Our Top Four Fall, 2017 Anime Picks

After days of plunging into Fall 2017’s deep, dark anime coal mines, I have emerged with a few diamonds… and some sludgy crap I’m still trying to wash out of my sweater. There was a lot of sludgy crap. Watching through the 52 anime we showcasedin our Fall 2017 anime preview, four anime stood out…

How To Play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp On iOS Right Now

So you want to play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, but it’s only available in soft-launch in Australia. Here’s a quick, easy and only slightly shady way to create an iTunes account in another country, straight from your iPhone or iPad. First, go into your phone or tablet’s settings and sign out of your normal iTunes account.…

The Literary Horror Of Eternal Darkness

Eternal Darkness is a 2002 GameCube game featuring an epically dark story that takes place over thousands of years. It’s a series of interconnected tales, almost like a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, that weave together myth, occultism, and some of the dark chapters in religion. While most people associate the horrors of…

Kinect Is Officially Dead

First dead in our hearts, and now dead at the manufacturing plant, the Kinect is no longer in production. Microsoft’s experimental motion detecting camera, which first launched in November, 2010, will die off once existing retail stock is sold, Microsoft told the website Fast Co.in an interview The Kinect, a full-body motion sensor that would…

Konami’s alternate reality Metal Gear Solid V spin-off Metal Gear Survive arrives on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on February 20. Fans of the series eager to pre-order can do so here. Oh sorry, I meant here.

I’m Playing The Animal Crossing Phone Game, And It’s Pretty Good

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp isn’t supposed to be out until November, but for some reason Android owners [Update: and iOS users too] in Australia can download and play the game right now. And hey, I’m an Android owner in Australia, so let me show you how this thing actually works. Like Super Mario Run, Pocket…

One Of The Creepiest Pokémon Ever 

It’s Spooky Weekhere at Kotaku, and what better time to look back at Parasect, one of the most unsettling Pocket Monsters to date. The Bug/Grass type evolves from Paras, and its name appears to be a portmanteau of “parasite” and “insect.” Hence, Parasect. What makes Parasect so unsettling is that it’s been taken over by…

Man Uses Naruto Headband To Defend Himself From Attacker

Earlier this month in New York, 21-year-old Anthony Durden was riding the A train at 1:30am when he was suddenly attacked by a stranger, who slashed him in the face. “I look up and I see it coming down from this side,” he told PIX 11 (via Comic Book and Sankaku Complex NSFW). “I’m like,…

Himeji Castle Inner Circle Last February. Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. By Peter Stepnoski. 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! 

Animal Crossing Coming To Phones As A Camping Game

Animal Crossing is coming to phones, with Nintendo tonight announcing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. [Update: We’ve played it, here are some impressions]. As the name might suggest, instead of taking place in a town, Pocket Camp puts you in a campground, where you run around doing chores for animals so you can build furniture and…

This Overwatch/Pokemon mash-up shouldn’t work, but it totally does. I’m not sure I’d want to play iDeViL360‘s Pokemon-style Overwatch game if it existed, but it’s a fertile, monster-ridden field for humor. Speaking of fields, of course patches of tall grass would be lousy with annoying level one Hanzos.

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Here’s some A+ Akira cosplay by ChibiThot Be sure to watch the vid first, so you can see how the gun actually lights up.

New Steam Game Gives You Achievements For Speedrunning

High Hell is by no means the longest game ever, but it can be really, really short if you want it to be. While the stylish first-person shooter should take most people a couple hours to beat, there’s an achievement for sprinting through it in 20 minutes. There’s also one for beating a level in…

Bomber Crew Misses Its Target

I got really excited for Bomber Crew when I first saw it, so it’s a bummer that the game—which looked like FTL vs Dambusters—annoyed the hell out of me. Everything looked so good on paper. The game puts you in control of a bomber on various missions over Europe, with a focus on actually managing…

It’s Never Been A Better Time To Love Horror Games

The Golden Age of survival horror games began in the mid-90s and ran for about a decade. Despite their often rudimentary graphics and dodgy gameplay, series like Resident Evil and Silent Hill explored B-movies and psychological horror in ways previously unfamiliar to gamers. Pick any “all-time best horror games” list, and chances are more than…