Even Space Marines Need A Break After A Hard Day’s Work

Lee Chang Woo is an artist who has done work for companies like SmileGate, the guys behind popular (and venerable) Korean shooter CrossFire. You can see more of his work at his personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save…

Track: What is This Loneliness? | Album: Event II | Artist: Deltron 3030 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Slightly Terrifying Alternative To Oculus Rift

The first thing I thought when I saw these was, hey, they look like the visors from the Final Fantasy movie. Then I sighed. The second thing I thought was, hey, these sound way cooler than the Oculus Rift. Not that they will be, but upon reveal in this CNET hands-on, the tech running them…

Loki Does A Great Owen Wilson (As Loki) Impersonation

British actor Tom Hiddleston, aka Loki from Thor/Avengers, does impressions. Like this one, where he was asked at Aussie film shindig Popcorn Taxi if he could do Owen Wilson. If Owen Wilson was Loki. Sounds nutty, but boy, it’s pretty good. Incidentally, if you’re ever in Sydney – or hey, live there – Popcorn Taxiis…

Here’s The First New Star Wars Character Since Disney Took Over

He’s called The Inquisitor. He hunts Jedi. He’s a Darth Vader sidekick.

Oh, Walter White Was Also In This Sweet Old Video Game Commercial

When Breaking Bad finished, I rounded up some of dorkier roles lead actor Bryan Cranston had been in over the years, from Power Rangers to anime. One role I completely missed, though, was one of his best It’s this brief appearance in an ancient Atari 2600 commercial for Mega Force, one of the best examples…

Attack On Titanic Pokémon Cosplay

Last week’s Fancy Pants was a little lacking in dude cosplay. That’s being rectified this week. Five of the ten images we’re showcasing feature cosplayers who are rotton and made out of cotton, the highlights being a rare sighting of Italian superstar Leon Chiro with a shirt on and one hell of a complex World…

GTA V’s Trevor Tells Fan To Go F**k Himself

During a panel at the New York Comic-Con this weekend, fans got a chance to chat with the voice actors behind Grand Theft Auto V. Or if not chat, then have the guy who plays Trevor jump off the stage and come at a fan (at the fans’ request!), as though the game had suddenly…

Hacker Claims League of Legends Maker Buried a Finished Card Game [UPDATE]

Someone has claimed to hack the Twitter account of the president and co-founder of Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, using it to publish images and templates from a completed-but-unreleased League of Legends card-based game. “Riot doesn’t want you to play this game,” said “Jason,” the hacker. The breach occurred today at 1:16…

NYCC Cosplay: A Female Dr. Doom, A Male White Queen and Kick-Ass Korra

Man, I was either laughing with delight or staring in awe at almost all of the cosplay you’ll see in this gallery. Obscure characters, sexy gender swaps and straight-up well-executed costuming are all on display here. And it needs to be said that the dude done up as the White Queen—dubbed Emmet Frost by a…

Pissed-Off Customer Gets Free PS4 After Cursing Retailer on Twitter

Badmouthing the British video games retailer ShopTo on Twitter might just get your order canceled. The company today apologized for canceling the order of a customer who used profanity in complaining to a friend—not to ShopTo—about the pricing of a PlayStation 4 bundle. Still, ShopTo’s apology seems to leave open the possibility that if you…

The Week in Games: Meet Swap

Skylanders Swap Force, out today on basically everything, is the week’s heavyweight release. We’re getting close to hunting season, too, and that means time for another Cabela’s game; this one sends you to Africa. Sunday •Skylanders SWAP Force (360, PS3, Wii U, Wii, 3DS) Tuesday •Wipeout: Create & Crash (360, Wii U, Wii, 3DS) •NBA…

The Most Convenient Portable Skylanders Game Yet

Now that the console version of Skylanders has finally caught up with the portable one in terms of jumping, the 3DS version of Skylanders: Swap Force ups the ante, letting players load all of their toys into the game at once. The previous installments of Skylanders for the 3DS only allowed players to load two…

By the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak! Doctor Strange is getting a Marvel Pinball table! I bet you thought I was going to say “By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!” Well, I’ll leave it to Zen Studios to deliver the iconic line in this trailer for its 16th table in the series; it arrives in December.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: I Thee Choose

BOYFRIEND used RING! It’s super effective! FIANCEE fainted! Yesterday’s Pokémon wedding proposal is today’s ‘Shop Contest exploitable, but I’m gonna need you guys to keep it respectful/charming in addition to funny, alright? You don’t have to use the whole frame. Zoom in, this image is huge. You’ve got a trainer on his knee, a shocked…

To celebrate the PlayStation Plus release (in Japan) of Gravity Rush, sand artist Kisato drew Kat in three different outfits. From what I can tell of this entrancing video, if you’re an artist working with sand, it pays to have really well groomed fingernails. [via NeoGAF]

Sunday Comics: Playing Tags

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. Please welcome newcomer Double XP to the lineup. Double XP by M.S. Corley and Josh Crandall. Published Oct. 7. Read more of Double XP Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade…

The New Voice Of The Joker Killed It At Comic Con

Troy Baker, who has replaced Mark Hamill as the Joker in the next big Batman Arkham video game, and who has replaced Nolan North as the ubiquitous voice-actor who seems to star in every other major game, read some lines at New York Comic Con yesterday. And not just any lines. Some lines the great…

Skylanders: Swap Force: The Kotaku Review

It’s taken 40 long years, but it’s finally happened. I’ve finally become an adult, and it’s all thanks to the latest Skylanders game. I just don’t understand the Swap Force The first Skylanders game gave us a batch of toys we could place on a portal to use as characters in a well-crafted action role-playing…

Skylanders: Swap Force Buyers’ Guide: What You Need, What You Don’t

You would think that on the third installment of Activision’s highly-successful toys-meets-games series they’d give folks the option to just buy the game by itself. Ha ha! We’re not getting off that easy. Every Skylander figure released thus far will work on Skylanders: Swap Force. You could play through the entire game using only first…