Tacoma, an experimental narrative game by the makers of Gone Home, is out now on Playstation 4. It first released last year and is pretty darn good. For a secret test of endurance, maybe consider beating the game by standing around. (Or maybe don’t. The story is really good and worth seeing.)

Track: Music Is Worth Living For (Live) | Artist: Andrew W.K. | Album: You’re Not Alone Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Free!, the swimming anime with shirtless anime boys, is getting a new series this June. It’s called Free!-Dive to the Future- and, if the teaser art is any indication, it won’t disappoint in the shirtless department.

Underground Boy Bands Charge Fans By The Minute For Hugs And “Finger Kisses”

In Japan, there are idols and then there are “underground idols” (地下アイドル or “chika aidoru”). Besides having concerts, some of them are picking up extra cash by charging fans by the minute for hugs and “finger kisses.” Japanese boy bands are largely controlled by one talent agency known as Johnny’s. While several scans has eroded…

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Cooking? Cooking!

In my never-ending quest to go beyond surface K-Pop and share some of the quirkiest, funniest and just plain weird music with all of you, this has to be the weirdest. Super Junior-H was a short-lived subunit of Super Junior, a mega-popular boy group under SM Entertainment. The H stood for “happy”, and Cooking? Cooking!,…

Matsubara Dori. Kyoto, Japan. By José Arturo Vaca Montante | 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 Best Cosplay From Gold Coast Supanova

Cosplayers from all across Australia converged on the Gold Coast last weekend for Gold Coast Supanova, giving us whole lot of great new costumes and fantastic cosplay photography. While the Gold Coast doesn’t have much in the way of big cosplay competitions, it does have a reputation as a great social event, so some of…

How An Official Video Game Screenshot Is Made

Petri Levälahti, aka Berduu, is a screenshot artist whose images we’ve featured a bunch of times here. For the past year, though, his hobby has also been his profession. Berduu has been screenshotting—using tools to capture beautiful in-game screenshots of video games—since 2014, having been inspired by the work of Duncan Harris’ Dead End Thrills.…

The next season of Rainbow Six Siege will be Operation Para Bellum taking place in Italy, Ubisoft announced today. This confirms earlier leaks to that affect. The game is also getting a new Pick & Ban feature, an Echo buff, changes to dropshotting, and a new counter defuser animation, as well as an all new…