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The Week In Games: If These Sprites Could Talk

Owlboy is finally coming out. Like for real. This week. It’s here. The game has been in development for ten years. Originally intended to ship in 2011,development became a long and winding road of what-ifs and some-days. Life is complicated. The team wanted the game to live up to the hype. So instead of coming…

Halloween, 2016

By Cassandra Calin

Sunday Comics: You’ve Got Titans

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 October 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Toy Time Plays With Cozmo, The Little Robot With A Big Brain

Anki, the makers of Anki Drive, graduate from robotic cars to full-blown robot buddies with Cozmo. He might be tiny, but he’s hiding some powerful tech behind those baby blue box eyes of his. Cozmo is not a pretend robot. He is not a plastic action figure. He is a learning machine powered by a…

This Week In The Business: Don’t Give The Market What It Wants

QUOTE | “I would love to make a game that everyone loves, but at the same time I wouldn’t want to compromise and just give the market what it wants. We could all make first-person shooters, but we have a much more exciting industry with people exploring different routes.” – Quantic Dream’s David Cage accepts…

16 Years Later, Fans Find Secret Messages Hidden In Paper Mario

Sometimes, developers put stuff inside of a game that players are never supposed to see. Such was the case with the original Paper Mario, which apparently had a bunch of dialogue that was not discovered until very recently. As Paper Mario expert Stryder7x explains in the video below, if you go out of bounds using…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

There sure are a lot of games to play this weekend! How will we all decide? Though we have Titanfall 2 and remastered Skyrim to choose from, I’ll be honest with you: I’ll still be playing The Witcher 3. I started last weekend but I got impatient with the tutorial and ran off and got…

Steam Is Having A Big Halloween Sale

It’s almost Halloween! You know what that means: video games for scary cheap prices. Or just regular cheap prices, but there’s a big picture of a spooooky cauldron full of eyeballs and hands and PC gaming components behind them. The Steam Halloween Sale runs until November 1, and it discounts a bunch of scary games…

Beautiful Portraits Of The Ancient World

Rocío Espín Piñar is an artist based in California who is able to take a city from the past (ok, so some of these are a little more recent than “ancient”) and turn it into a work of art. Having worked with publications like Medieval Warfare, she conjures the kind of stuff that you’d expect…

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Of Course There Is Halloween Overwatch Cosplay

Tina-Kinz is ready for Halloween in the most Halloween way possible: by cosplaying as Mercy’s festive witch skin The graveyard is a nice touch. And that book is great! 2016 may have been the worst of times (and it’s not done yet), but at least we’ve had Overwatch and it’s awesome cosplay scene to get…

Kid’s Transformers Costume Can Transform

Renz2LK’s son has a very cool Halloween costume. It’s scary, because it’s Michael Bay’s Optimus Prime, but it’s also impressive, because the kid can flip his lil’ head and transform. Now he just needs to work on his rolling out…

Our Sci-Fi Future Has No Trees, But Plenty Of Ads

Aurelien Fournier is a freelance concept artist from France. You can see more of Fournier’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Undertale action figures are out now, and they got one heck of a trailer. It’s very, um, Undertale, is the best way I can think to put it. Also, I’m pretty sure I need Lesser Dog with karate neck action in my life.

The First Tree looks like Journey: Fox Edition. It’s about the intertwining stories of a fox searching for her missing family and a young couple dealing with tragedy. According to its creator, it will be short, but bittersweet. It’s on Steam Greenlight right now and will be out early next year.

Battlefield 1 Grenade Blows Up A Lotta Dudes

Today on Highlight Reel we have tons of Battlefield 1, legendary medics, Overwatch clowning 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! RIGS: Mechanized Combat…

My Summer Car, As Told By Steam Reviews

My Summer Car might sound like a game about the fine art of crafting jank-ass automobiles, and to an extent, it is. But it’s also an open-world conduit for stories. Many of those stories involve beer and pee. My Summer Car is far more than just a car game. As I discovered while playing it…

Podcast: We’re Psyched For Nintendo Switch

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I tackle the biggest gaming question of the next five months: What happened to that dude’s dog in the Nintendo Switch commercial? We also theorize about the Switch more generally, answer some reader mail, and talk Civilization VI, Battlefield 1, Mafia 3, and the worrying learning capabilities of…

Track: The Big Ship | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Another Green World  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.