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Player Creates Crowd-Sourced Trash Talk Generator For Steam Games

For many players, friendly (or unfriendly) trash talk is as much a part of competitive games as, well, gaming. Truly clever quipping, however, ain’t easy, so one Steam user decided to crowdsource an automated trash talk generator. This being the Internet, things of course went horribly wrong—at least, at first. Davis Ford’s Shittalk Generator allows…

One-Handed Transformers: Devastation Speedrun Lights Our Darkest 45 Minutes

Here we see speedrunner Halfcoordinated taking out the Autobots’ most feared enemy with one punch during his Awesome Games Done Quick run of Transformers: Devastation on its highest difficulty level. That’d be an impressive feat even if he were playing with both hands. But Halfcoordinated is not playing with both hands. He’s playing with one…

SOMA Mod Stops Monsters From Attacking, Improves The Game

SOMA is a contemplative horror game dripping with psychological, oftentimes existential dread. It’s also about running from scary monsters. Surprisingly, however, stripping out that second part actually makes the game more enjoyable and, in some ways, scarier. The Dreamer’s rather derisively named Wuss Mode: Monsters Won’t Attack mod is actually really cool. They describe it…

FIFA Celebration Gets A Little Out Of Hand

Today on Highlight Reel we have wrestling confusion, Just Cause 3 explosions, dog warping, good goals and much more! Watch the video above, 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. Just Cause 3 – Heads up –…

Track: The Witcher 3 Cover: Priscilla’s Song – The Wolven Storm | Artist: Malukah | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Mortal Kombat Cosplay Is Ripping Out Hearts

Costume? Check. Make-up? Check. Bloody organ? Check. Kotal Khan cosplay by Yeliz, photos by SLDixon

The Art Of Fable Legends

Normally, we get to see concept art from a game after it’s been released. With Fable Legends, though, the art book is out months before the game. It’s by Titan Books, and if Fable’s bright colours and big boots are your thing, you can order a copy here Below you’ll find a selection of some…

Undertale Creator: It’s OK If People Dislike The Game 

As I mentioned in my Undertale review, the game’s fans can be a bit… insistent. “You can’t dislike it! That’s not possible!” That kind of thing. I get it. To an extent, I am one of those people. But, as these things often do, it’s resulted in some heated exchanges. Undertale fans are dedicated. They…

The Steam Winter Sale Is Over, But People Are Still Hunting For Clues

Shortly after the big Steam winter sale kicked off, intrepid users started sleuthing around, believing that they’d latched onto some kind of alternate reality game (or ARG, for short). Surprisingly, they ended up finding a secret search bar within Steam, as well as other hints. But… that’s it. And now it’s over. When I first…

Five Cool Steam Games I Played Over The Holidays

This holiday season, I received the most precious gift of all: a bit of free time. I ended up using it mostly to play an ungodly amount of Fallout 4 (it’s alright), but also to check out a handful of Steam games from last year that I never quite got around to. While I haven’t…

Fallout 3 Beaten In Under 15 Minutes, A New World Record

Watch as one gamer blazes through the capital wasteland in the time it takes most of us to deliberate over a single SPECIAL point. Phenomenal. The latest world record playthrough of Fallout 3 “any percentage” was attained by Rydou a few days ago, and you can watch the 14:54 run below. It’s the first time…

Track: One Night in Neo Kobe City | Artist: Konami Kukeiha Club | Album: Snatcher Original Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Nice Wheels

Jan Urschel is an artist who worked on the sadly-cancelled Star Wars: 1313. He’s also worked for companies like Marvel, EA, Sony, Microsoft and Ubisoft across both games and film. We featured Jan’s work back in 2012, but since that was four years ago, I figured it’s time for a showcase of some more recent…

Nice League Cosplay

There’s a lot of good League of Legends cosplay out there, but Kenny Chan’s experience with props and armour (and Matt Eleven’s fantastic photos) really set this Garen outfit apart.

We’ve seen the best cosplay stills of 2015, but how about a change of pace? This video by Mineralblu recounts the twelve cons he attended this year, from Comic-Con to PAX South to Katsucon.

The Week In Games: The Best Games Of 2016 (So Far)

At a time when everyone is debating which games were the best released during the year previous, it’s good to have some certainty. For a brief, shining moment, the games released this week are the best games of 2016. And that’s great, because we generally completely forget about these by the time late December rolls…

Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard, Reporting For Duty

Lureagets the “box art” Femshep just right. Photos by HM

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2015 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza: Winners! 

The winner ofthe final Kotaku ‘Shop Contest of 2015 took everything we loved about the original ‘Shop Contests and combined them into one highly derivative yet incredibly entertaining image. Congratulations, J.J. Abrams! Oh wait, sorry. Got mixed up. Congratulations Ginger Snap, who could be J.J. Abrams for all we know, though it’s highly unlikely. Not…

The In-N-Out Burger Pie Is Wrong On Many Levels

Packed with famous burgers,cheese, fries, more cheese, sauce, grilled onions and some cheese, one slice ofFoodbeast’s In-N-Out Burger Pie contains roughly all of the calories, but that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that I live in the Southeast and haven’t had the chance to taste an In-N-Out burger since I went to…

Sunday Comics: Happy Blue Fear

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 January 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…