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Seven Cool Games From PAX East To Watch Out For

At last weekend’s PAX East, Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and I had the chance to check out a ton of games in various stages of development. Several showed promise and we’re excited to follow them as they move closer to release. Overall, pink and purple platformers and action RPGs dominated the floor, reminiscent of indie success…

Smash Bros. Community Raises Over $23,000 For Sick Player’s Hospital Bills

On February 19th, 2017, Nicholas “Ministry” McGuire went into cardiac arrest at the Swedish Super Smash Bros. tournament Beast7. Now, the Smash community at large has banded together to raise over $23,000 for his estimated $200,000 hospital bill. During a match, McGuire collapsed onto the floor when an artificial valve in his heart, which he…

Despite Nintendo’s Stumbles, Breath of the Wild‘s Fans Have Embraced Crossdressing Link

Breath of the Wild is light on plot, which makes any missteps stand out. One brief costume change illustrates how designers can fail and how fandom is left picking up the pieces. Here’s the moment: looking for help in the desert, Link seeks to enter Gerudo Town to speak with their ruler. Gerudo Town is…

A Short List Of Things That Have Killed Me In Horizon Zero Dawn

I don’t know why I’m surprised, really. They’re huge metal dinosaurs. They’re dangerous. All the same, I wasn’t expecting to die quite this much in Horizon Zero Dawn I’m around a dozen hours into Guerrilla Games’ post-apocalyptic dino hunting game and I keep on getting my ass kicked. I had been expecting the initial difficulty…

Five Hours In, Mass Effect: Andromeda Is Overwhelming

I’m about five hours into Mass Effect: Andromeda, and so far, it seems like Bioware has created a behemoth of a sci-fi action RPG. Our review will drop later in the month, but for now, here’s 20 minutes of the very first mission, played on PS4. Note that the footage has been lightly edited to…

Rockstar Fans Are Finding Red Dead Redemption 2 Clues In The Strangest Places

Evidence is mounting that Red Dead Redemption 2 is in fact a prequel to the first game, and by evidence, I mean IMDB listings, casting calls, and Facebook friend lists. Welcome to the wild world of Rockstar fan sleuthing. Last October, Rockstar announced Red Dead Redemption 2 with a couple of teaser images and a…

The remastered version of Full Throttle, LucasArts’ classic biker adventure, is coming out next month It’s releasing on April 18, which is one day after my birthday. I see what you’re trying to do, Tim Schafer. You want to one-up me. Well, joke’s on you because nobody cared about my birthday to begin with. Take…

Overwatch‘s Director Both Loves And Hates The Mash-Up Videos People Make Of Him

In recent times, a YouTuber named Dinoflask has dedicated their life to mashing-up videos of Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan, turning them into everything from enraged rants to stories of Kaplan drunkenly pretending to be Junkrat’s ult at a party. It’s masterful work. Even Kaplan himself thinks so… begrudgingly. As part of a recent Reddit AMA, somebody…

Euclidean Lands Puts A Clever Twist On Strategy

While the hero of Euclidean Lands seems to be wielding a spear, his greatest weapon is his axes. His X, Y and Z axes to be precise, the ones that make up the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry. Euclidean Lands is a game that combines turn-based strategic movement with puzzles that rotate on those axes…

Even Nintendo Seems To Be Abandoning Game Instruction Manuals

One of the last reliable supporters for the concept that video games should have instruction manuals appears to be backing off. Nintendo has released its first games on its new console without instruction manuals: nothing on paper and not even a digital manual. Nintendo’s 1 2 Switch party game has no paper manual inside it,…

At First, Nintendo Couldn’t Agree On How To Depict Zelda In Breath of the Wild 

The Legend of Zelda has legacy, and every entry in the series is a chance to embrace or refute that tradition. Nintendo’s considerations on how to do away with conventions even trickled down to established characters, such as Zelda. Today, Nintendo released a 3-part series on the making of Breath of the Wild in which…

Overwatch’s newest hero, the “anchor tank” Orisa, will see a wide release on March 21st. Early on, she seems like a powerful tank with a long range who functions best when mired to her team.

Destiny Player Glitches Through Entire Vault of Glass

Destiny, a video game in which you can see mountains and then go there, has always been full of mysteries. Mysteries such as: Can you glitch through the entire Vault of Glass? It took intrepid raider djxyz0 more than two years, but thanks to ingenuity and a whole lot of trial and error, he’s made…

From Outer Space. Mar Azul, Argentina. By Marcos G. Pesquero.  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 Switch Vs. High Pressure Water Jet

From eBay: “This is the only Switch that has a Triforce cut into the screen….This item doesn’t work as a video game console but is a terrific piece of art.” “Only”, “Terrific”. UPDATE: Here’s a video of the holes being cut with a high pressure water jet. Amazing how long the game remains playable!

Star Fox, by Tyler West

Civilization VI Is Already So Much Better

It’s been five months since Civ VI was released, and if you thought—like with Civ V—that you’d be waiting years for the game to get better, boy have I got news for you. Through a combination of official content and the tireless work of the modding community, I’ve spent the last week playing a version…

A Very Pretty Xbox One S

This box, featuring a custom Xbox One S, controllers and a pair of Atmos x Air Max 1 ‘Elephants’, was a giveaway at Laced Up, a sneaker con in Germany. The “43″ is for 43einhalb, a sneaker store in Fulda. I could live without the Air Maxs, but the colour scheme on that console is…

Japan-Themed Board Game Gets Over $2 Million On Kickstarter

Let the success of Rising Sun remind you that board games with fancy miniatures do very well on Kickstarter The game, set in “feudal Japan”, is designed by the same guy behind Blood Rage, and plays out as a blend of strategy, worship and structured diplomacy. It sounds interesting, but let’s be real, despite the…

The Future Of Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 surprised people. The World War 1 setting came out of left field, as did a remarkably deft single-player campaign. At a recent event at EA’s Redwood City studio, I spoke to Valerian Noghin, lead designer of the new They Shall Not Pass expansion, about what’s next for Battlefield 1, as well as how…