You can catch today’s Pokémon-centric Nintendo Direct right here, starting at 10 AM Eastern. Hopefully we get to see a new game, rather than a spin-off, but you never know.

Sino Alice Art Gets Covered Up Because Of Cleavage

The art for Sino Alice has been changed on both the Google Play Store and the App Store in Japan. The original key art, which can still be seen on Square Enix’s website, featured low cut outfits. The new art, however, does not. Sino Alice was created by Yoko Taro of Nier fame and developer…

Going To Japan? Short On Cash? Stay Here, Maybe.  

Visiting Japan can be expensive, so here’s how to cut costs. This article was originally published on December 6, 2016. It has since been updated and expanded. For ages, internet cafes have been a viable option for budget travellers visiting Japan. (Heck, I wrote about one chain of Japanese net cafes back in 2004 as…

This Past Spring. Miyajima, Japan. By Piyush Bedi. 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! 

Chinese Overwatch Clone Has Some Giant Balls

The Chinese market is no stranger to brazen rip-offs of popular Western games, but even taking that into account this Overwatch clone is something else. Spotted by ponpo and called Hero Mission, this is a mobile shooter that is basically Overwatch, only for a phone, and with the slightest of design edits (most lifted from…

May The Ciri Cosplay Never End

The Witcher 3 is still the best. Ciri is still the best. As long as those two things hold true—and they may hold true forever—then good Ciri cosplay is always welcome here. And this is some real good Ciri cosplay. This is cosplayer Alena Shvidkaya from Belarus, getting not just the outfit 100%, but the…

Wonder Woman Figure Is So Lifelike It’s A Little Unsettling

Hot Toys have a 1/6 scale (11.5″/29cm) Wonder Woman figure out next year. As is pretty standard with their big movie releases, it looks fantastic. While I will call it her “Wonder Woman on the island” outfit, the official name for the figure is “Wonder Woman – Themyscira Training Armor Version”. It’s a fully articulated…

Overwatch Still Isn’t Ready To Be A Top Esport

Over the weekend, Blizzard hosted the first round of qualifiers for Overwatch’s Contenders series, aka the minor league to the upcoming Overwatch League’s majors. There was some solid action, a couple surprising upsets, and a lot of Winston dancing. I don’t think Overwatch is ready to be a top esport yet, though. Don’t get me…

Fake Boxes For Downloadable Nintendo Switch Games

Mahir Sümer has an idea for anyone flashy about their game collections but bummed there aren’t many Nintendo Switch games to actually put on a shelf at the moment: make fake cases for the digital games you’ve picked up. So he went and did just that, designing custom cases for a range of downloadable Switch…

Wildlands‘ New Sniper Rifle Can Blow Up A Car, Somehow

The most powerful gun in Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ new “Fallen Ghosts” DLC is a sniper rifle that can blow up cars with a single bullet. Within the expansion, which released as part of the game’s season pass on June 30, is a sniper rifle exclusive to “Fallen Ghosts,” and it is a gun you’ll want…

Akuma Takes Cheap Shot, Gets What He Deserves

Today on Highlight Reel we have slow motion beanbag beatings, Rainbow 6 drones, smoke headshots, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! For Honor…

A Pro Counter-Strike Match Suspended 30 Feet In The Air By A Crane

Typically, esports stages don’t get much more elaborate than a big screen, some colorful lights, and maybe a smoke machine for effect. Over the weekend, Republic Of Gamers decided to one-up everybody with a “stage” suspended from vertigo-inducing heights. As part of its “Extreme Gaming” event (via PCGamesN), ROG hosted a Counter-Strike exhibition match between…

The History Of The Creeper, Minecraft’s Most Infamous Monster

Silent, deadly, and destructive, creepers are probably the most dreaded mob in Minecraft. Fittingly, the creeper has a twisted and horrifying past that ranges all the way back to one of the first editions of Minecraft. This piece originally appeared 11/23/16. The creeper is one of the oldest entities in the franchise: it was the…

Sony Exec’s Slam On Old Games Misses The Appeal Of The Classics

How much effort should today’s console makers put into keeping the classics in print and playable on modern hardware? There’s a lot of room for debate, but one PlayStation exec just weighed in with what has to be the Worst Possible Take. The Take isn’t just about backward compatibility, or about what Sony plans to…