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The Week in Games: Two Souls, Two Pokémons

This week’s big news is Beyond: Two Souls, the PS3 exclusive from Quantic Dream, on Tuesday, and Pokémon X and Pokémon Yon Saturday. Not interested in those? Some collections and GOTY editions—including Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition!—round out the releases. Monday • Sparkling Amber (PC) Tuesday • Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition (360,…

Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The comics enlarge by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Oct. 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…

This Week in the Business: Doomed to Repeat History?

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Industry veterans will remember the crash of 1983 … Today, the industry runs a similar risk.”—Analyst report from Superdata, on the data indicating consumers are resistant to adding more hardware to their living rooms QUOTE | “I know at least a…

Track: Starting Over | Album: The Dragon of an Ordinary Family | Artist: Jehst Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Assassin’s Creed IV Isn’t All Rum & Beaches. There’s…Montreal, Too.

While it’s easy to get carried away and think you’ll be spending your entire Assassin’s Creed IV experience walking planks and punching sharks, remember: there’ll be near-future shenanigans going on as well. And going by this art, looks like it’ll be taking place in Montreal. Which is convenient, since that’s where the main studio making…

Watch This Video About Robots Shooting Each Other, Right Now

This is Keloid. It’s not a movie. It’s not a trailer. It’s not even a short. It’s just a “spec” project, a mock trailer made to let those involved flex their creative muscles and come up with their vision of a future where robots fight wars, and those robots look fantastic If you’re wondering as…

Walter White’s Secret History Of Nerd Acting

OK, so it’s not that secret, but in this, a week where Bryan Cranston’s final performance as Walter White has been the talk of the internet, it’s as good a time as any to look back on a time when he was…doing voice-over work for anime. Before Breaking Bad, before Malcolm in the Middle and…

Track: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes | Album: Graceland | Artist: Paul Simon Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Space People Of The Future Have Rad Spacesuits

The last we saw of Patryk Olejniczak, he was making Mass Effect fan art so good he won himself a job at BioWare. Today, though, we’re looking at two very different examples of his work: Game of Thrones fan art and insanely-detailed spacesuits. You can see more of Patryk’s work at his personal site and…

Track: Welcome to the Spaceship, Motherfucker | Artist: Oozing Wound | Album: Retrash Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Not All Game Art Has To Feature Dragons, Mechs And/Or Wastelands

Kyrie is a Korean illustrator who freelances mostly for the games industry. Her work as a character designer is a welcome change from the armoured men, dragons, thick necks and post-apocalyptic wastelands you normally see around here. You can see more of her work at her CGHub and DeviantArt pages. To see the larger pics…

Track: Glory and Gore | Album: Pure Heroine | Artist: Lorde Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

These Aren’t Video Game Levels. They’re Real Places.

Video game levels may often seem like absurd places. Who’d build a walkway there? Why didn’t anyone clean this up? Yet as with most things in life, truth is often just as strange as fiction. This gallery on Bored Panda is called “31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places That Will Give You Goose Bumps”, but…

Dinosaur + Human Romance Novels Are A Real Thing. Huh.

A dinosaur + dinosaur romance novel would be something awesome. Tales of meeting over a leafy tree, the thrill of the hunt (for food), the joy of…sitting on eggs. I’m getting steamy just thinking about it. Sadly – or not, depending on your tastes – these dinosaur romance novels are not about that. They’re about…

How Disney Got All Its Characters Looking The Same

Regardless of what you think of the game, Disney Infinity will always be remembered for one big achievement: it’s managed to take a ton of Disney movies, all with their own signature visual style, and wrangle them all into the single project, where they’re looking mostly identical. One of the people responsible for this is…

Track: Delta | Album: Tetra | Artist: C2C Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Week in Games: It’s Fannnn-tastic

The week’s big console launches are NBA 2K14, also arriving for PC, on Tuesday followed by the physical HD release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on Wii U on Friday. Tuesday • NBA 2K14 (360, PS3, PC) • Flashback (PC) • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Trilogy Edition (360) • Assassin’s Creed Ezio…

Sunday Comics: Inferior Decoration

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by you, our readership. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Penny Arcade Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Sept.…

Someone’s Attempting to 100 Percent GTA III and Vice City in 24 Hours

Pedestrians of Liberty and Vice cities, beware. World-class speedrunner AdamAK is attempting to 100 percent both Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Vice City over the next 24 hours. That means carnage on the sidewalks and beaches for sure. You may watch the run below—he’s about four hours into it as of posting time, playing…

Incumbents Rule in Sunday Comics’ Latest Elections

The votes have been counted and your lineup for Sunday Comics is set. All eight of the existing features will return. ActionTrip, which ran from Sunday Comics’ debut in 2009 until last year, returns. Life in Aggro is the only totally new strip readers chose. These are the final results. Comics will appear in this…