A mod years in the making launched just last Friday, and it was a launch so big it took Nexus Mods with it. Fallout: The Frontier is essentially a new game, built onto Fallout: New Vegas. The Frontier has been kicking around for several years, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a fair bit …
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Duncan Halleck is a concept artist and illustrator currently working on Utopia Syndrome, an upcoming point-and-click horror/adventure game. You can see more of Duncan’s stuff at his ArtStation page. Advertisement G/O Media may get a commission Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement
Screenshot: Valve / Kotaku Do you like GLaDOS, the homicidal, yet charming AI overlord of the Portal games? Do you also wish you could hear her sing the opening line from My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade?” Guess what? I got a website for you and your oddly specific dream. 15.ai is a site that lets …
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Image: The Pokemon Company / MonoArtan / Kotaku Last week, we got our first look at a new Pokemon plush Gengar toy that is also a bed and nightmare, rolled into one small package. Few things are more perfect for a Photoshop contest. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who created something called …
Screenshot: Moto Studios / Kotaku I liked the first two seasons of Community. Then I liked the third season a bit less and then I just stopped watching. But those first seasons were good and I loved those paintball episodes a lot. And what do you know, some folks who are clearly streets ahead, created …
Read moreCommunity’s Paintball Episodes Have Been Turned Into A Free Online Game
Screenshot: Thomas Happ Games LLC Axiom Verge, the bespoke Metroid-like developed solely by indie designer Thomas Happ, is still getting new content long after it originally came out. A new update will make the game feel like new every time you play by randomizing the order in which you get new weapons and unlock new …
Read moreAxiom Verge Gets ‘Sophisticated’ Randomizer Mode Six Years After Launch
Screenshot: Nintendo Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury | $60 | Amazon, Walmart, TargetSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and Tech Badge | $61 | Best BuySuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and Two Posters | $60 | GameStop The Nintendo Switch drought is almost over. While 2020 brought us Animal Crossing: …
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Screenshot: Bethesda The US Capitol was attacked and overrun by a right-wing and neo-confederate mob last week, and according to the FBI, groups loyal to President Trump are threatening to try to do it again during next week’s inauguration where President-Elect Joe Biden will be sworn in. Nerves are frayed, people are on edge, and …
Screenshot: X68000555 It’s common knowledge that fighting game sprites have grown larger and more refined as technology has improved, at least in those rare few games that still use them. But I never truly appreciated how big of a difference there is between the classics and their modern counterparts before now. Modder X68000555 has spent …
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Alfonso Maesa is an illustrator and concept artist from the Philippines. The images you’re seeing here have a strong techwear and/or streetwear vibe, imagining characters from stuff like Hades and The Witcher 3 as though they’d spent a few thousand bucks on their outfits instead of just throwing on some robes and having at it. …
Screenshot: Full Throttle Duncan Jones, director of movies like Warcraft and Moon, has spent his lockdown time better than most of us, writing a full-length “fan script” for classic 1995 adventure game Full Throttle. It’s pretty good! While it deviates in some parts and whips up some new material in others—the original game is a …
Read moreA Full Throttle Movie Script Has Been Written By Moon’s Director
Harold, they’re lesbians. Screenshot: Square Enix I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god the game is over, I am free now,” way that I felt finishing The Last Of Us 2—a game hellbent on holding on to you long …
Photo: Dhru J (Unsplash) Here’s a weird confession: Despite having made the jump from laptop to full PC years ago, I still don’t have computer speakers. For some reason, the thought never even crossed my mind. I figured I’d just always use a big pair of headphones while gaming or working. Now, about five years …
Gif: Return to Castle Monkey Ball Return to Castle Monkey Ball is what happens when you take two very different and beloved games and smash them together in a way that on paper sounds terrible, but which in practice is so very very excellent. Made by Nickireda, it’s a fantastic homage to both games, combining …
From artist The Sabby Life. Screenshot: YouTube/Disney This tribute to Disney and Pixar’s Soul is impressive, and even moreso when you find out how it was made. Virtual reality is a cool medium for a lot of things. One of those is art—programs like Tilt Brush let artists like That Sabby Life create three-dimensional art …
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Image: Gabe Carey Best Gaming DealsBest Gaming DealsThe best deals on games, consoles, and gaming accessories from around the web, updated daily. Featured Deal: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Pre-Orders | $11 Each | Amazon The best Funko Pop deals of January 2021 are here. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Funko Pop toys are absolutely ubiquitous. There’s …
Image: Nintendo / Kotaku A new year is here, and surprise! It’s already extremely bad—just like the last one. But maybe better things lie ahead. Or, you know, at the very least, we might get ambushed by some cool video games in addition to all the bad news bears that will inevitably emerge from the …
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Image: Bandai Oh hey, here’s a giant new Gengar plush, I wonder what happens when you roll its tongue out and oh no. Selling for $250, it’s pretty cool as an enormous plush, if collecting those is your thing. This is more than just a plush, though, as Gengar’s trademark tongue rolls out and is …
Gif: IO Interactive The Hitman series does a great job walking a fine line between very serious murder heisting and utterly ridiculous physics simulator. This juxtaposition is on perfectly display in the new Hitman 3 trailer showing off the game’s VR mode. For those not content to meddle in the lives of strangers in third-person, …
Read moreHitman 3 Trailer Shows Off The Trilogy In Irresistibly Goofy VR
Screenshot: Kotaku One of the darkest corners of my wheelhouse is the point where architecture and video games meet, so it’s great getting the chance—like I did today—to read some thoughts on the subject from someone who architecturally knows what they’re talking about. In a piece for The Architect’s Newspaper, Extra Office’s Ryan Scavnicky has …
Read moreAnd Now For An Architectural Criticism Of Cyberpunk 2077
The author and his cat, standing in for EddiePhoto: John Carruthers As a low-attention-span indoor kid, I had two great loves growing up. The first was American football—the Bears specifically, even though they sucked. In fact, despite my regular-degular height and Doug-Jones-in-Hellboy physique, I figured that one day I’d become a professional football player. A …
Read more“I am wooooounded”: A jaunty stroll through the official Frasier cookbook
Graphic: Gabe Carey, Giovanni Colantonio Top Pick: Mr. Monopoly in Jail | $11 | Amazon As someone who doesn’t pay any attention to Funko Pops, I’m always a little concerned by the staggering amount of products the company has. The seemingly infinite line of collectibles spans multiple decades of media, turning some of our favorite nerd …
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Shadow Of The Batgirl (DC Comics); A Map To The Sun (First Second); Séance Tea Party (Random House Graphic); Blue In Green (Image); She Would Feel The Same (ShortBox); Sports Is Hell (Koyama) From the shiny hardwood floor of a basketball court to the far reaches of space, this year’s best comics took readers to …
Photo: Giovanni Colantonio Because life wasn’t changing enough in 2020, I decided to get my first ever pet at the tail end of last year. My new partner in crime is a black and white little rescue named Mirah, who is an angel on Earth. Mirah is a pretty chill 1-year-old who’s unphased by just …
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Image: Bandai Namco / Hori Stuck in bed most days due to an ongoing medical condition and paralyzed from the chest down, I don’t have a lot of options for cardio exercise. Hand bikes, weights, and tension bands are boring. You know what’s not boring? Beating the hell out of Hori’s drum controller for Bandai …
Read moreMy New Exercise Regimen Is A Plastic Taiko Drum Controller
