Toy Soldiers War Chest: The Kotaku Review

Two of us at Kotaku—Luke and Brian—really dug the first Toy Soldiers game when it came out. And now, years later, they’re going to review the latest entry, Toy Soldiers: War Chest This is the first Toy Soldiers that is not a Microsoft exclusive. Published by Ubisoft, Toy Soldiers: War Chest is out on the…

Fables: The Kotaku Comic Review

After 150 issues spread over 13 years, the grand comic that is Fables has finally come to an end. For those of you not in the know Fables is a comic series written by Bill Willingham that started in 2002 and ended last month. It is the last of the zeitgeist-changing Vertigo comics titles that…

In China, Women Hired To Motivate Computer Programmers

Because they cannot motivate themselves? Who knows! But according to Trending in China(via Tech in Asia), “programming cheerleaders” apparently exist. Here’s Trending in China explaining what’s going on: Internet companies across China are embracing programming cheerleaders, pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment. Their job includes buying programmers breakfast, chitchatting and playing…

I Made a Cooling Shirt to Survive Comic Market

Surviving the summer Comiket (Comic Market) isn’t just about rules and manners—sometimes it’s about beating the unbearable heat. This past weekend was the 88th Comiket, the bi-annual indie comic convention that showcases self-published manga and magazines as well as plenty of cosplay The Summer Comiket can be one of the more severe experiences in terms…

A pond at Kouyasan. Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. By Adrien Métivet. 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!

Rocket League’s MLG Final Ended In The Most Exciting Way Possible

This morning, for the first time, Major League Gaming ran a Rocket League tournament. The stakes were relatively low. The prize pool was meagre. At stake — not much really. Bragging rights. No-one could have predicted how insane the final outcome would be. Rocket League, as an eSport, is in its infancy. This was really…

We Ain’t Found Shi-Oh Here It Is

Peter Boehme is an artist based in Germany who has worked on games like Quake Wars, Brink, Rage, Doom 4, Uncharted 3 and Crysis 3. One of his more recent jobs was working on indie top-down shooter AIPD You can see more of Peter’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the…

Halo Menu And Chill

Here are the two things I like about this website. One, it’s called halome.nu. Two, all it does is loop the epic/chanty menu screen music from the Bungie and 343’s Halo games. The site says “Have you ever left a Halo title running on your TV, just to listen to and watch the main menu?”…

What It’s Like To Be The Community Manager For The ‘Worst PS4 Game Ever’

In late 2014, to help a friend, I joined the team of Wander, the non-combat, exploration MMO, volunteering to help with mundane things like filling out paperwork and maybe playing the game a little to check out a few features. Nothing serious, I thought. I didn’t know that I’d soon be called in to help…

GTA Player Bails At The Best Possible Moment

Holy shit. This feels like it could have come straight out of The Matrix or something. drekerrr brings us footage of a GTA eject so epic, it could easily be a stunt in a big-budget action movie: Not only does the passenger somehow avoid the missiles, he also gets to take revenge on the attacking…

Florida Man Accused Of Stuffing PS4 Down Pants

Christopher Caldwell, 36, has been arrested after security staff at a Walmart in Florida told police they found him stuffing a PS4 inside his pants. And then some. Local crime blog Off The Beat (via @ZhugeEX & pixeldynamo) say Caldwell was found in the bike section of the Port St. Lucie Walmart “sticking the PlayStation…

RymdResa Made Me Feel Terrible About Leveling Up

I just leveled up for the first time in new Steam space survival game RymdResa, and it was devastating. RymdResa is fascinating. It’s an outer-space roguelike-like that just launched on Steam, but it’s about exploration instead of combat. You drift through the infinite procedurally generated cosmos—once alive with technology and culture, now dead (or perhaps…

5+ Minutes Of Video Game Racing So Good I Can’t Even

It just…the madness begins immediately, and for five minutes, it does not stop. What’s cool here isn’t necessarily the driving—though some of those drifts and flips are incredibly precise—but the design of the track itself, which has been meticulously arranged to allow for a car to be flung through it at top-speed with only millimetres…