Here’s German cosplayer Maul,who may as well be Geralt of Rivia in real life, meeting voice actor Doug Cockle outside GamesCom. This is…maybe not the worst approach to handling the upcoming Netflix series?
Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw has posted a fictional letter on his site that sure reads like a possible plot summary for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Laidlaw joined Valve in the 1990s, and announced his departure from the company in January 2016. In that time he worked on the story for Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2…
Yakuza Kiwami, a HD remake of the first game in the series, is out in the West next week. And when you’re done with it you can start getting ready for a HD remake of its sequel, Yakuza 2 A preorder listing for the game (originally released in 2006) has turned up on Taiwan’s PlayStation…
Erikas Perl is the boss of Goodname, a studio in Lithuania that does art for games, movies and animation. You can see more of Goodname’s work at their company site, and check out more of Perl’s stuffat his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a gift from the heavens to the game of football, has a new video game out. And there’s not a blade of green grass in sight. Instead, it’s a sci-fi sports game where Zlatan is picked up by aliens to serve as Earth’s champion in a galactic Driftball tournament. And everyone he races…
Photographer Andrew Boyle has been going to the New York Comic Con for years, and has decided to do something with the hundreds of images he’s taken of cosplayers over that time: put them in a very fancy coffee table book. It’s called Heroes & Villains, and while there are some snippets of text here…
Remember when Nintendo used to make everything, from the N64 to the Game Boy Advance, in a clear case? They don’t really do it anymore, but you can pretend they do with these replacement Nintendo Switch cases. They’ve started turning up on retailers like Aliexpress (via Go Nintendo), and look pretty damn great. They’re not…
Rocket League is coming to the Switch, and when it lands later this year, it’ll have some Nintendo-themed cars players can choose from. There’ll be three—one based on Mario, Luigi and Samus respectively—and they’ll be free unlockables at launch. In addition to the cars there will also be some other Nintendo-themed customisation stuff, like super…
Console modder extraordinaire Vadu Amka has turned a Wii U Fight Pad into something that looks like it could wreck Calamity Ganon himself. I cannot stress enough how good that moss is. There’s a lot more going on here than just a paintjob. The body of the controller has been resculpted, while the plastic d-pad…
House Republicans put out a thing today on tax reform, and for reasons unknown, they built the entire thing around a Zelda reference. The Legend of Zelda series is Nintendo’s best-selling video game franchise enjoyed by more than two generations of gamers. The action-adventure game was released in 1986, only one year after Nintendo’s founding…
The beautiful Super Famicom-themed 3DS XL that Japan got last year is finally headed to Europe and Australia—two markets whose SNES shared the same design—in October.
Track: Threshold Guardian | Artist: R23X | Album: RE-GEN Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Xbox Live is experiencing some serious downtime at the moment, with many owners unable to play games or even sign in. [Update: it’s back] This is Xbox Live’s status page at time of posting. As you can see, both “core services” and purchasing are affected. Microsoft is aware and looking into the problem: This means…
Didn’t we only just go through this with PES? Now it’s NBA 2K’s turn to have its already-anointed cover athlete screw things up by changing teams before the game is even out. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reportsthat Cleveland and Boston executed a blockbuster trade todaythat sends Cavs superstar Kyrie Irving to the Celtics in exchange for…
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and Leader of the Free World, was at Gamescom in Köln earlier today. And she spent some of her time in about the most Gamescom way imaginable. That is the exact same face I make playing Farming Simulator (which incidentally usually has one of the best booths at the show!)…
Ronnie Singh, aka Ronnie2K, is the social media face of 2K’s NBA series. Because he deals with players a lot, he’s become friends with many of them, to the point where he was at a wedding recently and found himself up in front of the whole gathering explaining how the game’s player ratings work. As…
Alessandro “Talexi” Taini is one of the first artists I ever featured here on Fine Art, so it’s cool to circle back around today and feature his work on Ninja Theory’s latest, Hellblade You can see more of Taini’s work at his personal siteand ArtStation page Meanwhile, below that there’s some environment work for the…
There may bea good reason Shenmue III has been delayed by almost a year: the game’s first proper trailer, released today, looks like ass. This is a PlayStation 4 game.
Earlier this year, at the MCM London Comic Con, there was a dedicated showcase just for League of Legends cosplayers. It was real good. Riot Games has now shared shots and footage from this showcase, so that we can all get a good look at the event. Sneaky Zebramade this video: While the photo gallery…
I never knew being a truck driver could be so much fun. Wasteland Express Delivery Service is a new board game from Pandasaurus, designed by Jon Gilmour (Dead of Winter), Matt Riddle (Fleet, Back to the Future) and Ben Pinchback (Fleet, Back to the Future). It pits 2-5 players against each other as couriers in…
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