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Yakuza Cosplay Is My Kind Of Cosplay

It’s not easy cosplaying as Goro Majima, the spicy meatballs on the side of the Yakuza universe. For one, you need to be able to pull off some very tight pants. And then you need to nail his essence, which is so much arrogance and menace that the average actual human being just couldn’t do…

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Shim Jae-Woo, aka CRAZYRED, is an artist from Korea. You can see more of CRAZYRED’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Steam Developer’s Secret To A Two Percent Refund Rate: Honesty

In the year 2018, Steam can be described in many ways, but “hospitable to developers who make short games” is not one of them. And yet, developer Mike Bithell just released Quarantine Circular, his second non-free, story-based game that can easily be finished before Steam’s refund timer runs out. Quarantine Circular is a brief, choice-driven…

Track: Sometimes | Artist: James | Album: Laid Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Sergii Golotovskiy is a freelance concept artist based in Poland. You can see more of Sergii’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both…

Track: Governor Switch | Artist: Narco Debut | Album: Garden Dreams Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Cosplay Tailors From The Top Of The World

We try to keep our cosplay coverage as global as possible here on Kotaku, but there’s always room for surprises, stories from communities of fans we’ve never encountered before. Like some tailors from Nepal, who work full-time creating replicas of their favourite movie costumes. Baron Boutique is a company based in Kathmandu that was founded…

State Of Decay 2 Car Shows Off

Today on Highlight Reel we have State of Decay 2 glitches, invisible dunks, Fortnite backflips defenses and much more. Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch…

How Some Of Game Of Thrones’ Biggest Shots Were Made

While we’ve seen some concept art from the last series of Game of Thrones, tonight I thought it’d be cool to look at some of the VFX work done on season 7. Rodeo FX, a studio with offices across the world, was tasked with coming up with some of the series’ biggest shots, from the…

A Heist Game Where You Steal Pieces Of 15,000 Player-Made Levels

The Steam Workshop for Garry’s Mod—the monolithic physics sandbox that emerged from Half-Life 2—contains 15,974 maps made for all sorts of different game types and purposes. Jazztronauts is its own separate heist game, but it takes place on those maps. Yes, that means it already has nearly 16,000 levels. Jazztronauts is an upcoming free mod…

What We Liked (And Loved) About The Leftovers

Last week I was on vacation, which was a great time to catch up on some TV. Kotaku’s editor-in-chief Stephen recommended The Leftovers to me, an HBO show that finished a three season run last summer. I didn’t expect to like the show as much as I did, and now all I want to do…

The Week In Games: Mega Man And Other Androids

There’s a wide variety of games out this week, from art puzzler Gorogoa to a set of Mega Man collections to the much-anticipated Dark Souls Remastered This week continues the trend of taking old games and putting them on contemporary platforms. Dark Souls Remastered, the Mega Man Legacy collections, and even an enhanced Space Hulk…

Samus Aran, Reporting For Duty

Here’s cosplayer Dani Buzzini channeling Samus Aran with a suit that not only looks the part, but lights up as well. Photos by Peterson Sim

Some Very 2018 Cosplay

I love this so much. That’s itsvictra with the memeplay, but know that this is not his first attempt at cosplay that is both terrible and incredible at once. Here’s Exodia from Yu-Gi-Oh: And maybe my favourite Smash cosplay of all time:

‘Shop Contest: Kingdom Hearts Expanded Universe

We finally have some real information about Kingdom Hearts III, so let’s take this opportunity to show Square Enix, Disney, and everyone else what we really want to see in the third entry of this transmedia franchise. Kingdom Hearts is about jumping into weird worlds with some Final Fantasy-ish characters and just going hog wild…

What It Was Like To Play D&D For The First Time

I recently played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time ever, and it sure was fun. We talk about that and much more on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen First, Kirk and I talk about cults and audio tricks (clearly it’s Laurel), then get into the news of the week on Boss Key shutting down, a…

Sunday Comics: Don’t Touch That Dial

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published May 17. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

‘Shop Contest: Put It On The Switch, Winners!

The wide world of Switch ports got me excited for new things on the platform, so I asked our excellent community image editors to come up with even better ports. I now need all of these to exist. The Switch is the console with infinite possibilities. Those two little controllers and their big screen friend…

This Week In The Business: Fewer, Bigger, Better, Later

QUOTE | “What we see now is we can launch games whenever we are ready and whenever we want, just because there’s a good appetite for new products on the market thanks to the fact that there are less big games coming to the industry. That gives us the possibility to choose when to launch,…