Glitched Hitman Guard Is Straight Out Of A Horror Game

Today on Highlight Reel we have Lynchian security guards, Destiny 2 beta footage, Battlegrounds nonsense, 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! Ghost Recon:…

If anything, the PlayStation VR headset makes an excellent TV prop. In episode seven of the current season of Syfy’s comic book-based spacedrama, Dark Matter, Six (Roger Cross) finds himself trapped inside a simulation powered by what seems to be ancient PlayStation technology.

Best Dad Ever Builds Functioning D.Va Mech For Cosplaying Daughter 

In other news about awesome things that the Overwatch fandom creates, mechanical cosplayer Mike Carambat, who goes by retroresource on Reddit, has built a walking D.Va mecha. On Carambat’s Instagram, you can check out videos of the process. The four thrusters on the robot blow smoke and strobe, and the arms move up and down…

Battlegrounds Motorcycle Disaster Turns Into Surprise Squad Kill

Vehicles in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are not your friends. They might seem like they’re on your side, but then you hit a bump in the road, and they soar and tumble with no regard for the safety of their frail, fleshy passengers. One squad, however, turned a vehicular nightmare into every PUBG player’s dream. Lynxzyyy and…

This Is Why You Ink Your Spawn In Splatoon 2

The screenshot above shows the results of a Splatoon 2 match I played over the weekend. You’ll notice my team won by a tenth of a percent. If you look closely, you’ll also notice how the other team could’ve stopped us. In Splatoon 2’s standard “Turf War” matches, you don’t win by splatting a bunch of…

Game of Thrones Recap Podcast: Whose Advice Should Daenerys Follow?

By popular demand, we’re back with another bonus Game of Thrones episode of Kotaku Splitscreen Last week we asked if you wanted us to do shows for each episode this season, and you told us in no uncertain terms that, yes, you would be into that. So here we are. I even recorded some special…

Video Game Publishers Sure Like ‘Extending’ Betas

Yesterday, Bungie announced a two-day extension for the Destiny 2 beta, continuing a long-running video game industry tradition of announcing the same surprise news again and again. It’s as sure a thing there is in video games: If there’s a beta, it will be extended. In video game parlance, a “beta” is a near-final version…

Dream Daddy, As Told By Steam Reviews

Dream Daddy is the best dad-oriented dating simulation game out on Steam right now, and its Steam users declare, “I’m gay.” Love dads? Like grilling? Into the History Channel? Dream Daddy might just be for you. If that’s not enough, these Steam reviews will run you down the pros and cons of the game, from…

Hyper-Realistic Splatoon 2 Images Are Becoming A Thing

Splatoon 2‘s been out for a few days now, and players keen to post their images in-game are moving beyondhasty scribbles and into the realm of painstaking recreations of real-world people, places and things. One guy’s even created a program to do it automatically. Any image can be turned into a Splatoon 2 graphic, as…

What Makes Wolfenstein: The New Order So Great

Following the less consistent Heavy Rain, it was a joy to finish our playthrough of Wolfenstein: The New Order onKotaku’s Twitch channel. While Wolfenstein might look on the surface like a mindless Nazi killing simulator, it’s actually a deeply human game. In the beginning of The New Order, World War II is going poorly for…

Pyre: The Kotaku Review

Pyre is a sports game about starting a revolution. In a worse game, that would be a joke, but Pyre takes both its sports and its politics seriously and combines them in an unexpectedly compelling way. This new game is from Supergiant, the small studio behind the lauded Bastion and Transistor games. Their first was…

ESL Lifts Lifetime Ban On Counter-Strike Match Fixers

Esports organization ESL announced on Monday a number of changes to its rules regarding cheating, doping, bribery, and most notably, match-fixing. In accordance with these changes, four former players from iBuyPower who were lifetime banned for fixing a match will be allowed to compete in ESL events After consultation with “a number of” Counter-Strike: Global…

Saying Farewell To Three Decades of Weird Sonic the Hedgehog Comics

Remember that time Sonic cried because changes to the timeline caused his children to never be born? He had previously been king of the planet, but in the new timeline, Shadow the Hedgehog was actually king and had married Sonic’s longtime love interest, Princess Sally (Sonic the Hedgehog #166)? No? What about when he would…

Fans Turn Butt-Bumping Wrestling Anime Into Real Sport

Today in “anime was a mistake,” fans of the anime Keijo, in which women in swimsuits fight with their boobs and asses, are making the anime sport a reality. Yesterday, anime site Goboiano reported that Portuguese fans of the Fall, 2016 anime are merrily registering participants for Keijo training sessions. Women are testing out its…

First Look At The Latest Pokémon TV Anime HD Remaster

Last night, a digital remaster of the first Pokémon episode debuted on Japanese television. The episode originally aired on April 1, 1997. The episode has been remastered before. Below you can see how the 2012 remastered version compares with a 2014 Kids Station re-airing of the original. That remaster celebrated Pokémon’s 15th anniversary. In the…

Final Fantasy XIII‘s Lightning Is Now Selling Nissans In China

Last year, Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII was moonlighting as a Louis Vuitton model. Now in 2017, she’s back with another gig. This time, she’s selling cars in China. She’s joined by Snow Villiers in a somewhat perplexing TV spot. People are wearing VR in Nissans? So they can take car trips with FFXIII characters?…

“Hamburger Straws” Are Japan’s Newest Online Meme

For the past week, some people in Japan have been buying McDonald’s hamburgers and piercing them with drinking straws. The name of this meme is called “drink x hamburger” (ハンバーガーxドリンク or hanbaagaa x dorinku) or “hamburger straw” (ハンバーガー ストロー or hanbaagaa sutoroo). Everyone isn’t doing this (yet!), but there are enough for the trend to…