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Remember when Codemasters pissed off fans with a “new” Colin McRae Rally racing game? Well, it seems like they’re making up for it in a big way with DiRT Rally, a rally racer that looks excellent and, according to early reports, plays nicely too. It’s still in Early Access, but it’s come roaring out the…

The Week In Games: Everything I Ever Wanted

A turn-based role-playing game for the PlayStation 4 featuring a group of female warriors that can be dressed up and choreographed in custom dance numbers? What is it, my birthday? While others are playing the rest of Broken Age or drilling the PC version of WWE 2K15 for horrific glitches, I’ll be spending the week…

Sunday Comics: Not Even Worth Killing

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 April 25. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 20. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: Getting Harder

QUOTE | “Holy fuck, it’s got harder.” – Developer Cliff Harris, who just launched Gratutitous Space Battles 2 on Steam, talking about the big difference between releasing a game in 2013 and releasing a game today Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The opportunity to create a $1…

Skyrim Modder Considers Quitting After Steam Controversy

Skyrim modder Chesko didn’t have express permission to use an animation system from another modder in his paid Steam Workshop mod, but he did it anyway. Then he removed it because the other modder got upset. End of story? Hardly. That was just the beginning. Chesko took to Reddit to explain everything that’s happened to…

GTA Cat Goes On Molotov Cocktail Rampage

On today’s Highlight Reel we have cat moped rampages, disappointing brutalities, respectful Bloodborne players 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. Mortal Kombat X- Brutality Glitch – Ryan Rosado…

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When Video Game Trolling Is A Good Thing

The timer ticks down toward zero. We tear across the Boneyard, one of Halo: Reach’s best multiplayer maps, my good friend Rus driving with me sitting shotgun. I’m clutching the blue flag in hands that would be sweating if they were real. We shed our red teammates like skin; they race past us going the…

RIP Francis Tsai

Acclaimed concept artist Francis Tsai, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2010, passed away earlier today. Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends. Francis was a supremely talented artist who did work for companies like EA, Rockstar, DC Comics, Eidos and Marvel, as well as releasing his own art book. Even after being…

Steam Users See Big Problems With Charging For Mods

Today, Valve changed the mod-making game bigtime: creators can now charge for modifications to pre-existing games on Steam Workshop. Some people are hopeful, others are worried—and even infuriated. Obviously, paying for mods—even just as an option—is a pretty big change from what people are used to. It’s not uncommon for people to ask for donations,…

PC Game Wants To Ban Jerks And Bullies, But Some Think It’s Gone Too Far

No-nonsense bans for players who are repeatedly racist, sexist, or bullies? Sounds like a pretty fair deal, but a number of Killing Floor 2 fans see the game’s strict policy as a step too far. Some are refusing to play the game altogether. While plenty of games come with EULAs (End User License Agreements) that…

People Can Now Charge Money For Game Mods On Steam

Generally speaking, PC game mods are free. Steam, however, just added an option to let creators charge for them. This is pretty huge. Valve made the announcement with a new Steam page, adding that Skyrim is the first game that will support the ability to charge for player-made modifications via Steam Workshop. Unlike in games…

Tell Us About The Time You Exploited A Game

I’ll admit it: I’m not above exploiting a game if I feel like it adds to the experience. In the case of Left 4 Dead 2, when I ran into some players who taught me a trick to lagging out the game, I was happy to play along. The trick was you had to quickly…

Assassin’s Creed Cosplay, Sans The Assassin

We’ve seen enough Ezio. The world needs more Shay cosplayers, and Italian cosplayer Shivais only too happy to oblige.

Life Is Strange Cosplay!

Remember: you don’t need to cosplay as a character from a blockbusters series. A quaint littleadventure game series is also awesome. Cosplay by LadyxZero, photo by DevilxLady

Please Enjoy These Halo Stabbings

So, yesterday, I posted some animation work and saidwe needed to do more of it here on Fine Art. Tonight, then: more awesome animation work from people who make video games. Up first is Dave Gibson, who worked on Evolve before recently moving to Blizzard: Next up is Will Christiansen, who is currently working on…

Oreo Trick Shots Are An Impressive Waste Of Cookies

How many Oreo cookies have to die before this man’s thirst for tricksy rebounds is sated? The man in the video is YouTuber Peter Bamforth, who will go down in history as one of snacking’s greatest monsters. His skills are impressive, but this is a video, and videos are edited to keep people from seeing…

GTA Parachuter Dodges Missiles With Grace

On today’s Highlight Reel we have singing bears, invisible ladders, broken water, rocket dodging 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. Kuma Uta – a song for Chris Person…

It’s Time For Some Gore: The Steam Stream Plays Killing Floor 2

Wanna see grotesque genetic horrors get sliced into fun-sized bits, perfect for a light sack lunch or a sludgy gore soup that will never leave the ground? Then you’ve come to the right place. Watch me play Killing Floor 2 (and some other games) right now. Also on the docket today: mini- Red-Dead-Redemption Westerado: Double…

Sorry, Yes, Animation Is Also Games Art

You know what, someexceptionsaside, I don’t feature the work of animators nearly enough here on Fine Art. So let’s change that tonight. This is the showreel of Enrico Schoebben, an animator from Germany, and it highlights both his keyframe work and motion-capture editing. Note the heavy presence of TF2 stuff: yes, the Source Filmmaker is…