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Metal Gear Shirt Is Made Of 200 People Arguing Over Which Characters Are Gay

This is art. Lukas, an artist/student in the Bay Area, decided to make a custom t-shirt whose design consists entirely of screengrabs of “two hundred tender souls arguing over which metal gear character is gay”. “its a russian tuant” is the star here, appearing both front and centre and on the collar. “It’s a Russian…

New GTA V Graphics Mod Looks Like The Future

Visual overhauls to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V are nothing new, of course, but this complete overhaul of the Naturalvision mod is something else. Now called NaturalVision Remastered, its creator promises that despite how good everything looks the actual performance is “similar to vanilla GTA V”. Here’s a trailer: As PC Gamer…

Mario Kart 8, Running At 4K

In October 2015, the CEMU emulator could barely run Mario Kart 8 on a PC at all. Now it can play the game in 8K. You probably won’t see that here, of course, because only a brave few PCs will play YouTube PCs at 8K, so instead we’ve got a supersampled 4K clip of a game…

Vancouver Put On A Cosplay Show

Anime Revolution, aka Anirevo, was held over the weekend in Vancouver, and photographer The Will Box was kind enough to share some of the shots he took of the cosplayers in action.

A Very Good Final Fantasy Trailer

Square Enix’s long-running Itadaki Street series (basically a take on Monopoly) has a new game coming out to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (though the latter’s 30th was actually last year). Its trailer sure is something. It’s like Kingdom Hearts, only about money Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final…

The Week In Games: The Master Detective Returns

It’s time to go back to Gotham. Who else is going to solve all those Riddler boxes and quick time events? There’s a lot of other small stuff coming out this week, including ports of indie games. Miss Graceful Explosion Machine on the Switch? Well now you can play it on PS4! Miss Elminage Original…

Classics Of Game Returns After A Two And A Half Year Hiatus

This is Weird Dreams, a Rainbird Software game for MS-DOS that eventually got ported to the Atari, Amiga, and C64. It’s about a dude who, as the title suggests, has really weird dreams thanks to his girlfriend who’s possessed by a bored demon, and fortunately we can all relive its haunting glory thanks to the…

Players Hone In On The Perfect Playthrough Of Marble Madness

What started as something of a gamified tribute to M. C. Escher has been reduced, in recent years, to dazzling, minutes long dance thanks to modern speedrunning. Marble Madness was in many ways a forerunner to the art, and this summer the players who know the game best are closing in on its limits. “I…

Smash Pro Dances His Way To Doubles Victory

Zack “CaptainZack” Lauth is usually known for his dancing outside of Super Smash Bros. For The Wii U, but in today’s doubles finals at Low Tier City 5, he ended a match with a little in-game flair too. Lauth was playing alongside his Phoenix 1 teammate Gavin “Tweek” Dempsey in the Smash 4 doubles grand…

A Tekken 7 Round So Close, It Needs Two Slow-Mo Cams

Slow-mo is one of Tekken 7‘s most hype features, slowing the critical moment of a fight down to mere frames. In last night’s Tekken World Tour Korea grand finals, the two fighters were so close that it came down to the slow-mo cam twice in a single round. Though Evo 2017 is in the rear-view…

An In-Depth Look At Mario Kart 8‘s Detailed Maps

If you’ve played Mario Kart 8 you were probably so focused on trying to finish in the top four that you never had time to look around and take in the view. Fortunately, the latest Boundary Break video will give you a chance to do just that. YouTuber Shesez has an ongoing series where he…

Sunday Comics: Suspend Your Disbelief 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 31. Read more…

Square Enix Announces Dragon Quest Builders 2, Shows Off Hang Gliding 

The company revealed the game at the Dragon Quest Summer Festival 2017 going on in Japan this weekend and even teased some early gameplay footage. The first Dragon Quest Builders took the Minecraft formula and applied it to a beloved RPG series with a surprising balance between a guided story and open-ended simulation. Apparently, the…

Mayo Won Splatfest, But Some Splatoon 2 Players Worry The System Is Broken

The Splatfest festivities are over and the results are in: mayo may have lost the popular vote, but it still managed to take home the prize. And yet, many salty ketchup players are calling shenanigans. This is a good chunk of the Splatoon fandom right now: Splatfest, as many of you know, is an event…