A Cyberpunk Detective Game About Finding Rogue Androids

In Subserial Network, humanity as we know it doesn’t exist. Instead, synthetic beings populate the world. They live mostly normal lives. There’s only one rule: don’t connect yourself directly to the net. The synthetics who disobey are deemed “Subserials.” Your job is to hunt them down. Subserial Network is an investigation game where you need…

Introducing Kotaku Social, Our New Twitter Account

Twitter can be bad; that’s why we’ve decided to make it better, or at least a little more fun. We’re excited to launch our new Twitter account: Kotaku Social On Kotaku Social, there will be zero subtweeting of any kind. There will be no filtered selfies (unless I accidentally tweet from the Kotaku account, which…

A Horror Game That’s Also A Personality Quiz

It turns out the only way to get me to play a horror game is if it’s also a personality quiz. I grew up reading Seventeen magazine exclusively to do the quizzes. Put me in front of a personality quiz and I’ll feel like it’s vital knowledge for me to know which combination of Harry…

Cosplayer Transforms Into Mai Shiranui, Thanks To Plenty Of Padding

Australian cosplayer A.K. Wirru pulled off a terrific cosplay of iconic fighting game character Mai Shiranui. Here’s how he did it. For his Mai cosplay, he decided to recreate the character’s physical proportions. Making sure everything matched his skin tone. He also constructed a lower body suit. But that’s not all that was needed for…

Woman with an Umbrella. Hamarikyu Gardens, Tokyo, Japan. By Chris Hatcher | 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! 

Sony Just Announced The $100 PlayStation Classic Console

If Nintendo can do it, Sony can too: the company just announced the PlayStation Classic, a small retro console that comes bundled with a range of the original console’s best/most popular games (including Final Fantasy VII). It’ll be out on December 3 in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and includes games like Final…

Start Your Engines

Mustafa Lamrani is an artist at Starbreeze (Riddick, Syndicate) who has also worked for companies like Ubisoft. You can see more of Mustafa’s work at his ArtStation page

Emilie Gauvin is a cosplayer from Montreal who specialises in costume and fashion design. Here she is as Haru from Persona 5. Panther by luxlocosplay, photo by Erik Paredes

Adidas’ Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Trying The Ol’ Collect-Em-All Trick

Adidas is coming out with a whole line of Dragon Ball sneakers, and while the shoes themselves aren’t great, the sportswear giant is hoping that the boxes they come in are reason enough for fans to drop hundreds of dollars on the set. Each pair of sneakers will come in a box that represents only…

LEGO And The Nintendo Switch Go Very Well Together

Nintendo’s Labo system was designed for use with cardboard, but LEGO designer Vimal Patel (like, he actually works at LEGO designing) has other ideas. He’s taken (via Gamasutra) some of Labo’s existing cardboard tools, like the piano and handlebars, and built them out of LEGO Technic instead. Which is more complicated and less accessible than…

Undertale Is Finally On A Nintendo Console Where It Belongs

Undertale is out on Switch today. It took three years for the excellent JRPG-inspired adventure to finally arrive on a Nintendo console. Now it has and, despite the sometimes clumsy Joy-Con controls, the game feels like it’s come home. In Undertale you play as a kid who’s somehow ended up in the underground, a world…

Fallout 4 Modders Can’t Use New Vegas‘ Voice Acting, So They’re Making Their Own

A group of modders decided to try and remake Fallout: New Vegas inside Fallout 4, but soon, they found themselves in a pickle. Well, more like a jar of pickles. First, there was the gargantuan game they had to spruce up—a years-long undertaking that has yet to make it to the finish line. Then, the…

Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s New Expansion Improves On The Original, But Not Too Much

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 — Torna: The Golden Country is a new standalone expansion pack that does away with some of the more inelegant and tediousbits of the original game. Taking place 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Torna: The Golden Country follows new characters as well as some of the original game’s more…