One Of The Creepiest Pokémon Ever 

It’s Spooky Weekhere at Kotaku, and what better time to look back at Parasect, one of the most unsettling Pocket Monsters to date. The Bug/Grass type evolves from Paras, and its name appears to be a portmanteau of “parasite” and “insect.” Hence, Parasect. What makes Parasect so unsettling is that it’s been taken over by…

Man Uses Naruto Headband To Defend Himself From Attacker

Earlier this month in New York, 21-year-old Anthony Durden was riding the A train at 1:30am when he was suddenly attacked by a stranger, who slashed him in the face. “I look up and I see it coming down from this side,” he told PIX 11 (via Comic Book and Sankaku Complex NSFW). “I’m like,…

Himeji Castle Inner Circle Last February. Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. By Peter Stepnoski. 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! 

Animal Crossing Coming To Phones As A Camping Game

Animal Crossing is coming to phones, with Nintendo tonight announcing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. [Update: We’ve played it, here are some impressions]. As the name might suggest, instead of taking place in a town, Pocket Camp puts you in a campground, where you run around doing chores for animals so you can build furniture and…

This Overwatch/Pokemon mash-up shouldn’t work, but it totally does. I’m not sure I’d want to play iDeViL360‘s Pokemon-style Overwatch game if it existed, but it’s a fertile, monster-ridden field for humor. Speaking of fields, of course patches of tall grass would be lousy with annoying level one Hanzos.

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Here’s some A+ Akira cosplay by ChibiThot Be sure to watch the vid first, so you can see how the gun actually lights up.

New Steam Game Gives You Achievements For Speedrunning

High Hell is by no means the longest game ever, but it can be really, really short if you want it to be. While the stylish first-person shooter should take most people a couple hours to beat, there’s an achievement for sprinting through it in 20 minutes. There’s also one for beating a level in…

Bomber Crew Misses Its Target

I got really excited for Bomber Crew when I first saw it, so it’s a bummer that the game—which looked like FTL vs Dambusters—annoyed the hell out of me. Everything looked so good on paper. The game puts you in control of a bomber on various missions over Europe, with a focus on actually managing…

It’s Never Been A Better Time To Love Horror Games

The Golden Age of survival horror games began in the mid-90s and ran for about a decade. Despite their often rudimentary graphics and dodgy gameplay, series like Resident Evil and Silent Hill explored B-movies and psychological horror in ways previously unfamiliar to gamers. Pick any “all-time best horror games” list, and chances are more than…

Apparently People Really Want Fruit Ninja Tabletop Games

One wouldn’t imagine the frantic slicing action of Halfbrick Studios’ breakout mobile hit Fruit Ninja would translate well in the tabletop gaming space. Well surprise: In just under four hours, Lucky Duck Gameshas successfully raised $10,500 to create not one but three different physical Fruit Ninja games. Decidedly less messy and dangerous than just buying…

Tips For Playing Destiny 2 [Updated For PC!]

Destiny 2 is a much simpler game than its predecessor, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. There are a lot of numbers, currencies, and strategies to get your head around. The tips in this post are mostly based on about 60-70 hours of play, during which I reviewed the game and completed almost everything there…

Screw You, Fortnite: Battle Royale Butterflies

Fornite’s Battle Royale mode, like the game that inspired it, is tense. Any step could be your last. Sometimes, you don’t even know where the bullets are coming from, so you become hyper-vigilant. Anything that moves could be a threat. Oh, except the environment itself sometimes moves of its own volition. The mode is dotted…

This Math Game Scared Me As A Kid, And I Still Hate It

I hated math as a child, so my parents bought me a computer game to help me enjoy math. It was called Super Solvers: Outnumbered! This game took me from hating math to fearing math. It is sadly the norm for kids in the United States to hate math. It’s especially true for girls. So,…

Seems Like Overwatch‘s Junkrat Gets Play Of The Game A Lot These Days 

It’s the end of a hard-fought Overwatch match, the brief moment before an algorithm tells the game’s 12 players who had the most badass play. I’m poised to receive my laurels after pulling off a triple-kill with Roadhog’s ultimate attack. I also won’t be upset if our Pharah gets Play of the Game with her…

A Brief History of Rappers Who Dress Like JRPG Villains

Last week, rapper Gucci Mane married Keyisha Ka’oir in a lavish ceremony. As I scrolled through his Instagram, something struck me about the way the couple was dressed. Mr. and Mrs. Gucci Mane, like many rappers and their significant others before them, looked like the villains in a JRPG. What differentiates a JRPG villain from…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Getting A Second Wind Thanks To Switch Update

Last week, a Nintendo Switch update made it possible to share short videos of select first-party games on social media. The feature isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t matter. Right now, despite being in the middle of fall game season, many video game fans are talking about months-old Nintendo releases instead. Zelda, unsurprisingly, is the most…