Pontus Olofsson works as an artist at Paradox Interactive, where he most recently did some stuff for Magicka: Wizard Wars You can see more of Pontus’ work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…
Hi fellow editorial staff members! It’s 2015, and the internet is full of gifs. Here’s how to make your own. Doesn’t matter if you work at Kotaku or are some random person who stumbled upon this post accidentally (hi!), you’ll get the same results. MAKING GIFS There are two ways to make gifs. One is…
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Nausicaä cosplay that isn’t Nausicaä! Reki-Konran, take a bow.
Rinoa from cosplay duo Eyes On Me does her best impression of Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa Lockhart.
In almost every other respect, PaciFire sounds like just another first-person shooter. It has teams, and funny hats, and grenades. Only, instead of controlling a gruff military dude, you’re playing as a baby. And the maps are, like, cribs, and playgrounds. It’s fresh, yes, but also kinda creepy; the baby animations are weirdly competent, like…
Now that the jokes about Kylo Ren’s lightsaber have gone away, folks are getting down to the business of seriously recreating the thing. But this one, from Saberforge, is the best I’ve seen. It’s not some plastic replica; the thing is made out machined metal and comes with its own blade and lighting. Being hand-made,…
Diablo III might be doing a good job of quenching your thirst for action RPGs today, but let’s not forget its humble origins: Rogue. Ahem, sorry, the first Diablo. You may rarely feel the urge to play the 90s classic, however, if you do in the future, you might want to check out Freeablo —…
There’s something incredibly fun and irreverent about breaking all-time classic video games, isn’t there? That’s the reason Ocarina of Time is so popular to speedrunners—and it’s why I love watching people figure out how to totally dismantle Final Fantasy VI In May of this year, the speedrunning community discovered a unique new glitch in Square’s…
Inspired by Deadspin’s excellent recurring Let’s Remember Some Guys series, let’s remember some video games. Dark Sector Bushido Blade Tobal Red Steel Solstice Vectorman Yoshi’s Cookie Faxanadu Beyond the Beyond Rival Schools Fester’s Quest Torin’s Passage Milon’s Secret Castle Joe & Mac Hexen: Beyond Heretic Kid Chameleon Lair Elite Beat Agents Black & White Brave…
The video “Pantone Pixels,” published in 2011, was an independent art project that used a swath of colors to illustrate a picture of the creator’s parents. Last week, Vimeo took it down. Turns out it was too similar to “Pixels,” a 2015 movie starring Adam Sandler. Update (11:40 am EST): In a statement, Vimeo said…
Is this track, by Yoko Shimomura, the best video game boss music of all time? Discuss.
For a certain subset of gamers, last December was big. Really big. Like, the biggest month in years [This article was originally published on December 9, 2014, when Suikoden II came out on PSN. I’ve bumped it up because I’m guest-editing Kotaku this weekend and am doing my best to turn it into a Suikoden…
The U.S. team Evil Geniuses won on Dota 2’s biggest stage last night, earning a $6.6 million prize and becoming the first American squad to win the International tournament. Evil Geniuses defeated the Chinese team CDEC, generally considered to be an underdog, 3-1 in the best-of-five Grand Finals late Saturday night, capping off a week…
The Dota 2 International final round is happening tonight—you can watch it live right here. It’s the U.S. team Evil Geniuses against China’s CDEC Gaming. If EG takes it, they’ll be the first North American team to win a Dota 2 International. U S A!
You knew this was inevitable. Let’s see if you guys can improve TIME’s fantastic August 17 cover, which features Oculus Rift CEO Palmer Luckey prancing like he’s never pranced before. Competition will be tough for this one, given how many people have already been ‘shopping it up since the cover came out earlier this week.…
Did you know that Blizzard is playing around with totally removing the major macro mechanics from StarCraft II? And that future multiplayer matches might no longer feature Chrono Boost, MULEs, or manual Larva Spawn? Since StarCraft II first came out way back in 2010, all three races have had specific macro abilities that players have…
Let me tell you a story in pictures. That’s essentially what’s happened every time I’ve tried to play The Witcher 3 over the past month. I start the game, all excited to continue hunting for Ciri, then I open up my list of quests and just freeze, scrolling down for a few minutes before I…
I’m running Kotaku this weekend, which means there’s nobody around to stop me from posting only about Suikoden II for 48 hours straight. Heh heh heh. Back in January, Kotaku reader and artist Benjamin Schwarz sent me this collage of Suikoden II characters that he made a few years ago. This sluggish August weekend feels…
Bugs in Fallout: New Vegas might have eaten your save file. Maybe they took away a few hours of progress, or forced you to reset a couple of quests. Maybe game-crashing bugs pissed you off to the point where you wished you could get your $60 back. But they probably didn’t cost you a million…
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