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Sleepless Nights

Alone Lee is an artist based in China. You can see more of Lee’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Real Overwatch Loot Box Opens, Reveals 100% Chance Of Marriage Proposal

I’m not sure what this says about the odds of a successful union, but it’s at least a very nice way to spend big on an engagement. When Gavin Carter—a producer on Fallout 3 and Halo 4—wanted to propose to his girlfriend recently, he didn’t want to do things the old fashioned way. Instead, he…

One Way To Beat This Upcoming Puzzle Game Is To Wait 400 Days

In 2012, the game developer Anselm Pyta visited a cave in Germany. This tangle of caverns, lakes and grottos, called The Barbarossa Cave, is tied to a legend of a former emperor who sleeps there until he awakes to become the King of Germany once more. In the legend the king had a servant who…

A Closer Look At Dark Souls‘ Most Difficult Player-Created Challenges

Dark Souls’ gloomy world and difficult battles appeal to players and writers alike. One of the deepest dives is You Died: The Dark Souls Companion, written by Jason Killingsworth and long-time Kotaku contributor Keza MacDonald. The original released in 2016 but a brand-new Kickstarter for a hardcover version places it all into a package that…

The original art of Johnny Five Aces from the hilarious and failed steampunk video game venture The Zybourne Clock has sold for $5,100 Remember to keep any of the dumb bullshit you put on the internet just in case you think you’ll be able to use five grand in the future.

Track: Last Christmas (Official 4K Video) | Artist: Wham! | Album: Last Christmas

A Great Distillery. Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. By Brian Ashcraft. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Lone Wolf & Cub

Luigi Lucarelli is a character and concept artist who has done work for companies like Disney, Universal and Hasbro. You can see more of Luigi’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Luigi’s Mansion 3 is getting a $10 season pass. Two multiplayer DLC packs will each include three extra costumes for ScareScraper and three new mini-games for ScreamPark. The first will launch by April 30; the second by July 31. You can pre-buy them both starting today and get a new Polterpup flashlight for all modes.

Total War: Three Kingdoms’ next DLC chapter pack is a prequel called Mandate of Heaven. In a neat touch, your playthrough of the prequel can then carry over into the main game.

Life Is Strange 2 Is About Finding The Meaning Of ‘Family’

Life Is Strange 2 is a game about finding your family, as well as figuring out what “family” means. “It’s a question that I, myself, don’t have an answer to,” Dontnod lead writer Jean-Luc Cano told Kotaku over the phone. “But [the game] is showing that family is where you love to be.” In Life…

Borderlands 3 Comes To Stadia, But It’s A Two Month Old Version

Borderlands 3 is out on Stadia today, but there’s one problem: it’s an older version of the game, which doesn’t include the latest updates. “At launch, the Stadia version of the game will reflect all updates and fixes that were released through October 24,” Google said in a press release today. October 24 marked the…

‘Nintendo Play Station’ Prototype Will Be Auctioned Off In February

The original prototype of the PlayStation—a Super Nintendo with a CD-ROM drive attached, created via a partnership between Sony and Nintendo—will be auctioned in February via Heritage Auctions, the company has said. Its owner has turned down million-dollar offers for it in the past. Now the market will decide the price. Properly known as the…

Fall Asleep To The Soothing Sounds Of Shovel Knight

Scarlet Moon Records’ “Prescription for Sleep” series remixes video game music into jazzy lullabies perfect for sleeping, napping, or chilling. In the latest release, Prescription for Sleep: Shovel Knight, performers Gentle Love work their magic on 20 tracks, including music from the game’s latest expansion, King of Cards. Have a listen. In creating Prescription for…

Custom World Of Warcraft PC Cases For The Horde (And The Alliance)

Having created PC cases based on Fallout and PUBG, hardware maker NZXT teams up with Blizzard for the latest limited edition enclosures in its CRFT series. The $200 World of Warcraft H510 is a gorgeous crimson beast of a PC case. It also comes in blue. NZXT’s H510 is one of my favorite PC enclosures,…

New Sony Gadget Adds Two More Buttons To The Dualshock 4

One of the most prevalent features in high-end third-party PlayStation 4 controllers is rear paddle buttons. Sony’s new Back Button Attachment, coming in January for $30, adds a pair of programmable buttons to the back of the Dualshock 4. The Back Button Attachment, announced today via the PlayStation Blog, connects to the bottom of the…

Track: Saisei | Artist: Perfume | Album: Shijinsou no Satsujin OST

City Lights. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr  JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

A Dragon Riding A Dinosaur

Cindy Avelino is a concept artist and illustrator based in Brazil. You can see more of Cindy’s stuff at her Behanceand ArtStationpages.

One Man’s Quest To Collect Every Classic PC Game In Existence

They’ve been outdated since the arrival of Windows 95, and aren’t always easy to get running on a modern PC. But MS-DOS games—those designed to launch from Microsoft’s old text-based operating system—are still very much worth preserving. One man is on a quest to archive every single one of them, from the biggest project down…