Japanese Umbrella Martial Arts 

This is Hiroaki Tanaka. He likes to do martial arts with umbrellas while wearing a suit. I think he’s badass. He doesn’t always use umbrellas. Here he is fighting with a broom. Fans. Shirts on hangers. And finally, glow sticks. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points…

Blue Skies. Kyoto, Japan. By Martin Steigele. 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!

We’d Like This Aliens Cosplay In Bay 12, Please

I covered this earlier in the year when it was just a make-up test, but ver1sa’s Ripley (from Aliens) cosplay is now done and it’s just the best. She even got a Jones! All photos by kmitenkova You can see more of ver1sa’s work at her DeviantArt page

Life Unfolds crams an entire lifetime into 30 minutes. You go from the womb to the grave, experiencing everything from childhood friendships, to your first kiss, to marriage, to raising a kid of your own. It looks cute, but your time is painfully limited. Every choice counts. It’s on Steam Greenlight right now, and it’ll…

The Concept Art Behind Game Of Thrones: Season 6

Karakter, a German studio who have worked on games like Black Ops III, the lastKillzone and Ryse, also got to once again help out on Game of Thrones’ sixth season. Their art, like the episodes themselves, was epic. SPOILERS Here you’ll see the visual origins of all the shit that went down. Dragons burning boats,…

Titanfall 2‘s Beta Is Skipping PC

It’s a tradition as old as… well, probably a few years, anyway. A game’s beta drops, and PC players crack it open in hopes of suckling out sweet morsels of information. Respawn’s seen it happen, and they’ve decided it’s just not worth the risk with Titanfall 2. Betas, while limited in content and scope, invariably…

Metroid Prime‘s First Boss Battle Captured Perfectly In Lego

Last year Lego builder and Metroid Prime fan Jared Rosenblitt recreated the exciting battle between the terrifying Meta Ridley and Samus atop the Chozo Artifact Temple. To celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary, Jared hit reset and went back to the beginning of the game. Metroid Prime is one of our favorite games as well, so…

No Man’s Sky Players Are Finding Dick Monsters

In an endless universe full of possibilities, there’s one thing you can always count on: dicks. Lots and lots of dicks. As you know, the creatures in No Man’s Sky are procedurally generated, which means that animals can look like all sorts of things, depending on what the algorithm spits out. There are no outright…

Despite Takedown, Pokémon Uranium Creators Say It’s ‘More Alive Than Ever’

There’s something about playing Pokémon Uranium that feels strangely illicit for a game about collecting cute critters. The developers behind the massive fan project took down the ‘official’ download last weekend to avoid any potential legal action by Nintendo, so the only way for me to play the game was to track down someone else…

Overwatch‘s Competitive Mode Is About To Get An Overhaul

Overwatch’s first competitive season is winding down in a couple days, but season two is set to kick off in a few weeks. If you didn’t love season one, Blizzard’s really hoping season two will be more to your liking. In a new video, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan broke down the upcoming changes to competitive…

Samus Pharan

Come on, Nintendo. Let Blizzard use this. Just for one skin. Amber Harris is a freelance artist who has worked in video games and tabletop games. You can see more of Amber’s stuff at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

No Man’s Sky Data-Miners Discover Some Weird Stuff

Above: a 3D model that may or may not represent the player’s character in No Man’s Sky, a video game in which you travel through space thinking you might be able to see other people, then don’t. NeoGAFfer Hugo Peters has been data-mining the PC version of No Man’s Skyand found some bizarre images including…