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Fighting Game Has Useless DLC That Players Buy To Support Devs

Honey Rose: Underdog Extraordinaire is newly released Steam game that fuses fighting games and visual novels. It’s a game about choice, something that even extends to its pricing model. The game is about Red, a university student who’s also an amateur fighter. You have to juggle both of her lives and all the complications that…

Why Inside Is One Of The Best Games Of The Year

Have you played Inside? I hope you have. If not, go play it. If so, please enjoy this excerpt from the latest Kotaku Splitscreen podcast, in which Jason Schreier and I discuss the many, many reasons we love it. I reviewed Inside when it first hit the Xbox One back in June, but Jason hadn’t…

Business Fish Is Here For Cosplay Pleasure

Here is a video of Business Fish, still the #1 sticker pack on Facebook, heading down to DragonCon and doing his thing. Which, being a social networking sticker, is mostly just REACTING to everything happening around him. We actually featured a photoshoot of Rundaria’s costume last year, but the vid below is way better.

Track: Arise | Artist: GosT | Album: Non Paradisi Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

A Game About Throwing Spears At Penguin Vikings And Hipster Giants

I liked Lichtspeer before I even started playing it. The menu screen, if you’ll believe it, is what sold me. Here’s what it looks like: Where the exit button would normally be, Lichtspeer has a button that reads, “Go home and eat strudel.” And when you press it, a god-like voice triumphantly belts out, “STRUDEL.”…

Battlefield 1 Player Makes A Damn Fine Toss

Today on Highlight Reel we have impressive intros, corpse sleds, grenade tosses 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! Forza Horizon 3 – RadiantPup43215…

Speedrunners Finally Pull Off The ‘Holy Grail’ Of Mario 64 Glitches

Since it came out 20 years ago, Super Mario 64 has been cracked open, turned inside-out, and put back together in all sorts of weird configurations, but people keep figuring out new ways to warp its candy colored reality. The latest is being billed as the biggest speedrun breakthrough since 2007. A crew of speedrunners…

Japan In The 1980s

Arseniy Chebynkin is a freelance artist from Russia. If you’re wondering what the street/bedroom art in this post is for,it’s for an upcoming game set in 80s Japan You can see more of Chebynkin’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Podcast: The Destiny Grind Is Back Again

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about Destiny frustrations, Destiny 2, and the lovely new game Inside. Rise of Iron is great in many ways—especially the raid—but it’s also got a whole host of problems, as Kirk and I discuss on this week’s show. The new leveling system feels in many ways like regression for…

One of the off-court activities you can take part in while playing NBA 2K17 is…attending a comic con. Complete with cosplayers. Unexpected, but awesome.

Stardew Valley Beta Adds New Marriage Options, Including Divorce

Stardew Valley’s long-awaited 1.1 update is almost here. You can take the beta for a spin right now, if you’re willing to dirty your precious farming hands with a handful of bugs. The Steam farming sensation’s creator, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, recently unveiled the update’s full change log. Highlights include new marriage options (Shane and Emily),…

Enjoy The Worst Overwatch Cosplay

This proud team of budget cosplayers aren’t going to let time and money get in the way of awesome Overwatch cosplay. With the help of ThatGuyYouKnowwwand The Will Box, these guys—wearing recycled cardboard boxes, pieces of paper, tanktops and pieces of old Destiny cosplay—bring Overwatch’s Play of the Game animations to life in a way…

Battlerite, As Told By Steam Reviews

Battlerite is a new arena brawler that’s been near the top of Steam’s charts for a week, with no signs of slowing down. It looks like a MOBA, walks like a MOBA, and even talks like a MOBA, but reviewers love it because it actually isn’t a MOBA. Battlerite takes the basic MOBA foundation and…

I Love You, Resetti, Nintendo’s Most Helpful Asshole

Of all the weird and wonderful characters in Nintendo’s pantheon of talking animals/plumbers/fungi, I think I like Animal Crossing’s Resetti the best. Even if he is a big ol’ meanie. If you haven’t played the series, Resetti is a mole that you sometimes encounter. Not in your regular daily activities of walking around, fishing and…

A Postcard From Destiny’s Felwinter Peak

Sung Choi is an artist at Bungie working on Destiny He’s also done stuff for companies like Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Choi’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

Endless Space 2, the newest 4x game from the terrific “endless” strategy game studio Amplitude, will be available on Steam Early Access starting on Thursday, October 6. That version will include four of the game’s eight factions. A little more info here

Track: Strange Town | Artist: The Jam | Album: Live Jam Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Battle Mistress Cosplay From League Of Legends

This is Miyuki as Sivir from League of Legends Miyuki tells me the costume and props, which are made out of Worbla and foamulator, took 250 hours to put together over the space of two months. You can see more of Miyuki’s cosplay at her Facebook page

Track: Tuyo | Artist: Rodrigo Amarante | Album: Narcos Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Robots Robots Robots

Waqas Malik is a concept artist from Pakistan who has worked on games like Satellite Reign, as well as on stuff like board games. You can see more of Waqas’ 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…