Overwatch Cosplayers Critique Overwatch Porn

In case you haven’t heard by now, Overwatch porn is big. Search in the right corners of the Internet, and you’ll find sticky mountains of the stuff. The question on, well, somebody’s mind: what do people who like to pretend they are these characters think? Cosplay stunt mastermind D Piddy put four cosplayers—Kadu Out as…

Final Fantasy XI Was So Challenging, It Brought People Together

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games. Shared victories and mutual defeat, confusion, frustration— these are bonding mechanisms that transcend the IRL-URL barrier. In MMORPGs, in which community is a main draw, the difference between a challenging game and an easy game can also mean the difference between a strong and weak community. I…

Some Of The Best Starbound Mods

Starbound is massive. Here are some mods to help you make it massive-er Despite the fact that it “launched” only a couple weeks ago, Starbound has been in various states of Early Access for years. The quadrillion-planet-strong side-scrolling space sandbox has a mod community nearly as vast as its universe. Here are a few (but…

Last week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I talked about finally beating Destiny’s King’s Fall raid on hard mode. With the challenge modifier, no less! Listen to the excerpt in the video above, along with video of our successful push against Oryx.

Blizzard Pulls Terrible Hearthstone Card From Arena After Fan Outcry

Priests are a little underpowered in Hearthstone right now, and have been for a while. So it’s no surprise that fans got a little mad when Blizzard showed off Purify, a terrible new card that will be added to the game tomorrow with the adventure pack One Night in Karazhan. Purify, which costs two mana,…

Five Years, Hundreds Of Bad Screenshots

I’ve been working at Kotaku for five years. In those five years, I have posted hundreds of video game screenshots. I’ve taken hundreds more that never saw the light of day. UNTIL NOW. In honor of Gawker Media Senior Week, I went back through my screenshot folders to find and share some bad screenshots, and…

Just Keeping An Eye On Things

Andrey Vozny is an artist from Russia working in the video game business. You can see more of Andrey’s work at his 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…

Team D.Va, activate! Welcome to the most annoying Overwatch team I’ve ever been a part of.

PSA: Hang Onto Your Atlas Stones In No Man’s Sky

If you have followed the path of the Atlas in No Man’s Sky, you may already be carrying a few Atlas Stones. While the game never really tells you what to DO with Atlas Stones, we now know what the deal is. (Some spoilers ahead.) Yes, Atlas Stones sell for a pretty penny, and at…

After Nine Years Of Work, Fans Release Their Own Pokémon  Game

Pokémon Uranium, one of the more interesting attempts by fans to build an all-new Pokémon game, is finally finished! We wrote about it a few years back, not just because of the length of time it’s taken the team to put it together, but for how ambitious the whole project is. It has a tropical…

There Are (At Least) Six DLC Packs Planned For Final Fantasy XV

We’re just a month and a half away from Final Fantasy XV, an RPG ten years in the making. And because this is 2016, there’s already a season pass. The $25 digital pass, which Square announced last night, will give you access to the following hilariously titled DLC packs: DLC 1: Booster Pack (Working Title)…

A Look Inside “Smash Bros. Hell,” A Depressing Battleground Meant For Jerks

Jamel Wilkins says he Smashes with honor and dignity. And yet, for over a month, he was marooned in what players are calling “Smash Hell,” apparently an alternate server on which soft-banned Super Smash Bros. 4 players are forced to play with each other, regardless of their innocence. The troubles started when Wilkins picked up…

It’s Still Not Clear Why Players Can’t See Each Other In No Man’s Sky

In the years leading up to the much-hyped release of No Man’s Sky, which launched yesterday, director Sean Murray talked several times about players being able to spot one another in the wild. So why hasn’t that happened yet? Yesterday, two No Man’s Sky players found that they were in the same region of the…

A Very Pokémon Way To Charge Your Phone Battery

Spencer Kern, a man so handy we’ve featured his work before, has seen people’s Pokémon Go battery woes and decided to do something about it. Using a combination of woodwork, 3D printing and some electronics, he’s built this very lovely Pokécenter-themed charging station. The Pokécenter shell is hiding a solar generator, which stores enough juice…

That’s One Big Plushie

Damn, that stuffed bear is effing huge. San-X is once again rolling out a life-sized version of its popular lazy bear character Rilakkuma. The plushie is 5.4 feet tall and weighs 19 pounds. Which means in real life Rilakkuma is not some small, cute bear, but more like this: The plushie is priced at 66,434…

Matt Damon Isn’t Whitewashing The Great Wall, Says Director

Next February, Matt Damon stars in a movie centered around the Great Wall of China. According to the film’s director Zhang Yimou, there’s a reason for that and it’s not whitewashing. This comes in the wake of the surrounding decision to cast Scarlett Johansson as augmented-cybernetic human Motoko Kusanagi in The Ghost in the Shell…