Look At This Batman Ninja Action Figure

Good Smile has made a couple of Figmas based on the Batman Ninja anime, and they are absolute works of art. There are two available, a regular one and a “Sengoku Edition” special figure. Both will be out early 2019, and should set you back $80-100 from importers. I haven’t seen the anime, but the…

Doom‘s John Carmack Opens Up About Working With Steve Jobs

Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world. The iPhone has an install base of over 700 million people. And yet the company has always had a fraught relationship to gaming. Mac users know the pain of needing to run alternate operating systems to play popular PC games well. In a new…

Scoundrel is a side-scrolling roguelite mashed up with Thief-style skulduggery. It’s a “pure stealth” game in which you lighten showy Lords’ too-heavy pockets while avoiding guards, traps, and civilians. There are classes and character progression, but if you die, it’s back to square one. It’ll be out on PC this year.

Let Us All Remember The Great F-Zero GX

I play Gran Turismo games because they’re like an interactive version of a glossy car brochure. Others, like Dirt, I play for the sensation of barely keeping in control of a car that looks a lot like the one actually parked in my garage. But then there’s F-Zero GX Released in 2003 for the Nintendo…

The Boy From The Stars

Kittisak Ismaale is a concept artist and graphic designer from Bangkok, Thailand. You can see more of Ismaale’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best…

If The Witcher 3’s Ciri Was In Overwatch…

A simple crossover idea, one that 3D artist Agelos Apostolopoulos is only too happy to indulge. I guess she could zip around like Tracer? Only instead of snappy British one-liners she’d just slaughter everyone, then break our hearts It’s not just that image either, he actually built the model: You can see more of Agelos’…

Fan Project To Remake Diablo II Using StarCraft II Is Now Playable

The Curse of Tristram: Destruction’s End, a mod that takes the main campaign of Diablo II and recreates it using the StarCraft II engine, has been four years in the making. This weekend, creator Etienne Godbout finally released a playable version to the public on a test server. The good news is, it works. While…

Thanos Seizes The Infinity Shrub

Today on Highlight Reel we have Zelda moments, Far Cry 5 streaks, Harry Potter horror, 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! Catch up…

Former Overwatch Pro Continues To Be A Self-Own Machine

Former Overwatch League problem child Félix “xQc” Lengyel was streaming last night when he ended up in the same match as a frighteningly skilled Widowmaker player going by the handle “Kannagang.” When players on the other team suggested that he might be cheating, xQc investigated by looking at his player profile. “Yeah, he’s a hacker,”…

New Breath Of The Wild Glitch Lets You Instantly Recharge Rune Powers

A new glitch for Breath of the Wild helps break the game for casual players and speedrunners alike. A few quick buttons presses in the pause menu can recharge runes, making it easy for anyone to conquer some of the game’s toughest hurdles. Everyone playing Breath of the Wild has found themselves wishing they had…

Rumors Suggest That Retro Studios Is Making A Star Fox Racing Game

A piping hot new E3 rumor suggests that Retro Studios, the Nintendo-owned developer behind the Metroid Prime trilogy, is making a Star Fox racing game. These rumors have been floating around gossipy Nintendo fan and writer circles for at least a few weeks now, but they’ve only gone public today, suggesting that Retro’s new game…

What Stops Women From Going Pro In Esports

Cecilia D’Anastasio: So Nintendo invited a bunch of Super Smash Bros. pros to showcase Smash 5 at E3 this year! And among some of my favorites—Armada, Zero and Hungrybox—are exactly no women. I didn’t notice an outcry. Frankly, it was about as surprising as walking outside and noticing the sky, which was very much not…

Angels With Scaly Wings Is More Murder And Less Dragon Sex Than I Expected

What I was expecting from Angels With Scaly Wings was something like Persona 4, but with fewer confusing dungeon crawls and a lot more dragons making out. What I got was Phoenix Wright, but with even less sexual tension. Angels With Scaly Wings, a game by Radical Phi that is currently out on Steam, bills…

The Worst Song Won Eurovision

This year’s Eurovision was one of the best in recent memory, with the worst possible result. Eurovision is a song contest between countries from the European Broadcasting Union. Each participating country sends one original song to an hours long concert, and then through a combination of a jury of music professionals and a live televote,…

Radical Heights Developer Boss Key Games Shuts Down

Boss Key Productions, the studio behind the recent battle royale Radical Heights and last year’s Lawbreakers, is closing its doors. The news comes from studio co-founder Cliff Bleszinski, previously of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament fame, who said that Lawbreakers had “failed to gain traction” and described Radical Heights, which launched last month to…

A Game Where You Can Eat Your Dates

Appeeling Personality is a dating sim where you can date bananas. It’s a lot like swiping through bad profiles on Tinder, except you eat all the creeps and losers. The incredibly normal premise of Appeeling Personality is that you’re at a banana eating competition. Having come on an empty stomach, you start hallucinating that the…

Hundreds Of Fortnite Players Are Calling A Store Named ‘Epic Loot Games’

Like many customer support reps for Fortnite developer Epic Games, Hunter Davies has heard from hundreds of anxious, frustrated, and furious Fortnite players. Problem is, Hunter Davies doesn’t work for Epic Games. He works for Epic Loot Games, a small hobby shop in an Ohio strip mall that has received a great deal of unwanted…