Retro Japanese Game Cartridges Make For Excellent Art

Twitter user Sakura is famous for two things: having a big collection of old Famicon cartridges and using those cartridges to create cool retro style art. Since various companies made Famicom cartridges in different colors, they’re perfect for this. Here is my favorite. Amazing, no? Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing…

View from Tokyo Tower. Tokyo, Japan. By Mason Haydari. 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! 

Over 600,000 People Have Tuned In To Watch Drake And Ninja Play Fortnite, Smashing Twitch’s Record [UPDATE]

We mentioned last week that Fortnite streamer Ninja has gotten so big that rapper Drake was following him on Instagram. Tonight, they hooked up for a game and it crushed the record for most concurrent viewers on a single stream for the service. After some initial communications issues, and some adorable fan freakout from Ninja’s…

Forsen Can’t Get Away From Stream Snipers, Even In Private Tournaments

Most stream snipers follow (and mess with) their streamer of choice once or twice for laughs. Then they get on with their lives. This one, however, plays for keeps. Forsen is a streamer who’s just as notorious for his out-of-control audience as he is his own questionable decisions. Today, he took part in a developer-hosted…

Keep Walking

Tony Trujillo has been a concept artist in the video game industry for over a decade, working at studios like Electronic Arts and Sony. You can see more of Tony’s work at his personal site, and buy prints here To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Street Fighter Gets Unofficially Ported To The Real World

Abhishek Singh, creator of that very cool first-person Mario experience for the HoloLens, is back with a home-made version of Street Fighter that projects the action to anywhere you can point your phone screen at. He calls it the Real World Warrior Edition, and yes, it’s choppy. But like…the point here isn’t the speed or…

The Tiniest Lil’ Nintendo Switch Game Cases

Reader Mahir, who last year designed a bunch of full-size Switch cases for downloadable titles, has come back in 2018 with something different. And much smaller. He’s created a range of Switch cases that are just big enough for the cartridge, and that’s it. Cons: you could lose all of these in around 17 seconds.…

The Curse of the Pharaohs is the second of Assassin’s Creed Origin’s expansions, and it’s out now. It’s big, and beautiful, and already a lot more fun than theThe Hidden Ones. We’ll have more to say on it once we’ve survived a few more battles against Murderous Undead Pharoahs.

COD: WWII Adds Nightmare Leprechauns For St. Patrick’s Day

Call of Duty: WWII’s March 13 update lets you hunt leprechauns, and it is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. Sledgehammer Games has launched the “Operation: Shamrock and Awe” event just ahead of Saint Patrick’s Day, so there’s plenty of tacky gear, décor, and trolling leprechauns. If you’re feeling lucky, you can try to score…

Slay The Spire‘s Daily Challenges Keep Getting Better

Slay the Spire is an Early Access game that’s tearing it up on Steam, and for good reason. It’s one of the most imaginative roguelikes in recent memory. The game also now has a daily challenge mode, which the developers recently tweaked to make it worth playing all on its own. Games ranging from The…

This Puzzle Platformer Is Giving Me Mario 2 Flashbacks

Uurnog Uurnlimited feels like a knock-off Super Mario Bro 2. It’s a blocky platform puzzler where you pick up and throw everything, from enemies to bombs. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but its freeform approach to puzzle design means that you’re able to come up with your own solutions. It’s a sneaky little…

Self-Appointed Anti-Boob Police Are Trolling Twitch Streamers

According to some Twitch streamers, vigilante viewers are making a sport of trolling through the streaming platform’s directory and searching for broadcasters violating Twitch’s terms of service. She Snaps was streaming to a couple hundred viewers in Twitch’s IRL section when a stranger wandered in. Chatting with her fans about mental health, She Snaps, who…

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Final Fantasy XV, As Told By Steam Reviews

It took more than a year, but the good, good anime boys’ roadtrip tour finally made a stop on PC. Have Steam reviewers accepted the sprawling, uneven fishing simulator in spite of its flaws, though? (Spoiler: Yes.) Given Square Enix’s not-so-great history with PC ports, we breathed a sigh of relief when it became apparent…

Black Panther Shows Us The Power Of A Good Villain

Straight out of Austin, we’re bringing you a bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen to talk Black Panther and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Former Kotaku and current io9 writer Evan Narcisse, who’s also writing a six-issue Marvel comic called Rise of the Black Panther, reunites with me and Kirk to talk about the adventures of T’Challa…

Some Things In Games Should Be Gross

A lot of little moments in games make you feel good. Mario’s jump is predictable and weighty, and headshotting a Fallen in Destiny 2 and seeing their soul leave their body will always give me a tiny burst of pride. What really fascinates me, though, are the moments in games that make you feel incredibly…

Artist Turns Child’s Sketch Into Hearthstone Card

I’ve drawn plenty of video game characters in my day, some real, some imagined, but none of them ever got transformed into the real thing by a professional artist like this kid’s did. Say hello to “LEOPARDEN!,” a Hearthstone minion dreamed up by someone’s 9-year-old daughter. According to her, “He lives in the caves and…