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Twitch Streamer Explains Why Painting Her Body On Camera Isn’t Sexual

The equation underlying Sophia “Djarii” White’s Twitch stream is really pretty simple. She loves video games, art, and makeup, so she combines those things to express herself, resulting in intricate paintings where her body is the canvas. White’s talent is immediately clear, and yet, she has courted no small amount of controversy for simply doing…

I Can’t Bring Myself To Play Public Betas Anymore

Beta testing periods and public test realms give players the opportunity to test out new online multiplayer games and content before it goes live. Right now, on the World of Warcraft public test realm, players are poking and prodding at the Vulpera, the new Horde allied race coming in the game’s next major update. I…

The Week In Games: Busting Makes Luigi Feel Good

Luigi we all love you and your funny antics. But we also love sending you into scary and haunted places and making you catch ghosts. I’m so sorry, but you have to do it all again in Luigi’s Mansion 3, releasing this week for Nintendo Switch. Spooky ghost stories! Do you folks have any? Personally,…

Death Stranding Is Coming To PC

Death Stranding is coming to PC early summer 2020, Kojima Productions announced on Twitter today. Right now, the game is arriving on PS4 November 8. Here’s the tweet: Sony is publishing Death Stranding, and it was announced as an exclusive for their PS4 console. Traditionally, Sony’s big games have stayed on the PS4, but lately,…

Track: Evolution | Artist: Ayumi Hamasaki | Album: I Am…

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Princess Diana of Themyscira

Ruiz Burgos is a comic artist and illustrator from Spain who has worked for companies like IDW and Take-Two. You can see more of Ruiz’s stuff at his personal siteand ArtStation page

Epic Suing Former Tester For Revealing Fortnite Spoilers

Epic Games is in the process suing a former tester for spoiling some of Fortnite’s big Chapter Two reveal secrets. As Polygon reports, Epic filed the suit last week in North Carolina, alleging that former tester Ronald Sykes, who had played loads of the Chapter Two content back in September, began tweeting at other Fortnite…

The Most Expensive Pokémon Card On Earth Sold For $224,500 [Update]

One of the rarest Pokémon cards in existence went up for auction last week at New York-based Weiss and sold for $195,000. It is now officially the most expensive Pokémon card in existence. It’s a “Pikachu Illustrator” card, a promo given out to winners of a comic contest that was held in Japan in 1997-98.…

Track: This is Halloween | Artist: Various | Album: The Nightmare Before Christmas: Offical Soundtrack #SpookySongs

Another Popular Twitch Streamer, King Gothalion, Moves To Mixer

You can now add another popular Twitch streamer to the growling list of streamers making the switch to competing service Mixer. This time it’s Cory “King Gothalion” Michael making the move to stream on the Microsoft-owned Mixer. Over on Twitch, Michael has over one million followers. But he announced today on Twitter that he is…

‘Shop Contest: Luigi’s Other Creepy Adventures

Next week is the release of Luigi’s Mansion 3, which continues Luigi’s odd side gig of ghostbusting. He seems a bit too cowardly to be in the ghost hunting business, but at least he is facing his fears. From what I’ve heard though, he actually has even more creepy adventures outside of the main games.…

Sunday Comics: FIREBALL

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Oct. 24. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Big Pikachu, Winners!

The big boy himself, chunky Pikachu, is back in the new Pokemon games thanks to some weird power-up thing. To celebrate this great news, I asked you fine folks to take big boy Pikachu and add him to games or movies or TV shows. Our winning image this week comes from Haunted Channel who adds…

Haunter Has A Very Deadly Tongue

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Haunter! Haunter Details Type: Ghost/Poison Average Height: 5′ 03″ Average Weight: 0.2 lbs. First Added In Generation I This…

That Time The Joker Played Pokémon Poker

Hello! This week we watch WWE2K20 break in a million ways, watch Conan O’Brien and Kojima hang out, learn about a bunch of game delays, celebrate Halloween in Borderlands and remember that time The Joker met Ash Ketchum. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Nothing to see here folks. This is certainly not an…

Track: Old Wounds | Artist: PVRIS | Album: Hallucinations EP

The Drifter is a “pulp adventure thriller” from the makers of multiplayer dungeon bonanza Crawl It sports a similarly expressive, chunky pixel style, but otherwise, it looks totally different. An adventure game inspired by classics but drawing on the pacing and narrative focus of more recent genre standouts, it stars a murdered drifter who proceeds…

On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, staff editor Natalie Degraffinried comes on to discuss the best and worst exercise games with me and Kirk, from Ring Fit Adventure (fun!) to Wii Fit (ehh) to Dance Dance Revolution (classic). Get the MP3 here

Suddenly There’s A Homestuck Sequel

Homestuck was a long-running webcomic, published from 2009 to 2016, that began as a story about a kid named John who got a mysterious new game called Sburb, and over time, turned into a sprawling epic about adolescence. Today, with no warning or preamble, the official Homestuck twitter account tweeted out the website for its…