Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms Is A Great Game To Not Play When Your Power’s Been Knocked Out By A Hurricane

Hurricane Irma’s violent and selective deforestation of the woods surrounding my Atlanta-area home has left me without power for over 36 hours. One of the few saving graces has been knowing that once I got back to the new Dungeons & Dragons idle clicker, I’d have billions of gold waiting. Idle Champions of the Forgotten…

There’s Blood Everywhere: A YouTube Shark Beast Battle Simulator Story

A few days ago, the developers of the physics-based battle game Beast Battle Simulator introduced a new beast: sharks. These sharks don’t need any water—they skitter across the land at a slow pace, and launch themselves at their opponents. Like their real life counterparts, they fight with their teeth and jaws. YouTubers have been putting…

Nintendo Switch Voice Chat No Longer Stops Working When You Change Apps

Nintendo’s phone app for the Switch was updated today, fixing two really annoying issues with voice chat. When the Nintendo’s Switch app launched, people were happy to finally be able to play Splatoon with voice chat, but were disappointed that voice chat would disconnect if you tabbed to another app or if your phone went…

Tooth and Tail Makes Strategy Games Approachable 

Rodents roar across the plains. Ferrets launch mortars into farms. In the distance, cobras slither closer, ready to tear down a freshly-built bunker. Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game that puts you in the commander’s chair of a gunpowder-era Redwall war while trying to avoid pitfalls that keep newcomers from experiencing that splendor.…

How To Make Figure Photos More Dramatic

If you take figure photos, here’s an easy way to make them into action shots: throw some sand or dirt. That’s what Twitter user Negikatsu7 has been doing for his dramatic figure photos, and the results have been excellent. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from…

Coca-Cola Coffee Released In Japan

It’s called Coca-Cola Coffee Plus, and it has fifty percent more caffeine and fifty percent fewer calories. According to Shin-Shouhin (via Get News), Coca-Cola Coffee Plus is a vending machine exclusive in Japan. Each 190ml can has 34mg of caffeine and only 42 calories. The coffee comes in the form of extract powder. This kind…

You Are Not Looking At Gundam Box Art 

Previously, Kotaku showed off Gundam models painted to look like anime images. Now, check out these models painted to look like box art. You’re familiar with that, no? Models have traditionally been packaged in boxes that feature beautiful art. Like these. Twitter user Cody specializes in painting Gundam models in this box art style. Above you…

Shimbashi rain. Tokyo, Japan. By Shawn Danker. 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! 

Warhammer 40K Battles Are Never Subtle

Lie Setiawan is an artist from Indonesia who has done work for companies like Privateer Press and Games Workshop. The last thing he worked on you can play is the mobile Warhammer game Doomwheel You can see more of Lie’s art at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Uncharted: From Motion Capture To Your Living Room

I know, we’ve already featured the art of Uncharted: Lost Legacy, but tonight we’re taking a look at something else: animation from the game. This video features the work of animator Matthew Tovar, and showcases the journey the game’s cinematics take as they go from raw motion-captured footage to the final sequence you see in…

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Netrunner Is Getting Some Changes (And A New Box For Beginners)

Netrunner, one of the best card games on the planet, is in for some changes next month after Fantasy Flight announced a revised core set. The core set itself seems cool! It’s a great starting point for new players, since it includes everything you need to get started with the game (Netrunner is an LCG,…

Dark Souls vs Star Wars

Solaire approaches a battle against a lightsaber the same way he approaches a battle against anyone else. This is from a video D Piddy made at Saboten Con earlier this month. If you’re wondering why he does this for seven minutes, it’s about showing off the other cosplayers in the shot, not grinding the joke…

Military Shooter Expansion Shows You The Toll Your Battles Take

Playing as a young man, I run up verdant hills to a church. I’m told of this person’s disdain for local conflict-heavy politics and his love for his community. Then I step on a mine and die. No respawn. That was just the game’s opening. Laws of War, a mini-expansion for military sim Arma III…

Cringe Your Way Through One of the Worst Pro Hearthstone Matches Ever

Last weekend, at renowned esports tournament Dreamhack Montréal, two professional Hearthstone players sat down at computers across from one another and proceeded to play one of the most perplexing, disgraceful matches in Hearthstone history. Here’s what happened. Heading into the game, both contestants, Eduardo “Walaoumpa” Sajgalik and James “Coachtwisted” Neumann are 5-0, and have dominated…

Fallout Fans Resist Wikia’s Attempt To Pivot To Video

If you’re looking for the name of a minor character in Star Wars or trying to brush up on the lore of the latest big video game, you’ll probably end up on a wiki website hosted by Fandom. Unlike Wikipedia, Fandom is for-profit, but all of the content is written for free by a community…

Smash 4 Pro Survives Tournament Elimination With Clutch Off-Screen Play

Last weekend’s Super Smash Bros. for Wii U competition at DreamHack Montreal came down to a nail-biting grand finals match between Larry “Larry Lurr” Holland and Eric “ESAM” Lew. With his tournament hopes on the line, Holland scored a clutch counter against Lew to reset the bracket, which was made only more impressive by the…

Suda 51 Thinks Nintendo Switch Is Punk AF

“The Switch is a punk console,” says game director Goichi Suda, aka Suda 51. “I was shocked by it. I thought, whoever made this must have something wrong with them. In a positive way. This guy must be messed up in the head to think of something like this.” “It’s kind of like a challenge…