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It’s the day after Thanksgiving here in the States, a.k.a. Black Friday, and I, Kotaku editor Maddy Myers, will be your shepherd on this holiday Prepare yourself a plate of delicious leftovers and enjoy reading about video games (and maybe some other stuff).

Japan’s Best Gundam Models Of 2018

Here are the winners and finalists that will represent Japan in the 2018 Gunpa Builders World Cup These are expertly built and painted Gundam models.  Via 2ch, here is third place. Second place. And first place. The images originally appeared on 2ch under a thread that called the level of this year’s winners “so awful.”…

Chinese Game Site Censors Winnie The Pooh in Kingdom Hearts III

When Chinese game site A9VG recently covered Kingdom Hearts III, it decided to remove one thing: Winnie the Pooh. Below is a screenshot of the A9VG coverage that was posted on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. According to Buzz Plus, to get around censors, it seems, the site decided to edit out Pooh bear. What…

The Fog. Philadelphia, USA. By Kyle Kreiger | Instagram 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! 

Hello there, Battle of Geonosis. The Attack of the Clones finale is being added to Battlefront II on November 28, along with a bunch of customisation options for Obi-Wan, General Grievous and some Clone Troopers.

Total War: Arena will shut down on February 22, 2019, the developers announced today. Players can get free DLC or a copy of Total War: Medieval II Definitive Edition as “a thank you for playing.”

Gnomes Are Part Of The Weirdest Sims 4’s Thanksgiving

The Sims 4‘s holidays, introduced in the Seasons expansion, do a good job of mimicking their real life counterparts. In order to complete holidays successfully, you have to achieve certain goals before the day is over. On Love Day, you’re expected to give flowers and go on a date. During Winterfest, you give gifts and…

Goku Is In The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade For The First Time

Dragon Ball’s Goku will make his premiere (in balloon form, and also Super Saiyan Blue form) at the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade today. According to Macy’s, Goku is 56 feet tall and as wide as seven taxis, an enjoyably specific unit of measurement I’d like to see used for other things. Earlier this week Macy’s…

Touken Ranbu, the online browser game about famous swords personified as handsome dudes, is getting a feature film adaptation. Here’s a first look. The movie opens in Japan on January 18.

Green Times in Arashiyama. Kyoto, Japan. By Jesse Dijk | Instagram 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! 

May you all have as enjoyable and challenging a holiday as Lady Gaga is having playing Bayonetta

Here’s The Actual Basketball From The Cover Of NBA Jam

The iconic cover to NBA Jam, with its image of a logo-adorned basketball smashing through some paper, is not an illustration. It’s a photo, and this is the model, 25 years later. As trivial as this sounds, I had never even considered this possibility, so excuse my amazement at the wonders of early-90s promotional bootstrapping.…

What Makes Ocarina Of Time Great, 20 Years Later 

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time turned 20 years old today. Link’s first 3-D adventure, for the content-starved Nintendo 64, captivated a whole new generation of players, setting a standard for adventure games and laying a foundation for today’s massive open world journeys. In spite of this, Ocarina of Time remains a unique…

Popular Overwatch Fan Song Has Turned Into An Excuse To Mock Female Gamers

TikTok is a lip-synching app that’s popular among teenagers. If you’re not a teenager, you might be more familiar with this app through “cringe” compilations, which are videos that string together several TIkTok videos, often for the purposes of mockery. Every single “cringe” compilation that I’ve watched contains at least one instance of the Overwatch-themed…

Fallout 76’s Multiplayer: The Promise Vs. The Reality

In the week since Fallout 76‘s release, it since has become one of 2018’s more divisive games. Its Metacritic page is a horrorshow; its official forum and subreddits are battlegrounds between those who have found something to love in the buggy online survival game and those who think Bethesda has taken the series off a…

The Messenger now has a new game plus mode thanks to its latest update You’ll need to 100% the game to unlock it, but after doing so you’ll be able to replay the entire thing on a harder difficulty and with all of your stuff from the previous playthrough.

The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo

On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applause, a Diablo game for phones. It was a baffling marketing decision that immediately set off controversy, as fans of Blizzard’s iconic action-role-playing game franchise loudly accused the company of neglecting its PC players Perhaps Blizzard’s marketing department had expected Diablo…

WWE Star Spends Precious Airtime On Very Relatable PS4 Storage Issue

“I’m thankful for my two terabyte hard drive, so that I don’t have to delete Spider-Man in order to download Red Dead 2,” WWE wrestler Xavier Woods said during a Thanksgiving segment on the Smackdown wrestling TV show last night. You can see him make that statement, which garnered an “amen” from one of the…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s First Epic Mercenary Isn’t Very Epic 

It’s been over a month since epic mercenaries were originally planned to arrive in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the game has finally received its first one. These unique battles, which grant special rewards and in-game currency, could be a chance to highlight Odyssey’s combat system and challenge players to adopt new tactics. Unfortunately, the first…

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