Konami Goes Microtransaction Crazy with Metal Gear Solid V…Insurance [Update]

Metal Gear Online is launching today. We previously checked out the game at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. It’s a lot of fun as is Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain. You know what isn’t fun? Charging people for what’s essentially a cheat mode. 10/6/15 – 8:35am Update: The title and text were changed to…

Japanese Vending Machines Now Taking Selfies

But is it really a selfie if you cannot hold the vending machine in your hand? Maybe you can! IT Media reports that Kirin Beverage is rolling out a “selfie” (自撮り or jidori) vending machine in Japan. A collaboration with the popular social network Line, the vending machine has a large LCD display and is…

Spot the Anime Mistakes

Making anime is hard! The pressure is high. The pay is low. All this combined, no doubt, leads to anime mistakes. Many of these misses are kinda understandable considering the gruelling environment in which animators work! Via 2ch (here and here) as well as Twitter, here’s an assortment of composition and drawing mistakes in anime.…

Shinsekai. Osaka, Japan. By Patrick Young. 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!

Destiny Cosplay Returns Us To Orbit

Laura Sánchez—whose excellent work we’ve featured before many times before on Kotaku—equips only the most exotic of cosplay armour. Top photo by JLMfotografo. Gif below taken from HumorMayorcete’s video

Category 6 Kaiju Requires Urgent Jaeger Intervention

Bastien Grivet is a concept artist and matte painter who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Warner Bros. and Activision. You can see more of Bastien’s 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 as wallpaper),…

Angels Fall First Is Trying To Be Your Dream Sci-Fi Combat Game

Angels Fall First is the latest in a long line of games—from Battlecruiser 3000AD to Planetside—to try and actually be the type of video game I dreamed about playing in high school. Made by a team of former modders—who unsurprisingly given this game’s brief had worked on stuff like Homeworld and Unreal Engine—Angels Fall First…

Look At This Gorgeous Super Nintendo Book

It’s a good time to be alive if you like books about consoles from the 90s. Sega fans got an amazing Genesis/Mega Drive coffee table book last year, and now SNES fans are getting one, albeit with a slightly different approach. Stuart Brett, curator of the wonderful Super Famicom Guy Instagram account (which we’ve featured…

Dota 2 Hero Alchemist Made A Curious eSports Comeback This Weekend

This past weekend saw Dota 2 descend on New York City’s Madison Square Garden theater for the eSports tournament ESL One. One thing that surprised a lot of Dota 2 fans was the return of Alchemist, a hero who hasn’t had a huge impact on the game’s pro scene for a while now. Alchemist is…

NBA2K16’s Spike Lee Joint Is Terrible, But I Still Love It

NBA2K16 is a mainstream sports video game, meaning its full of things like stats, complex controls and painstaking licensing. But it’s also home to something a lot more adventurous and potentially important: a role-playing game where you take a kid from high school to the NBA. It’s far from the first sports game to offer…

Sources: Destiny‘s DLC Plan Is Changing Big-Time

Destiny is getting microtransactions, sources tell us. Don’t freak out too much, though: We hear this paid DLC will be limited to cosmetic items like emotes and sparrow skins. And the developers at Bungie will be doling out free content every few months until next fall. This is all part of a new plan that…

31 Movies For Horror Newcomers

Let’s say you’ve considered watching a horror movie before but didn’t know where to start. Let’s say the month of October has you horror curious. Let’s say I’ve compiled a list to guide you through several decades of nightmares. (Yes, this list was supposed to run on Friday! Sorry.) Last week, I published a list…

Six Things That Are Going to Change in the Next Marvel Universe

This is the month that things start changing big-time in the Marvel Universe. Mutants are becoming an endangered species, Tony Stark’s financial situation goes topsy-turvy and one of Marvel’s grimmest loners is getting some unwanted help. Even though Secret Wars won’t be over for a little while, fans of the Marvel Universe are going to…

The Next Far Cry Will Go To The Stone Age [UPDATE]

UPDATE (10/6/15, 12:12pm): It’s official: the next Far Cry is Far Cry Primal, and it’ll be set in prehistoric times—although it’s actually in the Stone Age, directly after the Ice Age. (Sorry for the mix-up.) It’ll be out February 23, 2016. Original article follows: At around 12pm today, Ubisoft put up a livestream of a…

One GIF Sums Up Star Wars Battlefront‘s Modern Multiplayer Potential

Plenty of non-canonical moments will be possible in the upcoming multiplayer game Star Wars Battlefront. Above, a scene from YouTuber Jackfrags’ recent session with the game. A beta for Battlefront will be playable on PS4, Xbox One and PC starting this Thursday The game can be played in first or third-person. Here’s more: To contact…

World’s Best Smash Bros. Player Makes Awesome Comeback After Almost Burning Out

Last weekend, things didn’t look so great for Smash Bros.’ top player, Gonzalo “Zer0” Barrios. For a moment, it seemed like reigning champ might actually lose a tournament. (I apologize for the auto-playing Twitch embeds below. You might want to scroll down and pause those before reading further.) What you have to understand is, up…