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Eliott Lilly is a concept artist who works as a freelancer in both the film and games industry. Most recently on the gaming side of things, he’s worked on RAGE, the next Doom game and FEAR 3. Sadly, his Doom stuff is under lock and key at id Software, but the art you’ll see below…

Walking Around A Hangar Is One The Best Games I’ve Played This Year

There’s something fantastic about owning your own ship in a video game. From Final Fantasy to Mass Effect, whenever they’re given the chance to not just travel the world but explore the vehicle that gets them there, a surprisingly strong bond is formed between player and ship. Star Citizen, the upcoming space game by Wing…

More Skyrim Villain Cosplay, Please

It’s funny that most people dress up as the dude on the cover of Skyrim, because that armour is terrible. Let’s get a little more creative, people. Like these folks, who dressed up as a couple of the Draugr Deathlords. When I say “folks”, I mean one of them is props genius Bill Doran, who…

Sex Assault Scene Pulled From Hotline Miami 2 Demo

There’s a point in the Hotline Miami 2 demo where it looks for all the world like one of the characters is about to rape a woman. That didn’t go down too well. Asked by Rock Paper Shotgun what it meant, and how the developers felt about some people’s negative reactions to the scene, Dennaton’s…

Assassin’s Creed IV Is The Most Tropical Game Since Monkey Island

You know what I loved most about the first two Monkey Island games? The art style and colour palette were so damn sunny. Other games, like Far Cry, have tried to do the same, but they never felt like a summer’s breeze in quite the way Monkey Island (and particularly Monkey Island 2) did. Assassin’s…

Tiny Paper Hats Are The Next Big Thing In Cat Fashion

I don’t know what you’re dressing your cat with, but tiny paper hats are so in this season. You want your cat to be fashionable, right? Adam Ellis, author of The Blunder Years, knows what’s up—that’s why he’s fitting his three-legged adopted kitten with them. “A few weeks ago I got a second kitten. His…

Only The Manliest Space Marines Like Hello Kitty

While we brought you some of the awesome cosplay we spotted this weekend during PAX, truthfully, there were too many awesome costumes at the show you be able to show them all to you in one go. Thankfully, sneakyzebra here shows us some of the more impressive cosplay at the show—a few we’ve posted before,…

No, not these ones: well, here are a few designs that won’t be making it into Mega Man’s spiritual successor, Mighty No. 9 according to a backer email shared by NintendoTim. Gee, I wonder why? (Via r/gaming)

An N64 Controller That’s Too Pretty To Use

Zoki64, the creator of this beauty, calls it the “Finger Print Magnet64″—and I’m sure it’s obvious why. This thing is so glossy that you probably smudge it just by looking at it! I’m not even sure I’d want to actually use this controller. It’s too pretty, but that shouldn’t be a surprise: Zoki64’s work often…

Oh My God, XSEED Is Teasing Trails in the Sky Chapter Two

Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. After leaving us with one hell of a cliffhanger at the end of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, XSEED may be finally announcing that the sequel is coming to U.S. shores. If you are a regular Kotaku reader, you have probably seen me rave about XSEED’s PSP role-playing game,…

The First Xbox One TV Commercial Has…No Video Games In It

Behold, the very first North American TV commercial for the Xbox One. You will note, by the time you get to the end, that there are no video games in it. Time to get upset? Reminder: the Xbox One exists to make Microsoft money. If you give a shit about the Xbox One and you’re…

First Robocop Movie Trailer Is, Well, Hrm.

Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming Robocop reboot. It’s got quite a cast. And hey, there are some nice nods to the original in there, from his voice effects to the design of the suit itself. But everything else going in makes it all look, well, a little silly. But hey, maybe I’m just…

Everything Wrong With The Chronicles Of Riddick in 8 Minutes? That hardly seems like enough time. Then again, I could sum it up in five seconds — Vin Diesel isn’t playing the Iron Giant here.

A Clever Noir Platformer… Co-Starring A Cat

Today in Kickstarter Projects I’d Really Like To See Get Made is Hot Tin Roof, a clever, bizarre-looking, blocky platformer whose creators are seeking $20,000 in crowd-funding. It looks quite brilliant. Check out the trailer, then go check out the Kickstarter if you’re interested.

Catgirl Butts In Final Fantasy XIV Not Good Enough For Some Players

Vandarkhas a plea for Square Enix, and it has nothing to do with Final Fantasy XIV’s (re)launch issues. No, the thing that most seems to bother this player is the way the bodies of a certain cat-like race (called ‘Miqo’te’) in the MMO look. Thing is, the race used to have a more, err, voluptuous…

By Odin’s Beard, The Thor Game Looks A Lot Like Diablo

The first trailer for the official game for Thor: We Might As Well Make A Sequel is here, and I’m getting a definite Diablo vibe off it. Looks like Thor is a whirlwind Barbarian. Thor: The Dark World, coming this November to smartphones and tablets, is a Gameloft creation, and Gameloft of course makes the…

At Least Konami UK Listens To Their Fans

Konami US has been depressingly quiet about the prospects of making Suikoden more accessible to modern gamers, but at least the company’s UK branch is showing their best franchise some love. Today on the Konami UK blog there’s a big post about Suikoden, written by the folks at the Suikoden Revival Movement. Progress! It’s a…

Think Nothing About Doom Is Huggable? Think Again.

Video game statue experts Gaming Heads have stared into the mouth of evil, and it licked their face and wriggled its theoretical pseudopods gleefully, and that’s probably why these horrific Doom plushes look so damnably huggable. The Cacodemon and Pain Elemental were once the stuff of nightmares. Back in the day, when first-person perspective was…

At the top of the “Places We Weren’t Expecting To See BioShock Infinite Referenced” list, Disney Infinity. I guess they both have the whole “Infinity” thing going, but a kid-friendly imagination game seems an odd place for a recreation of the floating town filled with racists and murderers. Have fun, kids!

It’s Impossible To Find Silent Hill Scary When It’s This Glitched Out

When you purposefully corrupt game, if you’re lucky, it turns into something resembling a nightmare. An absurd nightmare full of glitches, that is, not a terrifying one. So what happens when you corrupt a survival horror game like Silent Hill? Well, judging from this video by AgonizedCandle, it stops being so dang scary. Actually, it…