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Track: Melancholia | Artist: Converge | Album: Beautiful Ruin Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
I really liked Solo! What I liked most—and don’t let this appearing in a concept art feature shock you—was how good it looked, how Star Wars everything was, from Corellia to the Kessel Run. One of the people to thank for that is Finnian MacManus, an artist we’ve featured before here on Fine Art. But…
Kamui ain’t done with the show-stopping Monster Honter cosplay. Her Zinogre armour from March was incredible, especially the way it lit up, but she’s already back with an equally-impressive take on a Nergigante set. Here are some shots to give you an idea of the detail: You can see more of Kamui’s cosplay work (and…
Lady Zero and her partner Narcisse are, as we’ve established, two of the best Square Enix cosplayers on the planet. A fact we’re reminded of tonight with Lady’s absolutely perfect take on FFXIII’s Lightning. Lady Zero did pretty much everything here (though the wig was styled by Narcisse), crafting it all over a five-month period.…
I was onlyjust lamenting the fate of EA’s Lord of the Rings strategy games, and here we go: some fans are remaking Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4, in essence creating an almost all-new game. This new project is called The Battle for Middle-Earth: Reforged, and while it shares the same name as…
The Overwatch Nendoroid figures are supposed to be cute, so I don’t know what the hell is going on with this Junkrat. Maybe it’s the best they can do with the character. But I can’t look at those eyes and tongue and not think this is the cartoon lovechild of Slimer from Ghostbusters and Guy…
Track: The Rain | Artist: Harrison Lemke | Album: More Postcards From Purgatory Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
The Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise still has an active, creative community, and nothing screams “I love the thrill of ‘coaster action” more than an 80 foot drop into standing water. Back in 2017, YouTube user Funzinnu did the delicate work of creating a fanciful log flume ride with one awesome drop in it. As you can…
Star Fox was made by a bunch of teens, and Shigeru Miyamoto used to smoke cigarettes. I don’t know anything about the development of the game Star Fox, so the most recent episode ofPeople Make Games was a real eye-opening when it comes to how the game came together. In the video, Chris Bratt walks…
It’s a hard game, with a hard final boss, and watching video of people defeating it is so, so sweet. I’m gonna talk about Dark Souls lore here. I’m gonna talk about the final boss battle. If you don’t want to know more than you already know, then stop reading. I’m serious. Throughout Dark Souls,…
Independence Day is this week for Americans, and that means barbecues, American flags plastered on everything, and lots of people (who are also plastered) lighting fireworks and shooting them into the sky, into the ground, and at each other. Let’s put that in video games. Your task this week is this: how would your favorite…
In 2013, Sony handily won the war of words against Microsoft’s customer-unfriendly policies, but in 2018, we’re seeing a role reversal. On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s discuss. First, Kirk and I talk weddings, Westworld, and Switch gaming before digging into the news of the week on lawsuits and PS4’s lack of cross-play. Then we…
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 28. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
Making spectacular or larger-than-life places in Cities: Skylines is fun, but there’s something special about creating everyday locations with the game’s worldbuilding toolkit. YouTuber Greenbeak has created the ultimate quotidian location with Skylines: a small British village with a shopping district. While I’m not from Britain, I do spend most of my time wandering through…
Track: Undoing A Luciferian Towers | Artist: Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Album: Undoing A Luciferian Towers Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
The newest map in the PC version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is awesome in a lot of ways. However, there is a location in the southwest portion of the islands where you can hide under the map and ambush unsuspecting players. There is a single spot right outside a building in the village of Na Kham…
The rocket that has been counting down in Fortnite finally launched at 1:30 EDT today, and what happened afterward was a little weirder than anyone was expecting. When I logged into the game, I could hear a klaxon blaring every few seconds, and before long the ground started to shake with only what I can…
It’s time to go outdoors and get sweaty in pursuit of fun, but we don’t want to leave our favorite video game characters out of the action. I asked you to make summer sports happen, and you delivered. Look, I’ll be honest with you. I don’t know anything about organized outdoor sports. The last time…
We’re finishing Nier: Automata right now on Twitch. That’s routes B, C, D, and E all for the price of one stream. Come join the chat and enjoy one of 2017’s best games.
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