Ubisoft Executives Fined $1.2 Million For Insider Trading

French stock market regulators have issued sanctions against five Ubisoft employees for insider trading, fining them a total of €1.2 million (around $1.26 million). Ubisoft is appealing the judgement. The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), a body that monitors and regulates the French stock market, had accused Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat and four other…

Super Mario Run Won’t Be Playable Offline

Super Mario Run, a mobile game many would love to play while in the subway, will require an always-on internet connection. Bummer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario creator and the producer of Super Mario Run, told Mashable that the endless runner mobile game will require an internet connection to play on all of its modes. He said…

Guy Steals $1 Million From Work, Spends It On Bad Video Game

Kevin Lee Co, a 45 year-old man from Rocklin, California, pled guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering, having been caught stealing $4.8 million from his employer between 2008 and 2015. Some of which he spent rather poorly. Co, who used to work in the accounting department of Holt of California before being…

Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino

Live from New York, it’s Snacktaku, featuring special guest Cecilia D’Anastasio. Watch us drink Starbucks’ Pokémon Go marketing tie-in as we ponder whether or not they skinned the Pokémon before grinding them up. The video below was filmed in front of a very small studio audience at Kotaku headquarters in New York City, and was…

Kingdom Hearts PS4 Console Coming To Japan

To mark the release of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8, Sony is releasing a special Kingdom Hearts themed PlayStation 4 in Japan. According to 4Gamer, the console is available as either a 500GB or 1TB jet black PS4 and has a special Kingdom Hearts 15th anniversary top cover, which is also available separately for 2,000 yen…

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When You Gotta Fight A Space Battle At 12 Then Hit The Beach At 3

Ben Nicholas is an artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Adidas, 343 Studios (Halo) and Creative Assembly (Total War, Alien: Isolation). There’s a ton of amazing stuff here, but the Chris FOss-like starships at the top are just the best You can see more of Ben’s work at his ArtStation page To see…

A Beautiful Tribute To Racing Games (Using A Racing Game)

While at first glance these appear to be famous promotional images for classic racing games, they’re actually just a bunch of very well-staged Forza Horizon 3 screenshots. Made by EYui, you’ll probably recognize more than a few, whether you remember a game’s box art or an old ad in a magazine from the PS2 days.…

Rocket League Has A Use For The Macbook’s New Touch Bar

The next time you conclude that the Macbook’s new Touch Bar is only good for Apple commercials and Doom videos, remember that someone is using it for snappy Rocket League text chat. DemiPixel is the one working the macros, using a piece of software that lets you customise your Touch Bar’s behaviour. It…looks about as…

The Last Guardian’s Boy Is Dancing Like He’s Never Danced Before

Today on Highlight Reel we have Last Guardian dance parties, Titanfall 2 flag caps, NHL goals 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! Steep…

No One Can Hide From This Widowmaker Cosplay’s Sights

The only thing better than Overwatch cosplay is Overwatch skin cosplay This Huntress Widowmaker skin is by Moth Child, and is just fantastic. Photos byThe Nerdy Monkey

Gigantic, The One WIth The Cel-Shaded Bird Guy, Enters Open Beta

Announced back in 2014 with a bird person GIF so outstanding it had to be reused for this post, Motiga’s action MOBA Gigantic has launched into open beta on Xbox One and PC. It’s still rather pretty. You remember Gigantic, right? Unique look, giant creatures that fight alongside your team, sort of like an Offense…

Pewdiepie Hits 50 Million YouTube Subscribers, Says He’ll Delete Channel Today [UPDATE]

UPDATE 12/9 11:47 AM: Just as some predicted, Kjellberg trolled everyone by deleting his secondary channel. Last week, YouTube’s biggest star swore that once he hit 50 million subscribers, he was going to delete his popular video game comedy channel.Today, Felix Kjellberg hit that fated number…and the channel is still up. For now, he claims.…