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Cosplay Superstars Team Up, Eyeballs Are In Danger

Darshelle Stevens is one of the best cosplay photographers around. Lyz Brickley is one of the best cosplayers around. Good things happen when the two work together. This gallery showcases some of their best work from over the past few years, where they’ve covered everything from Neon Genesis to Final Fantasy to League of Legends…

Six Years Later, Bad Rats Is Still Known As Steam’s Shittiest Game

There are shitty games, and then there are legends. And then there’s Bad Rats Bad Rats: The Rats’ Revenge, a not very good physics puzzle game, is all of those things. It’s definitely bad, but it’s somehow evolved into an integral part of Steam culture—a curiosity, a joke, a sly nod shared between conspirators in…

That’s Not How Walking Works

On today’s Highlight Reel we have silly walks, knife streaks, home run beheadings, bacon and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Destiny – Fallen ships falls through floor –…

No foam or cardboard here. JaroKrieg’s Jaster Mereel suit is made from aluminium plates! Photo by DarthInvidia

Bastion’s Hammer, Made Real

Supergiant Games, the developers of Bastion, needed someone to build them an actual replica of the Cael Hammer from the game. So they turned to Harrison Krix. Krix, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, certainly delivered. With a bigger, more detailed 3D model of the hammer to work from than that used for the actual…

Giant Witcher 3 Sculpture Is As Handsome As Geralt

Tomek Radziewicz is a concept artist, but he’s also a sculptor, and he’s recently done some work on The Witcher III that’s a little more tangible than a lot of the stuff we normally post here on Fine Art. This amazing sculpture was designed and built by Radziewicz (with help from Arthur Wochniak), and now…

One DOTA Player’s Choice: Be A Pro Gamer, Or A Biomedical Engineer

Brian “BananaSlamJamma” Canavan has two options: master DOTA 2 and follow his dream, or finish out his degree in biomedical engineering and help the world. He can’t do both. Canavan, despite already having the best nickname in the sport, is only just getting started as a pro DOTA 2 player. He’s still in college, but…

Trevor’s On Top Of The World

Video game photo wizard Berdu used Grand Theft Auto V’s PC version to create this stunning shot of Trevor standing atop, well, everything. To quote you, everyone you know, and The President right now: “Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.” Here’s the full thing at a higher resolution: Check out more of Berdu’s work on his website The Steam Community…

DOTA 2 Community Mourns The Passing Of Beloved Player

FiercE was the sort of person the DOTA community needs more of: someone who wanted to help others learn how to have fun with the game. Once upon a time FiercE was a bigtime DOTA 1 pro, but more recently he became known for both his educational DOTA 2 videos—which many players cite as essential…

I Left Clicker Heroes Running All Night, And Here’s What Happened

What you’re witnessing is monsters dying as fast as they’re spawning. I couldn’t even click them. For the uninitiated, Clicker Heroes is a massively popular Steam game that nearly plays itself. Monsters appear on screen, and then you click them until they die. Or they die on their own, more quickly depending on your total…

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Clicker Heroes Is Super Popular On Steam… For Some Reason

Grand Theft Auto V DOTA 2. The Witcher 3. Those are some of the most played games on Steam right now. And then there’s Clicker Heroes… for some reason. As spotted by PCGamesN, Clicker Heroes is a clicking game (think Cookie Clicker) that somehow had 40,000 people playing it on Steam today. At the same…

When A GTA Heist Comes Together

On today’s Highlight Reel we have heists, easy Bioshock splicers, canons, unconventional knock downs, exploding Diablo creatures and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea…

Lost Planet Toys Are Better Than Most Lost Planet Games

Before the folks at Toy Notch got in touch with me about checking out their latest figures, I had nearly forgotten that Capcom’s Lost Planet series was a thing. This is how they remind me. Technically it was my pals at Toy Dojo who reminded me during a conversation about Transformers (most of my conversations).…

The Week In Games: Who Witches The Witchmen?

Just about everyone who can, I would think, with the rest playing Farming Simulator 15. Gird your loins, everybody, because The Witcher III: Wild Hunt is going to be completely inescapable for the next several weeks. Sure, we’ll get the odd Destiny expansion shout out, and maybe the third episode of Life is Strange will…

Sunday Comics: Spontaneous Cookie Generation

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 May 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Carl’s Jr. And Hardee’s Hot Dog-Topped Burger Solves A Serious Problem

As delicious as the court jester of the sausage world can be, fast food hot dogs are rarely worth the asking price. Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s have come up with an elegant solution to this age-old problem—they’ve turned the hot dog into a topping. I love a good hot dog. Hell, I love a bad…

Steam Game Wants To Be Diablo Meets Skyrim

Umbra, eh? I like the sound of this one. Problem is, it sounds almost too good to be true. Umbra is an action-RPG that aims to fuse the open-world freedom of Skyrim with the top-down hack ‘n’ slash combat and character progression of Diablo. It is also, as you may have noticed, gorgeous. It looks…

Triple Zombie Headshot, Aww Yeah

On today’s Highlight Reel we have heroic shots, Zombie headshots, GTA stunts, traffic jams and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Project CARS – Too many cars for Monaco –…