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When Bad Controls are Good

The best comedy is undercut with tragedy. The apocalyptic satire of Dr Strangelove, the claustrophobic awkwardness of The Office, Basil Fawlty wailing impotently on his car with a tree branch in Fawlty Towers. It helps to laugh at our own shortcomings. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Life is hard, and if we can…

Metroid Cosplay Is So Good It Might Be Witchcraft

There are a few ways you can make an impressive suit of cosplay armour. You could cast it. You could forge it. You could sculpt it! Or, you could do what Chelsea did here, and use the dark sorcery of 3D printers. Not everything here was made using a magic box, which is able to…

Kojima Is Watching You. Always Watching.

Elvira Trofimova is an artist who has done work for various social gaming companies over the past few years. You can see more of Elvira’s stuff at her 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…

How Nintendo Convinced The World To Buy A Weird Mario Game

Gail Tilden used to work at Nintendo. She was one of the founding editors of Nintendo Power, so knows better than most people how the company was able to sell one of Mario’s strangest moments – a game that wasn’t even really a Mario game – to the world. In this excerpt from Jon Irwin’s…

None Shall Pass This Awesome Monty Python Cosplay

This is Daniel, cosplaying as The Black Knight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. He’s also known as the guy who won the Edmonton Expo.

The Most Intense League Of Legends Match Ever

In addition to our usual roundup of amazing plays and glitches, this weekend’s League of Legends tournament brought one of the most incredible moments in the game. Also, an amazing play in CS:GO from Dreamhack, and more! If you don’t want to see tournament spoilers, stop watching after Wolfenstein at 1:47. If you want to…

We Need More Taco-Themed Multiplayer Modes In Our Shooters

Over the years I’ve defended countless flags from the enemy, but I can’t recall defending a single grilled taco. This gross oversight is fixed tomorrow, when the free “Legends of the Lawn” update launches for Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. If you were to seat me at a table and arrange in front of me…

​Someone Beat Ninja Gaiden II‘s Hardest Setting Without Taking Damage

If you’ve played Ninja Gaiden II, you know that it’s a game that’s pretty tough on its third-hardest Mentor difficulty. On the Master Ninja setting, it makes grown men cry. Except for the Chinese player who seems to have beaten the game at its hardest without getting a scratch. A set of four videos on…

Keeping League Of Legends’ Champions Moving

Rory Alderton is a senior animator at League of Legends developers Riot, where he’s one of the people responsible for putting the moves in the game’s Champions. In a post over on Riot’s site, he goes into great detail on the process behind animating the game’s characters, including the revelation that the Champions are animated…

The Week In Games: Shadow Walking Into Mordor

With surprisingly positive reviews all over the place, this week belongs to Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. That’s right, Super Smash Bros. 3DS, get in line. This week is packed! Not only do the underdog and the sure thing face off, we’ve got a new Forza, an updated Persona fighting game, Sherlock “Mother-Fornicating” Holmes and the…

Sunday Comics: Misunderstood Friends

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 September 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

This Week In The Business: The Dorky-Looking Goggles People

QUOTE | “We’re going to be remembered as the dorky looking goggles that people were putting on in the beginning.” – Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, talking about what he sees as a vast future for Virtual Reality. Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We’re fighting the good fight…

The Last of Us sure could be eerie looking. No wonder, then, that real-world photographers find it a morbid and fascinating muse. These haunting images were made by Sam Javanrouh, using only the PS4’s standard capture features in the game’s Left Behind chapter: Check out more of Javanrouh’s work on his website To contact the…

Hey FIFA? That’s Not How Feet Work.

Oh god. Oh god, someone call an ambulance please. On today’s Highlight Reel, we’ve got a pair of bizarre FIFA glitches involving possessed spectators and possessed body parts. Then an unfortunate place to stand in Destiny, a new kind of shark in Battlefield 4, and so much more! Watch the video above, then link any…

Track: Ever Somber | Artist: Dälek | Album: Absence Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Game Of Thrones: Killer Brienne Of Tarth Cosplay

That’s some impressive make-up work on the bear-fighting scar. Also, bravo for taking on a character that seems easy, but through stature and gear (and hair) is actually quite tough to get right. Cosplayer is Lightane, photo by Torremitsu

Why Weren’t These Guys Fighting On Endor? The Empire Might Have Won!

You’ve got to think that one of the main reasons Imperial troops got their asses handed to them on Endor was their camouflage. Or, lack thereof. That glossy white armour plating doesn’t exactly make you blend in with the forest surroundings. This is a Swamp Trooper, but that colour palette could easily have worked among…

“Dog Noodles” Are Now Available in Japan

What’s wrong with dog food? Can’t we just feed our four-legged friends dog food? No, it seems, we cannot. Enter “Dog Noodles.” These are noodles for dogs. These are udon noodles made for dogs. On the packaging it actually says that! “Inu senyou” (犬専用) or “especially for dogs.” According to My Navi, this is actually…

Killer Mech Is Cleared For Launch

Adrian Majkrzak works as a senior concept artist at Bungie, where he most recently worked on Destiny. You can see more of Adrian’s work at his personalsite, Tumblrand ArtStationpage. 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…

The Internet Reacts To Blizzard Cancelling Titan

After seven years of development, Titan—Blizzard’s not-so-secret MMO—was cancelled. Though the game was never officially announced, and though we never got to actually see the game in action, the internet does have a lot of feelings about Titan. It makes sense. The cancellation is a huge deal, especially when Titan was considered Blizzard’s next big…