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Track: Chemical Plant Zone Acapella | Artist: Smooth McGroove | Album: Sonic 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sunday Comics: Roommate Interviews

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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 10. Read more…

Track: On the Level | Artist: Mac DeMarco | Album: This Old Dog  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Police Mistake Fallout Cosplay For Bomb

We’ve all been there. Your Fallout costume just isn’t sitting right. It needs alterations. So you head to the nearest tailor looking like a poor-man’s storm trooper only to get hounded by the police who think you’re carrying a bomb on your back. That’s what happened to one cosplayer in Grande Prairie, Canada last Tuesday.…

This Week In The Business: Classic Nintendo

QUOTE | “Throughout April, NOA territories will receive the last shipments of Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition systems for this year.” – A Nintendo representative confirms the discontinuation of the NES Classic, just two months after Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima apologized for shortages and pledged to ramp up production QUOTE | “In terms of…

The Sexy Brutale Is A Game About Stopping Murders With Time Travel

Everything about The Sexy Brutale is great. Well, aside from maybe its name. The game centers around a pocketwatch that lets you travel back to the beginning of the same day at will. You’re tasked with preventing a series of gruesome murders carried out by the staff of a ritzy casino mansion called… The Sexy…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? 

The weekend is for having a friend stay with you and debating between actually cleaning the house/buying food or just kicking your dirty laundry under the bed/ordering pizza. Also, video games. I have an upcoming game to play, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time for more Witcher 3. I’ve definitely been taking my time…

How Deus Ex Predicted the Future

Warning: If you haven’t played Deus Ex, but have maybe bought it in a Steam Sale as something you’re absolutely going to play one day, this article will drive a twelve-car train of spoilers through that dream like you’re Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception This post originally appeared 8/5/14 on Kotaku UK A piece of driftwood…

Toy Time Takes The Fate Of The Furious Into Its Own Hands

In honor of today’s release of the eighth installment of The Fast and the Furious, Toy Time launches Ludacris, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson from the hoods of Mattel’s Stunt Stars vehicles. I’ve not seen many of the Fast and the Furious films, but I am a huge fan of Vin Diesel and people riding…

Track: Xtal | Artist: Aphex Twin | Album: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Five Lowest Rated Games On Steam

Steam has some damn good games. It also has some extremely bad ones. Which ones, though, have the lowest ratings on the whole service? A Steam game’s overall rating is calculated based on what percent of its reviews are positive. Now, Steam reviews are user-based, and they come from very particular users on a very…

The Brave Sir Nofriends

Ivan Vujovic is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Serbia who has been working in video games for the past few years. You can see more of Ivan’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…

Maniac Battlegrounds Player Just Came Outta Nowhere

Today on Highlight Reel we have skinless astonishment, shrine skips, Battlegrounds shenanigans, 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! For Honor –everything worked out…

Snacktaku Showdown: Oreo Vs. Hydrox

We here at Snacktaku have given the Oreo a great deal of attention over the years, but several years before the popular cookie’s 1912 debut there was another. Hydrox, the original sandwich cookie, takes on Nabisco’s usurper in the first-ever Snacktaku Showdown. Sunshine Biscuits launched the first creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie in 1908. Hoping to…

A New World Record For A Brutal Super Mario World Hack

Super Dram World is an exceptionally cruel Super Mario World hack. It’s an accomplishment to survive a simple playthrough. Last night, one speedrunner raced through it and secured two world records in a single attempt. Grand POOBear is Mario speedrunner known for racing difficult Mario Maker levels and various hacks. Super Dram World is a…

Podcast: The Voice Of Horizon Zero Dawn

Writer and actress Ashly Burch joins me and Kirk on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen to talk about what it was like to play Aloy, the lead character of Horizon Zero Dawn. First we talk about the games we’ve been playing (Rock Band VR and Cosmic Star Heroine) before leaping into the News Hour, with stories on…

Track: Aerodynamic | Artist: Daft Punk | Album: Aerodynamic Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Soldier 76 Cosplay, Reporting For Duty

Here is some very good Overwatch cosplay, starring a Soldier 76 who leaves all the jokes and memes at the door and plays the character straight-up, pulling it off almost perfectly. Cosplay by Tentacle Creations

Fantastic Concept Art From Guardians Of The Galaxy, Dr Strange & Jupiter Ascending

Olivier Pron is an artist who has worked on some of the biggest movies of the past decade, from Mad Max to Guardians of the Galaxy to Harry Potter Pron works for Method Studios, mostly in pre-production, and specialises in matte painting, environment and conceptual work, for both movies and other “commercial projects”. You can…

Toy Time Plays With DC Icons Justice League Rebirth Action Figures

DC introduces a whole new audience to the Justice League in theaters this fall, and we’re begin bombarded by pictures the upcoming movie’s take on Wonder Woman, The Flash, Batman, Cyborg and Aquaman. The DC Icons Justice League Rebirth box set couldn’t come at a better time. Unless the movie somehow flops miserably (like that…