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Track: Tokyo wa yoru no 7-ji | Artist: Pizzicato Five | Album: The Band of the 20th Century: Nippon Columbia Years 1991-2001

In The City. Osaka, 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!

The Ultimate Crossover Event

Kontorn Boonyanate is an artist from Thailand whose action figure style has me feeling all gloomy about Disney Infinity again You can see more of Kontorn’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Data Suggests Most Steam Users’ PCs Aren’t Ready To Play Half-Life: Alyx

Deep-pocketed companies like Valve and Oculus have been pushing virtual reality for years, but mainstream interest in the practice of strapping video games to one’s eyeballs has remained relatively low. Half-Life: Alyx seems primed to give a whole new audience a very valid reason to hover a hesitant finger over a headset’s Buy button and…

The Pokémon Company Wants To Hunt Leakers On 4Chan, Discord

Earlier this month, before the game’s release, leaked images of Pokémon Sword & Shield starting turning up online. That’s pretty normal for a big video game, but The Pokémon Company are taking the matter very seriously, so seriously that they’re asking a court if they can serve subpoenas on 4chan and Discord. As reported by…

Battleborn Is Shutting Down In 2021

Despite a small crowd of diehards who went so far as to organize events in an attempt to save the game, Battleborn seems destined to go down in history as a high-profile flop. Two years ago, developer Gearbox halted updates to the already-shot hero shooter. Today, publisher 2K announced plans to sunset the game entirely.…

Why Does This Jedi: Fallen Order Mod Look Like Joe Jonas

The most popular mod for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order right now is a rework of the lead character’s face. It has the unintended effect of making him look like Joe Jonas. Two things are immediately apparent upon seeing Cal Kestis: he is definitely a Jedi, and he’s extremely ginger. The “Better Call Cal” mod…

Fallout 76 Players Can’t Shoot Pacifists, So They’re Nuking Them Instead

In Fallout 76, other players are only supposed to be able to kill you if you shoot back, but there are ways to game the system, the latest of which involves killing bystanders with radiation poisoning. There are so many ways to die in Fallout 76, from being blown up by Scorchbeasts to glitching through…

How To Play Video Games Without Messing Up Your Body

It’s obvious that parking your butt on the couch for several hours straight playing a game isn’t good for you, but sometimes it’s hard to resist. Here’s how to do it without messing up your body. This piece originally appeared 4/2/18. Drink Water And Snack Healthy Dr. Caitlin McGee, a physical therapist that works with…

The Week In Games: 20 Nights At Freddy’s

November is almost over and the month is leaving with a final, quiet week. Not much releasing this month. But for fans of the Five Nights At Freddy’s games, I’ve got good news. The first four games in the popular horror franchise are arriving on Switch this week. The release of these FNAF games on…

Destiny‘s Bad Juju Is Now In Borderlands 3

Over the weekend players discovered Good Juju, Borderlands 3’s response to Destiny’s exotic pulse rifle Bad Juju. The Legendary assault rifle was added to the game last week as part of its Maliwan Takedown update and is instantly recognizable to anyone who’s spent time with Bungie’s loot shooter. In addition to Good Juju looking an…

Track: Step | Artist: Hitsujibungaku | Album: At the End of the Tunnel, We Saw the Light

Lake Biwa. Shiga, Japan. By Brian Ashcraft | Twitter 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!

Summer Vibes

Yeonji Rhee is a Korean artist who has worked for companies like NCSoft. You can see more of Yeonji’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Tech-Com: 2029 is an in-development, fan-made game that’s looking to focus solely on the best parts of the entire Terminator series: the all-too-brief shots of the dystopian future war between man and machine as shown in the 1984 original. 

New Gran Turismo x Lamborghini Collab Looks Like A Batmobile From 2076

This is Lamborghini’s Vision GT, a new car unveiled in the flesh tonight at the Gran Turismo Championship World Finals in Monaco. It looks like something Bruce Wayne would take to an open track day, but despite this physical unveiling, the car is actually only going to be made digitally inside Gran Turismo Sport The…

Track: Don’t Be So Serious | Artist: Low Roar | Album: Once In A Long, Long While… (Yes, I played a lot of Death Stranding lately..)

‘Shop Contest: The Poké Ball Guy

From the moment I first saw the Poke Ball Guy I knew he was trouble. And I also knew he needed to get his very own ‘Shop Contest. So here we are. He’s out on parole and free to go on new adventures. Your Challenge This Week: Spread the horror of Poke Ball Guy to…

Sunday Comics: JUMP!

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 Nov. 21. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Sonic Returns, Winners!

We can never escape Sonic. He always returns. Last week, after the new Sonic The Hedgehog the movie trailer was released, I decided to once again throw a Sonic-themed contest. I regret this. Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who shows us a scene from the upcoming re-release of The Lord Of The…