The Week In Games: Jason Returns, Again

You can never really escape Jason Voorhees. The masked slasher from The Friday The 13th films is returning again this week. A new edition of The Friday The 13th game is heading to the Nintendo Switch. I wonder if in 20 or 30 years people will still be making and watching Jason films. How many…

Finally, A Nintendo 64 That Can Breathe Fire

This modded Nintendo 64 looks more like a botched entry for Robot Wars than a nice retro gaming console for people to gather around and play classics like Banjo-Kazooie. But it still works as a console—flamethrowers and all. It was spotted by Attract Mode and created by retro gaming YouTuber BitHead1000 He built a heavy-duty…

Watch A Dude Make Dragon Ball‘s Goku From Wood

Workshop Au Lac Wood Art does highly-detailed, traditional wood carvings in its native Vietnam. Instead of watching artisans carve a Buddhist deity, let’s watch one make a Goku! But first, take a moment to appreciate the artisan’s skills and dedication: Incredible, no? Below, those skills are brought to bear in creating this Goku wood carving.…

Man Threatens Square Enix With A Kyoto Animation Repeat, Gets Arrested

Forty-year-old Kenichi Hiratsuka has been arrested after allegedly sending a threatening message to Square Enix. Fuji Network News reports that the message was sent via Square Enix’s inquiry page. “Gimme my money back for your shitty game,” read the message. “Want me to do a repeat of Kyoto Animation?” In July, a suspected arsonist allegedly…

Imabari Shipyards. Ehime, Japan. By JC Fang.  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!

Fortnite’s Teenage World Champ Swatted Live On Stream

Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, the newly-crowned 16 year-old Fortnite World Cup solo champion, was playing the game in a stream last night when his home was “swatted” Because he streaming live on Twitch, we’ve got video recorded at the time the cops arrive, and in the middle of a game we can hear as he’s interrupted…

The Kids Are Alright

Darren Bartley is a concept artist based in the UK working in the video game business. Below you’ll see a ton of art from Tribal, an original IP Bartley has been dreaming up in his spare time. You can see more of Bartley’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Ninja Understandably Upset That His Old Twitch Channel Was Promoting A Porn Stream [Update]

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who recently left his 14 million-follower Twitch account behind to go and stream on rival platform Mixer, has issued a statement labelled “disgusted and so sorry” today after that now-dormant account—which he no longer operates—was promoting streams from other users, including one broadcasting pornography. Ninja obviously has no control over that Twitch…

Some Very Good Battle Angel Alita Cosplay

This is sixtutu, a cosplayer from China with a traditional take on Battle Angel Alita Photos by nigellizhe

Cooking Mama Has Gone Vegetarian

There’s a new Cooking Mama game coming to the Nintendo Switch via publishers Planet Digital Partners, pitched as a reboot for the series, and while the announcement was centred around some bizarre blockchain news, the most interesting part is that there’s now a new vegetarian mode to go alongside regular recipes that include meat. “New…

Steam Workshop Content Must Now Go Through An Approval Process

Valve has quietly changed the way the Steam Workshop handles new content and updates to existing content. Maps, weapons and other user-created items will now need to go through moderation and get approved before they can be downloaded by other players. This was first spotted on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive subreddit by PCGN. User TanookiSuit3…

Getting The Highest Score Possible In Mario Maker 2 Is Harder Than You Might Expect

If I asked you what is the highest possible score achievable in Super Mario Maker 2, you would assume 999,999,990. That’s usually how video games work. And technically you would be right. But actually reaching that perfect high score is basically impossible through normal gameplay, due to the limited amount of time players have in…

‘Shop Contest: Danny Trejo

Did you see the recent news about how Danny Trejo saw a car crash and jumped into action, saving a young child and then taking care of that kid until the scene was safe?That dude is cool. He should be in more video games! So… Your challenge this week: Put Danny Trejo in video games!…

The GTA San Andreas Mission That’s So Easy, There’s No Way To Fail It

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is filled with some famously annoying and difficult missions. Everyone knows of the infamous mission where the player is tasked with following a train while riding a dirtbike. Or the extremely hard Zero RC missions, which were so bad and challenging that Rockstar actually changed them in later versions of…

Sunday Comics: Maybe Later

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 July 29. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Aug. 1. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by…