Cosplay Heats Up Japan In August 

Today the summer Comic Market gets underway at Tokyo Big Sight. Where there are comics, there are cosplayers, and you can bet the bi-annual Comiket is crawling with those. As in the past, the cosplayers at year’s summer Comic Market run the gamut of incredibly accurate to incredibly silly. The result is some truly enjoyable…

The Big Wheel. Bay City, Pasay, Philippines. By Martin Tan. 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! 

Grand Moff Tarkin Toy Looks Better Than The Rogue One Version

Hot Toys have a couple of new Star Wars toys coming, one for Darth Vader, the other for his shift supervisor Grand Moff Tarkin. Both have existing Hot Toys figures, but these are new versions of them, featuring stuff like better head sculpts and fancier uniforms. Tarkin’s Peter Cushing is especially terrifying, with the wrist…

Australian Qualifies For Quake World Championships With 272 Ping

Remember the Aussie who forced his way through an online Quake Champions qualifier on crappy ping? Well there was a second round of qualifiers for the Quake World Championships over the weekend, and despite having an atrocious ping yet again, Daniel “dandaking” De Sousa somehow made it through. Last time we checked in with dandaking,…

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Anna Fehr is a concept artist and illustrator currently working at Avalanche, the studio behind the Just Cause series. You can see more of Anna’s work at her personal site 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…

Polygon Parts Ways With Nick Robinson Following Twitter Claims

Longtime Polygon video producer Nick Robinson has “parted ways” with the site following a string of allegations that surfaced on Twitter at the beginning of the week. The accusations were made in the wake of a tweet Robinson wrote about the Nintendo Switch title Overcooked, which prompted this in reply: This led to an outpouring…

Internal Blizzard Memo Details Efforts To Hire, Retain More Women

Blizzard is launching a “global diversity and inclusion initiative” aimed at raising the percentage of women and underrepresented minority groups in its workforce and improving the work environment for those groups, according to an internal company email recently received by Kotaku Only 21 percent of Blizzard employees are women, wrote company president Mike Morhaime in…

True Rich Asshole Stan Kroenke Adds Overwatch Team To L.A. Sports Empire

The Overwatch League has added to its rapidly expanding collection of widely loathed traditional-sports honchos, as Stan and Josh Kroenke, owners of Arsenal, the Los Angeles Rams, a dizzying array of Colorado franchises, and whatever is on Stan’s head have bought a Los Angeles team for a reported $20 million The Kroenkes aren’t the first…

No Rockets? Improvise

Today on Highlight Reel we have Michael Bay chase scenes, ladders, photo bombs, hockey physics 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! Friday The…

GKIDS Takes Over U.S. Studio Ghibli Distribution From Disney

Disney is no longer distributing most Studio Ghibli movies in America, sparking hope that the beloved anime films will finally be more accessible both in American theaters, as well as DVD and Blu-Ray. 20 years after Disney struck a landmark deal with Japanese anime titan Studio Ghibli, the American media conglomerate has quietly backed away…

Hand Simulator Will Make You Hate Hands

Not to sound like the guy who sold you pot in high school, but you ever think about hands? Hands are weird. Hand Simulator makes them even weirder. Hand Simulator is a game where you try to control virtual hands and do things like spin a fidget spinner or load and fire a gun. If…

Overwatch, A Game About Teamwork, Is Getting A Free-For-All Deathmatch Mode

For the longest time, Blizzard has been staunchly against the idea of deathmatch modes in Overwatch. It’s a game about teamwork and objectives, after all. Deathmatch has a way of drastically de-prioritizing both of those things. Now, though, the dev team has had a change of heart. In a new video, Jeff “From The Overwatch…

Fire Emblem Heroes Adds New Challenge Mode, Free Summons

Fire Emblem Heroes’ bite-sized tactics battles are exciting, but the game suffers from a greedy gacha system and grindy mechanics. Luckily, the latest update hands out some free hero summons and adds a new challenge mode. Battles in Fire Emblem Heroes start as a brisk bit of fantasy-based strategy that only sometimes offer challenge. The…

Opening Hearthstone Frozen Throne Packs? Here’s A Tip

Hearthstone’s much-anticipated Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out today, and if you’re one of the folks drooling over the thought of opening your fresh new packs, I’ve got some good news and quick tips for you. First off, now that Hearthstone’s pack changes are in full effect, there are a few new ways…

Popular Twitch Streamer Banned From Battlegrounds After Exploiting Glitch

“I’m getting banned, dude,” Twitch streamerDestinylaughed to his viewers last night while running over Battlegrounds players with a jeep. Vehicular manslaughter is something the game actually encourages, but although it didn’t look like it, a lot of those players were actually inside houses. Destiny was apparently taking advantage of a glitch, and in the process,…

Arma III DLC Will Let You Play As A Humanitarian Worker

Games have been letting us play as soldiers and combatants for decades, but there’s far more to war than fighting. Popular war shooter Arma III’s upcoming “Laws of War” DLC will let you play as part of a new faction, the International Development & Aid Project (IDAP), and will introduce scenarios based on International Humanitarian…

Mega Man Fans Want To Know The Origin Of This Out-Of-Place Concept Art [Update]

In the gallery of the newly-released Mega Man Legacy Collection 2, under the Mega Man 8 heading, is a piece of concept art that doesn’t look like it belongs. Update—It’s Mega Man 11, sneaky Capcom. The art in question, seen above, depicts Mega Man in teal, grey and gold with what looks like a bit…

Superhot VR Speedruns Are Some Terrifying Matrix Shit

Superhot is a badass shooter where time only moves when you move. Gunfights are bullet ballets where timing is crucial. The VR version is just as stunning, especially when speedrunners are pulling of moves straight from the best action movies Speedrunning in virtual reality adds a dynamic physical component to gameplay that you don’t get…