, with Blackbird’s sleek designs helping create a colony that looks real, but…

Track: String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima,” VI. Mishima/Closing | Artist: Philip Glass (performed by The Catalyst Quartet Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Twenty Years Later, A Furry MMO Fights To Stay Alive

At Furcadia’s September town meeting, a hundred humanoid animals lounged on purple pillows in a lush, 32-bit meadow. Emerald Flame, Executive Producer of the oldest social MMORPG, was explaining Furcadia’s largest update since its 1996 founding to the motley pile of furry avatars, known in-game as “furres.” It was called the “Second Dreaming.” (Originally published…

Welcome To The Spooky-Ass Park Information Center

Unforeseen Incidents is an adventure game being worked on by a small team in Germany. As is a must for 2D adventure games, it has some very nice art. The team have been sharing some of it in recent months, so here’s a collection of it, showing both the backgrounds and characters from the game.…

Destiny Gets The Toys It Deserves

When a game is as pretty as Destiny can be, it deserves more than some Mega Bloks sets. McFarlane Toys sets things right this fall with a trio of Guardians, a fur-lined questgiver, a sporty ride and a $150 replica of a highly sought-after weapon. Announced last week, the official images do not do McFarlane’s…

Oh Hey, It’s Siegmeyer of Catarina

Hmmmmmmmmm. This is some A++ Dark Souls cosplay by Durp0012

This is a trailer for Roleplayers, a very slick-looking documentary about LARPing from the Czech Republic. The trailer has English subtitles you can enable if they’re not on by default.

The Week In Games: Into The Night

The Nintendo Switch is less than two weeks away, but meanwhile here’s a bunch of games that aren’t Breath of the Wild Enjoy the reprieve while you can, and be sure to check out some of the lovelier treasures nestled in the list below before the onslaught of March begins next week. Tuesday, February 21…