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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s the weekend! I’ve had a heck of a week and am looking forward to only emerging from my bed when I absolutely have to. Though I also just got an iPad, which means I could technically play FTL in bed, so leaving bed at all is up for grabs. I’m going to (finally) make…

OneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are

OneShot first freaked me out when it said my name. My real name. I don’t know how it got my name. I didn’t give it my name. It’s not even part of my Steam profile. In OneShot, an adventure game that just came out on Steam, you play as a cat creature named Niko. However,…

Building Some Of The Biggest Things In Video Games

EVE Online’s Citadels are some of the biggest, most impressive objects in all of video games, some of them designed to be 150km tall. Which presented quite a challenge for the people who actually had to design them. One of those people is artist Pavel Savchuk, who has shared some of his early work creating…

Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino

Live from New York, it’s Snacktaku, featuring special guest Cecilia D’Anastasio. Watch us drink Starbucks’ Pokémon Go marketing tie-in as we ponder whether or not they skinned the Pokémon before grinding them up. The video below was filmed in front of a very small studio audience at Kotaku headquarters in New York City, and was…

Track: Dear Prudence | Artist: Siouxsie And The Banshees | Album: Nocturne Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

When You Gotta Fight A Space Battle At 12 Then Hit The Beach At 3

Ben Nicholas is an artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Adidas, 343 Studios (Halo) and Creative Assembly (Total War, Alien: Isolation). There’s a ton of amazing stuff here, but the Chris FOss-like starships at the top are just the best You can see more of Ben’s work at his ArtStation page To see…

The Last Guardian’s Boy Is Dancing Like He’s Never Danced Before

Today on Highlight Reel we have Last Guardian dance parties, Titanfall 2 flag caps, NHL goals 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! Steep…

No One Can Hide From This Widowmaker Cosplay’s Sights

The only thing better than Overwatch cosplay is Overwatch skin cosplay This Huntress Widowmaker skin is by Moth Child, and is just fantastic. Photos byThe Nerdy Monkey

We Happy Few just got a big update. The very British, slightly BioShock-esque survival game launched in Early Access over the summer. I found it intriguing and weird, but also aimless and fairly barebones. The update improves that by completely overhauling NPC behavior, encounters, environments, and quest states. It also adds a story-driven tutorial.

Podcast: We’re Hungry For Games That Feel Different

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I sat down in the very same room to talk about hamburgers, poutine, and also occasionally video games. Just kidding, we actually talked about a ton of different games this week. I’ve played a lot more Final Fantasy XV, so we got more in depth about that lovely,…

Track: Koibito ga Dekitan da | Artist: My Hair is Bad | Album: Woman’s Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Some Very Good Dark Souls Cosplay

This is Aussie cosplayer Yeliz(whose work we featured earlier in the year) with one heck of an Artorias outfit. Look at the detail on it! The damage, the chainmail, it’s incredible. She made the whole costume herself, while the sword is by Destroyer Props Photos by SLDixon Photography and HoungT Costography

What An Amazing Photo Of The Nürburgring And…Oh

Piotr Tata is a 3D artist working at Platige, a Polish studio that has done visual work for stuff like Watch Dogs 2, Final Fantasy XV, Hitman and Prey Platige are also working on that cool cartoon Privisa we showed you earlier this year You can see more of Piotr’s work at his ArtStation page…

What We Like (And Don’t Like) About Steep

Last week Ubisoft’s Steep opened the slopes of its majestic mountains to extreme winter sports fans around the world. We’ve spent a bit of time with the game, and we have much to discuss. While I’ve currently reached level 17 (of 25) to Stephen Totilo’s 7 or 8, both of us played Steep in both…

Sonic The Hedgehog’s Fancy Coffee Table Art Book

To mark Sonic’s 25th anniversary, art house Cook & Becker are releasing this big art book collecting all kinds of concept and promotional images from the series’ history. It looks a lot nicer than you’d think, given how shiny and gross the series’ art design has gotten over the years, wisely opting to cover the…

The Art Of Battlefield 1

Despite being set in one of the darkest periods of human history, Battlefield 1 is a beautiful video game, matching the grim browns of trench warfare with some of the most striking weather and landscapes we’ve ever seen. It’s a pleasure, then, to highlight the work of some of the artists involved in concept and…

Track: Youth | Artist: Young Juvenile Youth | Album: Youth (single)  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Black Ark | Artist: Armand Hammer | Album: Race Music Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

One Game, Many Versions

Defender of the Crown, first released in 1986 on the Amiga, was at the time one of the best-looking video games ever released. Or, at least it was on the Amiga. Some of the game’s ports to other systems weren’t quite so hot, yet in today’s world of YouTube nitpicking they remain useful as examples…

Watch Dogs 2 Player Strikes Sick Pose During Car Crash

Today on Highlight Reel we have good grappling hooks, bad ones, titan streaks, bad driving, photographic failures, 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!…