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Track: A Dream Is All I Need To Get By | Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Album: This Is the Place EP

Late Night Snack. Tokyo, Japan. By Benoit Perreault | Official Site 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!

Track: Aim For The Head | Artist: Creature Feature | Album: Night Of The Demons (Offical Motion Picture Soundtrack) #SpookySongs

‘Shop Contest: Your Neo Cab Is Here

I really want to play Neo Cab. The game looks great and I love the concept of being the last human driver in a future city filled with auto cars and drones. But you know, cities are big and anyone can hail a cab. Not just residents of cyberpunk super city, but even other video…

Four New Games Were Added To Apple Arcade, Including The Surprise Release Of Pilgrims

Surprise! Last night, Apple added four new games to the Apple Arcade service, including the new game Pilgrims from Machinarium developer Amanita Design and the early release of The Bradwell Conspiracy. It seems Pilgrims was a complete surprise, being announced and released all at once. It’s described as a “playful adventure game” where players will have to…

Sunday Comics: Jelly

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 Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Oct. 3. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by…

Phantump Is The Spirit Of A Dead Child Inside A Tree Stump

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 Phantump! Phantump Details Type: Ghost/Grass Average Height: 1’04” Average Weight: 15.4 lbs. First Added In Generation VI It is…

Doom Looks Good As A Black And White Comic Book

Hello! This week we commit some goose crimes, make the new iPhone look cool, watch the new Medievil trailer, find out Cube World isn’t great, learn why online games have rough launches and get a whole new take on Doom Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Luckily, while we were waiting for Cube World…

Twitch Stars Are Becoming More Like Regular Celebrities, For Better Or Worse

These days, Twitch streaming is an avalanche that drowns potential viewers in a daily rush of new names and faces. No matter how much you watch Twitch, you’ll never be able to keep up with even a fraction of the tens of thousands of partners and their daily streams, which generally last multiple hours. As…

A Newcomer’s Guide To Destiny 2

This week, Destiny 2—Bungie’s long-running sci-fi shoot-and-loot extravaganza—got a thorough overhaul. With its Shadowkeep expansion, longtime players were introduced to some pretty extensive changes. For everyone else, Destiny 2: New Light took the base game and made it free-to-play, welcoming a host of new players to join in on the fight. If you’re one of…

Ms. Marvel Gets The Team Back Together In The Avengers Video Game

The first trailer for Square Enix’s upcoming Avengers game featured a female narrator that many fans thought sounded a lot like Inhuman fangirl Kamala Khan, AKA Ms. Marvel. They were right. Revealed during the Marvel Games panel at New York Comic-Con, Kamala Khan is indeed the voice narrating the original trailer, and she’s much more…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for being Mr. Autumn Man in the extreme. I’m going to wear a sweater, and make soup, and dig my blankets out of the closet. I’m also going to play some video games. I’m completely obsessed with Overland, even though I can’t make it to the third area no matter how hard…

If Only Ghost Recon Breakpoint Were More Like Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed games have gotten better and better at establishing a sense of place and filling that place with tons of satisfying, stealthy missions. After a few hours with Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo is still mostly just thinking about how much he likes Assassin’s Creed. On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we talk…

The Essentials From This Week’s Pokémon Sword And Shield Interviews

This week, Game Informer had a slew of interviews with the leads of the Pokémon Sword and Shield team at Game Freak. There’s a lot there, and some of the information has since been corrected or clarified, so here’s what you need to know. There’s Autosave, But You Can Turn It Off Traditionally, you’ve had…

Track: Wake Up | Artist: Arcade Fire | Album: Funeral 

A New Way Home. Tokyo, Japan. By Alex Knight | Twitter | Patreon  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!

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Marius Janusonis is a freelance concept artist from Lithuania. You can see more of Marius’ work at his ArtStation page

Teardown is a heist game where everything is destructible. Levels unfold in two phases: First, you bust up the level and build makeshift structures to create the most efficient pathway between objectives possible. Then you swipe an item and race against the clock to collect all the rest before security shows up. Hopefully, your procession…

It Took 12 People To Make This Giant Monster Hunter Cosplay

This enormous Grammeowster Chef is so big, and so detailed, that it took two studios—GSTQ Fashions (who we covered recently for their work on Dave Bautista’s final WWE outfit) and Wooden Leg Studios—to bring it to life. The cosplay was commissioned by Capcom for the company’s Monster Hunter display at PAX West, and stands over…

BlizzCon In-Game Loot Is One Of My Favorite Annual Gaming Traditions

People get excited about Blizzard’s annual fan convention for many reasons. Some look forward to meeting up with friends. Others are eager to hear news about upcoming games and expansions. Me? I’m mainly here for the ridiculous in-game items rolled out for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone every…