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A Free Game That Captures Shin Megami Tensei’s Unsettling Atmosphere 

Persona games are known for their incredible art direction, but the main series, SMT, is equally if not more striking. Where Persona games are optimistic and bubbly, the main SMT games often depict apocalypses that are stark, surreal, and contemplative. Until now, I’d never played another game that came close to capturing such a specific…

The Shadow of the Colossus Remake Isn’t Quite The Same

The Shadow of the Colossus remake brings the PS2 classic to a new group of players, boosting up the graphics and changing the controls to make things a little less clumsy. For some, those changes will improve the experience but even small changes can have unexpected consequences. Transcript: The original Shadow of the Colossus released in…

The Most Difficult Game To Play As A Parent

In my first year as a parent, I’ve shunned VR games, sat out Destiny 2 and surprised myself by playing through Nioh. Despite all that, no game has been as tough to play in my new parenting life as Dishonored 2. I did not expect this. Your available gaming time plummets when you have kids.…

Call of Duty Player Hits Max Rank Without Firing A Shot

Here’s a Call of Duty player who just loves bringing knives to a gunfight. Grinding levels is a pretty common objective in Call of Duty multiplayer, but one YouTuber has become the first player to reach the ultimate “Master Prestige” rank in WWII without firing a single bullet. Achieving Master Prestige is no easy task.…

“We’ve talked together and share the feeling that if we can’t make something interesting we’ll just call it quits,” Shigeru Miyamoto said at a recent financial Q&A about the animated Super Mario movie from Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures .

Square Enix’s New Arcade Game Looks So Damn Cool

Leave it to Square Enix to make one of the neatest-looking arcade games shown at this year’s Japan Amusement Expo. It’s called Starwing Paradox, and features a movable pilot seat. Now, have a look at it in action. See? So cool. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

How To Do Monster Hunter: World 4-Player Local Multiplayer 

In Japan, one of the things that made Monster Hunter so popular on the PSP was its local play. People would get together with their PSPs and play. It’s a bit trickier with PS4 game Monster Hunter: World, but not impossible. Just get four televisions and four PS4s, and then put them together like Twitter…

Dotonbori. Osaka, Japan. By Pavel Buga. 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!   

A Modern Gaming PC Inside An Old 386 Case

The outside of this PC screams 1991. The inside, however, is very much from 2018. A self-confessed “beige-aholic”, Tylinol wanted to try something different with his latest PC build, and so did what anyone with fond memories of Wolfenstein 3D would do: put a relatively modern gaming PC inside the yellowing old case. There’s actually…

Look At This $260 Black Panther Action Figure

This is not a photo of Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman. It’s a close-up of a 1:6 scale action figure by Hot Toys. Standing just over 12″ tall, it comes with a bunch of interchangeable hands, a spear, mask and suit that lights up under certain LED lighting conditions (the figure comes with a display…

Borderlands 2‘s Opening Area Was Beautifully Sparse 

Borderlands 2 opens on a car full of post-apocalyptic freaks that gets run over by a train. Even people who didn’t play the game remember this scene and the song that went with it. After that it pivots to the game’s heroes and their bombastic attempts to escape death aboard a locomotive which ultimately self…

Here is the Solo trailer, utterly ruined by Shooptube and “I’m Han Solo” from Kinect Star Wars.

Making A New Game For The Original Sega Genesis Isn’t Easy

Matt Phillips has been working on Tanglewood, a new game for the Sega Genesis, for a few years now. Set to release sometime this year, the project has been a challenging endeavor but one which hasn’t dissuaded its creator from doing the same thing for his next game. Tanglewood is a retro platformer that Big…

Ubisoft creative director Julian Gerighty is looking into the lifetime ban of Division player Matti Hietanen who created a photo mode tool for the game. “Love your work and would like to see more,” Gerighty tweeted. In response to defenses of Hietanen’s work as not being cheat-oriented, Gerighty said “I agree.”

Of course there’ll be Pearl and Marina Amiibo. Figures of Splatoon 2‘s premier performers were announced at the end of the game’s Koshien event in Japan earlier today, along with a new stage and a pair of Tetra Dualies. Isn’t one of them perfect, and if so, which?

People Have Thoughts About The Monsters, Inc. Version Of Goofy

Kingdom Hearts III got a new trailer last night and by all accounts it’s going to release sometime this year. But what we really need to talk about is the wonderful abomination that is the Monsters, Inc. version of Goofy. For anyone unfamiliar with the games, Kingdom Hearts is about Donald Duck, Goofy, and a…

Splatoon‘s Tradition Of Annual Hologram Concerts Continues

Pearl and Marina showed up at this year’s Niconico Tokaigi Smash Bros. tournament in Japan for the latest in a series of hologram concerts dating back to the first Splatoon. Taking over for the Squid Sisters from the first game, the two characters sang songs for an audience of adoring, human fans. Not to be…

TinyBuild Announces Six New Ports For The Nintendo Switch

During a livestream today, indie publisher Tinybuild announced six more games that will be heading to Switch later this year. All of the games have been out for a few years now and are available on PC and other consoles, but the magic of the Switch so far has mostly been showing that that doesn’t…

Watch A Crowd Lose Its Mind Over Dramatic Fortnite Finish 

It’s not every day you get to see a battle royale match come down to the wire. With the storm that constricts players having closed in as much as possible and only two players left, the would-be victor had few options at their disposal. Hundreds of feet above their opponent, they did the only thing…

Doom on the Switch will finally be getting patched sometime this month. Despite running well overall, the game’s players have had to put up with audio issues and wonky menus at times, all things the upcoming patch is intended to fix. Players will soon be able to hear those demons coming on a consistent basis.