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Appealing To Old Anime Fans In Japan

As Japan continues to gray, one thing is inevitable: anime fans are also getting older. That’s why Bandai is teaming up with an elderly goods maker for anime-themed canes Via website 1up Jouhoukyoku, have a look: In the coming years, products like these won’t be anomalies Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture,…

First Look At Bleach Creator’s New One-Shot Manga

Tite Kubo, best known for Bleach, has a new manga. It’s one-shot comedy manga called Burn the Witch In Japanese, the teaser site has the words “witch,” “dragon” and “reverse London.” That last one could also mean “rebirth London” as リバース (ribaasu) refers to “reverse” or its secondary meaning “rebirth.” Bleach, which debuted in 2001,…

Ikoma Plateau. Kobayashi, Miyazaki. By Michael Markofski. 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! 

Sounds like Sombra will be the next Overwatch character to receive major changes. In a forum post, lead designer Geoff Goodman said that her stealth and translocator will soon have infinite duration, but stealthed movement speed will take a hit, and she won’t be able to cap points while invisible. Still, quite a buff!

We’re playing some Gundam games live now on Twitch, including Gundam Versus and New Gundam Breaker. Come relax in chat as we try to make a custom Gouf Custom.

Capcom Ditches Guns N’ Roses Boss Names For Mega Man X Collection

In a new trailer intended to show off Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and 2’s challenge mode where players can choose to fight two Maverick bosses at the same time, Capcom inadvertently revealed something even more important: the bosses in Mega Man X5 will no longer be named after the members of Guns N’…

Wreckfest Is Murder Disguised As A Racing Game

I first wrote about Wreckfest back in 2014, before it even had a name. Four years of Early Access later it’s actually out, and I’m happy to say the wait has been worth it. Having not played it for a few years, I’d left Wreckfest as a fun little oddity, a physics-based game where you…

Overwatch’s Trolls Are Losing

Overwatch players needed something to incentivize good sportsmanship and, yesterday, they got it. Blizzard’s latest Overwatch patch is toning down the hierarchy of skill and introducing a hierarchy of decency. It’s a masterstroke of features, all interacting to reward civility and cleanse the game of antisocial behavior. At its heart is a new “endorsement” system…

Gamers from the Class of 2018 Graduated in Style With These Graduation Caps

The practice of decorating graduation caps is often seen as a rite of passage for incoming graduates of colleges and (now, increasingly) high schools. Students often spend months contemplating what they will include on their graduation caps, which on graduation day. This year, many chose to adorn their caps with inspiring quotes, memes, and song…

Fortnite Player Destroys Tilted Towers In A Single Shot

Fortnite’s notorious Tilted Towers—a high-risk, high-reward landing spot once described as “tryhard central” by erstwhile Kotaku editor/genius Patricia Hernandez—have been a target of players’ grimmest imaginings ever since rumors that they’d be obliterated by a comet started swirling in March. But still they stand. So one player took matters into their own hands. A Fortnite…

PUBG Is Struggling To Find Its Place In A Battle Royale World

A declining player base. Multiple public-relations gaffes. And gameplay that still feels unfinished. Can PUBG turn its fortunes around, or will the game that launched a whole genre be remembered as just a flash in the frying pan? Last year, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds single-handedly caused the “battle royale” genre to explode in popularity. But Fortnite overtook…

Overwatch Players Have Made Their Own Ways To Celebrate Pride Month

Even though Overwatch’s mascot character is an out lesbian, the game didn’t offer any Pride-themed events or costumes this month. So players have found their own ways to celebrate. When Blizzard released a holiday comic that showed the Overwatch mascot character, Tracer, celebrating Christmas with her girlfriend, fans were ecstatic. They’d already been writing fic…

The Sorry State Of PS4 Cross-Play

Right now, if you download Minecraft on Switch, you can play with any of your friends who are on PC. You can play with any of your friends who are on Xbox, or even on their phones. There’s just one glaring omission on this list, and it ain’t the Ouya. Sony, whose PlayStation 4 is…

Smash Bros., Ghost of Tsushima And 27 Other Mostly-Interesting Games I Saw At E3

E3, a show in which the future of gaming pretends to be in the present, is in the past. Those demos that may or may not represent the final quality of the games they preview? All locked up. The previews and round-ups by writers who hit reasonable deadlines? Published. And then there’s me, straggling along.…

Winter Pool Parties Less Dangerous For Your Sims, And Other Patch Notes

With every new Sims expansion, there comes new bug fixes. Just before the Seasons expansion launched last week, The Sims’ team pushed through some fixes. Turns out that the expansion itself made a few more bugs, which they’ve fixed yesterday. Some of these patch notes are pretty funny. Here are my favorites. Sims were hosting…

Someone Made A Pachinko Machine In No Man’s Sky

One No Man’s Sky player made a base that’s a working pachinko machine, just in case you wanted to play a game while you game. No Man’s Sky players are mostly twiddling their thumbs while they wait for the huge update that’s bringing true multiplayer next month. Some of them are still finding ways to…

Heavy Rain Headlines July’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

I’ve never actually played a David Cage game; I end up watching them on YouTube since they’re already so cinematic. Could Heavy Rain’s inclusion in July’s PS Plus lineup change my trend? (Probably not.) As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. July’s PlayStation Plus lineup is: PlayStation 4…

Pokémon-flavored mobile game Pokémon Quest arrives on iOS today. When I played it on the Switch, I said that if it were on phones I’d play it all the time. Now to put that theory to the test.

After a slew of complaints from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players over the game’s buggy new Event Pass, Battlegrounds is making some necessary changes ASAP: “Firstly, we’ve upped the daily XP limit and reduced the minimum play time required to count towards mission progress. We’re implementing these changes first on the test server.” today’s blog post reads

Fortnite‘s New Playground Mode Is Live And Here’s How It Works (Update: It’s Back Up)

Fortnite’s long-awaited “Playground” mode is finally live this morning. It’s a freeform, Minecraft-like practice mode that will feel crucial to players who want a less chaotic environment in which to git gud. As Kotaku posts this, Fortnitejust announcedthe mode is down for repairs while they “investigate some issues with our matchmaking services.” [Update—9:00 am ET,…