You know which game has a huge map? Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Last week my boss Stephen says to me, he says, “Hey, Kirk, did you see that they’re adding a Splinter Cell crossover mission to Ghost Recon: Wildlands?” And I’m like, yes Stephen, I saw that. So then we talked for a little bit about…
I never pass up the opportunity to drink in a game. I’ve visited every bar in The Witcher 3. I’ve filled Adam Jensen’s pockets with booze in Deus Ex; I’ve chugged those drinks in the bars in Hengsha and Prague, alone in his apartment, or on street corners just because. I’ve gotten Commander Shepard blackout…
This week, two fathers will make their way to the PlayStation 4, while Switch-owning fathers will have to deal with the cardboard machinations of their children. After playing God of War 3 again a couple years ago, I really didn’t think I could get excited about the series ever again. I was still cold on…
Track: Cherub Rock | Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins | Album: Siamese Dream Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
This weekend, Square Enix revealed that Kingdom Hearts III will feature playable retro-style mini-games. They include The Barnyard Battle, The Karnival Kid, Giantland and Musical Farmer. According to KH Insider, there will be over 20 in all.
This fall, the first Valkyria Chronicles is coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan via the Nintendo eShop. No word yet on an international release.
Summer is still a while away, but Coca-Cola is releasing “Coca-Cola Frozen Lemon” this week in Japan. It’s a Coke-flavored slushie style drink with, you guessed it, a twist of lemon. The drink comes in a squeezable pouch, and according to Entabe, it apparently took eight years to develop this product from conception. From the…
This weekend, Sega announced it was working on a brand new Sakura Wars game. Details are scant, but the game is set during a fictionalized Taisho Period in Tokyo and has the temporary title Shin Sakura Taisen (New Sakura Wars).
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the saddest movies ever made. Decades after its original release, people have discovered a haunting, hidden image in the Japanese movie poster. Attention has been re-focused on Grave of the Fireflies after director Isao Takahata’s recent passing. Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 Studio Ghibli movie about…
Always Remember Spring. Tokyo, Japan. By Nelson Diaz. 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!
Fan Expo Dallas ran from April 6-8 at the Dallas Convention Center, and in addition to a surprisingly huge list of star attendees there was also loads of amazing cosplay present as well. Our cosplay photographer Mineralbluwas in the house (and outside it) taking shots, the best of which you can see below. He also…
Jason Kang is a freeelance concept artist and illustrator who has worked on stuff like Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone You can see more of Jason’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the…
2016’s This is the Police was a bit of a mess, but its upcoming sequel—due later this year—looks interesting, if only for the drastic genre switch: instead of remotely sending cops out to incidents and having them return automatically, you now control them on a tactical “battlefield”.
Sydney’s Jessica Estephan has become the first woman to ever win a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix at the game’s Sydney meet over the weekend. Estephan, along with Ryan Lewis-Jonns (Sydney) and Lachlan Saunders (Canberra), emerged victorious in the Team Grand Prix from a field of 350 entries, beating rivals from Australia and New Zealand…
Tokaido is six years old, and I am kicking myself I haven’t played it sooner. My crew tends to drift towards games about war, killing, conquest, destruction and murder. We’re not bad people, it’s just that a lot of the bigger board games we end up playing are just about that kind of stuff. I…
Terraria spin-off Otherworld, which was announced back in 2015, has been cancelled.
The most nightmarish moment of anyone’s Xbox Live session happened to Tyler “Spartan” Ganza during a world championship match. While he and his team were battling for a top three spot in the $1,000,000 tournament, his controller disconnected. Ganza and his team Reciprocity were on a decisive map 7 against Team Envy. He was on…
Controversial arcade game player Billy Mitchell released a statementtoday, responding to the recent disqualification of his records from both the Twin Galaxies leaderboards and Guinness World Records. Several of Mitchell’s high scores were disputed earlier this year by a forum poster claiming he used an emulator to record his scores, rather than a standard arcade…
Magic: The Gathering has been running for as long as I can remember. Even when I was young, going to the games store to pick out new Game Boy games, I could see the packs and decks hovering over me. It’s always seemed interesting but daunting. Arena makes those apprehensive first toes in the water…
Track: Old Town | Artist: Say Sue Me | Album: Where We Were Together Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
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