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

Baseball Team Turning Players Into Walking Game Boys

These days most professional sports teams, regardless of where they are in the world, tend to dabble in limited/variant jerseys. But few go as nuts for the ideas as minor-league American teams. I’ve posted about the weird union between video games and sports jerseys before, but most of those cases were relatively straight-up commercial agreements.…

Kinect Involved In Ancient Egypt Kerfuffle 

Last year, a pair of German artists claimed to have “stolen” scans of a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti—housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum—using nothing but a Kinect. Now, experts are lining up to call bullshit. The artists, Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, say they used “a modified version” of the Kinect to take the…

Metal Gear Guard Gracefully Accepts Brutal Nut Punch

Today in Highlight Reel we have dogged interviews in Fallout 4, nut punches that will make your head spin, The Division shenanigans, Uncharted 4 selfies and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share…

Stardew Valley Mod Fills The Game With Pokémon

I’ve always wanted to play a Pokémon game where, instead of being a ten-year-old warmonger, I got to settle down and participate in other aspects of the Pokéconomy. Now, with the help of a Stardew Valley mod, I can. Pokedew Valley is an ongoing effort to collect every Pokémon-themed Stardew Valley mod under the sun…

It Took A Lot Of Work To Make Destiny‘s Guns Sound Cool

It’s clear that the developers at Bungie put an insane amount of work into the sound effects in Destiny, a video game in which players travel through the solar system waiting for announcements of announcements of announcements of new content. This 15-minute mini-documentary, posted by Bungie today, illustrates just what that work looked like. It’s…

Overwatch‘s Character Skins Are Getting Ridiculous

When Overwatch’s beta returned earlier this year, it added a progression system that rewards players with cosmetic loot like character skins. Initially, most of them were simple recolors. Now, though, they’re getting kinda ridiculous. The most recent Overwatch update brought with it a handful of new skins that are more in line with the rarest…

I Hope Marvel’s Black Panther Movie Is As Good as These Comics

The Black Panther isn’t Captain America. He’s not Iron Man, either. He’s different than most of Marvel’s big superhero characters and, in the right hands, he’s arguably better. Don’t think so? Read these comics and see. This post originally appeared in August, 2015. Fans got the first look at the movie version of Black Panther…

Seven Easter Eggs Hidden In The Division

The snowy streets of digital New York are hiding a few secrets, if you know where to look. Here are some of the best easter eggs players have found within The Division. Some of them you might recognize from the beta! Breaking Bad Found by mechspectre, this is an obvious nod to Jesse Pinkman and…

Unexpected Job Requirement For Video Game Streamers: ‘Be Comfortable Wearing A Bikini Top’

Well here’s an unusual job requirement: A Craigslist call for a “Lady Video Game Streamer” asks for applicants who are OK with wearing bikinis on camera. “The ideal candidate will have experience working with computers and social networking websites,” reads the advertisement, which was posted earlier this week on Craigslist’s job listings for the DC…