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Sunday Comics: Spontaneous Cookie Generation

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 May 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Carl’s Jr. And Hardee’s Hot Dog-Topped Burger Solves A Serious Problem

As delicious as the court jester of the sausage world can be, fast food hot dogs are rarely worth the asking price. Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s have come up with an elegant solution to this age-old problem—they’ve turned the hot dog into a topping. I love a good hot dog. Hell, I love a bad…

Steam Game Wants To Be Diablo Meets Skyrim

Umbra, eh? I like the sound of this one. Problem is, it sounds almost too good to be true. Umbra is an action-RPG that aims to fuse the open-world freedom of Skyrim with the top-down hack ‘n’ slash combat and character progression of Diablo. It is also, as you may have noticed, gorgeous. It looks…

Triple Zombie Headshot, Aww Yeah

On today’s Highlight Reel we have heroic shots, Zombie headshots, GTA stunts, traffic jams and 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. Project CARS – Too many cars for Monaco –…

‘Sodomize Me Jesus’ And Other Crazy Video Game Stories

Hoo-boy, have you guys done some insane things in the name of gaming! I asked you guys to share some stories of the great lengths you’ve gone through for games, gaming systems, gaming lifestyles…and you certainly did deliver. Here’s a hand-picked selection of some of the, uh, ‘best’ ones, edited for clarity. Never stop being…

Ask Dr. Nerdlove: Help, My Sex Drive Is Out of Control!

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column to conquer the Tomb of Horrors on the first try. This week, it’s spring, and people are celebrating the season by banging like rabbits. What better way to get in the spirit than by helping a pair of readers sort out their sex lives?…

Portrait Of A Doge

Kan Liu is an artist and illustrator based in China. Aside from pooches, he also does some mean paintings of dragon hunters. You can see more of Liu’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…

I Didn’t ‘Get’ DOTA 2 Until I Watched It Live

I’ve tried watching DOTA 2 online. I’ve tried playing it. It just wasn’t for me. Going to a big pro event changed that. Walking into the Red Bull Battlegrounds DOTA 2 event at The Warfield in San Francisco (it’s a venue, not a, er, field of war) was kinda surreal. For one, I’d seen countless…

Heads-up: retrolicious metroidvania Axiom Verge is now available on Steam It’s basically a nostalgia volcano, so beware of nostalgia lava, which corrodes new ideas. However, it’s still quite good, as our own Mike Fahey explained in his review

An Unfinished Game About Finishing An Unfinished Game

Sometimes, the stars align a little too perfectly. The Magic Circle, from former BioShock 2 director and recent Kotaku Asks participant Jordan Thomas, is now on Steam Early Access. This means that it’s unfinished, which is wonderful when paired with the fact that the game is about these things: “You are the protagonist of an…

Time For Some Badass Art

Maciej Kuciara was last featured solo (there have been cameos) here on Fine Art over two years ago, which is too damn long. So here’s an update, with a ton of amazing art. In those two years he’s been busy, working on everything from Jupiter Ascending to The Last of Us. You can see more…

Malebolgia Is Dark Souls‘ Frustration Without Dark Souls‘ Fun

Should I care about Malebolgia? I wish I could say yes. It’s a Dark Souls-alike with its own intriguing world and atmosphere, but it feels awful to play and treats the player like garbage. What’s it about? I was gonna put its Steam description here, but its a monster-sized hairball of untanglable lore. Basically though,…

Valve Isn’t Evil, They Just Don’t Understand People

In recent times, people have taken to calling Valve “evil.” Not negligent, not out of touch with their fans, but evil. I do not think Valve is evil. But I think it matters that people have started to view them—once gaming’s do-no-wrong golden child—that way. I think Valve’s brand of “evil” comes from a place…

Assassin’s Creed Guy Seems Fine Without A Head

On today’s Highlight Reel we have Call of Duty sprees, grenade throws, headshots, headless (yet alive) guillotine victims 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. Bloodborne – Bloodborne Clerical…

Fallout: New Vegas, Turned Into A Hardcore Survival Game

No quests, no factions, people and places you knew and loved reduced to ash. This is a new Wasteland. This is a meaner Wasteland. One of the things I loved about Fallout 3 was how hostile the wasteland felt when you first emerged from the comfy, radroach-infested confines of your Vault—even on lower difficulties. The…

Hot Pockets Ad Better At Gaming Than Hot Pockets

Last night, the legendary purveyors of bread-and-cheese injection systems at Hot Pocketstweeted a photo of a bro playing a Nintendo 64 while another bro helped him eat a Hot Pocket. The tweet has since been removed from Hot Pockets’ timeline. Were they embarrassed about using a dated cultural reference like an N64? I can’t say…

Please, Make A Cartoon About This Football Team

Soon Sang Hong is an artist who has worked for companies like Eyedentity, the Korean studio behind games such as, um, Dragon Nest I’m a fan of everything that gets posted here on Fine Art—it wouldn’t be posted otherwise—but Good Lord, this is something else. There’s so much character, and style, and colour going on…

Awesome Dragon Age Cosplay Is The Real Deal

I’ve seen some good Dragon Age cosplay in my time, but holy cow, this Cassandra Pentaghast is good Cosplay by HydraEvil, photo by D.Eugen (via Cosplay Blog) Here are some more shots by Angy Bell

Dying Light Goes To Outer Space. Thanks, Mods

This isn’t the Dying Light you played when the zombie parkour mash-up first came out. This isn’t that game at all. OK, it is that game a little bit, if only in the sense that there is jumping. Thanks to Steam user Pawciak, though, the rest is nearly unrecognizable. Dying Light, as you likely know,…

What’s The Craziest Thing You’ve Done For A Video Game?

You’ve probably been to your fair share of midnight launches and spent long nights replaying previous titles in preparation for sequels. But dig down deep and share your more shameful stories. Did you steal a friend’s game? Fly to Japan? Mug an old lady for the cash for one? Sleep with a hooker and then…