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Lovecraftian Terror, Sculpted For A Video Game

Frogwares are working on a Lovecraftian adventure game calledThe Sinking City, and as part of the monster/character design process artist Marina Orlova sculpted these terrifying little guys out of clay. Actual clay, not a 3D render that simply looks like it. We don’t get to feature tangible, real-world stuff on Fine Art very often, so…

Nintendo’s First Electronic Toy Was Very, Very Cool

We all know Nintendo is a company with a long history. In over 100 years they’ve made everything from playing cards to LEGO sets to video games. But as important as some of those products were (or still are!), few are as important as the Nintendo Companion. Why? Because it marks Nintendo’s first foray into…

Here’s A Good Pokémon Figure

Good Smile is releasing a Figma next year based on Sun & Moon trainer Selene. The figure itself is great, but even better is that she comes with all three of Sun & Moon’s starter Pokémon: Rowlet, Litten and Popplio. Selene is out in April 2018.

A Great Match From Korea’s First All-Women Overwatch Tournament

Over the weekend, a Korean company called Inven broadcast the finals of Korea’s first amateur all-women Overwatch tournament. It was a damn good match. The “All For Ladies” tournament actually took place earlier this month, but the finals weren’t broadcast until this weekend. Two teams, Pandora Ladies and 1st.Lady, went toe-to-toe in a best-of-five match,…

Remapping Destiny 2‘s PC Controls Can Make A Big Difference

Destiny has long had one of the best first-person shooter control schemes on consoles. On PC, getting there requires a little more work. When I reviewed the first Destiny back in 2014, I said that Bungie had created the most physically satisfying shooter control scheme since Gears of War. I still feel that way, though…

Assassin’s Creed Cosplay May As Well Be A Screenshot

Here’s cosplay superstar Leon Chiro as Bayek from Assassin’s Creed Origins, on a shoot that took him to an actual desert in Kuwait. The costume was a collaboration between Chiro himself and Cosplay Annart. There are some more shots—some of them actually taken outside on the sand—below:

Eve Developer CCP Stops Making VR Games, Drops Two Studios

In 2013, Eve Online developer CCP Games introduced Eve: Valkyrie, one of the current crop of virtual reality hardware’s flagship titles. Today the company announced it is halting VR development, closing, selling and streamlining studios, letting go of “around 100″ employees in the process. CCP’s restructuring, prompted by “reduced investments in virtual reality and an…

A Streaming Marathon Made It Easy To Treat My Body Like Garbage

Of the past 72 hours, I spent nearly 24 of them streaming Wolfenstein games. I am very tired, which makes it slightly ironic when I say that the whole thing was an eye-opening experience for me. Much digital ink has been spilled over the blood, sweat, tears, and (sometimes) drugs that go into lengthy marathon…

Fighting Game Tournament Pool Goes To Shit After Loser Keeps Playing Under Friend’s Name [Update]

While fighting game events allow everyone an opportunity to compete thanks to their traditional, open-bracket format, they have one explicit rule: you only get one shot at winning. A competitor boldly broke this rule at this weekend’s Canada Cup in Toronto, Ontario when he decided his first chance wasn’t enough and participated under an assumed…

What We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Stranger Things Season Two

Stranger Things came back this weekend with a second season. Staff writer Gita Jackson sat down today with Compete’s Maddy Myers and Kotaku social media manager Alex Bedder to chat about Ghostbuster Halloween costumes, punk rockers and the perfection that is Joyce Byers. Gita Jackson: This weekend heralded the return of Netflix’s hit show Stranger…

The Easiest Way To Earn Coins In Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey has tons of coins to collect and items to purchase. One special area with dozens of gold coins makes it easy to max out your wallet and transform Mario into Uncle Pennybags. The most effective location to gather coins in Super Mario Odyssey is in Bowser’s Kingdom. When arriving at the Beneath…

Lego Brings Back One Of Its Biggest Sets Ever

Up until the release of this year’s Ultimate Collector’s Edition Millennium Falcon, Lego’s 2008 rendition of India’s famous mausoleum was the biggest Lego set in production. Lego’s bringing the $370, 5,923 piece set back next month for its 10th anniversary. Standing 16 inches tall and 20 inches wide and deep, the Lego Taj Mahal is…

Wolfenstein 2 Has A Strange Workaround For Germany’s Censorship Laws

Games are censored in Germany all the time, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is no different. Here’s one of the ways the game is different to the one we’re playing in America. This post concerns a late-game scene, so if you’re spoiler-averse, come back after you get there. The German Strafgesetzbuch section 86a outlaws…

Player Beats Mario Odyssey In Under 90 Minutes For An Early World Record

Speedruns have officially started being accepted for Super Mario Odyssey, and fans are now in a mad dash to figure out the best strategies, pathways, and jumps to beat the game quickly. In the last two days alone, the world record for clearing the game at any percentage of completion has been toppled multiple times…

The French On Ys VIII‘s Vita Box Is Literal Nonsense

Earlier this month NIS America pledged to re-localize Japanese RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana after fans complained about the game’s shoddy translation. They’re also fixing the French on the Vita cover art, which currently begins, “I am sorry I have to leave you, but I must buy a hat.” With most of my games…

A Sherlock Holmes-Style Board Game, But With Anime Time Travel

“Whodunnit” board games exist in worlds beyond the stodgy European living rooms we see in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Clue. The one I’m hooked on is very, very, anime. I’ve stopped pitching Tragedy Looper, released in the U.S. in 2014, to my friends as an “anime time travel mystery game.” That’s what it is, but…