PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile Doesn’t Look Half Bad

Wondering how Battlegrounds is supposed to look on smart devices? Today, a mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was released for China. Developed by Timi, the Tencent-published, Chinese-language game can currently be downloaded from the Chinese App Store. As far as I know, there’s no word yet of an international release. As with any new game,…

Top Japanese Cosplayer Is Making Lots Of Money 

Since around 2012, Enako has been a popular cosplayer, but in the past few years, her popularity has exploded. Last night, she appeared on Downtown DX, one of Japan’s most popular variety talk shows and astonished all with her sizeable salary. In the above image, the banner in the top right corner reads, “Japan’s Top…

Thinking About LGBTQ Students, Japanese School Institutes Uniform Freedom

A junior high in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture is allowing students to mix and match uniforms how they please in an effort to be more aware of LGBTQ students’ feelings. Considering how some teens pick schools on whether they like the uniforms or not and many students dig the getups, wearing the academic threads is less…

Perched Up High. Paris, France. By Yohann Junique | Flickr 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! 

Japanese Skaters Performed Yuri On Ice At The Winter Olympics

Japanese pair Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara just completed one of the first performances of the 2018 Winter Olympics figure skating program. And they did it to the title track from skating anime Yuri On Ice Here’s some footage from their routine: And here’s the track: It’s not the first time they’ve performed it—they broke…

The Return Of Space Tiger

Huang Fan is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from China. You can see more of Huang’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 work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…

There’s A New Tomb Raider Arcade Game

There’s a new Tomb Raider game! It’s not an action adventure for consoles and the PC, though: it’s a four-player lightgun game that you play at the arcade. Released to coincide with the movie due in March, it’s exclusive to Dave & Busters, and as Arcade Heroes points out has hardware based on…Rabbids Hollywood. Interestingly,…

Monster Hunter Player Kills Two With One Blow

Today on Highlight Reel we have devastating Monster Hunter kills, inappropriate urination, Dragon Ball FighterZ moments, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch…

Potential New Overwatch League Team Names, Ranked

Earlier today on an quarterly earnings call, Activision Blizzard announced that it plans to add new franchises and cities to the Overwatch League in its second season. The Compete staff came up with a few suggestions for those teams’ names. Some were very good; others, quite bad. Here they are, ranked best to worst. 1.…

Two Of Twitch’s Biggest Streamers Are Fighting Over A Viewer Record

Earlier this week, Dr Disrespect, the self-proclaimed “face of Twitch,” returned to the streaming platform and pulled in what Twitch says was a record-breaking number of viewers. Days later, however, Dr Disrespect and previous record-holder Tyler1 are still beefing over the number, as are their fans. It all began on Monday, when Dr Disrespect’s concurrent…

I Am Sorry, Star Wars Fans

Is this NSFW? Who knows any more. Maybe? The Dairy Princess is the work of sculptor Mike Strick, who is actually selling a small quantity of them on his site for £40 (USD$55). It’s 120mm wide and 90mm tall, making it roughly a match for standard 3.75 inch action figures. Sweet dreams, everyone.

Fire Emblem Warriors’ second DLC pack arrives on February 14, adding three characters from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for the Nintendo DS. The pack also includes new costumes, weapons, history maps and armor break models, including one for Tiki, the 3,000 year old 13-year-old.

Creator Of Amazing Division Screenshot Mod Swiftly Banned For Life [UPDATE]

At the beginning of the month a modder from Finland updated a program that lets players of the 2015 game The Division take jaw-dropping screenshots. On Tuesday of this week, just over a week later, he was informed by the game’s publisher that he’s been banned from the game forever. Cinematic Tools is a program…

Gyms Are The Dark Souls Of Fitness

Imagine that the next time you hit the gym you weren’t working out for your body, but for your soul The team (Rhino Stew) behind 2 Kawaii 4 Comfort, that incredible lil series about an anime con that we posted about last year, are back with DARKSOULSCYCLE, which…look just watch it. It’s very good.

Twitch Gets New Policies For Sexual Content and Harassment

Twitch is taking extra steps to clean up their community and combat harassment on the platform. A revised set of community guidelines focuses on harsher penalties and cracking down on sexual content with measures including permanent bans and off-site harassment moderation. In a blog post today, Twitch revealed changes to their community guidelines that seek…

Fortnite Pro Gets Fired After Saying He Would ‘Dare’ Suicidal People ‘To Do It’ [UPDATE]

Yesterday, partnered Twitch streamer and Fortnite pro Jordan “Scubby” Selleck said on a stream that if anyone he knew threatened suicide, “I would dare them to do it, and then I would never talk to them again.” (The topic came up after another Twitch streamer said she had been having suicidal ideations.) Scubby also repeatedly…

Logan Paul’s Eye-Rolling Return To YouTube

Even Logan Paul’s comeback tour sucks. The brawny social media star who built an image around being a maverick was shamed early last month when a YouTube video crassly showcasing a suicide victim in Japan convinced the internet that he was an insensitive asshole. Scorched by nearly universal criticism, he took a break from his…