Stick Fight Is A Perfect Game To Play With Non-Gamers

Most of the time, I want to be gaming. If you’re here, probably, you can relate. In the grand scheme of personality traits, that one isn’t so bad; just not 100% satisfiable in every circumstance. Sometimes I find myself in an unfortunate situation involving me, chilling, and several other people who don’t play games, also…

Monster Hunter: World‘s New Monster Will Kick Your Ass

Monster Hunter: World keeps expanding its roster of giant beasts with a variety of pickle-lizards and golden dragons. Yesterday, the game added another new monster: the blue flame-covered Lunastra. Hunting Lunastra means signing up for a difficult fight full of explosions and snarls. It’s tough, but it’s a great addition to the game. It’s tempting…

A Missing Door Almost Ruined One Far Cry 5 Player’s Arcade Masterpiece

Fred Baggs was making a level in Far Cry 5’s map editor, putting the finishing touches on a project that he says took him dozens of hours. Then one morning something weird happened. The handful of silo doors peppered throughout the level had gone missing, leaving empty holes in their place. His map couldn’t function…

Japan Baffled By These Men’s Pants

Famed British designer Kim Jones is collaborating with budget-priced Japanese clothing chain GU on a line of menswear. Much of it looks fine, but these pants are baffling folks in Japan. Owned by Uniqlo, GU is a mass market chain you find in suburban shopping malls, and these “slim taper pants” feature a rather unique…

Crayon Shin-chan’s Japanese Voice Actress Is Leaving The Anime 

Voice actress Akiko Yajima has voiced the titular Shinnosuke Nohara in Crayon Shin-chan since the anime debuted in 1992. Now she’s leaving what’s perhaps her most famous role to date. Besides Shin-chan, Yajima has voiced an array of characters since 1989. Most recently, she’s done Pipimi in Pop Team Epic It was Yajima who asked…

Manga Style Paint Jobs For Model Cars Still Look Incredible

Kotaku previously introduced Initial D model cars that Twitter user Shinga had painted to look like manga art. Shinga is back with more, and his latest work continues to amaze. In the earlier version, Shinga placed his models on a flat sheet of paper. This time around, he’s made a 3D papercraft. This time around,…

Hondori. Hiroshima, Japan. By Roland Kaur | 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! 

The Saddest Witcher 3 Cosplay

The tale of Olgierd and Iris is one of the most tragic to be found in The Witcher 3, which when you consider the rest of the quests in such a bleak, brutal game is really saying something. This is Lyumos paying homage to the character with some incredible cosplay, with photos by Kira We’ve…

X-Men’s Rogue, by Anastasia Komori. Photo by Akunohako

The Internet Reacts To Those Unused Pokémon Designs

Nintendo recently announced two new Pokémon games coming to Switch later this year and one that’s out now called Pokémon Quest. There’s also a bigger Pokémon RPG coming in 2019. The real news this week though is that there actually used to be a ton of weird and adorable Pokémon that were planned for Pokémon…

Night Colours

Mindy Lee is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked at places like Pandemic, Dark Horse (she’s been nominated for an Eisner!) and Amazon. You can see more of Mindy’s stuff at her Instagramand ArtStation pages. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Eyes front, hunters! We’re hunting down Monster Hunter: World’s new elder dragon, the fiery Lunastra, right now on Twitch. Join us on PS4 with session ID 3t4uxEMFsyJr.

New Leak Suggests That Fortnite Is Coming To Switch

Fortnite is coming to Switch, according to a leaked E3 document that we believe is real, as well as sources speaking to Kotaku. It’s not clear whether this apparent port will include Fortnite’s free Battle Royale mode, its players-vs-zombies Save The World mode, or both. The document, posted on 4chan this afternoon by someone who…

Bungie has detailed how Destiny 2 Faction Rallies are changing for next week’s season 3 debut. There’s a new “Renown” system that increases difficulty and rewards as long as you go without dying, which sounds neat. They’re also lowering the difficulty on waves 4-7 of Escalation Protocol, which, good