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Sony Is Testing 16-Person Parties For PS4

Party chat on PS4 may be doubling, if an upcoming test by Sony is a success. The platform-holder announced today that users can sign up to beta test 16-person parties, up from the current limit of eight. Over on Xbox One, players can have 12-person parties, a quantity Microsoft bumped up from eight in 2015.…

Track: I Wanna Be Your Dog (Live Cover) | Artist: Sonic Youth with Iggy Pop | Album: (Original – The Stooges) 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!

Rainy Evening. Tokyo, Japan. By Samu | Instagram 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! 

Some Of Our Favorite Cosplay From Comicpalooza 2019

From May 10-12, The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston played host to the 2019 edition of Comicpalooza, one of the biggest games, anime and pop culture shows in the US. Alongside guests like Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke, thousands of cosplayers were in attendance, and we’ve captured a ton of their amazing work…

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Calder Moore is an artist from Canada. You can see more of Calder’s work at his ArtStation page

Artifact Designer Says It Failed Due To Cards-For-Money System, Review Bombs

Artifact was supposed to be so many things: Valve’s first proper video game in years. A marketplace that drew on the trading card traditions of yore and Valve’s cutting-edge community tech. A game with a player base of more than a 100 people at any given moment. Months after release, however, hardly anybody’s playing it,…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft (And Friends) Keep Their E3 2018 Promises?

E3 2019 is just around the corner, and it’s going to look very different this year without PlayStation. Before we look to the future and are blinded by the razzle-dazzle of trailers and announcements at this year’s event, we need to address what happened in 2018. As we ask every year: Did the three big…

Pokémon Direct, Overwatch League and E3 Kick Off This Week

This week we’re getting Pokémon details directly from Nintendo, as well as jumping back into the Overwatch League, rising from the ashes in X-Men, and kicking off E3 week on Saturday. Here’s your heads up about what’s making waves big and small this week in the world of games and beyond. Watch the video above,…

All I Want To Do Is Play 16-Bit Action RPGs

It was about two months ago when, reading the latest updates on the Sega Genesis Mini, I thought to myself: “Wouldn’t it be cool if the classic 16-bit action role-playing game Crusader of Centy was on this? That’s what I’d probably play first.” The next thing I thought was: “Idiot, you have a Mega SG!…

The Week In Games: Say, That’s A Nice Bike

A quiet week. E3 is getting closer and closer and as usual, game releases are slowing down during this time of the year. But for you fans of fast motorcycles, the season is just starting! MotoGP 19 is out later this week for most platforms. Vroom vroom! Or whatever noise a motorcycle going that fast…

Track: Maybe | Artist: Ring Saigo | Album: Book of Water (single) 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!

Adithep “GopGap” Imthalay is a character designer and illustrator from Thailand. You can see more of GopGap’s work at his ArtStation page

Track: Starboy | Artist: The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk| Album: Starboy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

‘Shop Contest: Death Stranding Baby

We finally have a release date for Death Stranding and it actually turns out this game is coming out and will soon be playable. WEIRD! The star of these past trailers hasn’t been Mads Mikkelsen or any other actors. Instead, the real star has been that strange baby in a bottle. Your challenge this week:…

Sunday Comics: Digital Toilet Paper

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 1. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by Luis…

‘Shop Contest: Let’s Make Our Own Splinter Cell Sequel, Winners!

Last week I asked you, fine folks of Kotaku, to pitch some Splinter Cell sequel ideas, but only crossovers. That’s how we make this series big again. I got some wonderful entries this week and hopefully, Ubisoft is watching. I think we got some really good ideas in here. The winning image this week comes…

Spoink Will Die If It Ever Stops Bouncing

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Spoink! Spoink Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 2‘04“ Average Weight: 67.5 lbs. First Added In Generation III Sometimes, Pokemon…

Shhh! Don’t Wake The Whales

Hello! Today we try to figure out what Death Stranding is, discuss pornography playing cards, prank The Master Chief, watch creepy whales and kill some Nazis. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here are a few of my favorites! I can…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for it not raining anymore, hopefully. It’s also for playing video games if it does rain (or even if it doesn’t). I’m super excited to start playing Outer Wilds, a game I’ve been following for years. There’s also, of course/always, so much more Witcher 3. Looks like I’m in for a fun…

Deciding Whether To Restart A Video Game Is My Latest Debilitating Crisis

Sometimes, life presents you with a choice that you just know is going to Change Everything. It’s in these moments that we must take decisive action, plunge headlong into the abyssal unknown with nothing but resolute self-belief to shield us from the grasping black. Anyway, it’s with this in mind that I tell you I’ve…