Track: Heart Station | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Heart Station Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Animator Keiichiro Kimura has passed away Kimura worked as a character designer and director on iconic shows like Cyborg 009 and Tiger Mask. He was 80 years old. In 2015, there was a Kickstarter for Go! Samurai, a hand-drawn sketch animation by Kimura. May he rest in peace.

Nanay Peak at Masungi Georeserve. Rizal, Philippines. By Martin Tan. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Nobody

Yours truly is easing back into things from a weeklong vacation, so let’s dip our toes back into the pool with a classic track that I already know backward and forward. And by “classic”, I’m obviously referring to the late 2000s, as that was the era that I first dove headfirst into this genre and…

The Art Of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

It’s one of the biggest, prettiest games of the year, so it’s a treat tonight to be able to share some of the work that went into the creation of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Below you’ll find a ton of art from Odyssey’s production, from characters to environments to 3D to animation to promotional. It’s not…

How A Twitch-Owned Wiki May Be Inflating Streamers’ Views

Twitch streamer Chris “Bognogus” Steinert was live on camera, reading an article about space exploration game No Man’s Sky on Gamepedia, online gaming’s equivalent of Wikipedia, when he discovered his own livestream playing at the very bottom of the page. Steinert was streaming his galactic wanderings to an audience of 3,183 viewers. One of them,…

Jade Raymond has left Electronic Arts. The original producer of the Assassin’s Creed series, Raymond founded the EA Motive studio in 2015 after a 10-year stint at Ubisoft. Originally tasked with overseeing Amy Hennig’s now-canceled Star Wars game, Motive is now at work on a different Star Wars project and a new IP