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Stay Beneath The Waves Please, Thank You

Irina Kuzmina is a concept artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Irina’s work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both…

Fortnite Player Rides Guided Rockets Across The Entire Map

Fortnite now offers guided tours of its map. Well, in a manner of speaking. YouTuber NoahJ456 learned how to ride his own guided rockets and then, based on a tweet from another player, realized he could hopscotch between them. These things in mind, it was only a matter of time before the “because why not”…

Do you think games are silly little things? We’re starting up a playthrough of Nier: Automata right now on Twitch

Korean Companies Fined $950,000 Over Loot Boxes

Three game companies—including online giants Nexon—have been fined almost one million dollars by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission over deceptive loot box practices. NextFloor ($4,600) and Netmarble ($55,000) were also ordered to pay small fines, but the bulk of that judgement ($875,000) was reserved for Nexon, particularly for its handling of the game Sudden Attack The…

Newly Discovered Trick Transforms A Metroid Speedrunning Scene

Gamers experimenting with the 2002 Game Boy Advance game Metroid Fusion have discovered such a profound and bizarre shortcut that speedrunners have had to create a new category to account for the latest new way to break the game: memory corruption . The trick requires using Samus’ power bombs in an out-of-bounds area to corrupt…

Twitch Streamer’s Community Revolts After He Plays Fortnite With Jake Paul

Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that streamer Summit1g is one of the most enduringly popular personalities on Twitch. Even his fanbase, however, has its limits. By streaming a few Fortnite matches with YouTube pariah Jake Paul over the weekend, Summit tested them in a big way. The stream, which took place on…

The NBA Really Wants You To Watch People Play A Basketball Video Game

MANHATTAN, N.Y.—Despite the drumbeat insisting that Adam Silver is the hip young teen of sports commissioners, he looks the part of a curious Old. His inquiring wide eyes, dark wire-framed glasses, and ready avuncular smile: Silver looks well-suited to hunch inquiringly over kids’ shoulders and try to make sense of the mess of colors on…

I Have Questions About The New Horse Girl Anime

Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether an anime premise was lovingly crafted by humans or assembled by a robot with a list of popular Google search terms. Uma Musume Pretty Derby, one of the most popular anime of the new season, might break the anime Turing test. Uma Musume Pretty Derby, which is real despite…

Far Cry Cougar Waves To Fish

Today on Highlight Reel we have rocket rides, Far Cry 5 glitches, flying Zelda monsters, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up…

The Western Version Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Has Less Body-Shaming

Clyde Mandelin is best known for his fan translation of Mother 3 and maintains the website Legends of Localization, where he looks at games’ original scripts and how they changed in the localization process. He applied his expertise to examine how localizers got rid of some body shaming in The Legend of Zelda: A Link…

Hearthstone Director Reveals ‘The Craziest Card We’ve Ever Made’

Hearthstone’s upcoming expansion, The Witchwood, will drop on April 12, and game director Ben Brode feels “very worried” about one specific card in the new set. This past weekend at PAX East, I got an advanced look at the set and let Brode get his anxiety off his chest. This card in particular has given…

Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Ending Was A Letdown

An old family friend used a phrase when he’d burnt out on something. He called it “Mallomar-ing.” When he was younger, a relative of his used to love Mallomar cookies. They are sickly sweet chocolate covered marshmallows, and he’d eat them at every opportunity. Eventually, they started making him sick, and soon after that he…

Fan-Made Prequel To Fallout: New Vegas Goes Into Beta After Nine Years In Development

Fallout: New California is a prequel mod to Fallout: New Vegas that fans of the early Fallout games began working on back in 20o9. Now, in the project’s most recent update, the makers say the game is finally playable from start to finish. Originally planned as a mod for Fallout 3 called Fallout: Project Brazil,…

The Internet Reacts To Overwatch‘s New Sombra Skin

Blizzard has been releasing previews of new Overwatch skins in anticipation of the game’s upcoming event, Retribution. Sombra’s new skin has people wondering if she’d like to speak to your manager. Overwatch’s resident hacker, Sombra, is getting a new skin that shows her in a uniform for the villainous Talon organization. Sombra, who usually sports…

The People Behind Lawbreakers Are Looking To Rebound With A Battle Royale Game

Just days after publishing a blog post announcing a shift away from its struggling first-person shooter, LawBreakers, Cliff Bleszinski’s studio Boss Key Productions has announced a new Battle Royale-style game called Radical Heights. In Early Access starting tomorrow, April 10, the free-to-play online shooter looks like a mashup of The Running Man and an 80s…