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Track: Heart Attack | Artist: Flight Facilities | Album: Down To Earth Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Not Even Gabe Newell Death Threats Can Keep This Game Off Steam

You might remember that roguelike FPS Paranautical Activity was yanked—with a large cane of plus 12 unceremoniousness—from Steam after its developer threatened to kill Valve head Gabe Newell. Now, amazingly, it’s back. I imagine it helps that the dev in question is no longer involved. It all went down after Valve accidentally mis-classified the finished…

Sherlock Already Knows You’re Into His Cosplay

God, this Sherlock cosplay is so good. It’s a great example of how replicating an expression can make you look as much like your subject as any amount of make-up or prosthetics work. Cosplay is by Myrddin Emry, photo by Silhouette

Torrents are suddenly allowed in Steam chat again. No disappearing messages, no block pages. At worst, you’ll get a warning that you’re venturing beyond Steam’s gilded grayblue cage. Valve has not explained why they made this sudden about-face after their recent spat of arbitrary blocks. Welp. As you were, then.

Battlefield Motorbike Believes It Can Fly

On today’s Highlight Reel we have more zombie dropkicks in Dying Light, Last of Us glitches, an explosive motorbike launch in Battlefield Hardline 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.…

Final Fantasy Speedrun Includes 28 Minutes Of Walking Up Stairs

This video features about half an hour of a guy doing nothing but walking up and down stairs in Final Fantasy for the NES. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Speedrunner gyre_, who set a new “any%” world record on Sunday by “completing” Final Fantasy in 59 minutes and 10 seconds, used a save-corrupting glitch…

Princess Mononoke Cosplay Blows The Head Off The God Of Cosplay

Well, not literally. I mean, these are just cosplayers. Hangin’ out, takin’ photos. They’re not really up to extreme acts of deicide. But if they wanted to pick thar up, maybe they could, because they’re so good at the whole cosplay thing that I’m sure they could do anything they put their minds to. What…

Cosplay Journalism

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Besiege Dog Forgot How To Dog

First Grand Theft Auto V‘s dog forgot how to dog, and now this Besiege dog is having serious trouble being a dog too. When will this horrific time of national crisis end? Steam user Katsutomo breathed hinge-and-suspension-based life into this clearly, um, confused creature, and the results are damn entertaining. (Protip: watch the video with…

Steam Chat’s Torrent Blocking Is Entirely Arbitrary

This is curious. Recently Steam users (myself included, after a few tests) discovered that certain torrent links no longer work in Steam chat. Some have even reported messages disappearing altogether. Here’s the thing, though: it only applies to some popular torrent sites, but not others like The Pirate Bay. Steam, as frequent users are likely…

Nintendo’s Ballsy Star Wars Knock-Off

Nintendo had a pretty strange relationship with Star Wars in the early years of its video game enterprise. We’ve already seen the weird shit that went down when Star Wars came to the NES, but a 1979 arcade game was even weirder. This is art for Nintendo Space Launcher, one of the company’s earlier arcade…

Cyberpunk Diablo & Studio Ghibli’s Star Wars: An Artist’s Impressions

Stormtroopers are comical at the best of times. Turn them into bearded Studio Ghibli sidekicks and they become downright slapstick. And yeah, Diablo is a fantasy series, but close your eyes and try for a second to imagine it as a cyberpunk thing instead, with neon lights, hacking and sweet future motorbikes. These images, and…

The Week In Games: A Large Order Of Kirby

Why wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, when you can wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and The Order: 1886 as well? No Sony. No, no no. Friday is Nintendo’s day. Why you gotta encroach? Tuesday, February 17 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360,…

If you google “Sexy Sonic”, it’s not long until you hit images of Manzi DeYoung. Which is probably more information than you ever thought you needed to know about them, but Motherboard has a neat feature article where they interview Manzi for the story behind the costume (and the concept of “sexy something” cosplay itself).

Sunday Comics: The Ocarina Of Time Management

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 February 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: He Hates These Cans

QUOTE | “I’m going to stop doing press and I’m going to stop talking about games completely.” – Veteran designer Peter Molyneux, responding to the “terrible and awful, emotional time over the last three days” after he admitted failing to deliver his Godus Kickstarter promises Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week…

Don’t Terrorize The Giraffes, Please

Squad and Yanzl turned the San Francisco Zoo into a Counter-Strike map. I’ve been to that zoo. I really like that zoo! I don’t know how to feel about this. At least it appears that all the animals have scampered to safety behind soda machines and potted plants, as is nature’s way. The Steam Community…

Valve Adds ‘Pre-Release Reviews’ To Steam

Steam user reviews are, on a lot of occasions, hot garbage. That hasn’t stopped Valve from trying to separate the wheat from the chaff (or the wheat and chaff from Farming Simulator meme jokes, as it were), though. The latest step? The introduction of a “pre-release” review badge, mostly for Evolve. OK, at this point…

GTA Dog Forgot How To Dog

On today’s Highlight Reel we have dogs falling down, exploding helicopters, hitchhikers 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. CS:GO Epic Fail – Sergey Menshykov Dying Light – Ouch! –…

Track: Ain’t That Easy | Artist: D’Angelo, The Vanguard | Album: Black Messiah Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.