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Counter-Strike Player Wins Match By Closing Door Over And Over

Beware, law-abiding citizens. Terrorism has a deadly new weapon: the door. Counter-Strike player thenuker00 posted a highlight clip in which they—as the last surviving member of their team—stole back every last morsel of momentum the hands of fate had so cruelly wrenched away. By bopping the other team with a door. It was some Three…

Fallout Cosplay Is Chilling Until Fallout 4

New Vegas’ Beatrix Russell and an Enclave goon have one week left until Fallout 4. They will be spending it like a lot of other folks: waiting at the bar. Beatrix is elenasamko, Enclave soldier is Ilya Solopov, photo by fillakteriart

Metal Gear Player Aces Mission Without Leaving The Chopper

Today on Highlight Reel we have impressive misses, all-or-nothing Battlefront victories, teabag parties, Rhino hunting, dunks, 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. MGSV – Mission 33, S Rank…

Cosplay Has Won Halloween

Fuelled by advertising and the expansion of nerd culture, cosplay has quietly but comprehensively taken over Halloween. Once was a time that people would only dress up as spooky shit. Ghosts, monsters, that kind of stuff. Which made sense, since Halloween has its roots in remembering the dead! These days, that adherence has given way…

What Are You Playing This November?

Holy hell, it’s November. What happened to 2015? With a new month comes a new crop of games to play. When that month happens to be November, we usually get a whole bunch of new games. There’s certainly no shortage of things to play, so I wanted to see how you all were choosing to…

Seven-Dollar Steam Movie Is Actually Just A Notepad Document [Update]

Jäsøn is an episodic movie series that just popped up on Steam. Or at least, it claims to be. It’s in Early Access, which for now means words on digital paper. For sale. For actual money. Described as a “satirical webserial about a wannabe serial killer” that unravels “the ethical, moral & sociological threads that…

Track: One Inch Man | Artist: Kyuss | Album: …And the Circus Leaves Town Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Inside Out heads outside. Disgust is Ladylili, Anger is Djaden Fury, Sadness is Pandora Clemy and Joy is Clef

Some Pretty Gross Witcher 3 Cosplay

That’s a compliment, mind you, since the Lady of the Woods is intentionally a super gross character. Cosplay by Elena Nerium Oleander, photos by Fillakteria

The Art Of Building Menus, Icons & Maps

User Interface stuff fascinates me, because it has to dance such a fine line between looking pretty and being useful. Fall too far on either side and you’re in danger of ruining a game; get it just right and, like Deus Ex and Mass Effect, you can become as memorable as any piece of character…

Killer Joker Cosplay, Courtesy Of A Hollywood Legend

When Hollywood effects master Rick Baker wants to help make his family some Halloween costumes, everybody comes out having a better day. Baker—famous for his work on Thriller, An American Werewolf in London and Men in Black—and his family decided to go with a Joker theme this year, the exception being his wife Silvia, who…

The Week In Games: Something Something Call Of Duty

Is it Call of Duty week already? Man, I could really use a sandwich. If it weren’t readily evident from the release of the game’s official live-action trailer (starring the Human Torch until that memory gets scrubbed from my brain), Black Ops III comes out this week. Friday, for some godawful reason that I am…

Watch GoldenEye 007 Teach Teens The Joys Of Split-Screen Gaming

With the release of Halo 5 leaving at least one of our writers yearning for same screen multiplayer, Fine Bros.’ React channel uses an N64 classic to ensure six photogenic teenagers never forget its fractional majesty. Over the past decade and change we’ve moved from cramming as many players onto one screen as possible to…

Sunday Comics: The Third Idiot

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

This Week In The Business: Kinect Is Totally Not Dead

QUOTE | “We are also continuing to invest in Kinect, and are looking forward to launching the Cortana personal assistant on Xbox One in 2016.” – Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, stressing that Kinect isn’t dead even as Microsoft lets first-party software support sink to Vita-like levels and discounts the hardware in all its forms…

Undertale: The Kotaku Review

People don’t just like Undertale; they love it. This game is personal for them. It’s personal for me, too. Undertale is a JRPG-inspired game (think Earthbound, more than Final Fantasy) where you don’t have to hurt anybody, unless you want to. You play as a kid who’s fallen into a world of monsters, and their…

What It’s Really Like To Work At Kotaku

Ever wondered what a day in the life of a Kotaku editor is like? Curious about what it’s really like to work here? We’ve got just the podcast for you. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the well-known Destiny fan-site Kotaku. We also talk about our ideal Nintendo mobile games (hint:…

Link, from Twilight Princess. Cosplay by LuxCosplay, photo by Melenea

San, from Princess Mononoke. Cosplay by MIUX-R

Mass Effect’s EDI. Photo by Supercharger. Cosplayer unknown.