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Track: Someday My Prince Will Come (Live) | Artist: Bill Evans | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Damn, Geralt Broke The Deer

Today on Highlight Reel we have bear traps, uncharged controllers, great timing, broken deer 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! DC Universe Online…

You Can’t Gift Counter-Strike During Valve’s Steam Summer Sale

We’ve got a twofer for you in the Unexpected Happenings department today: 1) You can’t buy Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a gift during the Steam Summer Sale, and 2) Valve actually explained their actions. Quickly! Earlier today, confused CSGO players began reporting that they couldn’t buy the game as a gift for friends. Valve’s Ido…

The Witcher 3 And Nintendo Games Are Just Pulp Fiction

For a game that features giant monsters and lawless bandits, you sure do spend a lot of time in The Witcher 3 playing medieval detective. Which is an idea freelance illustrator Ástor Alexander takes and runs with in these incredible images. It’s not the first time he’s done something like this—you might remember his Nintendo…

This Year’s Steam Summer Sale Has Started

If you’ve got a piggy bank, kiss it goodbye. If you don’t, I guess stare deeply and lovingly into the imagined eyes of the Apple wallet icon on your phone or something. It’s summer, which means It Is Time: the Steam Summer Sale is here. This year’s sale is called the Summer Picnic Sale. It…

Track: What’s Going On (Live) | Artist: Marvin Gaye | Album: What’s Going On Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Track: Greenery | Artist: Quasimoto | Album: The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Dragon Age Cosplay Gets Hammered, Makes Out

This merry band of cosplayers figured that if they were going to get together and dress up like Dragon Age characters, they may as well act like them. All photos by Anton Timofeev. Cosplayers are Sons of a Gun Cosplay (Hawke, Isabela), Ren Sinclair (Merrill) and Dark Incognito’s Cassandra, which we’ve actually featured here before…

It’s Not Easy Putting A Gay Sex Game On Steam

Steam doesn’t have many gay sex games. Plenty of anime boob games, sure, but if you’re looking for hot dudes getting it on, it’s slim pickings. Robert Yang is trying to change that. (Warning: some possibly NSFW images ahead.) Yang’s gained a fair amount of notoriety over the years with experimental games like dick pic…

Team Fortress 2 Game Fills With Streamers, Descends Into Chaos

These days, it’s not all that uncommon to run into somebody who’s streaming and commentating while you’re playing a multiplayer game. If they’re not A Tool Of The Actual Devil, they might mute their mic. But in a team-based game you can’t always afford to do that. Dapper Dog managed to put together a Team…

Burger King Thinks Mac N’ Cheetos Is Something You Might Eat

Burger King is out of control and doesn’t care who it hurts. Being tested in select markets and soon rolling out nationwide, Mac N’ Cheetos are deep-fried macaroni and cheese sticks with Cheetos breading. To put it in old, worn-out meme terms, they heard you liked cheese, so they put cheese in their cheese. Also…

The Weapons Of The WarCraft Movie

Jonathan Berube is an artist who, after a long spell at Blizzard as a matte painter and member of their cinematics team, is now in the movie business working on the Avatar sequels. Below are some of his contributions to the WarCraft movie, most of which are weapons. Big, heavy, very WarCraft weapons. You can…

Track: If I Had A Gun… | Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Album: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The quickest way to empty the crowds at Colossalcon is to whisper “it’s high noon”. Cosplay by ZeegyBoogyDogg, images by Senpai Studio and Starry Ary Photography

That’s A Fluffy Titan

Txtbook specialises in armoured sci-fi cosplay. Think Mass Effect or, as you can see here, Destiny You can see more of his work at his Facebook page

Very Good Boyfriend Mods His Fiancée Into Stardew Valley

In Stardew Valley, you can date in-game characters and get married. In a move that critics (me) are already calling The Sweetest Gosh-Darn Thing, one guy modded the game so that his real-life fiancée was a marriage option. TimothyBBurns decided to recreate his fiancée in Stardew Valley to brighten up her day while she slew…

CutiePieSenseiis only just starting out in cosplay, but you wouldn’t tell by looking at her incredible Widowmaker outfit here.

Giant Pile Of Bastions Meets Satisfying End

Today on Highlight Reel we have bastion deaths, awkward apple moments, technical difficulties, powerful spells 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! Watch Dogs…

Dad Quest is a game about hurling your child at all of your problems. See an enemy? Aim and throw. Kids have classes like scholar and jock and, like real children, can be upgraded with elemental powers. If you die, your kid grows up to be The Next Dad. Dad Quest is on Steam Greenlight,…

Steam Game Offers $35 DLC That’s Just A Certificate

Hadean Lands is a text adventure renowned for being good but tough. It’s been around for a couple years, and it just got a Steam release. Steam, of course, supports DLC. Hadean Lands’ developer decided to take advantage of that feature in an… unusual way. Hadean Lands itself is only $12, but if you want,…