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Ask Dr. NerdLove: Is My Wife Emotionally Abusive?

Hello, all you little orgasm dermestid beetles, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help you take your relationship out of early access. This week, we’re talking about the moments in a person’s life that are the most incandescent, as we watch a good relationship go bad. How can you…

I’m Not Sure If Binging Life Is Strange 2 Is The Right Move

Working at Kotaku usually means that whenever a new game releases, you’re checking it out. It’s a constant churn with little downtime; you’re always rushing to see the next thing. I’ve made one exception this year for Life Is Strange 2. For some, it’s slipped under the radar. For me, I was waiting for the…

Track: Chime | Artist: Lucie, Too | Album: Chime EP

Feel The Beat. Jeonju, South Korea. By Christian Mata. 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!

Popular WoW Streamer Hires YouTubers Who Leeched Off His Stream To Run Official Channel

If you search any popular Twitch streamer’s name on YouTube, you’ll find countless videos scraped from their streams. Of these, some will likely come from the streamer, but many are the product of users who upload content that is not, strictly speaking, theirs. Recent YouTube changes, however, are apparently making that more difficult. Instead of…

Would You Like To See My Space Guns

Takayuki Satou is an artist from Japan. You can see more of Satou’s stuff at his ArtStation page

EA Lost Command & Conquer Announcer’s Voice Tapes, So She’s Re-Recording Them

In putting together the HD remake of Command & Conquer, EA went to get the old recordings of the game’s announcer, EVA, and couldn’t find them. No big deal, they just went got the original voice actor to re-record everything. Kia Huntzinger, a former employee at Westwood (the creators of C&C, RIP) was responsible for…

Everyone, Say Hi To Resident Evil’s Martin Sandwich

This is Martin. He’s “a skilled engineer and mechanic” who can “create traps to slow down or stun enemies” in Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil Resistance. So if you ever play the game and see a trap slow down or stun an enemy, make sure you remember to thank Martin. Martin Sandwich.

Valve Removes Nazi Steam Profiles After German Complaints

Far-right groups that often employed Nazi-inspired language have long been able to create ugly little dens on Steam without facing too much resistance. Last year, Valve quietly deleted many hate groups in the wake of sustained reporting from publications like Vice, but Steam’s owners weren’t comprehensive in their approach, leaving some questionable groups unscathed. Now…

Forza Horizon 4 Is Getting A 72-Car Battle Royale Mode

Racing through Britain’s pastoral countryside is about to become a matter of life and death. Forza Horizon 4’s December 12 update will add the series’ first-ever battle royale mode, called Eliminator, Playground Games announced during its developer livestream today. The new mode pits 72 players against one another in a race to the center of…

Mona Lisa Too Expensive? Now You Can Own Johnny Five Aces’ Original Concept Art

Internet historians, here’s your chance to own your own piece of internet history: concept art of Johnny Five Aces, main character of the legendarily shitty game concept The Zybourne Clock. The Zybourne Clock was an idea for a steampunk game about time travel proposed in 2003 in the forums of Something Awful, comedy website with…

New Fallout 76 Bugs Are Making Armor Weak And Weapons Brittle

It wouldn’t be a Fallout 76 patch if it didn’t introduce a few unusual new bugs, and yesterday’s update was no exception. Some players are discovering that reloading their weapons causes their defense stats to drop. The bug is pretty straightforward: A player reloads their weapon and then sees the defense stats for their some…

Breaking Down The Intense World Of Castlevania Speedrunning

Castlevania is a punishing game. Getting hit at the wrong time might mean plummeting to a frustrating death. It’s a classic that requires precision to finish. Speedrunners have been challenging it for years, and a new video breaks it down from the early days until now. Summoning Salt, who makes videos detailing the speedrunning history…

Floating. Tonle Sap River, Cambodia. By Vincent Boun. 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!

Dig The New Cloak, Link My Man

Teguh Rinaldi is a freelance artist from Indonesia You can see more of Teguh’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Grand Theft Auto V Is Getting A New Radio Station

Six years after its release, Rockstar is still fine-tuning Grand Theft Auto V’s radio lineup, with December 12 seeing the arrival of a new station hosted by Danny Brown called iFruit Radio. Artists featured include Travis Scott, Young Thug and Brown himself, while the highlights are probably: And: The station will be running on both…

Choose Your Own Adventure’s Owners Are Going After Some Indie Games

Chooseco, the company that owns the rights to the trademarked title Choose Your Own Adventure, has begun issuing takedown notices to indie games hosted on itch.io that have been using the term. While it’s understandable that folks could be thinking that Choose Your Own Adventure is more of a genre than a title, and/or that…

The First Epic Exclusives Are Now Arriving On Steam

In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death Stranding, Geoff Keighley touches down for the briefest of moments in December to host The Game Awards. Last year, this led to an announcement that was curious indeed: a store, from grumpy old mega-corporation…

All The Big Announcements From Nintendo’s Indie World

Today’s “Indie World” presentation from Nintendo was surprisingly packed full of big announcements, including sequels to indie Switch hits Axiom Verge and Golf Story. Here’s a rundown of the big stuff you missed if you weren’t watching along. Developer Tom Happ showed a short look at Axiom Verge 2, which  will be available in the…

Axiom Verge is getting a sequel. Axiom Verge 2 was just announced during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, and is coming Fall of 2020. It looks….like Axiom Verge! Hooray!