Esports Team Caught In Controversy Over Undelivered Game [UPDATE]

Celebrity esports team FaZe Clan is taking heat for co-producing a video game that, over a year after its targeted launch date, remains unreleased. Backers donated nearly $20,000 to first-person shooter Starnet Eclipse, which critics are now calling a scam, an allegation FaZe Clan denies. In January of 2015, FaZe Clan announced they were co-producing…

Podcast: Our Gut Reactions To The PS4 Pro

Did Kirk and I think the PS4 Pro was impressive or underwhelming? Find out on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen. Or right here. Underwhelming. The answer is underwhelming. On this week’s show we talk about our gut reactions to Sony’s low-energy reveal event. We also talk about yesterday’s biggest news drop: Nintendo making a Mario game for…

The One Star Trek Game Every Star Trek Fan Should Play

On September 8, Star Trek turned 45 years old. Happy Birthday, Star Trek! Even though I hate you and your cheap-ass sets and lame vision of the future and hammy plots and silly aliens and… Originally published 9/9/2011. Ahem. Anyway. THAT SAID, even I can find room to love a Star Trek game. Not like…

I Am Very Excited To Play Torment: Tides of Numenera

Torment: Tides of Numenera, the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment that’s being developed by a crazy-talented roster of designers (Colin McComb, Chris Avellone, George Ziets, etc.), is looking wonderful so far. New trailer above. The sci-fi-ish RPG, which will be out early next year for PC and consoles, is ramping up the weirdness in an…

Garden Warfare 2 Has So Much Fun With Its Free Updates

The steady stream of free content for Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 continues today with the release of Trials of Gnomus. It’s got a heavy Gnome theme, a Cats Vs. Dinos game mode and a mysterious, well-dressed vendor named Rux the Deal Breaker. Fun! It continues to amaze me how much work Popcap puts…

The PS4 Pro Will Help Launch A New, More Complicated Era Of Console Gaming

Sony’s new, more powerful $399 console, the PS4 Pro, has been designed to improve the graphics of new and old PS4 games. But conversations with developers at the PS4 Pro’s reveal event in New York City on Wednesday made it clear that it will also make console gaming more complex, introducing greater variation in a…

The Next Best Thing To Flying In World Of Warcraft: Legion

Players can’t initially fly in World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, but once they’ve reached level 110 and made a few friends they can at least call a flying cab. The Flight Master’s Whistle is an item players receive upon completing a relatively easy level 110 faction quest, Uniting the Isles. Once you’re friendly with all…

The Pokémon Go Plus Accessory Will Be Out September 16

Not everywhere, but according to Niantic, the device will be out “in much of the world next week.” Pokémon Go Plus is a Bluetooth enabled device that lets you enjoy Pokémon Go, doing basic in-game activities like collect Poké Balls and capture Pokémon, without having to get out your phone. The accessory was supposed to…

Sony Japan Sure Knows How To Make PS4 Price Drops Dramatic 

Over the years, I’ve seen my fair share of console price drops. I’ve never seen one this dramatic. So far, this appears to be a web ad, but I imagine a shorter version will appear on Japanese TV. It’s for the newly announced PS4 Slim, which is priced 29,980 yen and which is 5,000 yen…

Tsumago Forest. Kiso district, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. By Ben Storey. 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!

Hey, This Pokémon Sun and Moon Character Sure Looks Familiar [UPDATE]

A new trailer for Pokémon Sun and Moon dropped today, and while it was mostly uninteresting footage, for a split second you can catch a glimpse of a guy with a very distinctive face (h/t SleepyJirachi) For comparison’s sake, here’s the Professor Oak we all know and love from prior games/the anime: Translations online of…

Pokémon Sun and Moon aren’t out yet, but they already have all sorts of ridiculous conspiracy theories. Things get pretty wild in this second episode of THE SAVE FILES, a new YouTube show where we tackle gaming mysteries every week. Do we know who the real villains of Sun and Moon are? Are Ultra Beasts…