A Self Care Game For The Trashfire That Was 2016

Self care can seem like an unnecessary indulgence when you’ve got a million things to accomplish. Who has time for a manicure when there’s bills and deadlines? But it turns out being good to yourself, especially when you feel like you can’t or don’t deserve to, can make a huge difference in your outlook. Twine…

Bungie’s Cult Classic Oni Almost Had A Sequel

Oni was an action title released in 2001. It was the only game made by the short lived Bungie West studio. In spite of mixed reception, it turns out they were working on a sequel. Thanks to an intrepid archivist, we finally can see what it was like. Andrew Borman has a knack for getting…

Rural And Urban Pokémon Go Players Are Playing Different Games

Pokémon Go’s latest tracking update did not please everyone. Urban and rural players have access one of two Pokémon tracking features, but neither has both—what players say is the ideal solution. Fans have some theories why. Players near PokéStops can only trackPokémon around those PokéStops with the “Nearby” feature, which players far from PokéStops cannot…

Spanish Website Says Square Enix PR Cut Off Their Review Copies For Giving Out Low Scores

A Spanish gaming website says Square Enix will no longer send them review copies because they allegedly handed out lower than average review scores, including a 7.5/10 for the recently released Final Fantasy XV. AreaJugones, a website based in Spain that says it reaches around 700,000 people per month, said in a blog post last…

Fans Find Treasure Trove Of Cut GTA V Content

Earlier this year I covered the GTA V community’s attempt to find beta and cut content. Recently, that group hit the motherlode with images that give us a sense of how GTA V changed over development. GTA Forums user ZT discovered these new development images, and they showcase concept art of early UI for GTA…

Resident Evil 7 Demo Update Lets Players Finally Solve The Finger Mystery

The Resident Evil 7 demo got one final update over the weekend, bringing with it a solution to ariddle that has been driving players crazy for the last six months.We finally know what we’re supposed to do with that finger item that the horror demo lets you pick up. (SPOILERS.) Reddit user BruhTheShark has written…

Sit, Eat And Talk About League Of Legends

Mitchell Malloy is an artist who works for Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends You can see more of Malloy’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work…

Oculus Touch Review: The Best VR You Can Get

When the Oculus Rift VR headset came out earlier this year, it was promising but incomplete. It had this nice, comfy set of virtual reality goggles… but that was all. This week, Oculus finally catches up. Competitors like the Valve-backed HTC Vive and to a lesser extent Sony’s PlayStation VR have already demonstrated why handheld…

Mt Fuji, as seen from Hachioji. Tokyo, Japan. By Johan Toresson. 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!

Podcast: Westworld’s Killer Finale And The Mysteries That Remain

HBO’s Westworld just put a cap on its terrific first season. Come talk about it with us, won’t you? Jason and I stayed up late to record a special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen focusing entirely on the Westworld season finale and the first season as a whole. Spoilers, obviously. At the end, we added…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ellie And Garfunkel

Poor Ellie. Six years after The Last of Us’s ominous ending, she’s set out to become a budding folk musician but can’t seem to find anybody to jam with. And those dead bodies littered throughout the cabin aren’t helping. So this week I want you to help Ellie find some band mates, or an audience…

Guy Buys PS4 Dev Kit Full Of Data From Closed Studio

You find the strangest things at bankruptcy auctions. Like, say, PlayStation 4 development kits full of stuff from the now-closed developers of Sleeping Dogs United Front games shut down in October, and on Saturday morning an auction was held to sell a bunch of their stuff. Among the server gear and office equipment and lamps…

Counting Down The Months Until Persona 5 Is Out

As sad as it is that Persona 5 isn’t coming out in the West until April 2017, here’s a new English-language trailer for the game. Course, for Japan’s Brian Ashcraft it’s already out, so you can check out his impressions (as a Persona newcomer, no less) on the final game here