New York’s Finest

Nikolai Lockertsen is an artist based in Norway who has worked on movies like Dead Snow and Troll Hunter You can see more of Nikolai’s work at his personal site and 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…

Japan Now Has Kit Kat…Sushi

This week in Tokyo, you can buy Kit Kat sushi. Dreams are real! According to Entabe and Tokyo Bargain Mania, the first street-facing Kit Kat specialty shop will open in Tokyo’s Ginza on February 2. (The other shops are located in department stores and in underground shopping areas.) To mark the event, the store will…

Namco’s Founder Has Died At Age 91

One of the individuals who built the Japanese gaming industry has passed away. In 1955, Masaya Nakamura established Nakamura Manufacturing, a amusement-ride company that turned into Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company or “Namco.” The company later merged with Bandai in 2005. During the decades following World War II, the rooftops of Japanese department stores were…

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Maybe THIS Will Be A Good Aliens Shooter

For a movie so famous for its frantic gunplay, we haven’t had a good shooter based on Aliens in a long time. So hey, if professional game studios can’t get the job done, maybe this upcoming mod can. Aliens: Legacy is a new project born out of a partnership between two existing Doom mods, with…

UnDungeon Takes A Jackhammer To Late 90s Role-Playing Games

Take the alien aesthetic of Independence Day and set it to Massive Attack’s Mezzanine and you’ll have something in the neighborhood of a roguelike RPG being developed by a small German studio called UnDungeon Currently undergoing a Kickstarter campaign that recently hit its threshold to get funded, Laughing Machine’s freshman project seems easy enough to…

Valve Cracking Down On Team Fortress 2 Gambling

Last year, Valve started dropping a hammer on gambling sites selling Counter-Strike items. This week, the same process has begun for Team Fortress 2 In a short statement released online, Valve say that following the ban on CS stuff in 2016, “some gambling web sites [have] started leveraging TF2 items. Today we began the process…

The Week In Games: How To Double Your Dragons

Decades later, I still have no idea what Double Dragon was about. Double Dragon IV is a game that’s entering the wild this week despite being requested by no one in particular because Japanese developer Arc System Works saw fit to purchase the rights to the series back in 2015. As a result, I spent…

Overwatch’s Widowmaker Takes A Day Off

Amazingly, this is the second cosplay we’ve seen from the same gallery of fan art, which depicted a bunch of Overwatch characters hanging out in their street clothes. There was a great Pharah outfit at Blizzcon last year, and now there’s this Widowmaker shoot from Chinese cosplayer NightyQueen Photos by Ashen. For reference, here’s the…

The Epic Comeback That Defined This Weekend’s Major Counter-Strike Tournament

The ELEAGUE Major 2017 seemed to be missing something. People scattered across social media were surprised by the quality of the matches but felt like the event was missing the gravitas and pageantry of a true Major. But then Astralis and Virtus.pro put on one of the best shows a CS:GO major in recent memory.…

Game Makers Are Pushing Back Against Trump’s Travel Ban [Updated]

The company behind mobile games Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co doesn’t usually speak directly to its players about what’s going on in the world, but following President Trump’s Friday executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries, Playdots, Inc. decided to push out an update asking its audience to support the ACLU. The…

Hand-Drawn Indie Game Gorogoa Gets A Beautiful New Trailer

Jason Roberts’ game Gorogoa has been teasing players with the promise of its trippy visual puzzles for almost five years now. With a new reveal trailer and a planned release for spring of 2017, the wait it almost over. Designed and drawn by Roberts, Gorogoa tells a story whose action is driven by the way you…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Bush And His Poncho, Winners!

Last weekend feels like it was a lifetime ago. But even in these times of change, some things remain constant. Like George W. Bush’s penchant for being a goof. Congrats to this week’s winner: barhat518. Among a number of great entries, this GIF sat head and shoulders above the rest.  However you feel about the country’s…

Sunday Comics: Deadlifts

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 January 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 23. Read more…

Two John Hurt Video Games That Couldn’t Be More Different

Tender Loving Care was an experiment in interactive cinema while Privateer 2: The Darkening was an ill-fated Wing Commander spin-off. They were the only two games actor John Hurt ever performed in, but even the rich, rumbling tones of his English voice could do little to save either one. In 1996, two years prior to…

Geralt Of Rivia’s Voice Actor Says Doing Witcher 3 Sex Scenes Was Like ‘Being Caught Masturbating’

Doug Cockle, the voice behind The Witcher’s Geralt, recently described his experience working on the series, including how awkward it can be to record intimate lines when he’s the only one present. An American actor who now resides in coastal English city of Bournemouth, Cockle told Eurogamer he more or less stumbled voicing CDProject Red’s…