Teenage Girls Are Playing Video Games. You Just Might Not Hear Them.

A solitary, silent majority of teenage girls plays video games: often alone, rarely online. When teenage girls do venture online to play games—and a fair chunk of them do, quite regularly—they usually don’t speak. That’s how you go from a world where 59 percent of all girls between 13 and 17 play video games to…

The People Behind Red Ash Are Crowdfunding Yet Again

After last month’s disastrous gameand successful anime Kickstarter campaigns, the people behind Red Ash are asking for even more of fans’ money—this time to extend the anime from 12 minutes to 30. You can’t make this stuff up. This time, they’re using not Kickstarter but a facsimile of the popular crowdfunding service, using the Studio…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

Stephen’s out on a long overdue vacation this week, so this week’s hand-picked Kotaku stories will, of course, be all cat related. Though sadly I still don’t think Kotaku is meeting necessary cat coverage standards, so I guess I’ll have to settle with these. How Snoopy KilledPeanuts – Kevin Wong’s first time guest editing for…

When Combine posters pop up in your apartment building, you should think about moving. 3D artist Liam Tart, who’s worked as an environment artist on Alien: Isolation, is remaking a small, familiar section of Half-Life 2 in Unreal Engine 4 to get out of his “usual sci-fi comfort zone.” You can follow his progress here…

Poll: What Japanese Gamers Want in the Final Fantasy VII Remake

So, they’re remaking Final Fantasy VII. It won’t be exactly the same and things will change. But what do you want in the game? Some Japanese gamers were asked just that. Note: The answer to this poll might contain spoilers if you’ve never played FFVII. According to My Navi, 444 of its readers were asked…

Cosplayer Forgets Something Very Important 

Costume and accessories? Check. Makeup and hairdo? Check. Sunscreen? Um… Cosplayer Ayane Maro dressed up as Death Note’s Misa Amane during the recent Comic Market in Tokyo. This weekend was hot and sunny, and Ayane forgot to put on sunblock. [Photo: aru_nico] You might think, well, her sunburn probably wasn’t that noticeable. [Photo: aru_nico] You,…

Awa Odori Festival. Tokushima, Japan. By William Hofer. 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!

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I can’t even look at it.

Thor’s Hammer, Remade For A Four Year-Old

Crux1836 asked his kid what he wanted for his fourth birthday. When he said “a Thor hammer…a REAL Thor hammer!”, dad had to get to work. What began as a rusted old piece of hollow square-stock: Went through this: To become this: So great. You can see more pics here

Here. Cool Robots.

Hope you’re in the mood for some. Mechs, too. They’re the work of Shinku Kim, an artist based in Seoul. You can see more of Kim’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the…

Ballsy Chinese Console Rips Off Both The PS4 And Xbox One

Right now, on China’s version of Kickstarter, you can back a games console called the OUYE. If you ever wanted a console that looked like a PS4 but had a controller like the Xbox One’s, it’s for you! Kidding, it’s garbage. It’s a hunk of copyright-infringing plastic that, judging from the games on show (and…

You Can Play A Final Fantasy VII Beat-em-up, Right Now

This is Final Fantasy VII: Re-Imagined. It’s an indie (read: unofficial fan project) side-scrolling beat-em-up that, recreates Final Fantasy VII as a 2D side-scroller. It’s awesome, it’s free and you can play it right now. There’s one level available as a playable demo in a browser from here, but if you’re having Unity problems there…

WWE Finishers Used To Look Better

I used to think that it was just nostalgia, screwing with my memory. But when I did a side-by-side comparison, there was no comparison at all. I’ve been playing WWE games for close to 15 years now, and although the graphics have gotten crisper and more realistic (they actually do motion capture on the wrestlers…