No Man’s Sky Fans Are Starting To Find Messages Left By Other Players

One of the features that came with the big “Foundation” update for No Man’s Sky was the ability to write short notes that could be discovered by other players. While many have sent words into the abyss, only a lucky few have managed to find messages from other people thus far. One of the first…

Necromancy Minion Game Is The New Agario On YouTube

Right Click to Necromance is a free game by Juicy Beast. It is a one year old game jam title that’s finding renewed popularity as some of the biggest YouTubers share the game with their followers. There’s good reason for that. Right Click to Necromance is simple to play and a ton of fun. The…

What To Expect From The 2016 Game Awards

Tonight in Los Angeles is the annual Geoff Keighley Extravaganza, a lavish celebration of all things Video Game that should have plenty of announcements and new gameplay footage. Also, there might be awards. The 2016 Game Awards, which starts at 9pm ET and can be watched on pretty much anything, will feature: New footage from…

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Mike Redman is an artist based in the UK working in the video game business. You can see more of Mike’s stuff at his 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 of video game artists,…

Podcast: Final Fantasy Never Left

Lots of people are saying Final Fantasy is back. Those people should go play Final Fantasy XIV. Still, FFXV is pretty good, and we’re talking about it on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen On today’s show, we dig deep into the adventures of Noctis, Prompto, Ignis, and Richard. We talk about what we like about Final Fantasy…

Titanfall Online Is Coming To South Korea

Yes, yes. Titanfall already has online play, but this Nexon-released title is specifically an online game. Titanfall Online was announced for Asia as a collaboration between EA, Respawn and Nexon. So no word on an international release. It appears to be based more on the first game than its sequel. Here is some gameplay footage:…

Japan’s Giant Gundam Will Be Torn Down Next March 

On March 5, 2017, the giant Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba will be no more. So there’s still time to see it, but not much. This giant Gundam statue went up in 2012, and it’s not the first of its kind. Previously, a giant Gundam went up in Tokyo in 2009, and there was another…

The View Through Yasaka Shrine. Kyoto, Japan. By Daniel Spung 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! 

LoL Cosplay As Radiant As The Dawn

Well. This is impressive. This is Aoime as Leona (the Radiant Dawn) from League of Legends. It took her over a year to put this together, but its detail and heft looks 100% worth the trouble, especially when you see (below) how she had to move the thing around.

PC Company Accused Of Stealing Cosplay Image For Ad

On the left, a photo of cosplayer Lindze A’la Mode. On the right, an advertisement for PC and hardware company MSI. Aside from the crime that it’s a terrible photoshop job, MSI is being taken to court in Georgia because the cosplayer and photographer involved in the original shot say it was made (and used…

RIP Cities: Skylines, Everyone Is Dead, Everything Turned To Ash

Cities: Skylines, a game which until this week was all about building things, has a new expansion out. And will henceforth be a game about tearing shit down, burning it, shaking it loose then watching it sink under the waves. The new expansion is called Natural Disasters, and looks to bring a little of that…

Nearly 40% Of All Steam Games Were Released In 2016

2016 has been a hellscape. Everywhere. Even for those managing online video game marketplaces. Pub trivia and business development resource Steam Spy posted this chart earlier today, breaking down Steam’s catalogue by each game’s year of release. In 2012, for example, 379 games were released on Steam. In 2016, that number has leapt to 4207…

The Sheer Terror Of Introducing A Friend To Your Favorite Game

A few days ago, I was hanging out at some friends’ house. One of them, Ian, decided to buy a new PS4 game. “Get The Witcher 3!” I yapped, briefly outdoing his tiny dog, who looked on with a mix of curiosity and some other dog emotion. “Get it, get it, get it!” It was…

Well Played, Witcher 3 Cosplay

Just when you thought Witcher 3 cosplay couldn’t get any better, along comes a recreation of some of the game’s best fan art, Ástor Alexander’s noir take on Geralt and friends The photos were taken by Milligan. Toph is Ciri, Iris is Yennefer, Anna is Triss and Andrew as Geralt.

Top YouTubers Say They’re Being Screwed Yet Again By The Platform

Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch. Regardless, several popular YouTubers are up in arms about shrinking subscriber…