Kine‘s Musical Puzzle Solving Will Melt Your Heart And Bend Your Brain

I’m not a puzzle game person. It takes a pretty special combination of visual flair and brain-teasing to get me hooked. Kine, a new puzzle game by solo developer Gwen Frey, has both the challenge and heart that I’m looking for. It’s difficult, funny, and has jazzy flair. In Kine, players take control of a…

You Can Use Fortnite‘s Fishing Pole On Land Now, Apparently

In this weekend’s Fortnite Championship Series tournament, player Tfue found a new use for the fishing rod when he used it to grab weapons and materials from afar in the middle of a fight. This appears to be a feature, not a bug. The fishing rod was introduced in Fortnite’s Chapter Two. Its primary use…

The Overwatch D.Va Gaming Chair Makes Me Wish I Still Sat In Gaming Chairs

Back before I was paralyzed from the chest down, I spent a lot of time working, playing, and napping in my Titan gaming chair from Secret Lab. My only problems with the chair were that it was not pink and it did not have a picture of a bunny on it. Well, shit. This D.Va…

Five Years Of ‘F’ To Pay Respects

“F” in a moment of internet tragedy, when a YouTuber confesses they were mercilessly dumped. In a flash of live, online embarrassment, when an Overwatch player misclicks their ult, “F.” The internet is a graveyard of “FFFFFFFF,” with some uncountable number tossed off every hour, everywhere, to pay respects. Five years ago today, the Call…

In The Future, Hideo Kojima Says His Studio Will Make Films

For a guy who says that 70 percent of his body is made of movies, this seems like it’s a long time coming. In a 26-minute BBC documentary on the making of Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima reveals the inevitability. “In the future, Kojima Productions will also start making films,” Kojima said. “If a person can…

The Week In Games: The Sweet Release Of Death Stranding

Finally, after years of weird teasers and trailers, we all will have a chance to sit down and actually play Death Stranding. Starring Norman Reedus, Death Stranding releases for PS4 this week. If you are curious to know more about the game, check out the great review from Heather Alexandra that’s already on the site.…

Seven-Minute Final Fantasy VII Remake Ad Is The Longest Commercial Ever On Japanese TV

Clocking in at seven minutes long, this Final Fantasy VII Remake ad is the longest commercial to ever air on Japanese television. It’s like a seven-minute short film about people into Final Fantasy VII. As pointed out on GameSpark, the commercial aired over the weekend during an annual 27-hour block of programming hosted by Beat…

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Ground Control To Major Dimitri

Lars Sowig is an artist at DICE who has previously worked on games like The Division 2 and Warface You can see more of Lars’ stuff at his ArtStation page

Every Luigi, Ranked

Like Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and The Doctor from Doctor Who, there have been many different versions of Luigi. There are the more classical takes on Luigi and then there are some stranger versions of everyone’s favorite brother. So in celebration of Luigi’s Mansion 3, I’m going to rank (almost) every version of Luigi that…

‘Shop Contest: Sports!

Do you know what we need more of? Sports. More sports content. Let’s create some more sports content, featuring some of our favorite video game heroes and villains. Like the greedy and evil Wario, a person who probably doesn’t even care about sports. He just cares about money! Your challenge this week: Add video game…

The New Mtn Dew Game Fuel Flavor Is Good (If You Like Orange Soda)

Around these parts, I’ve become an expert on Mountain Dew products. I’m not sure how this happened and some days I regret my new career, but whatever. There’s a new flavor of Game Fuel to drink and review for you fine folks. This new flavor is called Charged Orange Storm and it is being released…

Sunday Comics: Phew, That Was A Close One!

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. 31. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

Ragnaros Lives

Far and away the most impressive piece of cosplay I’ve seen at BlizzCon is this wildly elaborate take on World of Warcraft raid boss Ragnaros, aka “the big angry fire boy from Molten Core.” Cosplayer Holly “Kaleidoscope Costumes” Cowie has wanted to make it for a decade. Surrounded by a horde of gawking BlizzCon attendees…