How To Get Ariana Grande in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Because You Can Do That Now

As promised earlier this month, singer Ariana Grande is now a playable character in Final Fantasy mobile game Brave Exvius. Here’s how to add the bunny-eared performer to your pixel party. First off, you have to have a copy of the free-to-play game installed on your iOS or Android device. Just search the store for…

Battleborn’s Big Winter Update Might Get A Couple Dozen More People Playing

Battleborn’s massive winter update drops today, bringing massive changes to Gearbox’s game, including full access to the game’s 25 launch characters, new training modes, and enhanced UI and 4K support for PS4 Pro. All that, plus the game’s third story DLC and fifth free character. Before we get to the big changes, let’s meet Beatrix,…

Podcast: Let’s Talk Nintendo Switch

It’s time for the Kotaku Splitscreen episode you’ve been waiting for: Our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch. This week, Kirk and I blaze through some belated 2017 predictions (Final Fantasy XVI! Scorpio! Half-Life VR!) and then react to everything we’ve learned about the Switch, which I got a chance to play last Friday. You can…

Batter Up

William Bao is an artist based in LA who works for Ironklad, a studio that has helped out on stuff like The Division, League of Legends and…Taylor Swift videos You can see more of Bao’s art at hisArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Meitu Transforms Video Game Heroes Into Beautiful Waifus

Meitu, the free Chinese photo app filling your Facebook and Twitter feeds with big-eyed, rosy-cheeked alien creatures, isn’t just for actual human beings. Witness the horrifically cute things it does to your favorite video game characters. While I’ve been actively trying to avoid the avalanche of uncanny hand-painted selfies being dumped onto the internet in…

Chris Brown Has A Goku From Dragon Ball Lamborghini

Well, it does go with his Goku tattoo. That’s right, pointed out by Hot New Hip Hop, Brown’s Lamborghini Aventador has Goku’s face on the hood. Brown bought the $400,000 car sans Goku. But later had it customized, and last fall, he uploaded photos of his Gokumobile online. Which go with his Goku tattoo and…

Mirror Gundam. Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. By Aaron Baggett. 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!

The Pro Tennis Player Who Gets Angry In Counter-Strike

Jerzy Janowicz isn’t the most famous tennis player on the circuit, but if you’re a fan of tennis, or even just sport in general, there’s a high chance you may have heard of him. What you might not know is that he’s a massive Counter-Strike player. Janowicz is an accomplished tennis player. He’s low in…

Necrobarista is a game about “a supernatural cafe where the living come to mingle with the dead.” It looks like what would happen if Persona took over a coffee shop, which is to say, stylish as heck. It’ll be out on PC in October.

Grand Theft Auto Online Trolls vs The Million-Dollar Car

Aaron Reynolds, of @batlabels fame, was playing Grand Theft Auto Online the other night when he ran into some assholes trying to wreck people’s nice cars. So he came up with an A++ plan which would make the game “fun for [him] and awful for them”. Note that players themselves aren’t actually paying out the…

World of Horror, A Scary Game For The 1980s

World of Horror, or Kyofu no Sekai, is an indie game inspired by the works of acclaimed manga artist Junji Ito. We played through the demo, where we solved some mysteries, met a nice dog, and died as the Old Gods returned to this world. While the game’s lone dev panstas gets the otherworldly tone…

Super Mario Run Won’t Be Out On Android Until March

Nintendo just announced that Super Mario Run, a game which has been out on iOS devices for over a month, will not be out on Android until March I am aware of the difficulties of developing for Android vs iOS, what with all the different specs and screen sizes. I am also aware that Apple…

Final Fantasy XV Cosplay Sprinkles A Lil’ Meme

This is Miguel as Ignis, who knows exactly how to season a kill. Jinis Noctis, photo by Reskiy And here, for accompaniment, the original.

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game

“If only you could talk to the monsters,” a now-infamous review once said of the original Doom. Here’s a thought, though: what if you could fuck them? (Warning: this post is very NSFW.) The original Doom has been modded to hell and back. It’s been turned into everything from a ninja girl anime to a…

Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Flight Pack Review: PC Aviation Essentials

Nothing makes a flight or space sim really sing like a hands-on throttle and stick (HOTAS) setup. Thrustmaster’s $200 T.1600M FCS Flight Pack combines joystick, throttle and rudder pedals in one lovely entry-level package. Between the rise of virtual reality and an expanding audience of people with incredibly good taste in game genres, space sims…