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Here’s The Sweet Book Nintendo Gives Job Applicants

As we’ve covered before, every year Nintendo holds a big recruitment drive in Japan, and as part of that they give prospective employees a beautiful handbook. Here’s what this year’s looks like. There’s nothing important in it. It’s a company handbook, and contains the same thing any other recruitment guide would: some basic company information,…

Fnatic Gear Rush Silent Review: The Softer Side Of Pro Gaming Keyboards

Between the quiet keys and modest decoration, it’s hard to tell the Rush G1 Silent is the product of one the world’s biggest esports organizations. Perhaps we can fix that. Rather than license the brand name to a third party, Fnatic created Fnatic Gearback in 2015 in order to make its own gaming hardware. Since…

The Signal from Tolva Is Basically Far Cry With Robots

The Signal from Tolva is an open world exploration game all about commanding robot buddies and scavenging on a distant planet. It’s pretty rad. We sat down to play alongside designer Jim Rossignol to learn more about the game and blow up bots. This piece originally appeared 3/17/17. We’re bumping it today because The Signal…

What Happened After Nintendo Cracked Down On A Zelda Fan Game

Following Mario Maker’s huge success, fans clamored for other Nintendo franchises to adopt easy level-creation tools. “Zelda Maker” seemed like a no-brainer, until Nintendo itself suggested such a game wouldbe difficult to pull off. One game developer took that response from Nintendo as a challenge. “I thought, if Nintendo this it’s too difficult then I’ll…

Persona 5 Players Are Having Some Fun With Team Names

Canonically, the group of charming burglars in Persona 5 is dubbed the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Persona 5 also allows players to give the group a custom name that occasionally shows up in dialogue and is viewable to friends with Persona 5‘s network features. I named my team Semiotecs, because I’m a fucking nerd, but…

Party Game Where Your Friends Are The Dungeon Monsters Creates The Best Rivalries

Crawl is a spooky, nasty multiplayer brawler that creates good-natured rivalry in a gruesome, 8-bit world. Tomorrow it comes out of early access on Steam and releases for PS4 and Xbox One. In Crawl, up to three players possess a dungeon’s monsters, while a solo player takes the role of a human. Enemies can include…

Final Fantasy VII Player Hits Level 99 In The First Reactor

Over the weekend, a Final Fantasy VII player who goes by the handle CirclMastr got Cloud and Barret to level 99, which isn’t particularly impressive. What’s impressive is that he did it before the game’s first boss battle. It took roughly 500 hours, by CirclMastr’s count, to pull off this ridiculous accomplishment. He’s been plugging…

There’s a new Nintendo Direct hitting Wednesday, April 12 at 6pm Eastern. Don’t get your hopes up too much, though—Nintendo says this one will focus “mainly on ARMS and Splatoon 2.”

Minecraft‘s New Marketplace Will Sell Third-Party Creations

This spring, Minecraft will add a marketplace where approved creators can sell user-made content. There, players will buy texture packs, maps and skins with a new currency called Minecraft Coins, purchasable with cash. Previously, creators sold third-party add-ons through their own websites. Minecraft’s store only sold items designed by the Minecraft dev team. In the…

The Entire Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Saga Gets Bundled Up This Fall

Naruto Shippuden has ended and theBoruto spin-off series has begun. Seems like a good time for Bandai Namco to bundle together four video games covering the entire saga, which is exactly what’s happening with Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy and Trilogy for Xbox One, Ps4 and PC. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy collects…

On The Beach. Malmö, Sweden. By Tomas Pich. 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!

Canada has a new $10 note, and to celebrate, someone slipped the Konami code into the Bank of Canada’s website. Give it a shot via Kotaku AU

A Custom Gundam Nintendo Switch

LOVENIN, a Nintendo fan from Thailand, messed up and bought a black & grey Switch instead of a Neon one. To add some colour to his drab new console, then, he decided to take it apart and add some Gundam flavour to the thing. Looks great! A big reason why it looks so good is…

Hyper Dragon Ball Z is still getting new characters, stages, and move sets. The latest trailer for the fan-made fighting game that dumps everyone’s favorite DBZ characters into the Mugen engine used to make Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers shows off the progress made in the latest build now available to download.

Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life

You never know where you might meet that special someone who makes you want to spend the rest of your life with them. For SadJetsFan and Venus1812, that place turned out to be a match in Heroes of the Storm “Against all odds, two people from different countries and cultures were able to find each…

Paradigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class 

Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games. A surreal adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country, Paradigm explores the theoretical use of genetics technology by the rich and powerful to help them spawn…

Salt And Sanctuary‘s Claustrophobic Exploration Is Perfect For The Vita

It took Ska Studios just over a year to get its side-scrolling action game onto the Vita, but the wait was worth it. Salt and Sanctuary takes the best of Metroidvania-style games and Souls-likes and condenses it into the ideal portable experience. Thanks to Sickhead Games, a developer who has ported games like Axiom Verge…

Goodbye Sweet Nomad

Things get weird on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s desert world of Eos when you start pushing the Nomad over 160 kilometers per hour. As several players have reported on Reddit, the glitch happens while zooming around the planet’s surface at high speeds. The DeLorean-like teleportation doesn’t send the Nomad into the past or future, however. Instead,…

Celebrate The Most Famous Egg In Gaming With Mystery World Dizzy 

It only took a little over two decades to arrive, but Mystery World Dizzy, the NES port of the arcade game Fantasy World Dizzy, which was supposed to come out back in 1993, is now available to play for free in honor of the character’s 30th birthday. Created by programmer twins Philip and Andrew Oliver,…

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons

The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…