Seven individuals have been arrested in Japan related to a cheat tool for the Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle smartphone game. Only one individual was arrested for selling the app, while the others either made purchases, used the cheat app or were involved with proxy servers. One of those arrested is a high school student.
The Misty Road. Tribalj, Croatia. By Eduard Tucaković | 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!
Artur Mukhametov is a Russian concept artist who has been working in the games business since 2013. You can see more of Artur’s work at his ArtStation page
Other games have booths at TwitchCon, but Fortnite has an entire hall. I mean, of course it does. It’s Fortnite. At TwitchCon. Still quite a sight, though.
Read-Only Memory are taking John Szczepaniak’s excellent three-volume series The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, condensing it into one book and adding a bunch of new stories and art. The result is Japansoft: An Oral History, currently taking orders on Volume.
The excellent Two Point Hospital is adding a sandbox mode, which is good news for everyone sick of having to start over from scratch every time they progress to a new stage. It’ll be a free update, and will also let players unlock all tech and buildings for free play.
Track: Ringleader | Artist: Public Memory | Album: Wuthering Drum Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
I love a good Cities: Skylines time-lapse video, and this cinematic depiction of a city springing up from its designed bones by YouTube user Ben Barton leans into everything that makes the game great. I particularly like the way that the video moves around the different spaces of a Skylines city that often show up…
Charity streaming event Games Done Quick Express is still happening, and it will continue through this afternoon and into the early evening The automated hijinks of TASBot and a speedrun of Super Mario 64 are still coming up, so check it out
In a new episode of the YouTube show Boundary Break, host Shesez explores Silent Hill 3 to show off some of the stranger parts of the game. While I have ceased to be truly astonished by the weird ways that games are put together, this episode of Boundary Break digs into some strangeness around Silent…
Fallout 76 is Bethesda’s upcoming multiplayer wasteland domination experience, and there’s going to be a number of great things to discover in it. Your task is to depict those things. We all have memories of great experiences in games. I have nearly perfect sense memory of where I was when I crested the first hill…
Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about crunch, a complicated issue that affects us all in a lot of ways. Work-life balance can be a tricky thing for many people working in all sorts of fields, including video games. Kirk has spent the past week doing nothing but playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for his…
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 October 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published October 25. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
TwitchCon, I have learned from attendee and streamer Impactedpiko, has three Bob Ross cosplayers. They are trying to converge, but they haven’t succeeded yet. When it does happen, though, I think we’ll just kind of know, you know? And then somebody can immortalize the moment with a giant painting
“Pay us. Or do work. Be moderators. Or just, like, when people are shitty or transphobic or homophobic in your life, call them out. Put some of that labor on your shoulders so that we can keep working on surviving every day. And then we can thrive and travel into the brilliant gay future together,”…
I’m trying my luck at a big Magic: The Gathering tournament next weekend, and I’m struck by powerful indecision. Even at this late hour, I’m undecided on what deck I am actually going to play, and that’s got me more stressed than the actual tournament play in front of me. There are a few big…
Track: Soak | Artist: Zola Jesus | Album: Okovi Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
“I actually worry about that sometimes—whether or not the fact that I’m disabled causes potential viewers to shy away. You have to take that thought and just fold it up and put it in your back pocket and literally stream like there’s nobody watching,” said streamer AccessibleGamer during TwitchCon’s “Streaming With Disabilities” panel. You can…
Games Done Quick Express is going on right now. Benefiting the TwitchCon Charity Plaza, GDQ Express is a speedrunning event where people get together to go very fast. The schedule is available here, and you can watch live on Twitch
In a new video dedicated to the Glucoboy and the Didget gaming peripherals, game historian Kelsey Lewin digs into some blood-oriented devices. In the video, Lewin walks through the history of two devices that were made for the crossover audience of “people who need to test their blood glucose levels” and “people who love video…
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