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Classic Game Hardware Makes For Excellent Gundam Models

Mobile Suit…Super Famicom? Twitter user Ikkyu has been putting a classic gaming spin on Gundam models. The results are fantastic. Just check out the little details—like how the shields have controller motifs. Bravo! You can follow Ikkyu on Twitter right here Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

Hey there, space cats! Space Channel 5 VR is getting a download release this year in Japan. It will be based on the demo and is headed to the Vive. Pricing is TBA and no word about an international release.

Kim Kardashian Is Just Like You, She Shops For Manga

Celebrity Kim Kardashian recently uploaded a photo of herself taken in Tokyo, looking at manga. It appears the image was taken at manga and anime retailer Animate’s Shinjuku branch, but it’s hard to make out which manga she’s looking at. But as this Twitter user notes, there is an advert for beautiful boy anime A3!…

Chinatown Last December. Yokohama, Japan. By Nelson Diaz. 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! 

Sonic the Hedgehog: Battle Racers is a new board game that’s all about…racing Sonic characters. Gotta go fast, etc etc. It’s up on Kickstarter now.

With Voice Chat Coming, Heroes Of The Storm Players Brace For Harassment

In the near future, Blizzard is adding built-in voice chat to Heroes of the Storm. Announced at BlizzCon last year, it’s been a long time coming to a game that’s been out since 2015. Some players, however, are worried that voice chat will cause more problems than it’ll solve. For months, HOTS streamer FerociouslySteph has…

You Can Now Pilot D.Va’s Mech (And Use Other Overwatch Weapons) In Doom

Hairy arms and all. This wonderful little mod by MyNameIs adds stuff like D.Va’s mech from Overwatch to Doom (well, GZDoom, the modern platform for it). It’s more than a quick little joke: once summoned, you can stomp around the map shooting stuff to your heart’s content. The mod, called OverDOOM, also introduces a bunch…

Rare Dragon Ball FighterZ Glitch Makes Tien’s Opponents Invisible

Tien’s a dude with three eyes whose best friend is a ghost child and maybe a vampire. That’s pretty weird on its own. It turns out he can turn people invisible too, by way of a recently discovered glitch in Dragon Ball FighterZ A Player who goes by RZampa demonstrated how it works, or at…

Billy Mitchell Breaks Silence About Donkey Kong High Score Controversy

Last week, a popular Donkey Kong website announced that it would be removing former champion Billy Mitchell’s scores from its list after an analysis that it said showed his playthroughs of the game were achieved on the emulator MAME and not on original arcade hardware. Yesterday, Mitchell made what is so far his only response…

Blizzard Bans Overwatch Griefer Who’s Ruined Games For ‘Thousands’ Of Players

“I don’t want to stream the game, because I literally get stream sniped every day,” said popular streamer TimTheTatMan of a particular griefer who kept interfering with his matches. Now Blizzard’s announced that it has banned the griefer, but only after discovering that they were using multiple accounts and “systematically ruining Overwatch games for thousands…

How To Organize Your Cords

I bet you own a few cords. You might have so many cords that they burst out behind your TV stand or below your desk. Play video games for any length of time and you’ll acquire all sorts of cords you don’t know what to do with. For just a few bucks you can rein…

Deepfakes, the subreddit where people were making fake porn using AI tech (some of which involved video game characters) has been shut down. Reddit found it to be in violation of its policy against “involuntary pornography.” Despite rules that prohibit “any person in a state of nudity or engaged in any act of sexual conduct…

Monster Hunter: World Shows How Destiny 2‘s Grind Could Improve

At a first glance, it may seem like Destiny 2 and Monster Hunter: World don’t have much common. But there are several clear reasons why people like me are switching from Bungie’s first-person shooter to Capcom’s third-person monster-fighter. The biggest one, in my view, comes down to grinding and loot. “Grind,” in a video game,…

Watch Us Play The Next Game From Former Plants vs. Zombies Developers

When the original Plants vs Zombies came out close to eight years ago, I got a little obsessed with it. Some former developers of that game have made a new game called Octogeddon, in which you play as a giant octopus. Octogeddon tasks you with being a trespassing octopus with tentacles designed to swat and…

Shadow Of The Colossus Players Try To Solve The Mystery Of The Golden Coins

Shadow of the Colossus’ remake does more than spruce up the game’s graphics, it also adds an entirely new collectible for players to find. Players hunting down these hidden trinkets believe they are on the path to a new secret but there’s a hurdle in their path—they don’t know how many exist or what will…

Sims 4 Update Makes It Easier To Have Black Sims, But There’s A Catch

The Sims 4’s newest update added ten new, darker skin tones, as well as a new curly hair, to a game that had had not previously reflected the range of skin tones that black people and other people of color have. The new skin and hair options are welcome, but they’ve arrived very late in…

The Surge 2 is happening and aiming for release on PC and consoles sometime in 2019. Deck13, the game’s developer, is touting the sequel’s expanded world and limb targeting system. That’s good news as the first game’s levels were a bit claustrophobic. Still, the robot dismemberment system was pretty great

Our First Look At Injustice 2‘s Ninja Turtles In Action

Cowabunga, dudes. By far the oddest addition to the Injustice 2 roster, all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will soon join the super-powered fights, leaping in and out of battle to support one another, as ninja brothers do. Check out the first footage of the foursome in action. Players will select which turtle they want…

Massive Book About History Of PC RPGs Is Out Now For Free

For the past four years, writer Felipe Pepe has been compiling a book about computer role-playing games, enlisting developers and journalists from across the globe to write about everything from Ultima to Fallout 4. The book is out now—and you can get it for free. “Across its 528 pages you’ll find information about over 400…

As Far As PC Case Mods Go, This Sure Is Unusual

If you are going to make a PC case mod, why not use a hot water dispenser? That’s exactly what this school teacher did. Hot water dispensers are convenient for quickly making tea. Twitter user Amano0222‘s teacher used one for a custom PC casing. While it won’t dispense hot water, it is possible to easily…