Trails in the Sky: The 3rd Is Actually Coming West

Well, this is unexpected. The next Trails in the Sky game is coming to North America, publisher XSEED said today. It’ll be out for PC in 2017. This is the third game in the Trails in the Sky trilogy, which first hit U.S. shores in 2011. After a long, twisted journey full of all sorts…

Hearthstone Expansion Whispers of the Old Gods Announced

The next Hearthstone expansion is called Whispers of the Old Gods, Blizzard said today. This new add-on for the addictive digital card game will add 134 more cards to Hearthstone, all of them themed around the old gods of Warcraft lore. It’ll be out in April or May. Says Blizzard in a press release: Whispers…

EverQuest Next Has Been Cancelled

Almost three years after its announcement, development has stopped on the next iteration of the long-lived Everquest MMO franchise. Daybreak Studios’ president Russ Shanks announced the news on the game’s official site: I’m writing today to let you know that, after much review and consideration, Daybreak is discontinuing development of EverQuest Next For the past…

People Sure Like Asking If E3 Is Still Relevant

In the wake of news that game publishers EA and Activision will have reduced presences at this year’s E3—both will show off their games at various press conferences, but neither will have booths—analysts and Hot Takers across the web have been asking a simple question: Is E3 still relevant? This semi-backlash led Rich Taylor, a…

At First I Didn’t Succeed, So I Tried 45 More Times

On a rooftop in Gotham City in the video game Batman Arkham Knight, I had to beat up six ninjas without getting hit. It took me 46 attempts, one after the other, during one frustrating hour. This article originally appeared in October, 2015. It wasn’t the easiest thing I’ve done in video games, nor was…

Years Later, Blizzard Releases a New Diablo II Patch

Diablo II just got its first patch since 2011 (October 27, to be exact). It’s not a content patch, but it helps ensure that the game can run on current platforms. How cool is that? Here’s Blizzardon Diablo II’s 1.14a patch: This update focuses on system glitches introduced by modern operating systems. In related news,…

Diablo Boss Azmodan Returns To Heroes of the Storm With Basketballs

Well, that’s certainly a skin that wouldn’t work in Diablo III, but is completely fine in the casual environment of Heroes of the Storm. Act III’s “Lord of Sin” from Diablo III now has a slam dunk-ready alternate, called… Azmodunk! Because of its original name and its ability animations, Azmodunk was something players have been…

Capcom Offers New Info on Street Fighter V March Update

The publisher of Street Fighter V offered up new details for the first big update to their newest fighting game. Capcom mentions specifics about SFV’s first DLC character and inbound game modes, but is still mum on a permanent fix for rage-quitting. A blog on Capcom Unity runs down major features of the moveset for…

Forging in Minecraft Sure Looks Fun

This is a voxel-style Minecraft model, created by redditor samasaurus6 for a dungeon crawler map and shared on r/minecraft here. It’s a clever build based on custom block models, with the smoke particles being generated by a pressure plate-activated Command Block hidden under the bellows. Dayshot is an image-based feature showcasing some of the prettiest,…

New Pokémon Game, New Fake Magazine Scans

Whenever there is a new Pokémon game, you can count on two things: Excitement and phoney magazine scans of the new Trainers and the three Starters. Pokémon Sun and Moon will be no exception. There are numerous examples of this in the past (hereand here, for example), but as Japanese site Hachima Kikou points out,…

Beat This Mario Maker Course, And I’ll Send You Whisky, Man Says

Late last year, Jim from Scotland promised GameCenter CX host Shinya Arino a bottle of whisky if he cleared the Super Mario Maker level he made. The course was submitted as part of a challenge that pitted Arino against a slew of courses. In the most recent GameCenter CX, Arino showed the bottle of Johnnie…

Marvel Collection Store Opens in South Korea

Figure collectors, hold onto your wallets! This is the Marvel Collection Store. According to Hot Toys (via tipster Sang), it’s the first of its kind in the world. Located at Enter6 Park Avenue, a shopping center in Seoul, the shop is packed with Hot Toys figures, Cosbaby collectibles, and Artist Mix Bobble-Heads. Outside and in,…

Chureito Pagoda. Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. By Jeroen Danckers. 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!

Conan Can Take More of Conor McGregor’s Abuse 

While Conor McGregor might’ve neededto lose last Saturday, he didn’t need to beat up Conan this bad in UFC 2 No. Wait. Maybe he did. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

The People, Guns & Graffiti Of XCOM 2

While we’ve already taken a look at some of the concept art behind XCOM 2, a number of the game’s artists have—with the game now out—been able to share a lot more of they stuff they worked on. They’ve dumped a ton of it in this Polycout thread, which you should check out if you…

Block’hood: A Very Quaint SimCity 

Block’hood is a city-building game for people who don’t want to build entire cities. Billed instead as a “neighborhood-building simulator”, it’s all about constructing stuff out of blocks, with an emphasis not just on building functional habitats, but on balancing your environment and ecology. It’s out now on Early Access