Shinjuku Gyoen National Park. Tokyo, Japan. By Colin Laycock. 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!
Star Wars movies aren’t cheap. They are filmed all over the world and require numerous practical and digital effects. That costs money. But what if you made The Force Awakens trailer with friends on a budget? A very low, low budget. Then, I guess it would look like this. Nice work, penny pinchers! This isn’t…
Just a friendly reminder that Capcom’s Dark Souls-eque game Deep Down is still M.I.A. There’s no real news last year since the spring and the official Twitter account hasn’t been active since March 2015! The game was announced in 2013 and is slated for the PS4.
In 2015, you liked reading about Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. You liked lists of top games. You mourned the passing of gaming icons. You craved scoops and post-release coverage (phew!), and you enjoyed getting excited about the Final Fantasy VII remake. You also liked reading about sex. Hey, nothing bad about that! What…
Lots of things got shaken up in the comics I enjoyed from the last twelve months, with characters and themes getting re-invented, resurrected and repurposed in surprising or clever ways. Here’s what I’ll remember from the comics I read in 2015. Spoilers follow. A Superman who can’t fly. A female Wolverine. An Archie who isn’t…
If games are a truly interactive medium, then it stands to reason that the people who play them have an unusual amount of influence on this creative form; more than they do on others. With that, we present, for the fourth year running, Kotaku’s Gamers of The Year. ZeRo, The Smash Bros. Champ There were…
Another year is ending, and with it another year of our Ask Dr. NerdLove advice column. The Doc—real name Harris O’Malley—kept his usual office hours this year, turning up a couple times per month to answer reader questions and, hopefully, help a few people on the way to a happier, healthier love life. Here are…
Let’s talk about Games of the Year. And by Games of the Year we mean literally every game that came out this year. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re going back through all of 2015 for a month-by-month breakdown of this year’s games, from Dying Light through Trails of Cold Steel. Although we didn’t hit every…
Oculus has announced that its Touch controllers won’t ship until the “second half” of 2016. The Oculus Rift itself, however, is apparently still on track for early next year. The delay is disappointing; the Touch devices were the highlight of my last VR demo.
In Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, there’s a guy whose entire job is to stand on a boat and get knocked into a river. That’s it. That’s his whole life. This man is a hero. If you’re running along in Syndicate’s version of London and happen to cross the Thames, you’ll probably see this guy. He’s all…
NeoGAF users noticed the hardcore platforming Umihara Kawase games have been removed from Steam and certain PSN regions. This comes not long after the closure of the game’s publisher, Agatsuma Entertainment. If you already bought one of the Umihara Kawase games, you’ll still be able to download it.
Ever wanted to play Pokémon on your PlayStation 4? You can’t. But at least you can watch someone else do it? Using an exploit involving the PS4’s web browser, the fail0verflowhacking team figured out how to crack open Sony’s console and install a full version of Linux, which they demonstrated this week by using it…
Ever notice Fallout 4’s awesome mushroom clouds? They look damn convincing! Here’s how Bethesda did it. Simonschreibt dives into the technical details that go into producing a mushroom cloud in Fallout 4, and it’s a fascinating watch: Basically, in order to nail the motion of an explosion, the textures of the mushroom cloud are moved…
Only a few weeks after Just Cause 3 was released, it appears the modding team behind Just Cause 2’s spectacular multiplayer mod have already cracked the sequel. There’s no indication when the rest of us might be playing Just Cause 3 with friends and strangers, but hopefully it’s not far off!
Final Fantasy IX, one of the best Final Fantasy games, is coming to PC and smartphones at some point in 2016, Square Enix announced today in Japan. Square didn’t announce a western release but it’s safe to say one will follow, given that every other Final Fantasy mobile and PC port has made it to…
People are making all kinds of stages in Super Mario Maker. There are brutally hard stages, traditional stages, clever stages, and others. These are clever ones. The interesting thing these two stages have in common is their use of comments. Nintendo intends for comments to be exactly that: comments on a level. But with some…
Track: Hotaru no Hikari | Artist: Foresta | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Listen up, King of Fighters fans. SNK exec Yutaka Noguchi tells Famitsu that many former SNK devs have returned to the company since it has refocused on gaming and left the pachinko business. Noguchi also added that devs who were working on pachinko-slot machines have been switched back to games. This all sounds promising.
And that just might be the best way to say it. This year’s winter Comic Market has drawn to a close. It’s the last big otaku (geek) event of the year and the last chance for all the cosplayers to gather in a major way and strut their stuff. Let’s have a look at some…
Inside a Cave. Jahrom, Iran. By Aria Khosh Sirat. 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!
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