Splatoon Characters Make for Good Virtual Idols

This weekend, the Squid Sisters from Splatoon performed live in concert at this year’s Game Party in Japan. Aren’t virtual idols great? The virtual versions of the Splatoon idols looked terrific and did a great job of getting the crowd, who are totally into it, charged up. Watch out Hatsune Miku! These inklings could make…

Tips For Creating The Most Powerful Diablo III Characters

The real endgame of Diablo III starts in Adventure Mode, when our character finally finds one or two powerful items, and begins its journey to collect all the pieces required to clear everything on the highest difficulty levels in no time. The road to get there is bumpy, but our small guide might help a…

The First Stage of Spyro the Dragon In Unreal Engine 4

Pretty sure nostalgia will hit everyone who grew up in the PS1 era and played Spyro the Dragon. IAmMurloc is working on an Unreal Engine 4 version and the first stage’s already shaping up nicely. You can see some of the key locations of the first stage (via TheOmegaNerd), the portal to Stone Hill, Spyro…

Yep, this is a giant (and fully playable) Famicom controller. It was on display at Game Party 2016 over the weekend in Japan, and people could co-op play Super Mario Bros. For more pics, check out Gigazine.

A Giant Attack on Titan Snow Sculpture Makes Perfect Sense

For this year’s Sapporo Snow Festival, the big centerpiece snow sculpture is Attack on Titan themed. The sculpture is still being made, and the festival won’t start until February 5 (it ends on the 11th). This is what the finished sculpture will look like. As in the past, the Japanese military and tons and tons…

Dark Souls III Comes to a Tokyo Shopping Mall

Because the only suits aren’t suits of armor. A Dark Souls III exhibit has gone up at 109 Men’s, a shopping mall for young dudes, in Tokyo’s Shibuya. Japanese websites Gamer, Game Impress Watch, and Famitsu were on hand to check out the exhibit, which features displays and art. [Photo: Famitsu] [Photo: Famitsu] [Photo: Game…

Fans Bring Splatoon Weapons to the Real World

Game Party Japan 2016 played host to the Japanese National Splatoon Championship. But while that was going on at the front of the booth, it’s back side sported an awesome gallery of fan-made versions of Splatoon’s ink-based weaponry. A “.52 Gal” by Spicies A “Custom E-Liter 3K” by 19_ev An “Inkstrike” by Spicies An “Inkzooka”…

He doesn’t have the power of Gandalf nor the snappy fashion sense of Saruman, but Radagast is a wizard with his own charms, which Canvas Cosplay has absolutely nailed here Photos by Kirby Hartline

UFC Champ Streams Bloodborne, Gets Interrupted By Drug Testers

UFC fighters live-streaming on Twitch, this is a thing that happens now. Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson is probably most successful, given his penchant for drunk dialing former opponents and talking shit to them live Demetrious ‘Mighty Mouse’ Johnson — the current UFC Flyweight champion and arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet — runs a…

That’s Knightmageas Kratos. And no, he didn’t travel to Greece for the shoot; that’s just the President McKinley Memorial in Niles, Ohio, which we now know can double for a mythical Greek temple in a pinch.

Lighting: Gaming’s Unsung Hero

Most Fine Art posts onKotaku tend to show stuff like environment art and character design because they’re the best fit for a website. Sadly, this often ignores a lot of the great work done in other areas of games development that are just as important in determining how pretty a video game looks. I’ve done…

Absolutely Perfect Force Awakens Cosplay

There’s just so much to love here. The cosplay for starters, of course, but also the dedication: while the lightsabers have (duh) had some photoshop work done, that hellish weather was the real deal. Rey is Nixie Sweet, Kylo Ren is FenixEmber. All photos by Jason LaBoy

Look At This Custom Detective Pikachu Amiibo

GandaKris makes custom Amiibo. She’s made some excellent pieces over the last few months, but none so wonderful as this Detective Pikachu He’s got the hat, yes, but also a rug! And some tea! And a pipe! You can see more of GandaKris’ work (and order commissions) at her Facebook page UPDATE: There’s also some…

Winning The Battle Of Stalingrad In Two Turns

Unity of Command is a smart, tough, turn-based strategy game set in the Second World War that’s one of the best in the genre. With its emphasis on logistics, the Battle of Stalingrad should be one of the game’s most gruelling encounters. Should. Benjamin Thomas found a way to do what the Germans could not,…

The Week In Games: Another Dimension, New Galaxies

Megadimensional Neptunia VII? Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth? Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel? Gravity Rush Remastered? It’s a week filled with games wanting to take use to strange places, and we can’t be everywhere at once. It’s one of those weeks where my the knot in my gut twists tighter with every game I add to…