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Track: Summer Song | Artist: Louis Armstrong and Dave Brubeck | Album: Summer Song Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Not only is this some of the best League of Legends cosplay I’ve ever seen, it’s also one of the most professional cosplay videos I’ve ever seen. It’s by a team of Chinese cosplayers, and if you like your cosplay showcases to be completely over-the-top with corny-ass soundtracks, then boy is this the vid for…
If there’s one constant across Naughty Dog’s games, it’s that the art that goes into them always ends up contributing to some of the best Fine Art posts we feature that year. Their latest effort is no exception. 15 months after the release of Uncharted 4, many of the same artists who made that such…
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is a very good arts and crafts game that also includes the occasional tactical battle against aliens. Show me your best posters! I’ll get the ball rolling with some of mine. For the sake of avoiding spoilers, I’m gonna stick with some of my early game masterpieces. This is…
Track: Across the Universe | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Amanda Schank is a freelance artist based in NYC. You can see more of Amanda’s work at her DeviantArt and ArtStation pages 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…
Shortly after the release of Steam prison break hit The Escapists 2, players flooded the forums with questions. “Who are these people with weird names and funny colored hair,” they wanted to know, “and why can’t I make them go away?” The Escapists 2 is a sandbox game in which you try to escape from…
You know how nerd stuff sometimes appears in Vanity Fair looking all gorgeous and fancy? A team of cosplayers decided to stage their own version, only this time with the characters from the new Wonder Woman movie. In keeping with the spirit of Vanity Fair shoots, not only did the cosplayers pose around some nice…
Yesterday, my colleague Jason Schreier and I spent 12 hours sitting on my couch and streaming video games. We ate some pizza, sang some songs, and beat some bosses. It was fun. Each of us picked three games for the other one to play. Jason had me play Suikoden 2, Super Mario RPG, and Super…
Track: Instant Karma! | Artist: Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band | Album: Live in New York City Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Track: Silver Tongues | Artist: I The Mighty | Album: Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
What do you get when you mix a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy with some pure despair? You get Darkest Dungeon, one of the most visually distinctive games on the market. Below you’ll find some examples of the art that has gone into the game. I mean, yes, thanks to its visual design you could…
Twenty eight Super Mario Maker creators have banded together and created an exhaustive series of courses push the game’s speedrun potential. Super Warp World, a community-made speedrun ruleset,brings their levels into an impressive pack full of numerous paths and secrets. The game debuted last night in a blind race and it was awesome. Mario games are popular…
Today on a very special MARATHON LIVE STREAM of Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk and I will be playing video games for 12 hours. Here’s the catch: they’ll all be video games that we picked for one another—games we’ve never played before. From Splatoon to Suikoden, this will be a packed day full of us playing video…
Track: Smells Like Nirvana | Artist: “Weird Al” Yankovic | Album: Off the Deep End Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
It’s not just the factory jobs that robots are taking, but the ice cream ones. For example, look at Yaskawa-kun, a robot that serves soft serve ice cream in a cone. The bastard. Yaskawa-ku has been doing this for years. After putting in a 100 yen coin ($.92), you select what you want via touch…
The thirdSri Lankan Comic Con was held on August 26-27 at the SLECC in the country’s largest city, Colombo. Just like last year, there was a lot of great cosplay! Below is a selection of some of the best of it, courtesy of photographer Prasanna Welangoda. You can see more shots of the show at…
HJW is an artist from Korea working in the games business. You can see more of HJW’s work at their 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…
miniLAW: Ministry of Law’s cyberpunk aesthetic of pay phones, pagers, robotic-suited cops, along with the underpinnings of a totalistic police system make it an intriguing game. It’s also the closest thing to a modern Robocop game we’re going to get. It doesn’t have the biting satire of Robocop but it does have a seeping dread.…
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