Tobacco companies have a long history of co-opting symbols of masculinity/coolness/etc and tying them to smoking, because it encourages people, particularly those under 18, to smoke.

Motion capture tends to work in concert with hand animation, which builds off it. The more the design changes, the more they’re going to have to redo all that detailed work. Not to mention that if the face design changes significantly, its expressive range will change as well, which requires much more involved work to…

I played a lot of Hitman 2016 during a fallow period in the PS4 release schedule and had no end of fun pushing levels to their breaking point. At one point, I got into an endless fist fight with a guard, which managed to summon almost the entire level’s security detail to watch:

I looked it up on my phone, Sherlock

It’s not really my thing, but I know anime is part of Kotaku’s coverage and that’s cool. However, when you feature stuff like this I wish you’d use different judgment about the article image that appears on the main site. It frequently crosses a line where I don’t think that I can reasonably open Kotaku at work. The…

Use your eagle to scout out and tag any sharks before diving into any shipwrecks (there’s usually 3-4) and then shoot them with arrows from the safety of your boat. It only takes 1 or 2.

Assassins Creed Origins felt like a missed opportunity on that front — they could have got so much more out of the tension between being a Medjay (the last one?) who puts the people before himself and a father trying to avenge his son’s death, often at the expense of the people he’s sworn to protect. I mean the game…

Surely that’s what they’ve just done? Now that PUBG exists as a separate entity, Bluehole can do other things without its every decision being parsed in terms of what it means for the resources allocated to PUBG.

Hi Jason, What can you tell me about the game’s troubled development and what the story used to be before they abandoned 4 years’ worth of production to rebuild a minimum viable launch game in 18 months? More seriously, how many of these Destiny-type online franchises can the market sustain before we all have to quit…

Neymar’s also a CS:GO fan and has appeared at some events. He’s rumored to be a frequent player himself as well based on what’s reported to be his steam profile: https://steamcommunity.com/id/neyjuca

You can gather the lobby’s bounty of turrets and redeploy them all in the Trauma Centre entrance, where — with some judicious kiting — you can introduce ol’ flamy mcflameface to a salvo of bullets and the business end of your wrench if he’s still standing.

When your Helius points are equal to the sum of your Nexus and Remnant points, you can spend your minerals on unlocking an augmentation that will let you craft a helmet that unlocks a new combat ability that allows you to shoot different types of aliens, depending on which profile you’re using, while they’re still on…

In defence of the BBC, nature documentaries tend to be more of a large scale production, given the need to recruit or to send large numbers of highly-specialised crews all over the world to capture footage. There aren’t many independent nature production companies that can operate at the quality levels BBC Worldwide…

Kenji Lopez-Alt has a method that doesn’t involve a pressure-cooker and which gets the cooking time down to about 15 mins:

Will he tell us if there’s a light at the end of the carpal tunnel?

Having witnessed the post-announcement hype around NMS (Kotaku’s top-ranking game in pre-release death threats to Jason), they immediately seconded the finest minds in Busy Work™ from the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Division teams and charged them with rendering their talents algorithmically and applying them to the…

Did you read Kotaku UK’s mega-investigation into Star Citizen? They’re on the record publicly about the 32/64 thing:

Looking forward to listening to this! Perhaps it’s beyond the scope of your podcast, but I wondered if your research in the area had brought you into the orbit of Augustine of Hippo? It might that I’ve adopted someone else’s half-formed hunch, but the collapse of the Empire seems to bring a profound darkening to…

I can’t help but feel that Peter Molyneux foresaw this heavenly formula when he conceived his magnum opus the Cube. By giving the game away for free, it did not matter what mechanics were implemented nor what resolutions appeared in image or in narrative; only price mattered, providing the divide by zero necessary to…

I seem to remember Froome pulling a similar trick last year to stave off a late-Tour attack by Valverde and Quintana on a descent: