Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Story Demo Feels Like Awkward Fanfiction

It’s hard to combine characters from wildly disparate sources into one epic story without things getting absurd. The Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite story demo’s strategy is to embrace the goofiness. The story concept is cool. Two powerful mechanical beings, Marvel’s Ultron and Mega Man X villain Sigma, driven by their shared desire to rid their…

Skyrim and Fallout Fans Are Skeptical of Bethesda’s New Modding Plans

When Bethesda announced paid mods in 2015, the internet exploded in anger. A week later, everything got cancelled. Last weekend, Bethesda revealed the “Creation Club,” another stab at the concept of premium mods, and fans are wary that history is going to repeat itself. Granted, Creation Club is not the same exact idea as the…

Alto’s Odyssey Trades Snowy Mountains For Desert Sands

Snowboarding game  Alto’s Adventure showed us the artful side of the endless runner. Follow-up Alto’s Odyssey, due out this summer on iOS and Android, takes the same serene action to the desert sands and skies. Check out a live demo of the game from yesterday’s Gameslice E3 stream. Eli Cymet, lead producer for development team…

E3 Day Two Podcast: Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda

Jason and I continue our Kotaku Splitscreen E3 2017 coverage discussing press conferences from Sony, Bethesda, and Ubisoft. Which company had the best show? Or rather, which was the least disappointing? Listen to find out. (Actually, I’ll just tell you. It’s Ubisoft.) We kick off the chat with Bethesda, then hit Ubisoft at 7:36 and…

PlayStation 2’s hack//G.U. Is Getting HD Remaster For PS4 And PC

The action role-playing game series .hack//G.U. will be reborn as an HD remaster for the PlayStation 4 called .hack//G.U. Last Record Set in a fictional MMORPG called The World, the first game in the series, .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth, was released in 2006, while the final one, .hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption, came out in 2007.…

The Most Beautiful Gundam Zaku Model Ever Created 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is exhibiting a special Gundam Zaku model. It is lovely. Made from traditional Japanese lacquer, the piece was created by Kyoto-born artist Kenji Toki, who specializes in exploring new ways to work with lacquerware. The Zaku’s New York exhibitionmade the TV news in Japan. Via Kenji Toki’s…

Sony Has Sold Over 60.4 Million PS4s Worldwide

As of June 11, 2017, Sony has sold 60.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles globally. The PlayStation 4 originally launched on November 15, 2013 in North America and later that same month in PAL territories. It went on sale in Japan the following February. Sony launched a revamped slimmer model as well as the 4K-friendly PlayStation…

Messiah Valkyrie in the Tokyo Sky Tree Mall. Tokyo, Japan. By Noel E. Esporo 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!

I will always post Persona 5 cosplay on this website. Cosplay by QT3.14 Cosplay, photo by Ross Holbrook

Destiny 2 Hits PC In October

Destiny 2, a video game that just got un-delayed, will hit PC on October 24, developer Bungie said today. The PS4 and Xbox One versions, meanwhile, will arrive two days earlier than expected, on September 6. The beta for Destiny 2 will go live in July. PS4 players will get it starting on July 18;…

Everything Sony Showed At E3 2017

Sony just wrapped their E3 2017 press conference, where Insomniac’s Spider-Man almost managed to distract from the fact that they didn’t announce Bloodborne 2 Not a ton of new stuff for Sony, but they did keep with the current trend of showing games that are coming within the next year or so. Let’s break it…

PS4’s Spider-Man Looks Like A Rush, Out In 2018

Insomniac’s Spider-Man, first shown at last year’s E3 (and which despite the timing has nothing to do with the new movie), looked promising today with a demonstration of high-flying gameplay. This looks cool. Like Insomniac may have figured out what was so great about Spider-Man 2’s web-slinging, but also found a way to work some…

God Of War Looks Great, Goes Full Dad

Kratos is back (again), and yes, he’s still half-god, half-beard, all-dad. In a new trailer that debuted during Sony’s E3 conference, Kratos had a brief quiet moment with his son (“You say I’m cursed,” said his son. “You think I’m weak because I’m not like you”) before bisecting half the population of the Norse myth…

David Cage’s next ~emotional~ sci-fi game, Detroit, showed us us the battle between androids and humans tonight. Tensions are high: androids do not want to be simply property.

The long-dreamt dream of virtual reality was leading to this: Monster of the Deep: Final Fantasy XV. It’s a first-person fishing game starring the bros from FFXV. Because the game title “Ridiculous Fishing” was already taken.