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Shopping Marrakech, Morocco. By Juan Antonio Segal | Flickr 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! 

Tim Kitzrow, the original voice actor on NBA Jam, has been roped in by Valve to provide a commentary pack for DOTA 2.

Madman Beats Mario 64 Using A Nintendo 64 Mouse

There are many ways you can complete Super Mario 64, but playing with the rare and official N64 mouse has to rank as one of the worst. The peripheral—only released in Japan, only for the Nintendo 64DD, and only then alongside copies of Mario Artist: Paint Studio—is just a regular ol’ mouse, meaning that controlling…

D.Va Action Figure Is Pretty Much Perfect

Good Smile are back with another Overwatch Figma, this time of D.Va. There’s no mech, but it’s a Figma, you shouldn’t have been expecting one anyways. Instead, expect the usual: multiple faces, multiple hands, multiple accessories, loads of poseability. It’ll be out in June 2019—these guys like to plan ahead!—for around $55.

Blizzard says that Overwatch’s new Busan map was not inspired by a fan map. In an email, a rep told Kotaku that the team had been working on the map long before an impressive fan mock-up appeared online in June, noting that production can take “nearly six months for some maps.” Check out yesterday’s story…

Sword & Sworcery‘s Switch Port Won’t Support Twitter Because It’s A ‘Vat Of Toxic Waste’

Several eras ago—before algorithms came to dictate our every breath and Nazis re-infiltrated popular discourse via extremely uncreative and shitty memes—Twitter was alright. Now it’s a suckhole that eats negativity and barfs conflict. The developers of indie classic Sword & Sworcery don’t want anything to do with it anymore. Earlier this week, developer Capy announced…

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Isn’t Quite The Same On Consoles

The console port of Divinity: Original Sin 2, one of the greatest role-playing games ever made, is just about the best the developers could’ve done. It’s a solid port. It’s just not quite as perfect as the PC version. Tomorrow, Larian Studios will release the “Definitive Edition” of Divinity: Original Sin 2. PC players will…

People Who Haven’t Played Spider-Man Are Mad The Developers Took Out A Puddle

They say there’s no use crying over spilled milk, but what about spilled water? That, according to a contingent of Spider-Man fans, is worth a fuss of superheroic proportions. The new Spider-Man game is mere days from leaping out of developer Insomniac’s imagination factory and into our living rooms, but even though it’s not out…

D.Va’s Overwatch Short Sparks Theories About Her Love Life

Last week’s Overwatch short starred fan favorite character D.Va and revealed a little bit about her personality. It also gave Overwatch fans a new character to swoon over: her squadmate, D.Mon. Not much is known about D.Mon as a character, but that’s never stopped fans from getting attached to a character before, and this time…

Fortnite Players Want To Know Where The Cube Is Headed

Last week, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky started spewing lightning until it finally dropped a glowing alien cube on the map. The cube has started moving and changing the landscape, encouraging players to sleuth out where it’s ultimately headed and what will happen when it gets there. The saga technically started back in May…

There Will Be A Football Mini-Game In NBA 2K19. Hmmm.

It’s been over a decade since the gaming label 2K stopped making football games to rival EA’s Madden series, but wouldn’t you know it: someone is throwing a football at the end of the trailer for 2K’s latest big basketball game. It’s there to be noticed. A new NBA 2K19 trailer released today pushes NBA…

Battle For Azeroth Is More Exciting When You’re Horde

Man, why did I waste two weeks questing through boring green hillsfor the Alliance when I could have been exploring dinosaur-infested swamps as a mighty Cowadin? Even in the middle of the Battle for Azeroth, the Horde have it good. I know, I pledged myself to the Alliance before World of Warcraft’s latest expansion Battle…

The Messenger Is A Great New Metroidvania 

Back in the NES era, the late 80s and early 90s, there were two different types of games. Call them linear and non-linear. The linear games, like Super Mario Bros. and Ninja Gaiden, had you go through each level once and only once. The non-linear games, like Zelda and Metroid, allowed for backtracking and exploration.…

Subnautica will get a stand-alone expansion called Below Zero “in the coming months,” the developers announced today. It will release first in Early Access and, as hinted, will take place in an Arctic-like environment.

Four Key Tips To Get Good At Into The Breach

You should play Into The Breach, the brilliant new game from the makers of FTL. And if you are playing Into The Breach, here are some key tips that’ll help you get better at squashing aliens. Note: This article originally ran in February—we’ve bumped it up for the Switch launch of Into the Breach I’ll…

Battlefield V Delayed Away From Call of Duty And Red Dead 2

EA has delayed the next big Battlefield game a month, pushing it back to November 20 for what developer DICE says are “final adjustments to core gameplay.” There’s another good reason for the delay, though: the competition. Battlefield V had been previously scheduled for October 19, a week after Call of Duty: Black Ops 4…

This Isn’t A Photo Of Japan, But A City Made In Minecraft

You are looking at Sayama City, a Minecraft-made fictional Japanese city with echoes of Osaka, Tokyo and more. It’s like a photo Check out the detail The project’s official Twitter has been updating since 2015. Expect more jaw-dropping updates in the future.

Man Makes Death Stranding‘s Robotic Arm

In Death Stranding, Norman Reedus’ character Sam has a robotic detector to locate Chiral enemies. YouTuber Kantaro Studio made his own. The clip below shows how he brought the Chiral detector to life The project took around 60 days and cost approximately $180. It was worth the effort because look how the finished version movement…

Japan’s Newest YouTuber: Hello Kitty

Starting today, Hello Kitty is making her YouTube debut. Her first clip shows the character at home, introducing herself and talking about how she has long wanted to become a YouTuber. In making her YouTube debut, Hello Kitty seems to borrow from other well-known Japanese YouTubers, including Hikakin The first clip is slightly over five…

Sprague Lake. Colorado, USA. By Todd Petrie | Flickr 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!