Persona 5 Makes A Fantastic First Impression

In the wake of Breath of the Wild turning out to beone of the greatest video games ever made, I have some bad news for your time and wallet: Persona 5 might be up there, too. For the past few weeks I’ve been playing an early copy of the fifth Persona, logging around 42 hours…

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Players Share Their Best Deaths

Breath of the Wild is hard enough that death has become one of the most common shared experiences for players discussing the game. Link has died in all sorts of surprising and absurd ways, and it’s a joy to watch. Perhaps “joy” seems like a strange word to use when talking about failure, but that’s…

Final Fantasy XV Fan Scrapbooks Her Adventure

The majority of Final Fantasy XV is a road trip with friends. In real life, it’s the kind of thing you’d make a scrapbook out of. So one fan did. Huge FFXV fan Lithmire has been making a physical scrapbook of their Final Fantasy FFX playthrough. This means: printing out Prompto’s photos and putting them…

Switch Launch Game Snipperclips Is A Pleasant Surprise

Snipperclips is the low-key charmer of the Nintendo Switch launch, a download-onlyindie game turned Nintendo-published co-op puzzler. It’s $20, with a free demo and, as you can see in the archived livestream above, we had a good time with it. In Snipperclips, players control little characters who can cut divots in each other and then…

Et Tu, Salarius?

Abner Marin is a digital sculptor who has worked not just in games, but some of the biggest movies of the last decade, from the Harry Potter series to Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean. He also started selling some of his original works at an online store You can see more of Abner’s…

The Sega Channel Blew My Ten-Year-Old Mind

The announcement ofthe Xbox streaming service briefly took me back to the ‘90s and to the Sega Channel, an invention so great it basically erased most of my memory of 1994 as I entered a state of pure bliss closest to what David Foster Wallace described in Infinite Jest Crudely dispatch with any homework. Use…

Morphblade Is An Abstract Bug Murder Game

Morphblade, a new PC game by Gunpoint developer Tom Francis, has the allure of ‘one more round’ that would make it a great mobile game. I’m glad it’s not, though, because I already miss my subway stops enough. Morphblade takes place on a board made up of hexagons. Hexes give you random different abilities, though…

Gintama Movie Actors Compared With The Anime 

If the point was to find actors who looked like the anime characters, then I guess the filmmakers did that! Via Twitter user Nanazawa, here are how the real-life actors stack up to their anime counterparts.  The Gintama movie opens this July in Japan. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you…

In Japan, “Meat Cakes” Are A Thing

Who said cakes have do be made of sugar and spice and crap like that? Behold, meat cakes. As noted on Matome Naver and Sankei News, “meat cakes” (肉ケーキ or “niku keeki”) first started catching on a few years back. Now, they’re appearing more and more at yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurants across the country. See,…

Peace in the City. Kagoshima, Japan. By Luke Flynn 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! 

Neon Genesis Evangelion Cosplay Goes Back To School

It’s not often you see Neon Genesis cosplay without any plugsuits, but this beautiful shoot by Alive Alf shows that sometimes wandering away from the expected can be the best approach. Cosplay is by Stella Chuu and Mrdustinn

Nintendo Switch’s HD Rumble Helps Wife And Blind Husband Enjoy Gaming Together 

Playing video games as a couple can be hard enough, but try finding something for two people to play when one of them is blind adds a whole new set of considerations. Enter 1-2 Switch, the interactive party game that finally gave a wife and her blind husband something they could enjoy together. At 23,…

The Tiniest Alien Invaders In Video Games

Here’s Nanospace, a new title up on Steam Greenlight. It’s a game about alien nanomites and chemistry, and looks a lot cooler than the setting suggests. Instead of being a SimAnt or Flow kind of experience, Nanospace is a 3D platformer with strategy elements, giving you control over three alien nanomites (each with different abilities)…

League Of Legends Cheating Service Loses $10 Million Lawsuit

Riot, the company behind League of Legends, has won a $10 million payout (and then some) following victory in a court case against LeagueSharp, the creators of a bot and scripting service that let its users cheat in LoL matches. The suit, first filed last August, was concluded in January. As Dot Esports report, it…

Some Excellent Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Cosplay

With Breath of the Wild being, you know, a pretty OK video game, not to mention a Zelda game with cool character design, it’s probably safe to assume that 2017 is going to be full of killer Link and Zelda cosplay. So let’s get started on that. This is Holly Wolf as Breath of the…

The Nintendo Switch, Gutted For Your Entertainment

While some take perverse pleasure from the external destruction of a new console, others may like to see a Nintendo Switch slowly disassembled, each component plucked painfully and deliberately from its casing until the Switch tells its captors where it’s hidden the microfilm This video/teardown report by iFixitis intended as an educational video, helping people…

Astralis Maintain Dominant Streak With Win In Katowice

Champions of the most recent Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major, Astralis chalked up another tournament win today in Katowice, Poland at the Intel Extreme Masters, defeating FaZe 3-1. FaZe put up a fight all the way up until the last round, where a tense 16-13 on the Inferno map came down to several close firefights for…