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Curvy ninja game Senran Kagura is being turned into a smartphone game called Shinobi Master Senran Kagura New Link. It will be available in Japan for iOS and Android sometime this year. Have a look at the opening animation. 

The Dragon Quest XI Character Japan Has Fallen In Love With

So far, the breakout Dragon Quest XI character is Martina. She kicks ass, spawns hearts and is already inspiring fan art and cosplay. Dragon Quest XI was released last Saturday. As expected, there were long lines and, at some stores, sell-outs. Why is this character suddenly popular? It’s more than Martina being simply attractive or…

A Storm Is Brewing. Washington DC, USA. By Aquiles Torres. 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!

Oh No

Here is how Sony describes this official “Limited Edition” Destiny 2 controller, which is being released in Europe in September: The Dualshock 4 will feature a touch pad customised with the game’s logo, plus the iconic character class insignia, all in striking gold – making it the perfect companion for your next raid! Here’s how…

Upcoming Mod Wants To Take Grand Theft Auto V To Space

Aliens? That’s old hat, baby stuff—a rack of old hats made for babies. Modders have decided to turn Rockstar’s small step outside the bounds of planet Earth into a giant leap. Grand Theft Space is a GTA V mod being made by sollaholla and a team of ten other modders. It isn’t done yet—and may…

Bury Me With This Persona 5 Figure

Here’s the first good look at a Persona 5 figure that won’t be out until next year, but will have already changed your heart: Figma’s Joker, who also includes Morgana whether you want him or not, because of course he would Joker includes three faces (one with a mask and two without), a gun, a…

Corey Gaspur, a Bioware veteran who worked on everything from Sonic Chronicles to the Mass Effect trilogy, has died. He had most recently been working as the lead designer on Anthem. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

Antihero, A Strategy Game Where You Run The Jewels

Antihero, released on PC earlier this month, is a game about managing a grimy, Victorian thieves guild. Which involves all the expected daily chores, like murdering street thugs, bribing church officials and sending little homeless kids off to occupy banks. Creator Tim Conkling calls Antihero a “digital board game”, and it’s good to get that…

Sansar, the new Second Life, opened its wild, new virtual world to the public today.

GameStop Will Be Open On Thanksgiving This Year, To Employees’ Dismay

GameStop’s stores will be open on Thanksgiving Day this year, the company told staff during a series of conference calls this morning, according to two people who were on those calls. It’s a change in policy that has upset some employees of the massive video game retail chain. The company has not yet finalized Thanksgiving…

Battlegrounds Is Most Fun When You Stop Trying To Win 

This may come as a surprise, but Battlegrounds is not about winning. With everyone’s obsession with achieving the coveted “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner,” it’s easy to mistake Battlegrounds for a game you should aim to win. And maybe, if you’re a very certain type of person, it could be. But the vast majority of us…

One Player’s Struggle to Bring Competitive Pokémon to the Middle East

Competitive Pokémon has four main zones in North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asian-Pacific region, with countries such as Japan and South Korea running their own system. While that covers most of the world, it does leave a large gap on the map in the Middle East. This system leaves some players, such as…

Revisiting The Opening Cases of L.A. Noire

Last week, we started playing L.A. Noire on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. It’s a 2011 detective game with a lot of cases to solve. Recently, we finished the cases for the traffic detective desk. It’s a good introduction to the game that also has a few problems. In L.A Noire you play as Cole Phelps, an…

New Rick And Morty Visits A Nihilistic Mad Max Wasteland

Last night’s Rick and Morty wasn’t the premiere, as the first episode of season 3 ran on April 1st. This is the start of the season proper, and while it wasn’t as inventive as classic episodes like “Total Rickall” or “Interdimensional Cable,” the confidence of the writing lets the show’s characters grow without getting corny.…

Splatoon 2 Fans May Destroy Themselves Fighting Over Mayo vs Ketchup

Splatoon 2‘s first post-launch Splatfest has a theme, and while the event hasn’t officially begun yet, people are already getting riled up. The lobby has become a battleground, with everyone making a case as to why you should pick one side over the other. Marina, as everyone guessed, is Team Ketchup, while the gremlin squid…

This Is The Silliest Hearthstone Card Yet

In the digital card game Hearthstone, there’s a common card called Thoughtsteal that is a core part of many Priest decks. For three mana, this card will let you copy two cards from your opponent’s deck and add them to your hand. How… quaint. This weekend, Blizzard revealed Archbishop Benedictus (via Phil Kollar), a new…

Twitch Plays Battlegrounds, Manages To Win Third Place

Yesterday, TwitchPlaysBattlegrounds, a bot playing Battlegrounds through Twitch viewers’ crowdsourced gaming inputs, miraculously obtained third place in a solo Battlegrounds game—a feat I have not yet accomplished as a mundane human player. TwitchPlaysBattlegrounds is a 24/7 Twitch channel where anyone who tunes in can tell the computerized Battlegrounds player what to do by entering commands…

Super Rare Atari 2700 Found At California Thrift Store

According toRedditor L064N, he was shopping at a thrift store in Oceanside, California last week when he came across a very strange Atari console. Some quick Googling told him it was a rare prototype for the Atari 2700, an un-produced wireless follow-up to the 2600. He bought it for $30. And then hesold it on…

Ark: Survival Evolved has been delayed to August 29, the developers announced over the weekend. It was originally set to come out August 8.

Hide And Seek. Jeonju, South Korea. By KeunWoo Kim. 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!