What It’s Like To Work On A Massive Ubisoft Game

At Ubisoft, big video games like Assassin’s Creed are developed by hundreds of people at many different studios across the world. As you might imagine, this can be an organizational nightmare. Former Ubisoft technical architect Maxime Beaudoin, who quit the company late last year to work on indie games, wrote a candid blog post today…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Fashiony

Inspired by both Louis Vuitton’s choice of virtual model and Venture Beat’s excellent response, this week’s ‘Shop Contest is too sexy for your games. The objective is simple. Take a video game character, turn them into a fashion model. It doesn’t have to be something high concept and high price like Louis Vuitton or Venture…

One-Punch Man’s Most Memorable Battle, Remade In Fallout 4

Fallout 4’s protagonist is transformed into Saitama, while a regular Deathclaw got a unique skin and is now posing as Lord Boros, leader of the alien invader group Dark Matter Thieves. EzPlays remade the memorable encounter (including the “OK” scene) we’ve seen in the last three episodes of the anime and those are some proper…

When World of Warcraft Mission Spawn Rates Go Out Of Control

Left Sharks are rewards for one of the rare Garrison Shipyard missions that you send your followers out on. It’s a rare mission, so you shouldn’t see it much and for months, that was the case. People however complained that these rare missions just won’t appear and they can’t even try to collect all the…

The Witcher 2 Can Now Run On Xbox One And Is Free Right Now

Got an Xbox One? Love The Witcher games? Well, you can now play the middle gamein CD Projekt’s beloved action-RPG franchise for free. UPDATE: This post has been updated to note that the free Witcher 2 download requires an Xbox Live Gold Account. The news of gratis Geralt came as part of Microsoft’s latest backwards…

Players Are Already Doing Crazy Things In Diablo III‘s Season 5

Only a few days have passed since Season 5 started (as part of patch 2.4) in Diablo III’s PC version, and some players are already grinding on difficulty levels that most of us will never reach. Season 5 will last three months and it’s enough time for an average player to level up a character…

Undertale Fan Animates One of the Game’s Best Boss Fights

This being the creator’s first attempt at serious animation, there’s lots of rough… animation, in the clip. And there’s also spoilers for Undertale’s Pacifist route, so if you haven’t beaten the game yet, beware. Otherwise, you’re in for a good time. The short was made by DeviantArt’s WalkingMelonsAAA, and it depicts her version of how…

Japan’s Getting Four Different Street Fighter V Limited Edition PS4s

Commemorating the game’s release in Japan, Sony’s announced a quartet of Street Fighter V-branded, limited edition PS4 consoles. Priced at 37,480 yen ($320) plus tax, each PS4 comes with an engraved HDD bay cover. The first of the two Glacier White ones is a simple logo design—the PS4 Street Fighter V Edition: Next is the…

The Massive World of Steins;Gate, Explained 

If you are into visual novels at all, you’ve probably already played Steins;Gate (and if you haven’t, you should). But Steins;Gate is only one in a series of games tied together by their excellent sci-fi tales—and improper semicolon use. But if I’m going to try to explain the Science Adventure series, I’m going to need…

Gotokuji Shrine. Tokyo, Japan. By Noah (Arkboy). 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!

Making The Peace

Rasmus Poulson is an artist who has previously worked at IO Interactive and Square Enix. He’s currently an art director at Ubisoft. You can see more of Rasmus’ work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…

Invisigun Heroes Is A Shooter Where Everyone’s Invisible, Even You

Invisigun Heroes is “a multiplayer, single-screen stealth battle arena game with a twist”. That twist being that every single player—even the one you’re controlling—is invisible on the screen. Which sounds like a nightmare! But while the player model is invisible, your effects on the game world aren’t, so any time you (or another player) run…

Bloodborne Cosplay Is Coming To Kick Your Ass

For all its critical acclaim, Bloodborne doesn’t seem to be a big hit on the cosplay scene. So nice job, Walrider, with this killer Gehrman the First Hunter outfit.

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak: The Kotaku Review

“It’s Homeworld, but with sand” was my first thought when I saw Deserts of Kharak, a brand new prequel set in the same universe as Relic’s classic space strategy games. After actually playing it, that’s…about the gist of it. Homeworld, but with sand. The original Homeworld (and its two sequels) are beloved by many for…