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Track: Grace Kelly | Album: Life in Cartoon Motion | Artist: Mika Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Watch The Week-Long Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 Marathon Right Here

The 2015 Awesome Games Done Quickmarathon kicked off yesterday, with an entire week of non-stop gaming speedruns benefiting thePrevent Cancer Foundation. This year the assembled speedrunners are playing *checks schedule* everything. The action kicked off at noon Eastern time Sunday with a run through Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze and finishing off on Saturday evening…

In Space, No One Can Hear Your Gnarly Missile Jumps

We last featuredNick Carver’s work in 2012, when he was still involved in what would become Blizzard’s Overwatch. He’s since moved onto something with more robots in it. While still at Blizzard, in his spare time he’s now working on a project called Bounty Hacker, which will hopefully one day be a video game but…

Killer Metal Gear Cosplay Is A Straight-Shooter

Rick Boer, King of Metal Gear Cosplay, returns with a new take on the series that leaves his regular Snake gig behind for someone a little fancier. If you think this Revolver Ocelot shoot has been heavily photoshopped, nope. That’s hardcore make-up work, all of it applied by Boer himself. Photos here taken by Nathalie…

The Week In Games: Happy New Year?

Unless you own a PlayStation 3 or Vita, you can skip the next few weeks. Truth be told, there are plenty of lovely indie games coming out on Steam over the next couple of weeks, but if I tried to keep track of every upcoming Steam release I would go insane. And so I stick…

Sunday Comics: Scanning For Loot

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 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Track: I Can Lift A Car | Artist: Walk the Moon | Album: Walk the Moon Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Swooning Over A Beautifully Restored Sega Dreamcast Display 

How could a gaming system with this powerful a retail presence possibly fail? Jason Brassard of Fenton, Missouri has a pretty amazing collection of old-school video games, but as the folks at the Sega Channel pan over his cavern of wonders, the eyes are inexorably drawn to his crown jewel — a lovingly restored retail…

The Cupcakeceratops And Other Delicious Dinosaur Mash-Ups

Snacktaku is always on the lookout for new things to eat, but we also accept new ways to eat old things. Spanish artist Alejo Malia‘s mouthwateringJurassic Sweet series fits the bill quite nicely. Any couple hundred people want to split a Donutsaurus Rex? One of the most difficult questions posed to dinosaur-studying scientists (dinologists is…

NPC Is Unaware She’s Dead

Today on the first Highlight Reel of 2015 we have explosive door physics, some good gunplay in the Halo 5: Guardians Beta and soothing surfing in CS: GO. 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…

Ocarina Of Time Has A New Speedrunning Champion

Accomplished Zelda speedrunner Cosmo, who’s been regarded as the world’s fastest Ocarina of Time player for a while now, has some serious competition. One of his fellow OoT racers recently dethroned him by shaving three seconds off the previous world record of 18 minutes and ten seconds. The new 18:07 record was set this week…

Australian Christmas Is Hot, Weird (And Apocalyptic)

Christmas in Australia is weird. It’s the middle of summer, but folks still want to eat hot turkey, and there are pictures of snow everywhere. It’d be nice if we could just be more real about it. Like this mad Max-inspired image by Russian artist Igor Sid. You can see more of Sid’s work at…

Mad Moxxi, In The Flesh

I’ve seen plenty of folks cosplay as Mad Moxxi, but none have pulled it off quite like Mono Abel has in this shoot. I think it’s the pub. More cosplay shoots in pubs, please. Photos by Dzeta&Aiger, make-up by veorteya. You can see more of Mono Abel’s cosplay here, including a killer Fallout 3 outfit

A Year’s Worth Of Dating Advice For The Modern Geek

Love may be a many splendored thing, but that doesn’t mean we don’t screw it up from time to time. This year, we decided to hire a guy who might help with that. Ever since his first column last January, Harris “Dr. Nerdlove” O’Malley has been visiting Kotaku every two weeks to dole out relationship…

Track: Ima Read | Artist: Zebra Katz, ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx | Album: Single Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Cancelled BioShock Movie At Least Looked The Part

The latest images to be released were done by Kasra Farahani, an artist who has worked on everything from War of the Worlds to Thor to Avatar

Mass Effect Cosplay So Good You’ll Think It’s From A Movie

If there’s a point you cease cosplaying as a character and start actually becoming them, Jen from Soylent Cosplay is pretty much there with this Liara T’Soni outfit. Well, “outfit” doesn’t really do the whole thing justice, because while the outfit itself is great, it’s the make-up and prosthetic work that steals the show. If…

Robot? I Prefer The Term “Gun With Legs”

Andrew Averkin is a freelance 3D artist who has most recently worked on games like Far Cry 4 and Halo’s Master Chief Collection. You can see more of Andrew’s art at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…

Guy Robs Store In GTA V With Nothing But A Snowball

2014 is almost over, and we’re ringing in the final Highlight Reel of the year with some great clips from all over. We have anti-gravity Sportsfriends plays, a snowball-fueled GTA V heist and a Battlefield clip that would make Michael Bay proud. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the…

Modern Japan, Illustrated

Mateusz Urbanowicz, aka Mattō, is a Polish artist currently working in Japan at Comix Wave Films animation studio. Which explains not just the focus on Japan in his portfolio, but how he gets past the cliches of cherry blossoms and neon lights and is able to capture some of the more everyday aspects of life.…