Final Fantasy XIV is releasing its second major expansion, Stormblood, early Summer 2017. At today’s FFXIV fan fest, Game Director Naoki Yoshida announced Version 4.0 and a variety of coming changes. Development has already begun on Stormblood, which will primarily take place in the new Ala Mhigo zone. “The main concept is getting Ala Mhigo…
Herve Groussin is a concept artist at Ubisoft who, during a brief stint at Eidos, worked on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided You’ll find two sets of images below: one featuring the Deus Ex art, another some Star Wars reimagined work. We featured some of Herve’s work a few years back, if you want to see…
Diving into Battlefield 1 has been a surprising experience. Making a game that focuses on the absolute tragedy that was World War One seemed like a setup for failure. The single player campaign has genuinely impressed me, but when multiplayer is added to the mix, there’s a fundamental tension that cannot be reconciled. Battlefield 1’s…
Top troll Alex Trebek recently spent a few seconds of Jeopardy dismissing nerdy, game-loving, sci-fan-reading fans of nerdcore hip-hop as “losers.” Naturally, he didn’t get the last word. Up top, we’ve got nerdcore rapper Mega Ran–whose music is usually drenched in video game references–with a finely argued dis track about Trebek. Below, his concert-goers in…
Dark Souls III’s player-versus-player trailer dropped yesterday. It features an epic 3v3 multiplayer battle.
The editorial staff at Kotaku has repeatedly advised readers to not pre-order video games, and today we can reveal two more reasons not to pre-order: radical life changes and transformations to the gaming industry. It’s possible that, when you pre-order the game you are excited about, you might be living in Sweden and the game…
Overwatch is no stranger to gimmick controllers. People have used flight sticks for D.Va and turntables for Lucio. This Winston controller, though, is completely bananas. Rudeism, who you might remember from previous over-the-top controller setups, has finally gone too far. He’s created a controller not from plastic or metal, but from organic material. And also,…
World of Warcraft’s Game Director announced in a Battle.net post yesterday that he’s leaving the 12-year-old MMORPG’s team. Tom Chilton brought the blockbuster game from alpha to its latest expansion, Legion In his post, he says that “It’s with a mix of excitement, sadness, and gratitude that I’m saying farewell to the WoW team.” Chilton will be…
Hark! A new trailer for Pokémon Sun & Moon. Featuring some new evolutions and monsters. Two new trainers, as well. On the creature end of things, we’ve got Sivally, a Pokémon that changes type depending on the item it is holding, making it right for every occasion. Hakkomo-o’s evolution to Kommo-o is as impressive as…
Fans of Gantz will know all about this compressed energy handgun. Now, they can own one. Not an actual X-gun, mind you! But as far as one-to-one scale replicas go, a very nice looking piece. Priced at39,960 yen (US$383), the Master Product Gantz:0 X-Gun will be released in Japan next March. No word about an…
The PlayStation VR is out. People are buying it and playing games with it. And some of them are having a very, very good time. We’ve seen endless clips of people getting freaked out (this, for example!) and having fun with the Oculus Rift. Now, it’s the PlayStation VR’s turn: There are bound to be…
Next month, a new Pokémon anime series starts. It will have brand new friends as well as longtime ones like Pikachu and Ash. There is one character, though, fans really hope will come to Alola. And that character is Serena. Warning: This article has spoilers if you haven’t seen the most recent episode of Pokémon…
Goku Black is coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 as a pre-order bonus. The game will be out later this month, and you can check out in the character in in this debut clip.
This week, Persona 5 gets its own Tokyo restaurant, complete with P5 themed eats and drinks. As previously reported, the Persona 5 cafe is for a limited time only and will end its run on November 23. Dengeki Online and Famitsu were on hand to check out the cafe, so have a look at the…
Copenhagen Opera House. Copenhagen, Denmark. By Ray Ivey. 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!
If you’re still having trouble imagining Donald Trump as a bad candidate for President of the United States, maybe a website framing it in terms of him being a bad Overwatch player might help. UPDATE: There’s also an actual giant billboard, in the real world, with the gravest insult of the 2016 election campaign thus…
If you’ve got a shiny new PlayStation VR headset, or are thinking of getting one, here’s a cool little feature Sony didn’t really make a big deal of prior to release: it works as a basic head-mounted monitor on pretty much anything, including rival consoles. It looks like the PSVR will accept pretty much any…
Look, let’s just say, hypothetically, that during the long dark winter you get jumped by some magic zombies. And you don’t have a gun. How do you defend yourself? Alan Padziński, a professional instructor and sword performer from Poland, is here to help. Following on from his series of videos where he taught us all…
The crew at Spiral Cats are some of the best cosplayers on the planet. Especially when it comes to Overwatch Tasha, one of the members of the group, has already cosplayed as Tracerand Mercy. It’s now time for some Genji crossplay That armour is incredible. As is the detail on the accessories like the sword.…
Jason’s back on Kotaku Splitscreen this week, which means it’s time to talk about video games! And a TV show. Mostly video games. This week he and I cover a bunch of games we’ve been playing including Dragon Quest Builders, Shadow Warrior 2, Mafia 3, Thumper, and some assorted PSVR games. We also have an…
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