The next episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne miniseries will be out on March 29 for multiple platforms. Check out our thoughts on episode one here Contact the author at [email protected]

Super Metroid As a 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon

Super Metroid boss Phantoon steps into Ridley’s shoes by surprising Samus in artist Elianai dos Santos’ fan-art (via TheOmegaNerd). It’s a superb, colorful piece, in the silly style of 90s cartoons. Here’s the full pic with Ridley crawling in the background. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Not Even Unreal Engine 4 Can Tame The Fiery Depths of Death Mountain

Link first passed the Death Mountain Crater on his way to the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time, but it was a lot more blocky and a lot less particle effect-y back then. The creator of this map is of course none other than CryZENx, whose shiny Unreal Engine 4 recreations have entertained us many…

Anime Tokyo Versus Real Tokyo

The Garden of Words is one of the most beautiful anime films in recent memory. Let’s see how it compares to Tokyo, the city where it takes place. The movie, which came out in 2013, is set during Japan’s rainy season, when everything is lush, green and wet. You might’ve seen some of these comparisons…

Japanese Textbook Doodles Are Terrific As Ever

Textbooks can be dull and dry. Know one way to spice them up? Goofy illustrations. Twitter user Chanta recently finished driver’s ed. and decided to fill the textbook will humorous scrawls. You might remember Chanta’s previous doodles, which spiced up English lesson books. As you can see here, part of the original photo or illustration…

Tokyo Tower. Tokyo, Japan. By Mike Faraday 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!

The Force Awakens’ Concept Art Had Some Cool Ideas

The website of Industrial Light & Magic, the design and effects team made famous by the original Star Wars, has shared a massive art dump from The Force Awakens, containing images from throughout the film’s development. Which is probably more exciting than the art itself! I mean yes, it’s nice seeing some near-final artwork here,…

Hey, There’s A New Frozen Synapse!

2011’s Frozen Synapse was a very good turn-based tactics game, one of the pioneers of the genre’s current Golden Age. Now we’re getting a very big sequel. While it’s retaining the core point of the original—you plan our moves in advance then watch them resolve in real-time—everything else about Frozen Synapse 2 sounds way more…

Syrian Refugees Party At Furry Convention

A group of Syrian refugees, having just arrived in Canada, are being temporarily put up in a hotel. The same hotel that, last weekend, was also home to a convention for furries As The Independent reports, it was one hell of a culture shock for the refugees, but it worked out about as well as…

The Week In Games: Everybody Was Just Plain Fighting

I pieced together this image as a little joke for the top of the post, but the more I look at it the more I want to play a game where Pikachu Libre faces off against Conor McGregor. Sadly video games don’t work like Reese;s Peanut Butter Cups,so we’ll have to settle for picking up…

Not The Pokémon You’re Looking For

Or are they? Japanese Pokémon Centers and Amazon Japan (viaSiliconera) will begin taking preorders for stuffed pocket monsters featuring the tell-tale smile ofDitto duplication on March 26. Cutest body snatchers ever.

Last Night’s Record-Setting League Of Legends Match Lowered The Bar

In a Saturday night game that shattered the records for “creep score” recorded in a pro match, Echo Fox and Dignitas played an exciting, sloppy, and quintessentially North American League of Legends match that demonstrated why the region is consistently entertaining and consistently disrespected. Neither team was competing for a good playoff seed, nor even…

Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer 

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer joins us to talk about his piles and piles of money. Plus: how Day of the Tentacle holds up today, what it’s like inside the LucasArts barn, and some Real Talk about the relationships between journalists and game developers. Originally posted 3/10/16, but it’s Sunday now,…