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It Sure Looks Like The Winner Of This PUBG Charity Match Cheated

Here’s a thought: Don’t cheat. And definitely don’t cheat during a charity stream hosted by a game’s developer. It’s hard to say for sure, but unfortunately it seems like that’s what happened during a portion of the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds official five-day charity marathon for Extra Life. The even-more-unfortunately-named streamer Bustin_the_nuts noticed that something fishy was…

Track: Musicology | Track: Prince | Album: Prince’s Greatest Hits Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Overwatch Voice Actors Try, And Fail, To Name Every Hero In The Game Under Pressure

The test here, conducted by D Piddy at SacAnime a few weeks back, was simple: name all 26 Overwatch heroes. And do it in 20 seconds or less. A bunch of cosplayers present at the show were asked, but also many of the game’s voice actors, including Anjali Bhimani (Symmetra), Elise Zhang (Mei), Crispin Freeman…

Track: Condemned To The Gallows | Artist: Between The Buried And Me | Album: Automata I Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Here Are Some Beautiful Space People

The Vaulters are coming (or coming back) to Endless Space 2, and in doing so they are looking very sharp. These new pieces for the expansion are all done by Thomas du Crest, whose work we’ve featured previously on a big Endless Legend/Space art showcase You can see more of Thomas’ stuff at his ArtStation…

Guinness Officially Nixes Todd Rogers’ Dragster Records

The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed to Kotaku that it has removed Todd Rogers’ record Dragster high score from its database, as well as his record for the longest-standing video game high score, following Rogers’ disqualification from the Twin Galaxies scoreboards yesterday. Todd Rogers has long been credited with setting the world record…

Atlantis Cosplay Took Like What? Ten Seconds? Eleven, Tops.

Here’s AtelierMarinerwith not one but two awesome pieces of cosplay from the best movie Disney ever made, Atlantis First up, Vinny: And then Milo: You can see more of AtelierMariner’s cosplay at his Instagram page

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Track: What Is Life | Artist: George Harrison | Album: All Things Must Pass Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Jon Kuo is an artist at DICE, where he’s worked on games like Battlefield 1 You can see more of Jon’s stuff at his personal site and 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…

HG Wells Practically Invented Modern Tabletop Wargaming

For his work on novels like War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, British author HG Wells is rightly lauded as a visionary. What often gets lost amongst the applause for his ideas on science fiction, though, is another area he was a pioneer: the field of tabletop wargaming. Which, at least…

Resident Evil Cosplay Is Not Messing Around

This is Russian cosplayer Nargaas Jill Valentine, trying here to make the most of a bad day at the office. Photos by Kira. The zombies are Aoki, Misha and Lady Neba. The make-up work involved in this shoot is absolutely A++ stuff.

Infamous Atari Player Disqualified From World Record After 35 Years

In 1982, video game score-chaser Todd Rogers supposedly set a world record time of 5.51 seconds in the Atari 2600 racing game Dragster. Last year, speedrunners called that score into question. After a lengthy arbitration process, Rogers’ score was removed from Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks video game records and high scores. “Based on…

The Week In Games: Final Fantasy Fighters Unite 

Square Enix’s fighting game joins the mix this week but not much else. There was a time when I would have bought anything I could get my hands on that sported the words “Final Fantasy.” Ten years ago the prospect of a Square fighting game that wasn’t Ehrgeiz would have made my jaw drop. And…

Track: ‘Round Midnight | Artist: Miles Davis | Album: ‘Round Midnight Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This incredible Final Fantasy XIV Dragoon is by mintyfreshtea Photo by Kevin Clark

Track: Real. Now. Love. | Artist: Jerry Paper | Album: Big Pop  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Cosplayer Does Whatever A Spider Can

It can be tough to tell Spider-Man costumes apart sometimes, but this one’s new: it’s the design being used for the upcoming PS4 game by Insomniac. Cosplay is by Naaiiled It Creative, whose pose (and finger control!) look like something straight out of an artist’s sketchbook. Photo by Arcane Shutter

Parents Tell Us How They Control Their Kids’ YouTube Habits

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re answering YOUR questions about character creation, backlogs, Nintendo’s E3 2018, mobile whales, and much more. We’ve also got stories from parents about how they monitor their kids’ YouTube addictions. First, Kirk and I talk about Nintendo Labo, Xbox Game Pass, and my recent BioWare story (11:03). Then we read some…

A Super Mario Sunshine World Record Years In The Making

AverageTrey first got into speedrunning Super Mario Sunshine back in 2013. He’d always loved the game as a kid and thought the records in the 120 Shines category still had plenty of room for improvement. Five years later he’s finally cracked the three hour barrier in one of speedrunning’s most popular games. “It’s truly been…