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The Most Amazing Train Game To Hit Japanese Arcades This Year

Japan makes amazing train simulators. Densha de Go!, released in Japanese arcades this week, is no exception. The game was announced last year, and it’s packaged in a train-like cabinet. Inside, there are realistic controls, a touch screen and multiple monitors. It’s a simulator, so the point is to conduct the train from one station…

Ishigaki Lighthouse. Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan. By Dan Ring. 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! 

Nintendo Shut Down The Miiverse Tonight As Fans Said Final Goodbyes

Launching in late 2012, Nintendo’s Miiverse allowed Wii U and later 3DS owners to hang out and share stuff like hand-drawn pictures and screenshots. The service closed down at 1am today, and users have said their goodbyes in the most Miiverse ways imaginable: with stick figures, tears and hairy dicks. Instead of just flipping the…

The Video Game Voice-Actor’s Strike Is Over

A dispute between the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and some of the world’s biggest video game publishers is officially over, just over a year after it began. The union first went on strike on October 20, 2016, with its members refusing to work with 11 major companies including Electronic…

WoW‘s Next Expansion Has Raids That Play Like A Classic Warcraft RTS

The years have not been kind to fans of Warcraft’s real-time strategy roots. Before each BlizzCon, a dwindling contingent of hopeful fans prays for Warcraft IV to no avail. But WoW’s next expansion Battle for Azeroth might contain the next best thing. Among a number of other new features, Battle for Azeroth will introduce 20-person…

Streamers Aren’t Sure What To Make Of The Classic Activision Games In Call Of Duty: WWII

There’s a place in Call of Duty: WWII’s social space where you can play old Activision games from the 80s. It’s a cool easter egg and something that we’ve seen in past Call of Duty games, but some modern Youtube gamers couldn’t decide what to do with them. The R&R station in WWII’s Headquarters is…

World Of Warcraft LEGO Castle Used Over 55,000 Pieces

Here’s World of Warcraft’s Theramore, built in LEGO by Mark Erickson As The Brothers Brick report, it’s an immense structure, with around 55,600 pieces used to stick it atop 80 x 80 inches worth of mats. And as you can see below, he’s done a real good job getting it to scale with the actual…

Slayaway Camp‘s Cute Pixels Hide Brutal Horror

I’ve slaughtered countless camp counselors in Friday the 13th. I ate truly disgusting stew in Resident Evil 7. But the most brutal game I’ve played so far this year is Slayaway Camp: Butcher’s Cut, an isometric puzzle game released for PC and mobile in 2016 and recently released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Players…

Jeff Kaplan’s Favorite Overwatch Ships

It’s said that a new Overwatch fan fiction springs into existence once every 26 seconds. Most of them, unsurprisingly, are about ships like Pharah-Mercy (good) and Genji-Mercy (a travesty). Naturally, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has opinions about it. During an interview at BlizzCon, I asked Kaplan about his favorite Overwatch ships. Thankfully, he fell on…

The Biggest Transformers Battle In Titans Return Next Week

The partnership between Hasbro and Machinima that gave us last year’s Transformers: Combiner Wars series bears new fruit next week, when Titans Returns brings some of the largest disguised robots in the toy box out to play. Debuting on November 14 in the U.S on Verizon’s go90 network (and Tumblr nearly everywhere else), Titans Return…

Wolfenstein Knows How To Throw A Party

I wish more video games would let their hair down like Wolfenstein: The New Colossus does. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Like the first Wolfenstein reboot, New Colossus’ greatest strength isn’t its gunplay but its characters, who we grow to know and love over the course of the game. They make jokes, they act like assholes, they…

After World Of Warcraft Classic‘s Announcement, The People Behind Legacy Servers Cried From Joy

When Vaelanor heard the announcement of World of Warcraft Classic last Friday, he says he broke into tears. The veteran Warcraft player, whose real name we omitted because he helps run an unofficial legacy server, said he was so moved by news of an official vanilla version of Blizzard’s long-running multiplayer game, he couldn’t help…

Destiny 2 Players: Maybe Don’t Pledge Dead Orbit Today

If you play Destiny 2, you have a choice in this week’s Faction Rally. You can pledge New Monarchy or Future War Cult. Or, if you really, really want to, you can pledge Dead Orbit. This week is Destiny 2‘s second Faction Rally, and the first one since the game came out on PC. That…

What Is The Plural Of Xbox One X? [Update]

Look, I’m not suggesting that many people are going to buy more than one Xbox One X console. But if you did… how would you say that? The question of how to pluralize “Xbox One X” came up today in Kotaku’s work Slack. I asked Microsoft PR for their official stance, though I haven’t yet…

Bury Me, My Love Tells A Moving Story With Text Messages

I don’t usually fall for interactive fiction or smartphone games, but Bury Me, My Love hooked me. This mobile game charts the journey of a young woman named Nour as she tries to escape the civil war in Syria by fleeing to Europe, told through text messages. Developed by French studio The Pixel Hunt, Bury…

Sims Will No Longer Weed Chess Tables, And Other Great Sims 4 Patch Notes

In anticipation of Friday’s Cats & Dogs expansion, The Sims 4 got a new patch today. Some of these fixed bugs are hilarious. This patch is a doozy. Not only does it add new Build and Buy options—including new roofs and being able to make objects smaller—it fixes a considerable amount of bugs. Some of…

Don’t Steal Kotaku’s Sonic Forces Original Character

Sonic Forces’s character creator helps bring your DeviantArt creations to life to create wolf dudes, bird gals, and bear pals. Staff writer Gita Jackson and I took this opportunity to create Kotaku’s official fursona. Please don’t steal. Set in a world where Doctor Robotnik (who I refuse to call Eggman) has conquered most of the…

The “complete edition” of Team Ninja’s excellent samurai action game Nioh is out today on PS4 and PC. I haven’t played enough on PC to determine the quality of the port. Seems okay, but not great. Read our PS4 review here, and find tips for playing the game here

Overwatch’s New Character Leads To A Surprising Ship

Overwatch has a new character, Moira O’Deorain, a support who’s a member of the antagonistic Talon organization. While some players wonder how this new character will shake up gameplay, other fans want to know who to ship her with. Moira is basically a mad scientist. A geneticist who discovered how to alter DNA at a…

Telltale Games is laying off 90 people, or about 25% of its staff, the company said today. “The decision is designed to make the company, a leader in player-driven narrative games, more competitive as a developer and publisher of groundbreaking story-driven gaming experiences with an emphasis on high quality in the years ahead,” Telltale said…