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South Park Wants Your Best Gay Fan Art
Are you an aspiring yaoi artist with dreams of seeing your work on national television? Now’s your chance. South Park’s doing an episode called “Tweek X Craig” this week, so naturally, they want drawings of the two titular characters (pictured above) going full yaoi. Just send your best work to the show’s producers by 9pm…
By Jason Schreier Published October 26, 2015 -
Halo 5 Day Zero Impressions: Mediocre Campaign, Promising Multiplayer
Halo 5 is beautiful, at times a lot of fun, and at times disappointing. It’s also not yet officially released and is dependent on its multiplayer working well on a large scale. So we’re holding off on a review until well after the game’s October 27 launch. For now, some impressions of one of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2015 -
In America, The PlayStation 2 Turns Fifteen Today
After its debut in Japan, Sony’s PlayStation 2 arrived in North America on October 26, 2000. Its launch roster featured over 20 names—games like Volition’s Summoner, Rockstar’s Midnight Club, or Eidos’ TimeSplitters. Happy 15th to all of them. Apart from the three above games, quite a few series got their start on the PS2, all…
By András Neltz Published October 26, 2015 -
The Lupin III Anime’s Opening Hides an Optical Illusion
Don’t you love visual tricks? (Be warned, like many optical illusions, not everyone can see this!) As pointed out on 2ch, if you cover one of your eyes while watching the new Lupin III anime opening sequence, the images appear to leap out at you. Here, watch the credits. Be sure to cover one of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2015 -
The Best 80s Cartoon That Never Was
There was an awesome Toy Story short released last year, about the gang’s encounter with the complete set of a very 80s toy line: The Battlesaurs. Those dinosaur warriors had an excellent theme song. Now they have an excellent fake intro, for the cartoon tie-in show they never actually had. This clip is included on…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Very Scare Bear Halloween
You thought you saw the last of scary bear face. You thought wrong. There is going to be so much more. Well I suppose that’s all up to you folks. What can you do with an animated GIF of me in a scary bear mask? Probably not much. Let’s do this instead. And just in…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 -
Noct Is A Good, Scary Time
Noct is what happens when someone plays too much Hotline Miami, DayZ and maybe Call of Duty then goes and makes their own video game. And it turns out pretty fun. Noct is a game that I saw on the weekend described as “My indie game about being eaten by Nopes”. You spawn as a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2015 -
Raynor Was So Close To Saving The Day In This Heroes Of The Storm Match Until He Wasn’t
This is hard to watch. It’s just so freaking close. A Heroes of the Storm player walked into one of the situations in-game that fans dream of. Four heroes from the enemy team were all clumped together, dangerously low on health, and focusing on killing on the computer-controlled boss monsters. He was playing as theStarCraft…
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 25, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It Could Be Worse, Luke Skywalker: Winners!
Two weeks ago I asked our readers to picture worse places for Luke Skywalker to be than being teabagged by Imperials in Star Wars: Battlefront. What I got back was a photo tour of Skywalker nightmares. This week’s winner not only picked one of the most nightmarish Star Wars scenarios ever—inside the Star Wars Kinect…
By Mike Fahey Published October 25, 2015 -
Being Eaten Alive By Rats In Warhammer: Vermintide Is So Good
Holy shit that’s a lot of rats. I do not use “holy shit” lightly kids, so when I say “Holy shit that’s a lot of rats,” I mean there are enough rats to fill a high school auditorium. Enough rats to make an entire fall fashion line. Enough rats to craft 100 horses made entirely…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2015 -
Batman: Arkham Knight Gets Re-Released On PC October 28
Four months after being pulled from sale due to poor performance, bugs and various other inadequacies, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight goes back on sale next week, along with all the DLC early PC players have missed. Warner Bros. promised the end of this month, and here we are. The game goes back…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2015 -
That Time Call of Duty Let You Shoot Up An Airport
Few games give you the option to skip over a mission before you play it, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s controversial “No Russian” mission is one of them. Even today, the stage that made players a terrorist remains shocking. Yes, that actually happened. Here’s the image greeting players before the single-player campaign started:…
By Patrick Klepek Published October 23, 2015 -
Watch Us Get Wrecked By Hard Mode In Destiny’s King’s Fall Raid [Stream Over]
Today, Destiny’s King’s Fall raid got a little (or maybe a lot) harder. Hard Mode is live, meaning that those of us who’ve beaten King’s Fall a dozen times can fail at it all over again. I figured some of you might want to watch that. Update: We came, we saw, we… kinda conquered. We…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2015 -
Three Minutes of Fighting Over a Half-Naked Man in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but devoid of spoilers—from Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, a game I quite like. The setup: Jacob Frye, the assassin I’m controlling, has just knocked out a British royal guardsman and stolen his uniform. Next, he’s (we’re?)…
By Chris Suellentrop Published October 23, 2015 -
I’m streaming a few Heroes of the Storm games to test out the cool-looking new Protoss warrior Artanis. Watch along on Kotaku’s Twitch channel! UPDATE: And we’re done. Sorry for the lag in the second game. I’m going to have to make sure I have a better/more stable internet connection before streaming again!
By Yannick LeJacq Published October 23, 2015 -
Shocktober, Week Three: That Poltergeist Remake Sure Was Garbage
There’s an inevitable fact about a good horror movie: one day, someone will think it’s a good idea to remake it—and it’ll suck. As we roll into the final week of Shocktober, there are more horror movies to be watched, discussed, and sighed at. It wasn’t a good week for horror in the Klepek household;…
By Patrick Klepek Published October 23, 2015
