The Last Splatfest Actually Influenced Splatoon 2’s Story, Holy Shit

During the final “Splatfest,” an event where Splatoon players are divided into global teams, most of us believed we were just voting for the best waifu. Turns out, we were helping decide the future of Splatoon’s lore without knowing it. Yesterday night, the official Splatoon site uploaded a “Prologue” page for something called “Squid Sister…

 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 Is At Least Good For Sniping

After a couple of average linear outings that sold well to the sniping set, CI Games fleshes out Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 into a full open-world sneaking and sniping adventure with triple-A aspirations. The sniping is pretty great. The rest? Eh. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 tells the story of Robert and Jonathan North, a pair…

In A Three Minute Clip, Capcom Explains Why It’s Delaying The Not A Hero DLC

Typically, delays are announced via press release. Capcom, however, filmed a three-minute clip to announce it’s pushing back the release of Resident Evil 7 free DLC Not A Hero “We got close to completing the game content,” said RE’ director Koshi Nakanishi. “However, in light of the incredible reception to the release of Resident Evil…

Fire Emblem Echoes Shows How The Original Game Art Has Changed

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a remake of 1992 title Fire Emblem Gaiden. Let’s see how the new 3DS version compares to the Famicom one. The original game, the second in the Fire Emblem series, never got an international release. Below are comparisons via Japanese website Fire Emblem Echoes Matome (the left is the…

A Manga Movie Adaptation That Looks Cool

Let’s face it. The live-action manga and anime adaptations that the Japanese movie industry has been churning out recently don’t look all that cool. This, however, does. Ajin debuted as a manga in 2012, telling the story of a new type of human, called “Ajin,” that are unable to die. Even if these demi-humans are…

Daruma at Katsuo-ji Temple Osaka Prefecture, Japan. By Ces Chavez. 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!

Baobab’s Mausoleum is an episodic RPG inspired by Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Twin Peaks. It takes place in a bizarre town that only appears in nightmares and once every 25 years in a specific place. It looks surreal. The game isn’t done yet, but it’s on Steam Greenlight right now.

Battlegrounds Player Takes Car On Underground Tunnel Rampage

Sometimes, it’s the little things in life that bring us the most joy. Other times, it’s big things, like cars, inside of things that should not be able to contain their screaming metal fury, like underground tunnels. Streamer Chris Grant managed to squeeze a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds car into a bunker tunnel. He wasn’t expecting to…

TNC Is Rampaging Through Dota‘s Kiev Major

The four-month gap the Boston and Kiev Majors in Dota 2 has been especially vacuous, as precious few tournaments gave fans a chance to gauge each team’s potential headed into today’s Kiev Major group stage play. After Boston it seemed like TNC Pro Team was in disarray, but Kiev is showing that just might not…

The Best, Weirdest Mario/Zelda Crossovers

Late last year, it was revealed that Link would become a racer in Mario Kart 8. But that wasn’t his first Mario rodeo. Nor was it the first time Zelda crossed over into the Mario series—far from it. This post originally appeared 3/31/15. Since the late eighties, or more precisely, since the arrival of Zelda,…

Modders Are Tweaking Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 In Clever Ways

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s recent release on PC has opened the floodgates for a varied collection of mods. Since the game arrived on Steam last December, fans have tweaked the frantic three-on-three title in a variety of ways, from simple gameplay adjustments to complete model swaps. Owing to the quirky nature of its larger…

Battlegrounds Player Hits The Ground Running

Today on Highlight Reel we have motorcycle escape plans, Battlegrounds pan asses, Overwatch needle threading, 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! Horizon Zero…

Swapping Keycaps Is The Key To Having A Pretty Keyboard

Between my keyboard-centric posts here on Kotaku and my Twitter feed, I’ve been posting a lot of pictures of very pretty keyboards lately, which leads to people asking me where they can buy those keyboards. For the most part, you can’t. You have to build them. I’m not saying you need to buy a kit…

Pro Overwatch Team Can’t Shake Controversy, Loses Two More Players

Lunatic Hai is far and away one of the best Overwatch teams in the world right now. Despite (or perhaps, because of) that, they’ve recently become a lightning rod for controversy. Mere days after Lunatic Hai added two new alternate players, DPS Byeon “Munchkin” Sang-Beom and flex Lee “claris” Keon-Ho, both have stepped down due…

Top For Honor Player Accused Of Rampant Rage-Quitting

CosmicSwordsman is one of the highest-ranked For Honor player on Xbox. Playing the Orochi class, they have killed 5,384 players and died four times, according to their For Honor tracker network page. They have lost once. Of course, there’s a catch: allegedly, and ironically, they got there by gaming For Honor’s ranking system. According to…

Frustrated GTA Online Players Want Much Better Clothes For Women 

GTA Online is mostly known for violence and open world shenanigans, so most people don’t realize just how much the fandom cares about clothes. For over a year now, some of the most hardcore players have been using online forums to gripe about the fashion options available for women characters in GTA Online. Back in…

Breath Of The Wild’s Best Rewards Aren’t Always ‘Useful’

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild does not dole out rewards predictably. Often you’ll spend an afternoon figuring out some elaborate puzzle, only to walk away with some rupees or a weapon you didn’t need. Other times the reward will be just as “useless,” but more special than any pile of loot could…

Solving The Mystery Of Perfect Dark’s Hidden Passwords

The 2000 Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark was full of secrets. There were cheat codes to find, hidden pieces of cheese scattered around levels, and special modes to unlock. One mystery remains, nearly two decades later, with only a few hidden passwords hinting at its existence. Unfortunately, even the game’s developers were not able to…