Video Game Becomes Popular, World Panics

In the past few months, a video game has become popular among young people, prompting experts and commentators around the world to decide that there must be something dangerous about it. Newspaper columnists, education commentators and politicians are variously claiming that the Popular Video Game is having a detrimental effect on children; that it’s encouraging…

The 2018 Steam Summer Sale Is Now Live

Do you love video games and hate having money? Are you ambivalent on the idea of ever getting around to actually playing those video games? Well, GOOD NEWS: it’s Steam summer sale time. The sale just went live and is, as usual, overflowing with discounts large and small. It’s alien-themed this time and includes a…

I Don’t Know If Nintendo Won E3, But They Are Winning June

The traditional way to view game companies when it’s E3 season is to look at what they announce for the future. In that regard, Nintendo had a so-so E3. During its pre-recorded presentation, Nintendo announced relatively few games, most of them safe sequels and a line-up for the remainder of the year that’s a little…

Watch Us Play Mario Tennis Aces

With Mario Tennis Aces coming to the Switch this Friday, I asked our resident tennis aficionado Tim Rogers to play me in a “best of three” series. Mario Tennis Aces introduces an interesting lineup of characters that somehow includes Chain Chomp, cool acrobatic trick shots, and super shots that let you aim exactly where you…

My Most Embarrassing E3 Encounter With A Gaming Celebrity

I would like to tell you about a mortifying encounter I recently had with a very well known figure in video games. It’s a better story if you don’t know who it is until the end I was hanging around the Ubisoft booth at E3 this year, waiting for a private demo of Transference, the…

Model Japanese Arcade Cabinets Are Gloriously Cute

Look at these! Japan’s Wave Corporation has been releasing several different miniature arcade cabinets (hereand here, for example). These Astro City cabinets, however, are my favorite. The level of detail in these 1/12 scale models is incredible. *applause* The Astro City cabinets are priced at 3,200 yen ($29) each and will go on sale in…

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Anime Revealed 

Earlier today, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki announced that the manga’s fifth story arch is getting an anime. The announcement was made at the end of a Jojo art exhibition press conference. Araki said that part five, Ougon no Kaze (Golden Wind in English), of the Jojo anime will start airing this fall. Above…

Through The Gates. Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. By Michael Shaffer. 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! 

Hello, Yes, This Appears Out Of The Ordinary

Roanna Peroz is a concept artist and illustrator currently based in Singapore. You can see more of Roanna’s work at her 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 work of video game artists, showcasing the best…

We’re returning to our playthrough of Nier: Automata right now on Kotaku’s Twitch channel It’s a game about happy androids, where nothing goes wrong.

Fortnite‘s Shopping Cart Woes: A Timeline

Shopping carts are, at this point, Fortnite’s only vehicle. You can ride on them solo or with a friend, and they give you a slight speed boost. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Epic has now pulled them temporarily from the game three different times. Today, just when you thought they were in, Epic pulled them back…

NBA Rookie Also Video Game Marketing Rookie

DeAndre Ayton is projected to be the #1 pick in this year’s NBA draft. He’s going to have all summer to get ready for the 2018-19 season, but he (or his social media person) might also take that time to put in some work on their video game marketing skills. Earlier today, doing some promo…

Empires Apart Is Basically Age Of Empires Lite

Empires Apart is a game you play when you want to play Age of Empires, but not the actual Age of Empires Developed by DESTINYbit and published by military specialists Slitherine, it takes the era advancement, resource gathering and real-time combat of Age of Empires and…copies it wholesale, reskinning the entire experience in a low-fi…

Canadian Cosplay Show Knows How To Party

In addition to being a cosplay con, it’s also one hell of a cosplay party

Coder Spends 1,200 Hours Piecing Together Diablo‘s Source Code

If not for a few oversights on Blizzard’s part, the original Diablo’s source code would likely be lost to time. However, thanks to those oversights and some serious dedication from one coder, people can now see (and tinker around with) what makes Diablo tick. Diablo, of course, basically birthed the PC action-RPG genre as we…