Mount Fuji from the bullet train. Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. By Hien Nguyen 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!
Colors so vivid your cornea will hurt. Fashion so sweet your teeth will hurt. Welcome to Kawaii Monster Cafe This themed cafe was created by artist Sebastian Masuda, who’s famous for his cuter than cute fashion shop 6% Doki Doki and creating the look for Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s “PonPonPon” music video. I’ve always been a…
While Pokken may be a portmanteau word of “Pokémon” and “Tekken,” the actual game Pokkén Tournament is anything but a mixture of the two. When it comes down to it, Tekken is a complex fighting game filled with numerous combos that tend to result in your juggling your opponent in the air as long as…
Here’s the debut trailer for Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky, the new JRPG from Tri-Ace and Spike Chunsoft. For more on this title, check Kotaku’s previous coverage.
Move over Miku. There’s a new virtual idol in town and she’s got a game all her own. So come join me as I play it. Update: The stream is now over. And sadly, as a music game with copyrighted music, twitch has automatically muted most of the stream. However, a chunk of it has…
In Fire Emblem Fates, like in the other games in the series, the characters you control are able to fall in love and even have children. But while many players create intricate breeding plans of who will marry who, I tried something different: I let them fall in love naturally. There are actually three different…
Each August, traditional lantern floats are carried through the city of Aomori. This year, joining the traditional Japanese samurai floats, were Star Wars characters. Fitting, I know. The floats typically feature warriors, deities, and animals. See the below photos from Twitter user t_shicho, who lives in Aomori. [Photo: t_shicho] [Photo: t_shicho] George Lucas was heavily…
In Japan, there is an anime called Love Live! It’s about schoolgirl idols. It’s more than just popular. Way more. As Twitter user S1Amkshows, a Sega arcade in Osaka Prefecture set up a special area where Love Live! fans can prostrate themselves (bow completely down in what’s called “dogeza” or 土下座 in Japanese) before the…
Artist: Spitz | Track: Sarasara | Album: Sarasara/Boku wa kitto tabi ni deru Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Derek Weselake is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who works in both the video game and film industries. One of his specialiteis is environment design, and I particulalry dig his takes on a future city: it’s nice seeing something that sits a little more realistically between the two stereotypes of “grimy cyberpunk” and “glistening…
Poor MrRedSkull167. All he wanted to do was land his fancy fighter jet. Instead, let this be a reminder: some days in GTA Online, nothing goes according to plan.
As we’ve established, when it comes to small-scale figures, Figmas are the best. Especially when they leave fictional series behind and recreate actual historical badasses like Bruce Lee. Being a Figma, it’s not going to be cheap; expect to pay around $50 for it when released in November. But whatever, looks totally worth it, if…
Earlier this year, there was a giant, 42-player, AI-only game of Civilization V going down. Wonder why we never heard anything more about it? Because it died. But that’s OK. Now the same guy is going to run a game with over 60 players. TPangolin, the organiser of the original Battle Royale, thinks he’s fixed…
Luke and Patrick have been playing a lot of Rocket League, one of the surprise hits of the year so far. Rather than have them fight it out to review the game, we figured it was best to just let them both do it. Luke Plunkett: The thing that impresses me the most about Rocket…
Imagine if cosplay was more like Destiny. You find just the right fabric, walk to the cashier, pay your money…and open the bag to find a packet of nails. Lucky it’s not, then, and Italian cosplayer Fred Props was able to actually make the stuff he wanted for this amazing Hunter outfit. You should check…
Tuesday’s Xbox One 30-game collection Rare Replay includes five short documentary videos about five games that the legendary studio Rare started making but never released. The requirements for unlocking these videos are very tough and likely beyond me and many other mortal gamers, but I was at least able to flick through preview clips for…
Ah, August. The height of the summer, and the graceful slide into fall. Summer might be my favorite time for playing video games. It’s the time when I really feel like I’ve got options—Fall’s frantic keeping-up-with-the-Jonesesness is as far away as it’ll ever be, and we’ve simply got time to relax and play what we…
Track: Rock Bottom | Artist: Eminem | Album: The Slim Shady LP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
This past Saturday, the popular League of Legends-focused Twitch streamer Trick2g was putting on an elaborate 24-hour live event to commemorate the fact that he’d amassed 800,000 followers. He decided to end the stream with a bang: staging his own mock swatting. Come Monday morning, his account was banned. Trick2g’s Twitch channel is now offline,…
Okay, I’m probably not gonna make it to the Nuclear Throne today. But I sure as heck can try! I’ve been having a Nuclear Throne itch lately, so I thought I’d stream it today while chatting with some of you lovely folk. The game is still in early access and routinely gets new stuff, so…
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