Podcast: How Do You Deal With Backlogs?

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, my undying love for the Vita, and the Backlog Problem that so many of us deal with every day. Kirk and I dig into the mailbag for reader questions (reminder: you can send all questions and stories to [email protected]) and talk about this week’s PS4…

Stranger Things Adventure Game Tribute Is Just Right

Mixing their love for old school adventure games like King’s Quest with everybody’s love affair with Netflix’s supernatural horror series, the folks atInfamous Quests cooked up a small playable slice of what needs to be a much bigger game. The Stranger Things tribute game is a one-room point-and-click adventure, covering basically a single scene from…

Snacktaku Unwraps Burger King’s Whopperrito

After six decades of serving time-tested favorites that folks seem to enjoy and occasionally screwing about with new french fries, Burger King has decided it’s time to experiment with Tex-Mex for some godawful reason. So they put most of a Whopper in a soft tortilla. Sure. It’s not quite a traditional fast food burrito, not…

The Division Dressed Very Sensibly

Tom Garden is an artist based in Sweden who has worked on The Divison and Hitman, as well as board games like Game of Thrones You can see more of Tom’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art…

Nendoroid Meta Knight Figure Deserves All The Hugs

So here he is with open arms, hoping you’ll see what your love means to him, Meta Knight. Up for preorder now through September with a release slated for March of 017, Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid version of Kirby’s coolest foe is a little bit of cheating. After all, the Nendoroid series is all about…

Go Set Up Two-Step Verification On Your PlayStation Right Now

This morning, Sony quietly added two-step verification to the PlayStation Network, allowing users to add an extra layer of security to their PS4, PS3, and Vita accounts. Finally. NOW GO DO IT. You can find the option by going to Settings -> PlayStation Network Account Management -> Account Information -> Security -> 2-Step Verification. It…

The Five Biggest Selling PS4 Games In Japan

Here we go. Famitsu has calculated a list of the top five selling PS4 games in Japan, and the results probably won’t surprise you. Maybe they will! The results are sales estimates dating from each game’s release to August 21, 2016. 5. Dark Souls III (release date 3/24/2016) 321,931 copies sold 4. Dragon Quest Heroes:…

Hollywood’s Ghost In The Shell Cast Photos Apparently Leaked

We’ve already gotten glimpses of Scarlett Johansson as The Major and Pilou Asbæk as Batou. If theseleaked photos are to be believed, here is our first look at the other members of Public Security Section 9. Of course, Section 9 is the intelligence department in the Ghost in the Shell universe and headed up by…

The Temple of Athena. Athens, Greece. By Caleb Lesch. 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!

Look At This Enormous LEGO Star Destroyer

OliveSeon, a team of Korean LEGO builders, have designed and constructed one of the most impressive Star Wars creations I have ever seen. Via Brothers Brick, their Imperial-class Star Destroyer has some frightening specs. It used around 42,000 bricks, took approximately 1000 hours to build, is 2.2m/7′3″ long and weighs 50kg/110lbs. Most impressive, though, is…

Please, Blizzard, please, give us this as an alternate option for Reaper’s ult in Overwatch. TwistedGrimTV reimagined the bane of your existence and mine with a bit less grimdark edge and a bit more fabulous flash. It really is raining men. Hallelujah.

Ten Years Later, Owlboy Is Finally Coming Out

The first post aboutOwlboy on evil-billionaire-proof Overwatch fansite Kotaku is from the year 2008. A certain Luke Plunkett tells me there are even older ones that didn’t survive a server change that same year. It’s now 2016, and the gorgeous adventure-platformer about a boy who is an owl (or perhaps the other way around) is…

How Sega Made Pixel Art In The 80s & 90s

In a 21st century world of free software, powerful computers, tablets and mice, making pixel art is fairly easy! In the 1980s, though, your favourite games had to be made on expensive and highly specialised equipment. Video Games Densetsu have gone through some old Japanese magazines and put together a collection of interviews and images…

Awesome Photos From Sri Lanka’s Comic Con

Sri Lanka had only its second ever Comic Con on the weekend, and it looked like a blast. While the cosplay community there may not be as well-established as it is elsewhere, there was still some quality cosplay on show! Even Harambe turned up (if you’ve seen a pic of this outfit floating around on…

The Most Interesting Wrestling Promo In Years Happened Last Night

Pro wrestling is an act, as many a helpful Internet commenter will point out below any article about this stuff. It’s staged. It’s scripted. The evil Russian bad guys, it turns out, are often actually Americans. Those of us who are hooked crave the moments when something might be real, when we can’t tell if…

Guy’s Mom Tries To Describe Overwatch Characters Without Knowing Overwatch

The “parents don’t know but they’ll talk about it anyway” gag is not a new one, but it remains a sweet one when the parents do a good job (and aren’t treated like idiots by exploitative kids). Like Karhall’s mom here, who was asked to talk about Overwatch characters without knowing who the hell they…