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April 19 is National Garlic Day in the States. Why not celebrate with a roasted garlic ice cream cake, chocolate garlic cream pie, or just grab a spoon and dig into a jar of roasted garlic white wine jelly. Garlic: it’s nature’s candy.

Sunday Comics: Uncomfortable And Disturbed

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 April 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 13. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: No Time For Consoles

QUOTE | “The real issue is by 2019 whether Sony and Microsoft will still be relevant in the game space.” – Analyst David Cole, talking about his company’s new global industry report which lowers their forecast for consoles and raises it for PC and mobile games Elsewhere in the business of video games this past…

GTA Cars, Accidentally Brought To Life

On today’s Highlight Reel we have population explosions, skeptical fatalities, flying peasants, slow motion car explosions 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. Assassin’s Creed Unity – AC Unity PS4…

What’s The Worst Troll You’ve Encountered?

Over a game of some Call of Duty, someone once asked me if I worked at Hooters. Because I am a woman with a woman’s voice and this is a thing you ask people, I guess? Shockingly, that’s one of the few “troll” stories I have to share from my time gaming with people online.…

Drawing Spaceships The Old-Fashioned Way

Jeff Zugale is a concept artist who has been working in and around the video game business for over a decade. Currently at Blind Squirrel Games, he’s also done ad work on series like Call of Duty and Super Mario. He’s currently giving me vivid high school flashbacks with a project where he’s drawing one…

You Must Construct Additional Skylines

I suppose this Cities: Skylines StarCraft pylon mod, created by gido505, was inevitable. And yes, it’s functional. Here’s the description: You must construct additional pylons! Based on Wind Turbine. Can be placed anywhere 1×1. Cost 20,000. Upkeep 80/week. No Noise pollution so can be placed near residential places with good wind speeds. Produces 32MW of…

Ask Dr. Nerdlove: Help, She’s Way Out Of My League!

Hello, Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that knows what to say when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. This week: what can you do when the person you like is out of your league? Is there even a point…

Valve Rejected Some Really Cool DOTA 2 Mods

In another dimension, people are playing DOTA 2 as a giant ice cream cone wielding a nacho glaive. Valve’s Steam Workshop, where players can submit their own mods for possible addition to games like DOTA 2 (among many others), has a rather strict set of guidelines. In places, however, these guidelines can be somewhat vague,…

Even Fatalities Can’t Shut Scorpion Up

On today’s Highlight Reel we have loud fatalities, GTA V short films, vanishing Jackdaws 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 – Tricky Bloodborne area – Duraigo Bloodborne…

Amnesia‘s Pokémon Mod Lets You Battle And Evolve… Furniture

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is regarded by many as one of the scariest games of all time. Now it has monster battling. Some of the monsters are furniture. Amnesia‘s Monster mod is the most beautiful sort of absurdity. It’s a Pokémon-inspired custom story where instead of creeping through a haunted castle from hell, you explore…

Nice Town. It’d Be A Shame If Something Happened To It.

Rhys Griffiths is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Melbourne. You can see more of Rhys’ 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 as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner.…

Building Badass Destiny Hand Cannons

Say what you will about Destiny, I think it’s one of the best-looking games in years, with some very cool weapons just lying around for people to cruelly and unfairly pick up. My personal favourite is the hand cannon, because I am a Titan, and that’s just how I like to get shit done. Normally,…

When A Cosplay Rookie Takes Awesome Cosplay Photos

Mario Giancini is a professional photographer who until April 2015 had zero contact with the cosplay scene. Not that you’d know it by looking at these sweet photos. Being a big gamer, and with MegaCon 2015 going down ten minutes away from his house, Giancini went along with his camera and shot the cosplaying attendees.…

Titan Souls Is An Infuriating Game, But I Love It

“FUCK,” I shout, as I stomp my foot in anger. I hope my housemates can’t hear me, but they probably can. I’ve lost to this Titan Souls boss for something like the 25th time in a row. Some of the losses came after minutes that felt like they stretched on for hours, grueling dances where…

Someone Beat Pillars of Eternity In Under 40 Minutes

Thanks to a combination of glitches, sequence breaking, and some seriously skilled clicking, speedrunner Jiseed has turned Obsidian’s epic new RPG into a 40-minute cakewalk. In this speedrun, which appears to be the current world record for Pillars of Eternity, Jiseed takes advantage of a few different game-breaking glitches to bypass chunks of the game…

Death Is Coming To Eat Your Heart

You know what, we’ve coveredthe work of French artist Michel Donzé twicehere on Fine Art, but both times it’s been as part of a larger piece. It’s about time the guy got his own showcase. An artist who has done a ton of work for Ubisoft over the years (on stuff like Watch Dogs and…

A Superhero Romance Blossoms

Has this actually been in a comic? I don’t know, superhero canon is impossible to keep track of. But if not, well, here’s Superman and Green Arrow kissing like they mean it. Or at least like Superman means it. Black Canary is AlyCat Cosplay, Green Arrow is Epyon Merquise (Canary’s fiancée IRL) and Wonder Woman…

Hero Generations Is Civilization: The RPG

Should I care about Hero Generations? For sure. It’s a turn-based strategy RPG where each turn equates to one year of your hero’s life, and death is permanent. You have to make every move count as the world shifts and ages around you. What’s it about? The game’s Steam page does a pretty good job…

Bloodborne Ghouls Just Hanging Out

On today’s Highlight Reel we have leisurely motorcycle rides gone awry, good sniper shots, stuck ghouls 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. Battlefield Hardline – Ghost Ride Roadkill…