Inside The Longest Overtime In Pro Counter-Strike History

On the face of it, you wouldn’t pick DenDD vs. PixelFire to be a classic Counter-Strike match. They’re minor professional teams, far below the level of the Fnatics or Na’Vis of the world. But last weekend, they ended up making history: the first map of their best-of-three went into triple, then quadruple, and finally quintuple…

Unravel: The Kotaku Review

Unravel, which stars a little red knitted character called Yarny, is unusually personal. It is an intimate game, tied to a certain place and time, and it very obviously means something to the people who made it. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Yarny is based on an actual doll that creative director Martin…

Marvel’s Latest Avengers Game Is Such A Shame

Marvel put together an awesome re-imagining of Avengers heroes and villains as college students. They recruited top notch voice talent like Alison Brie, Colton Haynes and John Cena. All that design work and talent for a glorified Simpson: Tapped Out clone. Look at this key art. I would watch that cartoon. I would read that…

Someone Built A Playable Space Invaders Inside Dwarf Fortress

The classic ASCII-roguelike builder sim Dwarf Fortress is notorious for being unforgiving for even the smallest mistake. If you’re not familiar with the rules, it’s tough to build even simple things and not ruin everything at the same time. Still, someone managed to make a playable version of Space Invaders in it. Even the idea…

XCOM 2 Dream Team Is Ready To Roll

XCOM 2 not only supports fan-made mods, but it’s also quite easy to modify soldiers to look like someone familiar. Here’s allmightyspaceduck’s dream team of a Doomguy-looking Master Chief, Gordon Freeman, Marcus Fenix and Duke without muscles. They should be quite powerful together, but hey, it’s XCOM, even they’re gonna miss all of their targets.

Japan Is Getting Cherry Blossom Flavored Pepsi

Of course it is. According to NicoNico News, Pepsi Sakura is launching in Japan on March 8. “Sakura” means “cherry blossoms,” and this is the latest in a long line of unusual Pepsi flavors to hit the country. NicoNico News adds that the drink is a light pink hue and smells of sweet sakura. To…

The Latest One Piece Collectible: Luffy as a Woman

I’m fairly certain nobody asked for this, but here we are: Luffy from One Piece gets turned into a lady for upcoming merch. As pointed out on 2ch, MegaHouse, which is part of Bandai Namco, recently showed an unpainted prototype of a female Luffy D. Monkey: [Image via 2ch] The enormous curves shouldn’t be a…

Damn, This Anime Gun Model Is Amazing 

In sci-fi anime Psycho Pass, authorities wield a precrime suppressor called the “Dominator.” We’ve seen a model version for sale before, but we haven’t seen one like this. This real-life version of the portable brain scanner gun can even transform like it does in the anime. According to ASCII, this one-to-one scale recreation is even…

Sticking Around Club Sega. Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. By John Puma. 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!

Persona 3, You’re Looking Very Real

Shigenori Soejima’s art for the Persona series is some of the best in all of video games, but like anything else it’s always fair game for some reinterpretation. This is Blair Armitage’s take on Persona 3’s wonderful Aigis/Aegis, whose quirks, rather than looking stranger in a more realistic style, actually just come off looking even…

Stop Virtual Reality You Don’t Fit There

His hands are like “what the fuck is this shit.” These illustrations are from the manual for HTC and Valve’s latest Vive dev kit. They’re sincere instructions, detailing the amount of space required to use the Vive’s fancy spatial awareness mode (using receivers to allow you to walk around the room). Don’t sweat it, owners/renters…

How 1UP Reviewed Video Games Back In 2008

Withthe site now little more than fond memories and a dead front page, former Senior Editor Frank Cifaldi has dug up and shared an old copy of 1UP’s “Review Crew Handbook”. While armchair commenters on forums and twitter love to guess about the motives or workings of a video games website behind the scenes, the…

One Of The World’s Biggest PC Piracy Groups Is Quitting The Game

The last time we heard from Chinese cracking forum 3DM—responsible for illegal cracks of pirated video games—they were being frustrated by Just Cause 3’s “Denovo” copy protection. Now they’re walking away from the game entirely. As Torrentfreak report, last week 3DM’s leader Bird Sister posted on her personal blog “We just had an internal meeting.…

Captain America: Civil War: The Super Bowl Trailer

Guns don’t kill people. Superheroes turning against one another kill people.

Please Select Your Naruto

The character selection page for Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is overwhelming. Which of the nearly 100 initially unlocked ninja should I choose?