God of War

The body of former WWE wrestler, martial artist, and actor Shad Gaspard was found Wednesday morning on California’s Venice Beach, after being carried away by a riptide over the weekend while saving his 10-year-old son’s life. Gaspard was the body model and a motion-capture artist for Kratos in 2018’s God of War.

Stuck Inside All Weekend? Get Drunk

This week on Snapshots, cool lighting, dangerous monsters, a wolf, explosions, a poor robot getting sliced in half and Kratos hits day 5 of staying home, so he starts drinking. Drink responsibly. Unless you are a demi-god badass. Then you can just get wasted all day. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of…

Hacker Discovers That God Of War Villain Gives You Secret Middle Finger

Sometimes, you’ve just gotta flip somebody off, even if they can’t see you. Maybe they cut you off in traffic. Maybe they took your spot in the parking lot. Maybe they did a third thing involving a car. Or, as is the case 99 percent of the time, perhaps they pushed you off a cliff.…

‘Shop Contest: Sports, Winners!

SPORTS! That’s the content I crave right now. Sports and only sports. I don’t want any damn politics or opinions. I just want sports content. So last week, I tasked you fine Kotaku readers with providing me with sports images featuring video game characters. Our winning image this week comes from sciteach who shows what…

PlayStation Now Price Drops To $10 A Month, Adds New Games

Sony’s streaming game service has been slowly improving since it launched in 2014, transforming from a library of older games with ridiculous pricing into a nice selection of old and new games with questionable pricing. Today Sony cut PlayStation Now’s $20 a month subscription fee in half and added a handful of high-profile games like…

Knock Knock, It’s The God Of War

Jin Kim is a concept artist who has worked on games like the most recent God of War You can see more of Kim’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Oh Man Look At This Enormous God Of War Cosplay

German cosplayer Kes von Puch and her boyfriend Marcel are to thank for this incredible piece of God of War cosplay, which didn’t just require the creation of a costume, but the transformation of a man. While Kes was spending over 1000 hours crafting Kratos’ outfit, making everything from his belt to his pouches to…

A God Of War Fan Has Sketched Out A Sequel

God of War fan (and professional games artist) Yong Yi Lee has some ideas for a God of War sequel, and instead of writing them down in an overly-long Reddit/Tumblr post, has instead sketched it out. The gist: Kratos seems upset and is caught up in Ragnarök, and has to kill a lot of Gods.…

Video Game Cameras Are Complicated And Easy To Screw Up

The latest Game Maker’s Toolkit video is all about video game cameras and how developers can use them to help make gameplay more challenging, to scare the player or to better serve a story. It also is a great reminder of how much work and thought goes into something that, if done right, most players…

The Parental Struggles In 2018’s God Of War Echoed Those Of The People Making It

“A lot of this performance is a love letter to my kids and it’s an apology,” says voice actor Christopher Judge in a new in-house documentary about the making of the PlayStation 4 hit God of War. Judge played the game’s lead character, Kratos, and when he talked about his performance, he teared up. As…

At his GDC panel on God of War’s animation, Sony Santa Monica Animation Director Bruno Velasquez revealed one scene in God of War where the mo-cap was handled by the animation team: when Kratos beats up that freaky monkey-ogre. Looks at those happy animators!

God of War took home Game of the Year at the DICE Awards in Las Vegas last night, along with a whole bunch of other awards. Celeste got best indie, while Florence was voted the best portable game. Interestingly, only one award—Outstanding Technical Achievement—for Red Dead Redemption 2

Gita’s Top 10 Games Of 2018

2018 has been a blur for me. It may just be that I’m in the last year of my twenties, or it could be that extreme events just did not stop happening this year. As with any year, I took refuge in games when I wanted to relax, enjoy myself, socialize with friends, or just…

How To Beat A Tough Video Game Boss

Over the last few years, I’ve started playing more difficult video games. Unfortunately, tough video games tend to include tough boss fights, and I don’t really like tough boss fights. This piece originally appeared 6/27/18. From the blood-starved beast in Bloodborne, to the Valkyrie queen in God of War, to Diablos in Monster Hunter: World…

Five God Of War Moves I Never Used Before New Game+

God of War has a complex and entertaining combat system, but you wouldn’t know it from my first playthrough of the game. Sure, I knew about all the moves and combos that were available to me, but I spent most of my time relying on the same handful of attacks. I’ve been playing the recently…

God Of War‘s New Game Plus Actually Does Feel Like A New Game

God of War’s New Game Plus mode doesn’t offer any radical spins on the game’s formula, but does reveal how much fun the game is when you’re given all the tools it offers you for all your beheadings and beatdowns. Kratos fans who want reasons to keep playing the new God of War have been…

And Now For Some Award-Winning God Of War Photography

God of War has a very nice photography mode, which was put to the test recently in an official contest held by PlayStation The winning entries were fantastic. Stuff like this: And this: I wanted to draw particular attention to another of the winners though, Cristiano Bonora, who for weeks has been filling his Flickr…

God of War’s long-awaited New Game Plus will arrive on August 20, Sony said today. The mode comes in a free update and will offer new gear, tougher enemies with “new tricks up their sleeves,” and an option to skip cinematics. No word on whether you’ll be able to change the size of Kratos’s beard.

A God Of War (And Boy) For Your Desk

In November, NECA will be releasing this action figure two-pack that includes both Kratos and Boy. Advertised as a “7” scale action figure 2-pack”, obviously only Kratos is actually clocking in at that height. The pack also includes a bunch of weapons, fire and frost effects and Mimir’s head. They’ve captured Kratos’ joyful and optimistic…

Anatomy Of A Brutal God Of War Boss Fight

Weekends are a great time for relaxing, reading, or spending time with loved ones. Or, if you’re me, you can spend an entire weekend trying to beat the Valkyrie Queen in God of War Valkyrie fights are among the more straightforward of the many challenges in Sony Santa Monica’s fantastic Nordic murder-fest. Each one is…