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Osaka Castle Rooftop. Osaka, Japan. By Justin Weegar. 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

Lil’ Treasure Walker

Jing Zhang is a freelance artist from China. You can see more of Zhang’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Nintendo Switch Hacker Busted, Also Pleads Guilty To Child Pornography Charges

21 year-old Ryan Hernandez pleaded guilty last week to charges related to the 2016 theft of “confidential Nintendo files related to its consoles and games.” When his home was raided by the FBI last year, though, they also found “more than one thousand videos and images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” Hernandez was…

Track: Secret | Artist: Will.i.am | Album: Dexter’s Lab: The Hip-Hop Experiment

‘Shop Contest: Speaking Simulator

Earlier this week, Speaking Simulator was released. I’ve started to see videos and gifs of this game pop up in my Twitter timeline. It looks…odd. But the dude makes funny faces and funny faces are great for Photoshop contests so… Your challenge this week: Create some photos featuring the dude from Speaking Simulator. You can…

Sunday Comics: They Totally Suck!

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. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Jan. 30. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 27. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: RIP Mr. Peanut, Winners

Last weekend I gave you all the much-needed task of having some fun and enjoying the life of Mr. Peanut. He sadly died recently and I don’t expect he will return at all. Nope. Never. Our winning image this week comes from punxsutawneyphil who gives us the true Uncharted sequel we have all been wanting. I…

Get Back You Eight-Legged Freaks!

This week on Snapshots, too many creepy hands in Hellblade, getting slapped in Red Dead, cool-looking space ships in No Man’s Sky, breaking glass in Mirror’s Edge and dealing with a really big spider in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Yes, I’ve featured a lot of Star Wars photos in these first few Snapshots and…

Welcome To Hell, Garfield

Hello! This week we learn just how much money Ninja made switching to Mixer, play music using old TVs, learn more about Torchlight 3, watch a cool Cuphead fan video and see what Garfield is doing in Hell. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I understand WHY they aren’t making new singleplayer floors to…

Temtem, As Told By Steam Reviews

Pokémon Sword and Shield were solid and all, but there’s a new Pokémon sheriff in town. And by “in town,” I mean “on PC.” Also, it’s not called Pokémon. Temtem is, instead, a carefully crafted tribute to Game Freak and Nintendo’s monster-battling monolith. Steam users, for the most part, love it.  I’ve been dabbling in…

Sometimes Beating The Quest Is Its Own Reward (Because The Reward Sucks)

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk Hamilton and I brought on Kotaku staff writer Ethan Gach to talk about the state of Destiny 2. Players felt let down by the reward for solving the Corridors of Time puzzle, but hey, MMOs are always more about the journey than the rewards, right? Still, it’d be nice…

One Of The Most Annoying Parts Of Death Stranding Has Been Fixed

A new patch for Death Stranding went live today that finally makes the extended animation that takes place when encountering BTs completely optional. Death Stranding is a long game made even longer by the repetition of bespoke animations. One of said animations revolved around the Odradek Terrain Scanner, the strange-looking piece of equipment that hangs…

Survey Has Players Dreaming About PlayStation 4 Remote Play On The Switch

Some players are salivating over the possibility, however unlikely, of one day being able to use their Switches to remotely play PS4 games after Sony asked about it in a recent feedback survey. The survey apparently went out in an email to PS4 owners, a screenshot of which was provided to Kotaku by Reddit user…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for being on a home decorating kick. I decided I needed more decor with colors, only to buy a bunch of stuff in shades of gray. Gray is a color, right? The weekend is also for playing video games while occasionally wondering if my monochrome apartment looks classy or sad. While chatting…

Microsoft’s Bug Bounty Program Will Pay Players To Find Security Flaws In Xbox Live

Xbox Live has never suffered a major hack, and Microsoft would like to keep it that way, in part by rewarding people who report vulnerabilities in the gaming network with cash. “The Xbox Bounty Program invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and…

Track: Keep Tryin’ | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Keep Tryin’

Cloud Strife Looks Great In A Dress In Final Fantasy VII Remake

In the original Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife dons a dress as part of a rescue mission. Way back in 2015, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura said the character would once again wear a dress in the remake, and now the character finally shows off those threads. The original Honey Bee Inn looked like it was…

Golden Pavilion. Kyoto, Japan. By Ramón Avendaño Arechavala 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 Brian Ashcraft

Nintendo Says No New Switch Models Planned For 2020

Despite already announcing and releasing a new Switch model in 2019, rumors that Nintendo would release another variant of its latest console—a beefier, fancier “Pro” version—have refused to go away. So Nintendo has come out and just flat out said it: There are no new Switch models coming. At least in 2020. No doubt keen…

Maybe Just Run, Guys

Luis Carrasco is an artist who has worked on stuff like Solo, Jurassic World and The Revenant You can see more of Luis’ stuff at his personal site