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The Switch Joy-Con’s Infrared Sensor Is Cooler Than We Thought

One of the most interesting parts of the Nintendo Switch has gone nearly unused by game developers, including Nintendo, for the first year of the system’s existence. A mind-blowing demonstration yesterday, however, showed that the little sensor on the bottom of the right Joy-Con is more capable than we ever imagined. Specifically, it can be…

One of The Biggest Harry Potter Fanfics Still Holds Up In 2018

If you don’t read fanfiction, it’s hard to really understand the purpose it serves. At its worst fanfiction is self indulgent, but at its best, fanfiction transforms the work it’s based on, and gives small moments in the canon more depth. A great example of how a derivative work can add to a piece of…

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Is Pretty Bad At Telling Players How To Play

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a highly technical online fighting game featuring 28 different characters. Each character has their own special moves and abilities, none of which are referenced in the game whatsoever. That’s not good. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a console port of a Japanese arcade game, so an amount of console unfriendliness…

Zelda Player Turns Map Progress Into Wall Art

Since its first DLC, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has given players the option to look back at all the places they’ve traveled by showing their path in green, known in the game as the “Hero’s Path.” While the feature has always been neat, it looks even more unique and intimate when…

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, a game about punching rough dudes and singing karaoke, has been delayed. According to a tweet from the game’s official account, it will now release on April 17th. If you’re eager for Kiryu’s latest misadventure, a demo will be available on February 27th.

Football, Reviewed

Maybe some impending social situation requires you to understand football. Or maybe you’re just interested in the sport because beer commercials have started to reference Game of Thrones. Well, Kotaku Dot Com’s Tim Rogers (that’s me) is here to help you out with this handy video. It’s a lot like my words-based review of football…

Ubisoft today announced details on the Far Cry 5 season pass, and notably, it includes a free copy of Far Cry 3 for PS4 or Xbox One. The third Far Cry will come to current-gen platforms this summer; season pass owners get it four weeks early. The season pass also includes chunks of DLC featuring…

Kaz Hirai Is Stepping Down As Sony CEO

This April, Kaz Hirai will step down as Sony CEO in a management transition he proposed to the Sony Nominating Committee. His successor is company exec Kenichiro Yoshida. The management shuffle takes effect April 1, when the Japanese financial year begins. Hirai’s current titles are Director, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer.…

Back To The Future Turned Into A Manga

Yusuke Murata, who illustrates One-Punch Man for Weekly Young Jump, is doing a manga version of Back to the Future Bob Gale, who co-wrote the original film, is overseeing the manga, which is based on the movie’s screenplay and titled BTTF Murata first showed off a Back to the Future illustration on Twitter a few…

The second Gintama movie will be released in Japan on August 17. It’s current—and temporary title—is Gintama 2

Where Manga Is Destroyed To Make Toilet Paper

Ever wonder what happens to unwanted manga? Here, it gets torn into pieces to make toilet paper. Manga artist Rensuke Oshikiri recently visited a warehouse publisher Kodansha manages. (Full disclosure: My first two books were published by former subsidiary Kodansha International.) The warehouse holds returned and defective manga volumes. Workers feed the manga volumes into…

Goma. The Democratic Republic of Congo. By Warren McKenzie. 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! 

We Tried Nintendo Labo And Mostly Like It A Lot

I spent a couple of hours messing around with Nintendo’s bold new Labo project today, and I was impressed. The pure act of assembling the cardboard to build the games’ specialized controllers is lots of fun by itself, and some of the games that come with it look promising as well. Just a short walk…

Counter-Strike Co-Creator Arrested For Sexual Exploitation Of A Child [UPDATE: Valve Suspends]

Seattle police arrested Counter-Strike co-creator Jess Cliffe, 36, early this morning for sexual exploitation of a child. Police have not yet commented further on the case. The arrest record shows that Cliffe, who has been an employee of Valve since 2003, was booked at 1:17am Pacific Time this morning. He was denied bail, according to…

Mod Brings Lord Of The Rings To Age Of Empires

Mods that turn a historical strategy game into Lord of the Rings are statistically proven to increase your enjoyment of that game by 17%, so I’m excited to see where this Middle Earth-themed take on Age of Empires III winds up. Wars of Middle Earth has been in development for a few years now, and…

Capcom’s Fighting Game Design Is Just Beautiful

For his contributions to series like Street Fighter, artist Akira “Akiman” Yasuda is responsible for some of the most iconic images in all of video games. In this video, we get a chance to see him at work. It’s the latest episode in the always-excellent Toco Toco TV, a series dedicated to intimate interviews with…

Bungie Explains How It’s Speeding Up Destiny 2 PvP

One of the most pervasive complaints among those who play a lot of competitive Destiny 2 is that the game is too slow. Players don’t move around fast enough, and it takes too long to defeat an opposing player. It sounds like that’s going to change. Today on the ol’ Bungie blog, design lead Josh…

Three Years Later, The People Behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection Are Still Fixing Things

In a developer update posted last night, 343 Industries outlined ongoing plans to update Master Chief Collection, an anthology of Halo games for Xbox One whose multiplayer has been plagued with problems ever since it released in late 2014. Beginning last fall, 343 has been rebuilding MCC to take advantage of improvements in Xbox Live…

Konami Is Still Releasing TurboGrafx-16 Games On Wii U

This morning, Konami released the TurboGrafx-16 games Battle Chopper and Necromancer for Wii U. That’s right: It’s the year 2018, and Konami is still releasing Virtual Console games on Wii U for an audience of almost nobody. It was already kind of weird that they were still releasing games six months ago, but now it’s…

What Monster Hunter: World‘s Multiplayer Gets Right And Wrong

Slaying a rampaging rathalos with a team of friends is one of Monster Hunter: World’s greatest joys—if you can sort through the menus required to join your pals. The game’s online management is clumsy and poorly explained. Setting up online sessions and sharing codes can be confusing, but it helps you get the precise experience…