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Skyrim Halloween Mod Makes The Whole Game Spookier

Unpopular opinion: the biggest problem with Skyrim is that everybody’s not Draculas. Skyrim’s been around so long that it just got a remaster. Don’t get me wrong: it’s nice to revisit old stomping grounds, but eventually the deja vu becomes deja too much. You’ve gotta spruce up the place. In the spirit of the season,…

Battlefield 1 Respawn Goes Poorly

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A Very Pokémon Plushie Halloween

It’s Halloween, the festive holiday when Pokémon toys dress up in costumes and sit on my desk until at least Christmas. The Pokémon Center’s line of masquerading circus pocket monsters is adorable this year. While I could not catch them all this year, The Pokémon Company International sent along a trio of trick or treaters…

Track: Halloween Theme | Artist: John Carpenter | Album: Halloween Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: The Poltergeist | Artist: Fliptrix | Album: Patterns of Escapism Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Cosplay Police Seem Awfully Chill

Photographer Lawrence Brenner took these shots of cosplay superteam Spiral Cats while they were in NYC doing some League of Legends work. I’ve never seen an assault rifle-carrying police officer look so happy in my life. You can see more of Lawrence’s photos here

This is Jelfishwith some Ring cosplay. Photos by Georgia Nelson

Negan Cosplay Is Going To Kill Your Favorite Halloween Character

Blizzard artist Rene Koiter isalso one heck of a cosplayer, which he showed once again this year by taking out (along with co-worker Jaime Scheffler) the company’s internal Halloween contest dressed as Negan from The Walking Dead A reminder this is not the first time he has won Blizzard’s contest Jaime is the zombie. Photos…

It’s Geralt. With A “T”.

Come on guys. Nobody that handsome would be called “Gerald”. Cosplay by Maul

Narcos Cosplay Keeps It All In The Family

There may be more elaborate Halloween costumes on the internet this year, more technical costumes, but none will win my heart like this family’s take on Narcos It’s not the first series that comes to mind when I think “wholesome family cosplay”, especially given the relationships between some of the characters here, but I’m willing…

The Week In Games: If These Sprites Could Talk

Owlboy is finally coming out. Like for real. This week. It’s here. The game has been in development for ten years. Originally intended to ship in 2011,development became a long and winding road of what-ifs and some-days. Life is complicated. The team wanted the game to live up to the hype. So instead of coming…

Halloween, 2016

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Sunday Comics: You’ve Got Titans

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published October 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Toy Time Plays With Cozmo, The Little Robot With A Big Brain

Anki, the makers of Anki Drive, graduate from robotic cars to full-blown robot buddies with Cozmo. He might be tiny, but he’s hiding some powerful tech behind those baby blue box eyes of his. Cozmo is not a pretend robot. He is not a plastic action figure. He is a learning machine powered by a…

This Week In The Business: Don’t Give The Market What It Wants

QUOTE | “I would love to make a game that everyone loves, but at the same time I wouldn’t want to compromise and just give the market what it wants. We could all make first-person shooters, but we have a much more exciting industry with people exploring different routes.” – Quantic Dream’s David Cage accepts…

16 Years Later, Fans Find Secret Messages Hidden In Paper Mario

Sometimes, developers put stuff inside of a game that players are never supposed to see. Such was the case with the original Paper Mario, which apparently had a bunch of dialogue that was not discovered until very recently. As Paper Mario expert Stryder7x explains in the video below, if you go out of bounds using…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

There sure are a lot of games to play this weekend! How will we all decide? Though we have Titanfall 2 and remastered Skyrim to choose from, I’ll be honest with you: I’ll still be playing The Witcher 3. I started last weekend but I got impatient with the tutorial and ran off and got…

Steam Is Having A Big Halloween Sale

It’s almost Halloween! You know what that means: video games for scary cheap prices. Or just regular cheap prices, but there’s a big picture of a spooooky cauldron full of eyeballs and hands and PC gaming components behind them. The Steam Halloween Sale runs until November 1, and it discounts a bunch of scary games…

Beautiful Portraits Of The Ancient World

Rocío Espín Piñar is an artist based in California who is able to take a city from the past (ok, so some of these are a little more recent than “ancient”) and turn it into a work of art. Having worked with publications like Medieval Warfare, she conjures the kind of stuff that you’d expect…

Track: So What | Artist: Miles Davis | Album: Kind of Blue  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.