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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s still hot, and it’s still summer! It’s also the weekend. What are you gonna be playing? Video games? Board games? A knock-off Fender that you found in a hotel room while on an assassination contract? I’ve recently gotten into doing Hitman escalation missions and I am fully obsessed. I’m going to do as many…

Keep That Spice Flowing

Simon Goinard is an artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Sony and Disney. You can see more of Simon’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 a celebration of the work of…

Track: I Want You To Love Me | Artist: Cheap Trick | Album: Cheap Trick at Budokan Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Everyone is cosplaying as D.Va. Everyone. If you want in on the action, here’s how to make your own gun, courtesy of Kamui

Russian Subway Dogs is a game about, er, Russian subway dogs. The game is a cartoony, action-based take on a real phenomenon. Stray dogs have figured out how to navigate the subway system in search of food and, perhaps on some level, a home. The game is currently on Kickstarter, and it’s set to release…

The Nintendo Console From The 80s Made For Recording Gameplay Footage

These days, if you want to record direct video footage of a video game, all you need to do is press a button. But back in the 1980s, this was a complex and expensive process! This piece originally appeared 10/28/15. Magazines and video producers often needed custom, elaborate equipment to get images of games, which…

The Myst Team’s New Game Obduction Starts Strong

I still don’t really know what’s going on in Obduction, the new game from the folks behind legendary adventure game Myst, but I’m extremely intrigued. Obduction is a spiritual successor to the likes of Myst and Riven, and it shows. You can watch me play the first 15 minutes of it in the above video.…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Become More Bangable?

Hello, all you spectral orgasm otters of the intertwebs. Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the dating column that can teach you how to overclock your love life. This week, we’re going to be reaching inside of ourselves. Sometimes we already know the answer but we need to hear someone else say it. Other times, it’s…

Podcast: How Do You Deal With Backlogs?

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, my undying love for the Vita, and the Backlog Problem that so many of us deal with every day. Kirk and I dig into the mailbag for reader questions (reminder: you can send all questions and stories to [email protected]) and talk about this week’s PS4…

Snacktaku Unwraps Burger King’s Whopperrito

After six decades of serving time-tested favorites that folks seem to enjoy and occasionally screwing about with new french fries, Burger King has decided it’s time to experiment with Tex-Mex for some godawful reason. So they put most of a Whopper in a soft tortilla. Sure. It’s not quite a traditional fast food burrito, not…

The Division Dressed Very Sensibly

Tom Garden is an artist based in Sweden who has worked on The Divison and Hitman, as well as board games like Game of Thrones You can see more of Tom’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…

Track: We Can Work It Out | Artist: Stevie Wonder | Album: Signed, Sealed & Delivered Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Ten Years Later, Owlboy Is Finally Coming Out

The first post aboutOwlboy on evil-billionaire-proof Overwatch fansite Kotaku is from the year 2008. A certain Luke Plunkett tells me there are even older ones that didn’t survive a server change that same year. It’s now 2016, and the gorgeous adventure-platformer about a boy who is an owl (or perhaps the other way around) is…

How Sega Made Pixel Art In The 80s & 90s

In a 21st century world of free software, powerful computers, tablets and mice, making pixel art is fairly easy! In the 1980s, though, your favourite games had to be made on expensive and highly specialised equipment. Video Games Densetsu have gone through some old Japanese magazines and put together a collection of interviews and images…

Awesome Photos From Sri Lanka’s Comic Con

Sri Lanka had only its second ever Comic Con on the weekend, and it looked like a blast. While the cosplay community there may not be as well-established as it is elsewhere, there was still some quality cosplay on show! Even Harambe turned up (if you’ve seen a pic of this outfit floating around on…

Star Wars vs Prog Rock

Mack Sztaba is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked for companies like Firaxis, Gearbox, Microsoft and Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Mack’s art at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

Track: To The End (la comedie) | Artist: Blur Et Francoise Hardy | Album: Country House single Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Can’t believe it’s taken this long to see some Barb cosplay. Maybe everyone had to wait until the next time they were at their Nan’s place to steal her glasses. Cosplay by SailorsMouth

Nice Borderlands Cosplay

This is Russia’s SoranoSuzu with some awesome Borderlands 2 cosplay.