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Sunday Comics: Rough Week 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published December 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 27. Read more…

Track: I Was a Fool | Artist: Sunflower Bean | Album: I Was a Fool (Single) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This Week In The Business: EA Tries To Explain

QUOTE | “As we kept reviewing the game, it continued to look like a style of gaming, a much more linear game, that people don’t like as much today as they did five years ago or 10 years ago.” – EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, explaining why the publisher canceled Visceral Games’ Star Wars project and…

Track: Blame Paradise | Artist: The Dear Hunter | Album: All Is As All Should Be Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for regretting the fact that you made oatmeal raisin cookies the other night and instead making the superior cookie, chocolate chip. Also, video games. I am, at long last, back on my bullshit with The Witcher 3. I meant to power through the plot over the holiday, but one thing led to…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Hit On Women Without Being A Jerk?

Hello all you leakey Twitternet pheromone squids, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’s descended from Sir Francis Bacon. This week is all about the trials of modern dating. How do you approach someone you’re interested in without being the latest guy to join the douchebag conga line? And when…

Track: Good Vibrations | Artist: The Beach Boys | Album: Good Vibrations  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Oh boy. This one’s a treat. Wolfenstein II isn’t just one of my favourite games of the year, it’s one of the most stylish games of the year, so it’s a pleasure to be showcasing a big collection of art that went into its creation. The art below consists of everything from concept pieces to…

This clip of streamer Last_Grey_Wolf singing “I Will Always Love You” while bombs drop in PUBG is haunting. I’ve watched it, like, five times now. Granted, he goes on to survive and ends up making it into the top five before dying, but it’s still a cool moment. Thanks to reader Christian Sowa for sending…

Game Of Thrones Cosplay Is Ready For Winter

You see a lot of Daenerys cosplay around, but most of it tends to focus on her earlier appearances in Game of Thrones. So it’s nice to see someone focus on something a bit more recent. This S7 outfit is by GreatQueenLina, a cosplayer from Russia. Photos by Sergey Ivanov

Eight Dudes Just Fall Out Of This Assassin’s Creed Horse

Today on Highlight Reel we have surprise horse breeding, boomerang hatchets, easy Skyrim gold 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 up on…

Battlegrounds‘ New Kill Cam Needs Some Work

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the kill-or-be-killed game where you often come away with only the vaguest notion of how you died, is finally getting a kill cam. That’s good news! PUBG, though, is a colossal cauldron of explosive strangeness, and the new kill cam is having trouble keeping up. The kill cam is live alongside a host…

There’s An Amiibo On Every Box Of Super Mario Cereal

Nintendo’s back in the game cereal game. Rumored for days and now confirmed, Super Mario Cereal becomes part of this nutritious breakfast in December. Every box is an Amiibo, unlocking gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey. In stores in North America as soon as December 11, Kellogg’s Super Mario Cereal is a mixed…

Track: The Outdoor Type | Artist: Smudge | Album: Mo Poontang Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Persona 5 Cosplay Is On The Case

Here’s a Kotaku.com cosplay rule: if there’s good Persona 5 cosplay, it goes on the website. And this, here, is some very good Persona 5 cosplay. Ann is being cosplayed by Shirogane-sama, while photos are by pollypwnz

The Art Of A Bunch Of (Former) Telltale Artists

When adventure game studio Telltale laid off around 90 employees earlier this month, the company’s art team took a hit. Here’s a selection of amazing work produced by those affected, covering games/series like The Walking Dead, Batman, Minecraft and Tales From The Borderlands You can see more of each artist’s work at their portfolios, linked…

Track: Minneapolis | Artist: That Dog | Album: Retreat from the Sun Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This is Waypoint’s excellent documentary on Angela “Overkill” Hill, the MMA fighter who is also an avid cosplayer

A Very Good Read, That

Ken Niimura is a comics artist based in Japan, one of the co-creators of the excellent I Kill Giants His latest work, Umami, about an unlikely duo of chefs, is available now through Panel Syndicate You can see more of Ken’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click…

New Evidence Suggests Super Meat Boy Speedrunners Cheated

Super Meat Boy’s challenging platforming and hidden secrets have turned it into a popular game for speedrunning. A new method for detecting cheaters now suggests that some famous runs might not be what they appear to be. There are two kinds of Super Meat Boy speedruns: real-time attacks, which show the entire game without interruption,…