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Bastion’s Hammer, Made Real

Supergiant Games, the developers of Bastion, needed someone to build them an actual replica of the Cael Hammer from the game. So they turned to Harrison Krix. Krix, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, certainly delivered. With a bigger, more detailed 3D model of the hammer to work from than that used for the actual…

Giant Witcher 3 Sculpture Is As Handsome As Geralt

Tomek Radziewicz is a concept artist, but he’s also a sculptor, and he’s recently done some work on The Witcher III that’s a little more tangible than a lot of the stuff we normally post here on Fine Art. This amazing sculpture was designed and built by Radziewicz (with help from Arthur Wochniak), and now…

4 Big Mad Max Easter Eggs You Can Find In Fallout Games

There would be no Fallout franchise without Mad Max: the post-apocalyptic series by George Miller is probably the biggest single influence the games have. If you’re familiar with both Mad Max and Fallout, you have probably already noticed some of the similarities. Fallout is full of references and easter eggs that nod to Mad Max,…

One DOTA Player’s Choice: Be A Pro Gamer, Or A Biomedical Engineer

Brian “BananaSlamJamma” Canavan has two options: master DOTA 2 and follow his dream, or finish out his degree in biomedical engineering and help the world. He can’t do both. Canavan, despite already having the best nickname in the sport, is only just getting started as a pro DOTA 2 player. He’s still in college, but…

The Best Maps Help You Get Lost

Loads of video games (and movies, and TV shows, and comics, and books) have maps in them. You might think they’re there to stop you getting lost, but no. They’ve got a much more important role than that. There’s a scene in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Faramir and his ranger buddies…

Trevor’s On Top Of The World

Video game photo wizard Berdu used Grand Theft Auto V’s PC version to create this stunning shot of Trevor standing atop, well, everything. To quote you, everyone you know, and The President right now: “Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.” Here’s the full thing at a higher resolution: Check out more of Berdu’s work on his website The Steam Community…

There Are Way Too Many People In This Bloodborne Fight

That GIF looks like total madness because that’s the only way to describe it. Fights in Bloodborne were never meant to involve six characters at once, but YouTuber legendsofevil turned the game’s first boss battle into an a sprawling brawl by getting himself, two other players, an aggravated NPC, a summoned friendly NPC, and the…

See Which Heroes Get the Biggest Changes in the Remixed Marvel Universe

The Marvel Universe we knew is dead. In its place is a new gestalt planet, stitched together from pieces of the preceding multiverse by the all-powerful will of Dr. Doom. This week, we’ll get our first real glimpses of the realms that make up Battleworld. Secret Wars is the summer publishing event that promises to…

Good Lord, Mortal Kombat 4’s Endings Were Terrible

We’re lucky that the latest Mortal Kombat games have turned out to beso excellent. There was a stretch during the 90s when the series wasn’t as good—and it’s hilarious to look back on all of it now. In the last month, a particular Mortal Kombat clip has been floating around on the internet. In it,…