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I Don’t Think That’s How Soccer Works

On today’s Highlight Reel we have FIFA 15 plays that are out of this world, strong parachutes, car crashes, lucky throws 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. NBA…

Think Twice Before You Kill A Counter-Strike Chicken

Well, that certainly puts things in perspective. This video by ShookBox depicts the final moments of one of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s infamous chickens. As a grenade sails lazily, almost nonchalantly in its direction, its life flashes before its (and our) eyes. Even the part where it hatched from its own egg, implying that this chicken…

Track: Forget | Artist: Lianne La Havas | Album: Is Your Love Big Enough? Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Spelunky World Record Speedrun Looks Like Magic

I’ve played more than 100 hours of Spelunky. Olmec? No problem. Yama? Done. Speedlunky? Did it on PC and Vita. But that didn’t stop this world record run from making me feel terrible. Spelunky God, which is an entirely appropriate name for this speedrunner, beats Olmec in one minute and 47 seconds. Speedlunky, considered a…

Stormtroopers Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Dude second-from-left is just “haha what is going on”. This piece is by Martin Parker, who is a freelance artist based in the UK. You can see more of Martin’s work at his personal siteand ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save…

Deer Astronaut

Deer astronaut. Deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut.* Deer astronaut deer astronaut deer astronaut.** *Steam user Tomas made a goddamn fucking deer astronaut for use in endlessly popular construction game Space Engineers. Look at that. LOOK AT THAT. (Update: Turns out, the deer astronaut was actually created…

Rockstar Says They Won’t Ban Anyone For Using Single-Player GTA V Mods

Well, that’s a relief. Mostly. If you were to look at any given GTA forum, you’d think the sky was falling (as opposed to whales falling from the sky, which is actually happening). Rockstar is banning people right and left for using mods, single-player or multiplayer, claim fans. Rockstar, however, says they’re doing nothing of…

Not A Good Day’s Hunting, Then

Yuri Shwedoff is an artist who works for Game Insight, a studio based in Moscow. Don’t look at this stuff if you want to feel warm and fuzzy and happy like you’ve just lay down in a box of puppies beneath two rainbows. Do look at it if you want to see great art. You…

A Book On Building Armor

I got my copy of Foamsmith today, a book from Bill Doran that’s all about building armour and costumes out of, well, foam. It’s a good read! Mostly because it’s full of pictures and tips showing every step of the process, but also because of the puns. It’s $30, and you can grab it from…

Like Dark Souls, But Spookier: The Steam Stream Plays Malebolgia

Malebolgia is best described as Dark Souls, except gorgeously cel-shaded and spooky as hell. I hope it’s as good as it looks. Watch me play it below. Also on the docket for today’s stream: Karmaflow, a rock opera video game with involvement from a surprising number of metal stars, and a game where you’re a…

GTA Cat Rides Flaming Motorcycle

On today’s Highlight Reel we have flying zombies in Dying Light, flying cats in GTA V, nude Trevor 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. State of Decay –…

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Confusing Mod Situation

Grand Theft Auto V players claim they’re getting banned on PC right now, but why? Well, it’s complicated. Players are fairly certain that mods are involved, but that’s where things get weird. Ever since the PC version of GTA V came out, user-made mods have been the story of the game, breathing strange new air…

Solarix Wants To Be A Scary Deus Ex, But Something’s Missing

Should I care about Solarix? Yes and no. I really love what Solarix tries to achieve—a new game in the mold of the original Deus Ex or System Shock 2—but it lacks their spirit, their soul. What’s it about? Here’s a general overview of the game, via its Steam page: “Solarix is a science-fiction stealth-horror…

Half-Life 3: Fake Concept Art For A Game That Will Never Exist

Concept artist Shane Baxley knows. He knows deep down, like your or I do, that Half-Life 3 is never coming. Only instead of letting it hurt him, he got to work drawing. Dreaming. Baxley—who just finished work on Black Ops III, and has also done stuff for Subaru, Disney and MLB—figured Dog was in need…

Witcher Cosplay Bends Genders

What is it with these Witcher cosplayers, being so relentlessly professional and amazing and stuff? This gender-bent Geralt (with some bonus shots as Ciri), by Aelirenn, is just incredible. That’s real chainmail, pieced together by a blacksmith, and as you’ll see in other pics below, the make-up work on the scars is also super impressive.

Track: Neon Beams | Artist: Take | Album: Only Mountains Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment

Valve Finally Fixes Years-Old Steam Bug

Oh thank goodness. The latest Steam beta update includes the following note: “Fixed bug where in-game overlay could take two screenshots for a single hotkey press in some games that process input via DirectInput and Win32 input messages.” This is a bigger deal than it sounds like. Some bugs get squashed, others don’t. And sometimes,…

What Are You Playing On Steam This Week?

Steam releases approximately one hundred million billion (give or take a zillion) games every week. So let’s help each other out: tell me what you’re playing on Steam this week and whether or not it’s any good. Let’s recommend games to each other. Me, I’ve been splitting my time between Power Ranger strategy goof-’em-up Chroma…

Grand Theft Auto V Mod Makes Guns Fire Cars Instead Of Bullets

There have been many games with guns. There have been many games with cars. But guns that fire cars? Welcome to a new era. Remember when we thought things couldn’t get any crazier than the chainsaw gun? Or the guns in Ratchet and Clank? Or Duke Nukem? Oh how naive we were. Here, today, we…

Half-Life 2 World Record Speedrun Will Make Your Head Spin

It’d be easy to assume the GIF above is the most impressive part of this run, but it’s not. This incredibly fast speedrun of Half-Life 2: Episode Two was pulled off by SourceRuns Team, and they managed make it through Valve’s shooter in record time: 30 minutes and 36 seconds. In order to make this…