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The Lord of the Rings has a complicated history with race, and the upcoming game Shadow of War will feature the series’ first black character. “I don’t think we thought twice about it when we were writing the story and when we wrote Baranor,” Monolith’s Andy Salisbury told Waypoint. “It was just kind of an…

The Friendly Rivals Who Created Final Fantasy V

Big news for me today: Boss Fight Books has launched its fourth Kickstarter, and my upcoming book Final Fantasy V is part of it. Here’s an exclusive excerpt, discussing a bit about how this legendary role-playing game was made. Final Fantasy V, the book, is many stories woven together: One is my own story of…

Destiny 2‘s Patrols Are Way More Interesting Than Destiny‘s

Perhaps the most exciting thing about the upcoming shooter Destiny 2 is how developer Bungie is approaching the open world—specifically, how many interesting activities they’re sticking into patrol zones. In a video published yesterday that’s part of IGN’s monthlong Destiny 2 trickle, Bungie showed off some of the features that the sequel will bring to…

Cyberpunk bartending game Va-11 Hall-a had one of the best soundtracks of 2016. Now, its glammy techno tracks are getting a vinyl release on September 15th.

Video Game Review Scores, Ranked

1) 7/10 2) 8/10 3) 2/10 4) 5/10 5) 3/10 6/7 (Tied) – 4/10, 6/10 8) 9/10 9) 1/10 10) 10/10 This piece originally appeared 12/18/13.

Cars 2 Does Not, In Fact, Suck

Cars 2 was not a classic film. It was unfocused and a bit too dependent on plot rather than characters. But it was a solid film. It had great action set pieces and ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ humor. And it doesn’t deserve the death by omission it is currently enduring. I watched Cars 3…

Lost Sphear, the next JRPG from the makers of I Am Setsuna, will be out on January 23, 2018, publisher Square Enix said today. It’ll get a simultaneous launch on Steam, Switch, and PS4. From what I’ve seen, it looks rad

The View From the Arc de Triomphe. Paris, France. By Morgan Jolley. 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!  

Chris Guyot made this series of animated portraits from Overwatch. This looks like the best kids TV show that never was

Kingdoms and Castles Is A Very Fun City-Building Game

Kingdoms and Castles isn’t the most challenging or complex city-building game I’ve ever seen, but it is one of the best to just pick up and start playing. The game—which was released on PC earlier this week—randomly generates a small patch of land for you, then asks you to build a lil’ Medieval settlement on…

A Failed Pitch For A Disney Game Called Project Goliath

Around the same time Epic Mickey was being promoted, a group of developers had an idea for another Disney game. Called Project Goliath, the game would have featured a large gorilla that served as a protector of children. The game is outlined in the latest episode of Did You Know Gaming’s Unseen64, a series on YouTube…

If anything, the PlayStation VR headset makes an excellent TV prop. In episode seven of the current season of Syfy’s comic book-based spacedrama, Dark Matter, Six (Roger Cross) finds himself trapped inside a simulation powered by what seems to be ancient PlayStation technology.

Best Dad Ever Builds Functioning D.Va Mech For Cosplaying Daughter 

In other news about awesome things that the Overwatch fandom creates, mechanical cosplayer Mike Carambat, who goes by retroresource on Reddit, has built a walking D.Va mecha. On Carambat’s Instagram, you can check out videos of the process. The four thrusters on the robot blow smoke and strobe, and the arms move up and down…

This Is Why You Ink Your Spawn In Splatoon 2

The screenshot above shows the results of a Splatoon 2 match I played over the weekend. You’ll notice my team won by a tenth of a percent. If you look closely, you’ll also notice how the other team could’ve stopped us. In Splatoon 2’s standard “Turf War” matches, you don’t win by splatting a bunch of…

Video Game Publishers Sure Like ‘Extending’ Betas

Yesterday, Bungie announced a two-day extension for the Destiny 2 beta, continuing a long-running video game industry tradition of announcing the same surprise news again and again. It’s as sure a thing there is in video games: If there’s a beta, it will be extended. In video game parlance, a “beta” is a near-final version…

Dream Daddy, As Told By Steam Reviews

Dream Daddy is the best dad-oriented dating simulation game out on Steam right now, and its Steam users declare, “I’m gay.” Love dads? Like grilling? Into the History Channel? Dream Daddy might just be for you. If that’s not enough, these Steam reviews will run you down the pros and cons of the game, from…

Hyper-Realistic Splatoon 2 Images Are Becoming A Thing

Splatoon 2‘s been out for a few days now, and players keen to post their images in-game are moving beyondhasty scribbles and into the realm of painstaking recreations of real-world people, places and things. One guy’s even created a program to do it automatically. Any image can be turned into a Splatoon 2 graphic, as…

What Makes Wolfenstein: The New Order So Great

Following the less consistent Heavy Rain, it was a joy to finish our playthrough of Wolfenstein: The New Order onKotaku’s Twitch channel. While Wolfenstein might look on the surface like a mindless Nazi killing simulator, it’s actually a deeply human game. In the beginning of The New Order, World War II is going poorly for…

Saying Farewell To Three Decades of Weird Sonic the Hedgehog Comics

Remember that time Sonic cried because changes to the timeline caused his children to never be born? He had previously been king of the planet, but in the new timeline, Shadow the Hedgehog was actually king and had married Sonic’s longtime love interest, Princess Sally (Sonic the Hedgehog #166)? No? What about when he would…

Dying Light, the parkour-themed zombie action game released in January 2015, is getting another free year’s worth of ten DLCs, according to its developer. While many players said they are excited, some players also said that they would rather see a sequel. All of the DLCs will be free on console and PC.