Former Diablo III game director Jay Wilson has left Blizzard to pursue a career in writing, the developer announced on Twitter. You may remember him as the person whoprivately talked smack about the creator of Diablo
Hitman’s third Elusive Target, the Prince, will appear on Wednesday, June 8, at 6 AM PT/ 3 PM CEST. This time, players will have 72 hours to complete the mission, which is set in Sapienza.
People, it’s less than a week until the big E3 press conferences begin and you just might be in the mood to talk about the big show. Or maybe you just want to talk about games that are out now or about Kotaku. Got questions? We’ll do our best to answer! Fire away in the…
Santorini is one of Counter-Strike’s most well-regarded recent maps. It’s attractive, well-balanced, and compact enough to create tense showdowns. How do you make a map that stands out in a Dust2-obsessed CSGO landscape? Like this. Santorini creator Shawn “FMPONE” Snelling teamed up with Max Reiger to create a slick video of Santorini’s methodical evolution over…
Your head controls the camera floating just behind 1920s adventurer Victor Howard, star of the new virtual reality Antarctic action game Edge of Nowhere. The white wilderness is all around you. You control Victor with a controller that you cannot see, because you play this game with the Oculus Rift VR headset strapped to your…
And now it’s time for an annual Ubisoft tradition: the announcement of an announcement. Per this lame teaser, Watch Dogs 2 will be officially unveiled on Wednesday at 12pm Eastern. Fortunately, Kotaku has already learned most of the important details about Watch Dogs 2: It’s set in San Francisco, it stars a black hacker named…
According to Overwatch’s story, Hana Song used to be a professional StarCraft 2 player. That’s DVA’s entire schtick, really: she’s a big gamer. Fans have run with that premise, and taken it to its logical (and somehow adorable) conclusion. You know what the stereotype about gamers is by now, right? That we like to eat…
Hunting robot dinosaurs in the post-apocalypse will have to wait until February 28, but for now, there’s a new Horizon Zero Dawn trailer Rumors of a delay for the PS4 exclusive have been kicking around, and it’s not a surprise Sony wanted to get it out of the way before E3. “It wasn’t an easy…
Saints Row developer Volition Studios today announced Agents of Mayhem, a new game that sure seems a lot like Saints Row. Publisher Deep Silver announced the game through IGN this morning. There’s a cinematic trailer (above) but not much else yet. IGN describes it as “an exclusively single-player open-world action game featuring characters with cool…
The bad news: Yooka-Laylee is delayed to 2017. The good news: It looks wonderful. New trailer above. Originally pitched last year on Kickstarter as a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, Yooka-Laylee raised over $2 million. The independent studio Playtonic, made up mostly of ex-Rare developers, is making the game.
James Cain is a freelance sculptor and illustrator from the UK. Shame these aren’t available for sale as physical items. I’d murder for some of those Dishonored and Banner Saga busts to be sitting nice and heavy on my desk. (Note: Cain has had some of them 3D-printed, and they look awesome) You can see…
Track: Sai & Co | Artist: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu | Album: Sai & Co (Single) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Square Enix is calling it Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age. Here’s the debut trailer. FFXII was originally released for the PS2 in 2006. Famitsu reports that the HD version, however, will be based on Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System. Besides revamped character models and cutscenes, the game will feature auto-save, shorter load…
As far as Pokémon rears go, Pikachu has one of the most beloved butts around. While there has been a line of Pocket Monster butt merch that feature other tushes, more than any other character’s, Pikachu’s rear has garnered the most interest in Japan, with fans continuing to point out how “adorable” it is. The…
Photographer Franck Bohbot has done a beautiful job of capturing how beautifully eerie the Tokyo streets can look once the sun goes down. Major Japanese sites like Livedoor News have recently been featuring Bohbot’s work. These photos are part of a series Bohbot did in 2015 called “Tokyo Murmurings.” You can see more in said…
Blizzard released a short animation to explain the rivalry between bow-wielding mercenary Hanzo and cybernetic ninja Genji. The animation is neat and all, but people online in Japan have been pointing out that the kanji sure is odd. Japanese has a rather complex writing system that features kanji characters from China. There are also native…
Shot on Rollei SuperPan 200. Beppu, Oita Prefecture, Japan. By Mason Hall. 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!
Cosplayers Drcane (who built Snowball) and his friend Jerry (Rick) have outdone themselves here with this Rick & Morty shoot. Snuffles/Snowball isn’t an outfit (there’s nobody in there), it’s more of a prop, but still. It looks awesome. The matching graffiti is also a nice touch.
It really was that easy
My copy of CSPLY EU arrived last week. It’s a hardcover book specifically about European cosplayers that was successfully Kickstarted a little while ago (though you can also buy it from a store). Its not bad! The focus is more on images than words, so there’s not much to necessarily learn about the European scene,…
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